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Allianz, the front-runner to secure the new stadium's naming rights, is an insurance and financial services company founded in Berlin in 1890 that moved to Munich in 1949 and had ties to Nazi Germany. Its CEO at the time, Kurt Schmitt, was Adolf Hitler's economics minister. It was the insurer of the Auschwitz death camp's facilities and personnel. Even if Allianz has tried to make restitution over the years to the families of the Holocaust victims, why should a football stadium be a reminder of the painful events that led to the murder of six million Jews? With so many Holocaust survivors in this area and ancestors of survivors or people who lost their parents or grandparents in concentration camps, it just makes no sense. Allianz has 11,000 employees in the United States, offices in New York and sponsors PGA senior golf tournaments and Formula One races. But it's the past that will prompt a damage-control campaign if Allianz remains the front-runner and wins the naming rights to the new Giants and Jets stadium. A public affairs firm has been hired by the New Meadowlands Stadium Corp., to perform due diligence on the companies interested in naming and sponsorship rights. It has been working overtime on Allianz.

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September 11, 2008  06:00 AM ET
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This new Fannation sucks! Just thought I would point that out.

September 11, 2008  06:01 AM ET
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Thats great H1tler is blocked on there own TandR!

September 11, 2008  06:23 AM ET
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People gotta move on with their lives.............

September 11, 2008  07:20 AM ET
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Great, I love Mad Gabs!

September 11, 2008  07:23 AM ET
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It should be named Favre Stadium.

September 11, 2008  07:40 AM ET
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September 11, 2008  07:45 AM ET
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Brilliant! 'd' What was I thinking? I hate this site. It even sensors itself. No n a z i , no H i t l e r . Like I ever need to type those two anyway. What a worthless site. Yet here I am anyway.

September 11, 2008  07:52 AM ET
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The real controversy is those disgusting PSLs they are planning to screw us with.

September 11, 2008  07:54 AM ET
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Originally posted 06:23 AM ET  09.11 by Bond 007

People gotta move on with their lives.............

Hello pot, this is kettle, you're black!!

This from the guy who only posts once a day and it's usually always something negative about the Patriots. Hypocrite.

September 11, 2008  07:57 AM ET
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OMG: the site bleeps its own stories. Just like we can't have N A Z l or H l T L E R in our posts, it removed them from the story. Come the **** on, they can exempt the stories themselves. I mean, they are bleeping legitimate news here. Speaking of N A Z l S....

September 11, 2008  08:06 AM ET
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Why are they censoring the words N a z i and H i t l e r anyway? It's a part of history. Do they censor Tojo?

September 11, 2008  08:06 AM ET
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Guess not. Bataan Death March? Nanking?

September 11, 2008  08:09 AM ET
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Mussolini, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin

September 11, 2008  08:09 AM ET
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Volkswagen was ****'s company as well. My grandparents' families were all killed in the holocaust, yet they both drove Jettas. I think people are smarter than this story is making them out to be. Either that, or several rabblerousers are being ridiculous.

September 11, 2008  08:15 AM ET
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Originally posted 08:09 AM ET  09.11 by kcluva

Mussolini, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin

Exactly. I guess N a z i represents all that was evil in the world. Hey, I got one, and it's current:

Osama bin laden. Now he should be censored, preferrably with a burst of 30mm from an Apache.

September 11, 2008  08:16 AM ET
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Originally posted 08:09 AM ET  09.11 by kcluva

Mussolini, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin

We're starting to sound like a Billy Joel song. LOL!

September 11, 2008  08:17 AM ET
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D a m n, so you say sensor is actually spelled with a 'C' ? Well sheet on me. They censor certain words that are widely used by 'hate' groups, I'm guessing. Maybe it's a liability limiter.

September 11, 2008  08:18 AM ET
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If they name it The Allianz Domed Stadium......and I'm a Jew.......and I won tickets to a game......I'm stayin home.

September 11, 2008  08:23 AM ET
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nfl is stupid if it allows allianz to buy the naming rights.

 
September 11, 2008  08:23 AM ET
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Exactly. And if I win tix to the game and I'm not a Jew, I'm not going to a stadium with such a name. What's Jerry Jones considering?

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