Posted on 09/16/2014 1:22:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Anheuser-Busch, one of the NFL’s biggest sponsors, says it isn’t happy with the recent controversy that has engulfed the league. […]
The league has come under fire for its handling of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s assault of his then-fiancée. The Minnesota Vikings have also been criticized for allowing Adrian Peterson to play while he faces a charge of abuse for spanking his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch. …
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I wonder if Budweiser (actually AB Inbev) objected when the NFL started down the “we don’t care if you’re a thug” road.
Owned by a Foreign company!
Does Bush fire all their employees that are arrested for Domestic Violence?
the radicals are starting to hammer the sponsors to start doing financial damage. Just as predicted in recent years, the left was going to destroy the NFL. It’s starting to escalate rapidly.
Something I see rarely discussed or blame laid on is the rollovr of big business to political correctness. They are the enablers of psuedo-diversity, political corrextness and a of the other cultural ills that negatively impact the United States,
If the NFL fired all the felons it now employs, just how many players would there be left?
All the advertisers including Anheuser-Busch know about the criminals that the NFL employs.
Then just quit as being one of its sponsors.
I wonder what percentage of the criminal acts perpetrated by NFL players involve alcohol. I’m guessing about 90%. We all know Rice’s incident did.
No sympathy for the NFL. They brought it upon themselves. They thought that thug-ball was good for business.
if they go away, the NFL could just replace their ads with feminine hygiene commercials.
They rollover because this government threatens and punishes those who do not. Sounds fascist to me.
That’s a key peeve with me. It’s also one of the reasons I suppose I’ve gone from a lifelong, vibrant supporter of American business to someone who just no longer gives a damn. Seeing the corporate world bend over backwards for every idiotic demand from every idiotic grievance group has totally sapped my concerns for its prosperity and survival.
As for the NFL and ESPN, between the thug players and the lefty-homo sportscasters, it’s transformed football for me from a once-pleasant weekend viewing pasttime to something I find overwhelmingly nauseating.
Legal departments run the show these days. They've replaced the bean counters.
It’s not really A-B anymore. It’s Inbev, owned by a bunch of Arabs.
If the adds showed real beer drinkers, 300# loud mouths, would there even be domestic violence?
If their adds where realistic and the women that the beer drinkers in the adds actually hung around where 200# beasts with missing teeth, would their even be domestic violence.
I think Inbev, should STFU before we outlaw alcohol again. Ray Rice punched his girlfriend when they where both drunk and getting lippy with each other at a casino. He plead guilty was fined and sent to a program. He also was fined and suspended without pay, more money than most people make all year. This is a non issue.
Talk about overblown nonsense!
Plenty of domestic violence among non-drinking Muslims.
Of course, if they had balked at going down the road to thug-ball, they might very well have ended up disciplining (or not signing) a disproportionate number of players having a certain ethnic background. Which would have been a huge no-no.
So they're kind of caught in a tough place.
And yet the NFL had the highest TV ratings ever this past week. So much “damaging the brand”.
You see. Now you have gone and done it and impuned the Religion of Peace. You Anti-Muslim Bigot.
This is very anti-multi-cultural-I of you!
You will no longer be able to play in the NFL. Please report to HR so we can get your pass key and give you a good going away talking to.
Please, pay $50,000 and grovel for forgiveness!
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