[URBAN NOTE] "Why Torontonians Want The Rogers Centre (Rightfully) Renamed to SkyDome"

[rfmcdonald]

Torontoist's Erin Sylvester and Erica Lenti call for the Rogers Centre to return to its original name of the SkyDome.

We’ve dealt with the Ted Rogers statue outside the stadium (despite threats to throw it into the lake). We’ve swallowed the cost of overpriced beers at the ball game.

It’s time that fans got a break. We want the SkyDome back.

In an act of pure revolt, Torontonians are flocking to sign a petition to Rogers, demanding it change the name of the Rogers Centre back to SkyDome. At the time of publication, the petition had more than 13,000 signatures.

Started by Change.org user Randy Rajmoolie, who is a TTC bus driver by day, the petition says Rogers disappointed fans, who chose the name SkyDome in a public contest in 1987, by changing the stadium name to the Rogers Centre in 2005.

“Why did they have to change it? What was wrong with a name that we loved and that symbolized important moments in our city’s history?” Rajmoolie writes.