Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 31, 2019

The more beer they buy, the less car insurance they’re eligible for.

There’s a correlation there, I think.

The more beer they buy, the more car insurance they need.

Golf fans buy Rolexes and Cadillacs.

And trucks and boner pills.

You know this how?

Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Rugby,… i.e. Sports Fans.BTW has you seen the Heineken commercial where the soccer fans miss the goal. I don’t understand why they’re so upset. They’re going to be replaying it for the next half hour since there won’t be any other highlights. And the guy who falls asleep on the couch? About sums soccer up, doesn’t it. ;-)

The more you buy of the former, the more you should have of the latter.

Sometimes I think televised football is one big ‘The Advertising Show’ with a few minutes of game in between.

I like football but it is basically a 3 1/2 hour commercial with 20 minutes of action shoehorned in

Makes sense. Need beer DURING, and the insurance for POST-GAME !

Glad to see everyone here are such wonderful people. I guess the concept of someone enjoying a beer during a sporting event makes them beer swilling alcoholics who do it just to go out after and run down little children playing on the road in a drunken rage. I love watching NFL and don’t consume alcohol. I have really good insurance and it’s quite inexpensive as my driving record is perfect and I can tell you that can be difficult in Ontario. Maybe you should all just take a moment and look in the mirror and stop judging people based on what sport they watch.

Drink the beer, crash the car-it’s magic.

Know your audience, know their needs.

True Dat! And football is the one thing I won’t DVR and can’t flash through the ads.

Beer and car insurance go together like BBQ and fire insurance.

With all that driving under the influence, it’s a wonder that they can get any insurance at all.

Several decades ago, someone wrote an article about how much action actually takes place during a professional football game. He claimed that he timed the game from each snap to each whistle of every play.

The result: 7.5 minutes of actual play.

The rest is spent in the huddle, lining up, jogging back to the huddle after the play is over, and so on.

And Taco Bell.

Pee break for me and munchies!

those two seem to go together

5:00 news is nothing but ads for Toyota and personal injury lawyers.

Yes ma’am, just the necessities.

A new concept – a 2 panel cartoon?

Don’t forget spicy corn triangles!

I once went to a party at Auburn, and a football game broke out!

In Canada several provinces has government run auto insurance so we don’t get those ads. No pharmaceutical ads either, I love half the ad devoted to side effects.

Reading this cartoon, I started thinking about how much money car insurance companies spend on advertising (not just during sports—all kinds of programs, even Jeopardy), and then I wondered if there really are any differences in their products . . . and then that made me think of a long-ago “Arlo and Janis” where Janis asks Arlo what kind of cola he wants, and he says it doesn’t matter and then muses something along the lines of “it’s amazing how much money they spend trying to get us to think otherwise.”

Gives you an idea of the kind of audience they are playing to.

“Football fans buy a lot of beer and car insurance!”

Or at least the advertisers think they do… or will.

Husband hates sports – playing them and even worse to him is watching them. But he has been to two World Series games when he was a kid and not in the bleacher seats.

Then again one time he was going to a hockey game with some friends – they never got there – a plane crashed at the airport and they ended up having to turn around. Another time the same group of friends were going to a baseball game and they talked him into going with them – and he decided I should I go as I had never been to a professional game. I should have been suspicious when the tickets were only US$3 each (early 1980s). I am also afraid of heights. We kept walking up and up and up and up. Not able to look down at the game the entire time. Good thing we had a friend who was over 6 ft tall and heavy and terribly nice. He walked down a step at a time in front of me so I could not see how high we were still were as we walked down – if not for him, I might still be up there under a seat or something.