AIG Sponsorship

In soccer teams are sponsored by companies and on their jersey is the logo of that firm. Firms like VW, Thomas Cook, Samsung and Carlsberg all have their logos on 1 or more club uniforms.

The richest club in the world is Manchester United. They are sponsored by AIG and they have a $19 million contract per year to sponsor them.

It's funny to me that the company that should have gone under without a taxpayer bailout obviously still has to fulfill their contractual commitments (unlike the poor, poor American homeowner). So while 19 million is fractional compared to the total amount of money needed to bail them out, isn't it a little odd that we still see their logo on their uniform? Isn't it just a little infuriating?

I suggest that instead of AIG on the uniform, it should be this:

19 million is nothing in the scheme of things but I still find it absurd that even that much is going to the pockets of a foreign team....owned by an American.