{"id":89525,"date":"2025-04-16T07:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89525"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:21:57","slug":"ex-cel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89525","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>XCel Energy&#8217;s sponsorship deal with Saint Paul&#8217;s major arena is over:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official: The \u201cX\u201d in the Xcel Center is a goner. Toast. Kaput! Xcel Energy\u2019s $80 million, $3-million-per-year, 25-year naming rights agreement is over as of this summer. Here\u2019s who might skate in as a title sponsor, and for how much: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYu1yjMPZj\">https:\/\/t.co\/YYu1yjMPZj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Frederick Melo, Reporter\/Axolotl (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1912288767202766890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All I know is that after twenty years of calling it &#8220;The X&#8221;, the new sponsor is going to have to be Excedrin, Microsoft Excel, X, Space X, or Ex-Lax, or I&#8217;m never going to remember it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XCel Energy&#8217;s sponsorship deal with Saint Paul&#8217;s major arena is over: All I know is that after twenty years of calling it &#8220;The X&#8221;, the new sponsor is going to have to be Excedrin, Microsoft Excel, X, Space X, or Ex-Lax, or I&#8217;m never going to remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89526,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89525\/revisions\/89526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}