Peyton Manning's "Budweiser" mentions

Toulon

Was Peyton paid for uttering he was "going to drink a lot of Budweiser's"? I think it's against NFL rules for a player to promote an alcoholic beverage and I have to believe they weren't very happy to have him drop Bud into two onfield mentions over CBS airwaves. Shoot, the first thing we saw Peyton do when he ran out on the field was get kissed by "Papa John".

Is Peyton really that much of a corporate shill that he had a pay agreement with Budweiser if his team won the SB? It was quite different from the old..."I'm going to DisneyWorld!"

EDIT: I just googled around and found this:

Active NFL players are prohibited from endorsing alcohol companies on air, meaning Manning has just that little regard for commissioner Roger Goodell’s discipline, or he’s counting on not being an active NFL player much longer.

---also... It has been reported that his mentions were worth 3.2 million. A Bud spokesperson stated they did not pay him for the mentions. I thought that was odd. He does, however, own stake in two Anheuser-Busch breweries in Louisiana. He did plug "Bud Light" in a presser awhile back, also. Here was his line:

After 2014 playoff win, Manning said in a news conference: “What’s weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth.”

Funny how Manning seems to get a pass for something like this when someone like Cam Newton most likely wouldn't have.

Sneakylong

Toulon

I thought it was odd as well. But as we know Peyton gets away with what others wouldn't.

Oldprof

I thought Peyton Manning's post-game talking about how many Budweisers he was going to drink was both odd and inappropriate. It really didn't fit with his clean-cut image as a role-model for youth. And I'm not surprised that the NFL has rules prohibiting players from endorsing alcoholic products.

LBlack14

I wish he would promote some decent pizza. I'm not real picky when it comes to pizza, but papa john's is definitely at the bottom of the heap.

PIGDivot

I thought his reference to Budweiser was harmless and actually funny. There's nothing wrong with celebrating with a few beers after his last Super Bowl game. And since it's assumed he's done playing in the NFL, he's as good as done with all of their stupid and archaic rules.

Just a bit tightly wound here.

bogeypro

Landon: Papa John's is far from wonderful (I'd rather buy a frozen pizza) but the prize for worst franchise pizza has already been claimed by Little Caesar's

As far as Peyton's post game comments, I thought they were obviously rehearsed. He made the comments to the female sideline reporter and then repeated those comments when prompted by Jim Nance to share his thoughts with the fans at the stadium who did not hear the comments made to the TV sideline reporter.

Typhoon

When I heard him in the first interview right after the game..."I have a few prioirities, find the wife and kids and give them a hug and kiss, have a few Budweisers"...I thought nothing of it.

Then later at the podium he says it again,..." have a few prioirities, find the wife and kids and give them a hug and kiss, have a few Budweisers" I'm saying to myself, " this guy had this as a prepared speech!"...He actually PRACTICED saying that.

Funny thing was, on the podium, his friggin kids were right in front of him...not too hard to find.

Best part of the telecast...the look on Eli Manning's face when Peyton threw the 2 point conversion pass. DUH......................................................Must have lost a boatload of money on it.

stroh

My buddy and I were all over his original Bud Light comment.

“What’s weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth.”

Now we always say to each other "Omaha!!"

Which means:
“What’s weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth.”

Rickochet

Jeez, give the man a break. He is tired, beaten up and is experiencing probably the last big hoorah of his career. And he is doing this in front of the world. He didn't say that he was going out partying and ho chasing until dawn. He is going home to kiss his wife and kids and throw down lots of beer. He earned that. People wanting to make more out of him using the Budweiser name are just trying to stir up shit. If that doesn't work I guess they will just jump on the PED's bandwagon. Get a life people.

And I am a Manning fan. Those who aren't will continue to bash.

PA-PLAYA

I think it might have something to do with him "subtly" disclosing (undetected by most people) that he's not coming back next season. That, and maybe just an uncharacteristic (albeit small) F-U to the Goodell establishment, and the fact that Budweiser deserved a prop because they've obviously paid him handsomely over the years to endorse their product.

