History IHaveManyNames / RealLife

*** When the Ottawa Senators' home ice opened in 1996, it started as the unsponsored Palladium; however, only a month after its opening, the arena became the Corel Centre for the next decade. After Corel's contract expired, the naming rights went to Scotiabank in 2006, becoming Scotiabank Place. After the Senators' ownership decided to terminate Scotiabank's agreement early in 2013, the arena naming rights were sold to Canadian retail giant Canadian Tire, becoming the Canadian Tire Centre.

*** The San Jose Sharks' home arena started simply as San Jose Arena when it opened in 1993. In 2001, the arena took on its first naming rights as the Compaq Center.[[note]]Confusingly, there was already an arena named Compaq Center at the time, the former Summit Arena in Houston, where Compaq was based.[[/note]] Just a year later, Compaq was bought out by one of their rivals, Hewlett-Packard, renaming the arena the HP Pavilion at San Jose, wittingly sharing its name HP's consumer line of desktop and laptop computers. In 2013, the arena acquired its current naming rights from another IT firm, this time as the SAP Center.
*** San Diego's main sports arena, which previously hosted two separate NBA franchises, the Rockets and Clippers, has been renamed several times. Originally opened as the San Diego International Sports Arena in 1966, the "International" portion of the name was dropped in 1970. In 2005, the San Diego Sports Arena attained its first naming rights as [=iPayOne=] Center, which was dropped two years later due to nonpayment by the sponsor. In 2010, the Sports Arena received its first of two sponsorships by Native American casinos, first as Valley View Casino Center, from the San Pasqual Band. After Valley View's contract lasped in 2018, the Pechanga Band acquired the arena's current naming rights.

** Mississippi State – Mississippi A&M Aggies, Mississippi State (College/University) Maroons,[[note]]State became a "University" in 1958, but didn't become the Bulldogs until 1961.[[/note]] Mississippi State Bulldogs.

*** The home court of the Miami Heat was originally called American Airlines Arena from its opening in 2000. Despite American Airlines's contract expiring at the end of 2019, the name remained on the arena until 2021, when cryptocurrency exchange FTX acquired the naming rights. After the high-profile controversy surrounding the collapse of FTX in November 2022, the arena was temporarily renamed Miami-Dade Arena until the naming rights were bought by Kaseya, a South Florida-based IT management firm.

*** When the Ottawa Senators' home ice opened in 1996, it started as the unsponsored Palladium; however, only a month after its opening, the arena became the Corel Centre for the next decade. After Corel's contract was up, the naming rights went to Scotiabank in 2006, becoming Scotiabank Place. After the Senators' ownership decided to terminate Scotiabank's agreement early in 2013, the naming rights were sold to Canadian retail giant Canadian Tire, renaming the arena the Canadian Tire Centre.

* Dogs of mixed ancestry have many generic names: Hybrid, mutt, cur, cross-breed, mix(ed)-breed, mongrel, Heinz 57, and simply "dog".

*** The Washington Commanders began in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the baseball team whose stadium they shared (see the MLB list below for ''that'' team's naming history). The next year, they moved to the Red Sox' Fenway Park and became the Redskins. The team kept that name through its 1937 move to the nation's capital, only dropping the name just before the 2020 season after a decades-long controversy. They were simply the Washington Football Team in the 2020 and 2021 seasons before becoming the Commanders in 2022. Even afterwards, there have been occasional rumors and debates about changing the name ''again'', thanks to the name being a mark of Dan Snyder, their hated former owner.

*** The Washington Commanders began in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the baseball team whose stadium they shared (see the MLB list below for ''that'' team's naming history). The next year, they moved to the Red Sox' Fenway Park and became the Redskins. The team kept that name through its 1937 move to the nation's capital, only dropping the name just before the 2020 season after a decades-long controversy. They were simply the Washington Football Team in the 2020 and 2021 seasons before becoming the Commanders in 2022.

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** Major League Baseball

** NHL

** NBA

** Ahold Delhaize, formed by the merger of Dutch and Belgian companies, doesn't operate under either name in the States, but does operate Bfresh, Food Lion, two different chains using the Giant name,[[note]]One based in the DC area, the other in Pennsylvania.[[/note]] Hannaford, Martin's,[[note]]part of the Pennsylvania Giant subsidiary[[/note]], and Stop & Shop.

* Another competition with an even shorter life (it started in 1983), the EFL Trophy — a competition for lower-league clubs and the youth teams of larger clubs — has seen even more changes, having started life as the Associate Members' Cup, before becoming the Football League Trophy, the Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy, the Auto Windscreens Shield, the LDV Vans Trophy, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, the Checkatrade Trophy, the Leasing.com Trophy[[note]]but not the Final - the COVID-19 pandemic pushed it beyond its sponsorship contract, so it was named after its next sponsor[[/note]], the Papa Johns Trophy[[note]]originally the Papa John's Trophy, before losing the apostrophe during the 2020/21 season[[/note]], and now the Bristol Street Motors Trophy.[[note]]The actual sponsor is car dealership group Vertu Motors, which bought Bristol Street Motors in 2007 but continues to use that name for many of its outlets.[[/note]]

* Another competition with an even shorter life (it started in 1983), the EFL Trophy - a competition for lower-league clubs and the youth teams of larger clubs - has seen even more changes, having started life as the Associate Members' Cup, before becoming the Football League Trophy, the Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy, the Auto Windscreens Shield, the LDV Vans Trophy, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, the Checkatrade Trophy, and the Leasing.com Trophy[[note]]but not the Final - the Covid-19 pandemic pushed it beyond its sponsorship contract, so it was named after its next sponsor[[/note]], before settling on the Papa Johns Trophy[[note]]originally the Papa John's Trophy, before losing the apostrophe during the 2020/21 season[[/note]].