(And as another commenter who is familiar with the project internals pointed out - they already do call it McBoatface)

Except for the captain.

This is good advice. In Toronto we have a baseball stadium called the Rogers Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre). It was originally called the SkyDome but it was bought by a company called Rogers and renamed.

Everyone still refers to it as the Skydome. Corporate branding be damned:)

Also, most people in DC just call it National. Probably because the other airport also has a one word name (Dulles).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionberry

Which airport, "Reagan", "Dulles" or "BWI" ?

They don't say "Marshall" for BWI, though.

Im recent years, the city renamed the airport to Louis Armstrong airport, but no one in the city refers to it as that. Everyone still calls it Moisant. Not that we don't like Louis Armstrong, it's always been called Moisant and New Orleans really doesn't like change.

However, I can think of one counterexample: JFK airport in NYC. It used to be called Idlewild, named after some golf course I think, but was renamed to JFK (with the airport code JFK) back in the 60s. No one knows what "Idlewild" is any more.

A further tangent, but the more obvious airport code LOU is still in active use across town at Bowman Field, the city's original air field (definitely not an airport) and these days the oldest remaining continually operating air field in the country.

"Ak-Chin Pavilion (formerly known as the Desert Sky Pavilion, Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion, Cricket Pavilion, Cricket Wireless Pavilion and Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion) is an amphitheater located in Phoenix, Arizona, which seats 8,000 under a pavilion roof and an additional 12,000 on a hillside behind the main stands."

That much renaming is really ridiculous IMO.

Then I wondered why there are so many telco/media stadiums/pavilions/etc., and not more furniture stores in the mix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/122_Leadenhall_Street

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street

In the past few months I have heard all 4 names used for the facility.

Nobody calls it anything but Science World.

Coca Cola Starplex (original) > Smirnoff Music Center > Superpages.com Center > Gexa Energy Pavilion

Not one of the brandings has resulted in any noteworthy facility improvements, interestingly enough /s

It's been nearly a decade since Austin's "Town Lake" was renamed by the city council as "Lady Bird Lake" (in honor of Lady Bird Johnson). To this day, I'm not sure I've ever heard it referred to as anything other than Town Lake. I certainly can never remember to use the new name.

I hope the officials hold firm. Long after the easily entertained public has moved on, they can do their job without being reminded of how poor the sense of humor in the general populace actually is.

How is the a bland, inane government-issue name it will no doubt end up with going to be any better?

I mean, it's cute to give the public an opportunity to name something, but half the people who voted in the poll have probably forgotten the ship even exists by now.

I'd buy a Boaty McBoatface toy and I'm not even British.

And regardless I doubt anyone will call it "Boaty McBoatface". It'll be abbreviated into something anyway. BMBM or Boaty or something.

And it will demonstrate that resistance is futile!