Hasta la vista, stadium naming rights

Did you see the smackdown Gov. Schwarzenegger handed to the city council of his hometown of Graz? Local politicians in the Austrian city were planning to remove Arnold’s name from the city’s soccer stadium in protest of his refusal to grant clemency to executed multiple murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams. (Austrians caring about the execution of minorities, now that’s progress baby!)

Well, if you’ve seen any of his movies, you know Arnold isn’t one to take that kind of whiny crap sitting down. So, just like his T-800 cyborg death machine character from “Terminator” would do, he fired off a letter {PDF} demanding that his name be removed from the stadium immediately and promising legal action to ensure that outcome. He then totally sent back the ring they gave him in a special ceremony in 1999. Instead of being all like, no Arnold, baby, you are our soulmate, you can’t dump me at Christmas, Graz appears to be taking this one right in the pooper. Nice work, Governor!

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Author: CoolDMZ

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One thought on “Hasta la vista, stadium naming rights”

  1. No, no, no no! Don’t funk with Arnold! Perhaps I will write a letter to my own hometown of New Concord, Ohio just to let them know they can still name a stadium after me if they choose.

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