And it was his stage, for a brief moment... to connect with people who are down-to-earth and don't spend $5 of their income on a bottle of expensive craft beer.

Either way, I don't hold it against him any more than Beyonce dressed like an internet porn actress in the halftime show. (which, btw, I'm not totally against either!)

Much ado about nothing, except maybe the outside notion that it was a subversive hint that he's done playing football.

Toulon

I think it was very sad that Peyton used that platform to promote beer drinking...and lots of it, implying a little overindulgence. Kids, and lots and lots of them are watching him looking up to him. Great...help play a role in a new generation of lushes. I'm disappointed he rehearsed his message and used a platform as big as that to promote BUDWEISER. All the things a person could do with a stage that big and that is what he chose? Disappointed. Peyton presents well... I wonder if he isn't the prickish little immature kid who had issues with the female trainer at TN and never grew up but just hid it well.

tdcoly

Toulon

And if he had said he was going to go home and snort lots of cayenne pepper, would your response be the same?

LBlack14

Toulon I think it was very sad that Peyton used that platform to promote beer drinking...and lots of it, implying a little overindulgence. Kids, and lots and lots of them are watching him looking up to him.

Last I checked drinking beer was as legal.

Ack8236

How dare he stray from the Official Book of Sports Cliches!!! More proof that people will whine about everything and anything. (Bud) Lighten up.

Ack8236

Could have said he was getting back to Denver as soon as possible to light bud.😉

johnnydoom

I read somewhere that he may be part owner in a Budweiser distributorship or two. Don't know if it's true or not and don't really care. I was kind of thinking it might be a sly reference to all the celebrating the Panthers have been doing all season, implying that the time to celebrate is after the work is done.

1Puttpar

johnnydoom

Yes, Peyton has owneRship interests in two Anheiser Busch distributors in Louisiana.

wishbone

He does own a percentage in a few Budweiser distributors in Loiusiana, I believe. Of course he had a rehearsed speech. Bet he had one for if they lost, too. And if it was a jab at Goddell for his hypocritical garbage (Bud is one of the NFL's biggest sponsors and always has been...what is he going to do?), promotes his own business interest (Peyton "GD" Manning has always been the corporate shill), and jabs Carolina about celibrating the win, why, that is 3 for 3. I thought it was funny as heck, and a lot better than "I am going to Disneyland"

And like Spuzz, I give the guy credit for putting his huge ego aside and Dilfering his way to his second Super Bowl.

Ursus

I found it all offensive and inappropriate...mostly because Bud is such a lousy beer and Papa Johns is bad pizza. That's a recipe for a long session on the throne. If next Manning starts shilling for Immodium I'm going to be very suspicious.

darpar

At least he didn't say,"We're going to Disney World"!

Spuzz

darpar At least he didn't say,"We're going to Disney World"!

He showed up there though.
He should have said " I will have a Bud hangover at Disney World" and got all his promotional BS out at once.

Sneakylong

LBlack14

It is ironic that one of the biggest sponsors of the NFL is beer. Yet they have a policy of not letting the players mention beer. Not the only screwed up policy the NFL has I might add.

Toulon

LBlack14 Absolutely is...however, he's a role model to an untold number of children. Obviously, there were many kids watching Peyton that night and to drop that in was very poor taste, not unlike Bud, from what I've heard. There are still parents in the world who don't wish for their kids to drink. On the other hand, there were probably plenty of atheists who didn't care for his mentions of thanking "the man upstairs". Everyone has things they like and don't like. I'm not a drinker...never have been, never will be so I guess I'm just sensitive to that message.

Strip clubs are legal, also but I wouldn't wish for him to stand up and talk about going to see some bazooms and kitty at the "gentlemen's club" either.

To me, it's equally offensive that he did this having something to gain financially from the mentions.