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Remember the good old days when our football teams played in Three Rivers Stadium, Veterans Stadium, Candlestick Park and The Pontiac Silverdome? Yeah, those days are gone. While it's true we already knew that, it seems as if each new corporate sponsorship name gets a little more, well, bizarre than the one before.

According to a report in Saturday's Miami Herald, the Miami Dolphins are set to announce this week that Dolphin Stadium (formerly known as Joe Robbie Stadium and Pro Player Stadium) will be known as Land Shark Stadium, for at least the 2009 football season.

With Tuesday's sale of the Miami Dolphins to Stephen Ross, giving him control of 95 percent of the franchise, team vice president Bill Parcells now has a 30-day window to cash in the remainder of his $16 million contract and bolt to another team (or the nearest beach and/or golf course). That is, if he wants to.

Parcells is spending this week, along with Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano and general manager Jeff Ireland, at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, scouting the NFL's stars of tomorrow. On Tuesday afternoon he addressed the window of opportunity he has to exit Miami with a truck full of cash.

On Tuesday afternoon, Wayne Huizenga is expected to complete the sale of the Miami Dolphins to Stephen Ross, as reported by the Miami Herald. It's reported that the deal is worth $1.1 billion, and would give Ross 95 percent ownership of the team. Huizenga would maintain ownership of the other 5 percent of the franchise.