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.
Yes, I see the USA Today headlines when I visit my local library. The paper is an over the top Never Trump publication. It is worse than WaPo and CNN and NYT.
For them to allow a columnist to write something like this means the ‘Rats must be extremely worried!
If you are on FB, go to Anheuser Busch page & give your opinion to the company. Join all the people who are outraged.
I have for the foreseeable future stopped watching the NFL.
My motto for the NFL is “not one penny, not one minute.”
Before they cease the advertising, AB must sue the NFL for breaking the contract and ask for $100 million damages
Remember back in 2011/2012 timeframe, about the NFL strike that threatened the season? At about that time, the Fast & Furious story was just starting to get traction — I can easily imagine that had the football season fallen through
the surplus attention would have found the Fast & Furious story and it would have been blown wide open rather than kinda swept under the rug.
PS — as for left v. right
or republican v. democrat
these are terrible ways to frame the discussion: the former is completely a variable and subjective scale, to the point of uselessness, and the latter is useless if you're at all cognizant of the Uniparty
, that it is far more instructive and illuminating to frame the argument as elites vs. the common-man.
The NFL wants to lose all their sponsors? I’m assuming you mean they are devaluing their brand on purpose to get rid of more sponsors. That would be suicide for the NFL, so why would they want that?
I think Sponsor lawsuits will bring the NFL to it’s knees
Seditious ceremony during the games violates the contracts for advertisements
I’ll buy their products exclusively if they dump the NFL.
And I’m NOT a Bud fan. But I AM an AMERICAN.
And in this culture war, you’re either an American... or you’re with the NFL.
Always keep sight of the fact that the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL are monopolies masquerading as free markets. The inevitable result is an overpriced product that all but guarantees a management and a labor force that is unconcerned about the concerns of the consumer. These problems will continue to resurface every couple of years until Congress requires the leagues to halt their anti-competitive practices, or regulates them like any other monopoly - with the interests of the consumer being placed first.
NFL management allows the players and their agents their exorbitant salaries and free agency as a necessary pay off to allow them to continue unregulated. If the team owners fought too hard to reign in player salaries, they would have to reveal the truth - that the NFL is a corporation with 30 individual share holders (i.e. the individual team owners) rather than a free market of 30 independent businesses. They’d rather keep up the illusion that they’re a free market of 30 independent businesses rather then acknowledge the truth that they are de facto, a single entity that has a monopoly on the market for professional football. It’s cheaper to pay off the players, players union and agents rather than admit they are one company.
If they admitted the truth, that they are one company - the NFL - rather than 30 separate companies, they could keep player salaries within more reasonable limits, demand greater player accountability, and reign in free agency - all powers that any other company has the right to exercise over their labor force. But to do so, they would have to admit that they are a monopoly rather than a market of 30 independent owners. This would invite the reasonable conclusion that it should be regulated like the power companies or any other monopoly. It’s cheaper to pay off the players.
I was polite and even cheerful.
All I said was, “advertising on NFL games does not make me want to consume more of your products, thanx and have a nice day”.
And that is a true statement.
Next season will be telling...if the people who have season tickets do not remove...a lot of season ticket holders sell tickets to games this season to help pay for them... if they crater this season it will not help..
. They’d rather keep up the illusion that they’re a free market of 30 independent businesses
They’re devaluing their product to appease the left but still expect the same amount of sponsors dollars. They’ve already proved that they’re not as financially smart as we all thought they were.
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The left is eagerly assisting in the NFL’s suicide. Dr. Kevorkian please pick up the white phone.
You need to learn the meaning of terms like ‘Straw Man’ before using them in a sentence. Get a clue, loser.
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