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.
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.
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Remember there is a very direct correlation to the obscene money in todays player’s salaries & the cost of a case of bud
About the time of super bowl 1, you could buy a case of busch for 4 bucks.
TV ads are millions per minute, and who is paying for all this largess?
It’s joe six pack
A case of bud is now around 24 bucks & beer in the stands is runnin 8-10 bucks
It’s time the forgotten man had a voice.
Magnificent animals. Visited the Budweiser plant in New Hampshire a few times. After the factory tour and beer tasting, you could roam the grounds and the Clydesdale stables.
I imagine the Clydesdale as a football tight end. Strong, fast, and agile enough to catch passes and also do a lot of blocking.
The blinders signify: do your job. Don’t get distracted by grandstanding, politics, and another other foolishness.
You created a massive rant on a totally bogus assumption.
Is that better?
A beer in the stands is $8 to $10?!
Outrageous. Highway robbery.
I quit drinking their swill 25 years ago.
What a great troll it would be to make a spoof Clydesdale commercial showing one kneeling for the anthem.
“Do it, just do it. That will rock the owners with a brick to their head. If that does not wake them up, nothing will.”
Bud and Bush sales would soar if they ditched the NFL. Still won’t drink that crap though.
I think the last beer of theirs I ever drank was fifty years ago. It was Busch Bavarian. Now, I don’t drink anything but there are some bottles of Rolling Rock in the fridge of sentimental value.
Ping for later.
Okay, I’m going to go real slow here, shit for brains. If you still don’t get it, you’re beyond help.
The players, players unions and agents have demanded free agency and fought any efforts of the owners to control salaries. They have even gone to court over it to win these “rights” by claiming that stopping them is interference in the free market. THAT’s the straw man, dumb ass. They have gotten the courts to buy the bogus argument that the NFL is a free market, and that attempts by the owners to limit free agency and impose salary caps represents industry collusion. That’s how salaries have gotten out of control.
If you want to remain stupid, that’s your problem.
Crap is right. Gives me a headache from a few sips. Never ever buy the crap.
A large part of your dementia was that the NFL is hiding the fact that it is not 32 separate companies. You can’t hide what is common knowledge, toodles.
I was just looking for advertising contracts w the NFL and found a 11/15 article in Fortune about InBev winning the rights as NFL's "official" beer beating out incumbent Coors. Some interesting info:
When AB InBev first inked this deal in 2011 (to last through the 2017 Super Bowl) it paid $1.2 billion, replacing Coors Light as the league's lager. Other beer brands are permitted to advertise with the league, but wearing the football beer crown comes with its perks: only Bud Light can use the NFL shield in its advertising; only Bud Light can use all 32 NFL team logos on its cans; and, as part of its extension, Bud Light will be the first NFL sponsor permitted to use game highlight footage on its website and social media pages.That latter ability is no small gain for Bud Light—football fans love football video content and have proven it time and again, especially through the rise of fantasy football, spurred by the growing interest in detailed stats and research. (Look no further than the name of the NFL's bold new app launched last year, NFL Now; fans want NFL content and they want it now.) But it's also no guarantee that Bud Light can reverse its sales trend: it has been the No. 1 beer in America since 2008, but its volumes have fallen more than 10% since then as big incumbent brewers lose ground to independent craft beers. Back when AB InBev first signed the NFL deal in 2011, CEO Carlos Brito said that the brand, "has 21 percent of the market share in the U.S. " and that thanks to the NFL deal, "we can do even better." But it did not.
Still, the NFL chugs toward $10 billion in revenue and keeps attracting new sponsors like Hyundai. It did not lose any major sponsors from last season's domestic violence crisis, despite many of them having issued statements of concern.
How would you like to have your $1.2 billion investment flushed down the crapper by ungrateful, spoiled, overpaid, primadonna, cop-hating, anti-American communists complaining about "equality"?
Consider? do it
Do not call that #.
Call any other number of theirs.
This number just gives a place for them
to put us so they can ignore us.
Tie up all their lines so they can’t do business.
You’re confused. Of COURSE they try to hide the face that they are de facto, one company. And they’re able to do so because technically, they are 32 individually owned teams rather then one company. But they collude with one another in a way that would never be tolerated in any other industry, making them in all but name, a monopoly.
Please! I beg you! Try to pull your head out of your ass!
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