Arian Foster rips Anheuser-Busch's statement on NFL's issues

Arian is a pret-- oh, shoot.

 

Gotta say I agree with him. I saw it first hand growing up, as I'm sure others here have as well.

 

Can't disagree

 

haha, Arian is on point.

 

Yep. A lot of this has been overplayed media drama now.

You turn on ESPN and you'd think this was the end of the NFL as we know it. It shouldn't be a surprise to most fans that some players are bad people...and some of them are good too.

Just getting tired of hearing how this is a "Dark dark day for the NFL...will it ever recover?"

 

Synonymous?

 

I'm confused by it. I've been sitting here trying to figure out where all the choir boys went that have traditionally made up the NFL.

 

I enjoy having a beer while NEVER beating my children.

The NFL's handling of these issues has been ridiculous. It took the sponsors getting involved for the NFL to change course...I'm glad the sponsors got involved, frankly. They have no policy with any coherency...all they do is react, and only after there's pressure on the bottom line.

 

There is nothing wrong with the NFL or its corporate sponsors re: domestic violence.

 

Dumbass Ray Rice- if only he had incorporated himself as Ray Rice LLC, he could have escaped the fell hand of COMMODORE INTERNET JUSTICE.

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synonymous

"very strongly associated with something" Alcohol and domestic violence are generally strongly associated by most.

 

FIFY

 

Doing crack is not morally equivalent to hitting your child. Not even close.

 

Sort of agree with Arian, I believe most logical people can have a beer & not beat their kids, but it seems like Busch's just trying to be extra relevant with that statement. No one really cares about the opinion of a company that sells alcohol on this issue, especially when they're trying to be all high & mighty.

It's like McDonald's criticizing a doctor that's let of a series of people die from heart problems recently because of wrongful diagnosis.

 

The NFL cares. It's not about their product; it's about their advertising dollars. As I recall, that's their biggest sponsor. Their influence is because of the money they spend with the NFL.

 

I tend to find Arian's phycobabble/community college philosophy asinine but he actually has a point based on statistics on this one. Good on him.

 

No he doesn't. Trying to blame alcohol companies for domestic violence is dishonest at best (no reason to blame anyone other than ray rice). That being said, I don't see why the Busch owner felt the need to make a public statement.

 

Well I can agree with that however I know "public" statements are what's in right now, I'm just having a hard time believing that the "public" wants to hear/see a strongly worded statement from a company that sells alcohol for the simple fact that some people will find it some what hypocritical, like myself.

It's something I believe the sponsors & the corporation (or vice versa) should handle in private until their ties have been cut which to that point I don't think anyone has any problem with them publicizing a statement about it.

 

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I don't think he's trying to say alcohol caused this. Merely that alcohol can be, and very often is, a contributing factor to dv situations, something that's been pretty well known for a long time. Which makes the sudden jumping on the bandwagon by Busch seem very disingenuous.