Sports just isn’t the same without beer ads, somehow. I can see the mid-50s when there were always beer ads on “The Gillette Saturday night fights”. Or even the World Series Baseball games.
Hey Hinds, Amazon already exploits empoyees with way below average working conditions and wages as well as a reputation to put profit over employees. Their policy on alcohol is far down the list of grievances.
Anybody watch the Amazon games to verify this?(Read that last night’s game was a stinkeroo, any Broncos buyer remorse? Seahawks 1st rounders are looking better too.)
Now all you see are ads about the joy of gambling on games… which was ALWAYS taboo… until the leagues began making big money from sharing the illicit profits. Hypocrites!
Interestingly, amazon owns Whole Foods, and you can definitely get an order through them which contains alcohol. AND someone will bring it to your house!
Mr. Commissioner, and owners, please remind us exactly WHY there needs to be an NFL game on a Thursday night. I don’t want to hear that “we care about the players safety EVER coming out of your pie holes!” It’s a money grab, pure and simple.
As for the beer commercials, and those talking about how the gambling commercials are now part of the broadcast, let’s remind everyone that the NFL doesn’t like Las Vegas sponsoring ads during the Super Bowl. Don’t want to associate themselves with gambling. Yeah, right.
That’s fine since most of the country can’t watch the games because they’re on one of the most expensive streaming services that has the least amount of stuff to stream on it. First NFL games I’ve ever missed since NFL Sunday Ticket was launched back in the 2000s. Thankfully, they’ve all stunk to high heavens so I haven’t missed much.
I only watch condensed games now (even just 12 minutes of the Colts-Broncos game was a snoozer) so no commercials from breweries, insurance companies, carmakers, et al. A worthy trade-off, I think, especially since nobody’s making money off of me beyond whatever Roku or Google (YouTube) get for my clicks.
grange Premium Member about 2 years ago
How could you bear sitting through 3¼ hours of blather and commercials to get ¼ hour of action without being tanked?
gary about 2 years ago
Pavlovian response – see football, want beer.
JudithStocker Premium Member about 2 years ago
Sports just isn’t the same without beer ads, somehow. I can see the mid-50s when there were always beer ads on “The Gillette Saturday night fights”. Or even the World Series Baseball games.
Ellis97 about 2 years ago
Amazon is currently looking to hire 150,000 employees.
Olddog1 about 2 years ago
Mel Allen plugging (and drinking) Ballantine beer was a major part of 50s baseball.
For a Just and Peaceful World about 2 years ago
Panel One and Two: Never eat from a communal popcorn bowl at a bar.
bpscg about 2 years ago
“…not doing anything to promote alcohol consumption.” But gambling is just fine.
TampaFanatic1 about 2 years ago
Hey Hinds, Amazon already exploits empoyees with way below average working conditions and wages as well as a reputation to put profit over employees. Their policy on alcohol is far down the list of grievances.
amxchester about 2 years ago
Anybody watch the Amazon games to verify this?(Read that last night’s game was a stinkeroo, any Broncos buyer remorse? Seahawks 1st rounders are looking better too.)
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Excellent. This is like the Nanny crusade to get rid of the Budweiser frogs and lizard, what a bunch of idiots.
MartinPerry1 about 2 years ago
I knew there was something seriously wrong with Bezos.
jakarlsson about 2 years ago
Now all you see are ads about the joy of gambling on games… which was ALWAYS taboo… until the leagues began making big money from sharing the illicit profits. Hypocrites!
studduck420 about 2 years ago
People needed beer after watching last night’s game
moondog42 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Interestingly, amazon owns Whole Foods, and you can definitely get an order through them which contains alcohol. AND someone will bring it to your house!
johnhskelton about 2 years ago
Last night’s viewers needed a lot of beer to make that goat rodeo look good.
sarah413 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Mr. Commissioner, and owners, please remind us exactly WHY there needs to be an NFL game on a Thursday night. I don’t want to hear that “we care about the players safety EVER coming out of your pie holes!” It’s a money grab, pure and simple.
As for the beer commercials, and those talking about how the gambling commercials are now part of the broadcast, let’s remind everyone that the NFL doesn’t like Las Vegas sponsoring ads during the Super Bowl. Don’t want to associate themselves with gambling. Yeah, right.
leons1701 about 2 years ago
If they were watching last nights game, they probably would have drunk MORE beer in the hopes of forgetting it.
NWdryad about 2 years ago
Last night’s game was so stupendously boring that I probably could have drunk myself under the table.
smartman about 2 years ago
That’s fine since most of the country can’t watch the games because they’re on one of the most expensive streaming services that has the least amount of stuff to stream on it. First NFL games I’ve ever missed since NFL Sunday Ticket was launched back in the 2000s. Thankfully, they’ve all stunk to high heavens so I haven’t missed much.
Guilty Bystander about 2 years ago
I only watch condensed games now (even just 12 minutes of the Colts-Broncos game was a snoozer) so no commercials from breweries, insurance companies, carmakers, et al. A worthy trade-off, I think, especially since nobody’s making money off of me beyond whatever Roku or Google (YouTube) get for my clicks.
darkaudit about 2 years ago
When Amazon execs realized they paid $78 million for Thursday’s affront to football, they drank all the alcohol anyway.
198.23.5.11 about 2 years ago
The Rhinegold Extra-Dry Extra-Talented players.
Animated by Jay Ward(ROCKY&BULLWINKLE),unless I miss my guess,