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Budweiser Considers Ending NFL Sponsorship Over Anthem Protests
The Federalist Papers ^ | October 1, 2017

Posted on 10/01/2017 4:17:35 PM PDT by Lera

Bud Light’s brand parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev — one of the NFL’s biggest sponsors — is rethinking their NFL sponsorship, and they want your input.

The NFL player protests of the National Anthem have backfired in a major way on the league. It has seen sponsors pull out, ratings decline and teams play in front of practically empty stadiums.

In the wake of increased national anthem protests, Anheuser-Busch is reconsidering their NFL sponsorship, likely because the protests are very unpopular among everyday Americans. Bud Light currently serves as the official beer of the NFL.

At the end of 2015, the company extended its current deal, which is slated to expire at the end of the 2016-17 season, for another six years through the 2022 season, but that might all change very quickly.

So the company set up a hotline for fans to call and give their thoughts about the protests and Anheuser-Busch’s sponsorship of the NFL. The number for the hotline is: 1-800-342-5283.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthemprotest; boycott; budweiser; fakenews; nfl
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The Left has been trying to kill the NFL for years.

The owners don’t want to be called “slave owners” or protested as being racists. So they are running scared.

They forget who pays the bills - average working class Trump voter folks.


21 posted on 10/01/2017 4:28:15 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Lera

When has the ‘official’ anything of the NFL, NBA, Disney World etc mattered a whit to anyone not employed by the NFL, NBA, Disney World etc?

I’ve always found the ‘official’ designation a particularly lazy means of puffing up one’s brand as it means nothing to the buying public.

AB may be a large chunk of InBev but InBev have a globalist view and many foreign executives...they may have little patience for domestic squabbles even within the lucrative US market.


22 posted on 10/01/2017 4:28:23 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Lera

Probably a trial balloon and a little posturing. We’ll see if they actually follow through.


23 posted on 10/01/2017 4:28:28 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: TigerClaws

I tried to call them this morning. All circuits were busy...


24 posted on 10/01/2017 4:29:34 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I called them as well.

Glad to hear such a powerful brand is questioning their continued advertisement with the NFL.

NFL, this is a clear shot across the bow. Choose one of the two: America or the Black Lives Matter anarchist sympathizers.


25 posted on 10/01/2017 4:31:25 PM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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To: OKSooner

The public approval rating for the NFL was cut in half just a couple weeks into this season. Sure it’s even lower now.

The Cam Newton communist black supremacy salute today won’t help matters.


26 posted on 10/01/2017 4:31:29 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Lera

I called them this morning, and left a comment.


27 posted on 10/01/2017 4:31:38 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: TigerClaws

Exactly.

The LEFT hates the NFL and so I cannot help but think they are now pretty happy this is all happening.


28 posted on 10/01/2017 4:32:05 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: chajin

I called them, they pull out the nonsense ends - I have a theory, teams that have a player protest then lose the game. Oakland, Baltimore, Miami, Cleveland are an examp,e


29 posted on 10/01/2017 4:32:16 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Lera; All

Budweiser email address:

anheuser-busch.com/contactus/Bud/contact_us.asp


30 posted on 10/01/2017 4:32:53 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Lera

As an employer in a highly politicized environment (political polling), I was also a supporter of free speech. If anyone working for me had introduced politics (other than our analysis) into the work environment, I would have fired them. Then they would have been free to speak out 24 hours a day.


31 posted on 10/01/2017 4:34:01 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Jonny7797

That’s why they’ve been encouraging it - handing out awards to Kaepernick, etc.

They want the NFL to cover itself with gasoline and suicide over this.

That’s why it is getting constant attention. That and the fact MSM has to run so many ‘black stories’ each day and this is an easy one.


32 posted on 10/01/2017 4:34:03 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Lera

Keep hammering Budweiser.

Make it so!


33 posted on 10/01/2017 4:34:44 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but not for themselves.)
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To: Lera

Non-AB beerwater’s as good as AB’s. Switch brew companies. Now.


34 posted on 10/01/2017 4:35:04 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: chajin
The protestors will be sadder Budweiser.

I see what you did there.

35 posted on 10/01/2017 4:36:32 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: TigerClaws
I'm not gonna watch any NFL games to see it happen, but I hope he just totally gets his reward on the field.

Same is extra true for Adrian Peterson, who has sat on his butt for the anthem and who is also a child beating MF. I don't care where he played his college ball.

36 posted on 10/01/2017 4:37:07 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: Lera

The NFL showed their true colors years ago when they refused to let Rush Limbaugh buy a piece of the St. Louis Rams.

I think that was back around 2010.


37 posted on 10/01/2017 4:38:53 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but not for themselves.)
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To: Lera

Bullshit headline. Anheuser-Busch has made no statement indicating it is thinking about dropping the NFL.


38 posted on 10/01/2017 4:39:43 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: OKSooner

One thing I’m curious to see is if now more people are going to sell their tickets cheap on StubHub, and as a result we’re going to start seeing more fans of a certain element start to show up at games.

That’s when the fun is really going to start.


39 posted on 10/01/2017 4:39:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lera

Don’t consume either AB-InBev or NFL.


40 posted on 10/01/2017 4:40:32 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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