{"id":1971012,"date":"2023-07-12T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-after-starring-in-bud-light-ad-battles-with-critics\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:21:16","slug":"nfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-after-starring-in-bud-light-ad-battles-with-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-after-starring-in-bud-light-ad-battles-with-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Pro Bowler Faces Backlash for Bud Light Ad, Clashes with Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-after-starring-in-bud-light-ad-battles-with-critics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Massive PR Issue Looms Over 2023-2024 NFL Season<\/h2>\n<p>Somehow, some way, Roger Goodell\u2019s NFL has a massive PR issue looming over the 2023-2024 NFL season \u2014 and spring training hasn\u2019t even kicked off yet.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL, no stranger itself to cultural firestorms, has found itself in another conglomerate\u2019s firestorm thanks to San Francisco 49ers superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-lv-all-the-best-commercials\/\" title=\"Super Bowl LV: All The Best Commercials\">tight end<\/a> George Kittle.<\/p>\n<p>The perennial Pro Bowler found himself smack dab in the middle of this raging cultural debate thanks to an otherwise innocuous ad for the beleaguered Bud Light.<\/p>\n<p>(For the unaware, Bud Light has effectively tanked its business and angered swathes of beer-drinkers by associating itself with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.)<\/p>\n<p>And as with most Bud Light controversies of late, this one appears to have begun on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CuhaK8Ugiqg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block;height: 50px;margin: 0 auto 12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CuhaK8Ugiqg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by George Kittle (@gkittle)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On his Instagram account, Kittle (clearly denoting that this was a \u201cPaid partnership\u201d) posted a simple little advertisement showing him picking out an admittedly neat (at least to this writer) shirt for an evening out and, as he\u2019s leaving his home, a friend holding a can of Bud Light is shown.<\/p>\n<p>The tagline \u201cEasy To Drink, Easy To Enjoy\u201d \u2014 a sentiment most beer drinkers probably would\u2019ve disagreed with before this Mulvaney debacle \u2014 is also shown briefly at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Had this ad been for literally any other beer, Kittle\u2019s Instagram post would\u2019ve come and gone like any number of Niners quarterbacks since Steve Young retired.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t for any other beer. It was for the most toxic beer brand in all of America.<\/p>\n<p>And that toxicity is a big problem for the NFL given that the beer is an inextricably-linked advertiser with the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-matter-the-winner-of-super-bowl-lvi-the-nfl-has-a-great-storyline\/\" title=\"No Matter The Winner Of Super Bowl LVI, The NFL Has A Great Storyline\">popular professional sport<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it feels like the NFL just shed itself of the anthem protest issues, here comes a beer brand that is about as reviled as it gets by everyday Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Exacerbating matters is that Kittle, never one to back down from a confrontation, isn\u2019t backing down from his endorsement of the downtrodden beer brand.<\/p>\n<p>Kittle, who originally only commented \u201cFavorite shirt, full fridge, can\u2019t lose\u201d as part of the ad, began responding directly to some of the more critical comments underneath his post.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the comments under the post were negative, with comments ranging from calling this an \u201cL\u201d to calling Kittle a \u201csellout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to OutKick, that last remark didn\u2019t sit too well with the tight end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-people-exist-oreo-cookie-virtue-signals-while-parent-company-faces-child-slave-labor-lawsuit\/\" title=\"\u2018Trans People Exist\u2019: Oreo Cookie Virtue Signals While Parent Company Faces Child Slave Labor Lawsuit\">bud light<\/a> athlete since 2020 actually!\u201d Kittle said in direct response to one Instagram user. \u201cTalk about what you know not what you think!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look, Kittle may be technically correct with his rebuttal. The only thing he appears to have sold out on in 2020 is the fact that Bud Light is consumable swill.<\/p>\n<p>As for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-after-starring-in-bud-light-ad-battles-with-critics\/\" title=\"NFL Pro Bowler Faces Backlash for Bud Light Ad, Clashes with Critics\">nuclear hot transgender issue<\/a> at the heart of this, Kittle did seem to avoid that pitfall \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n<p>But it does feel far more inevitable than unlikely that at some point in this season (when the NFL\u2019s popularity and attention is at a fever pitch), an NFL player is going to have to directly confront whether or not he thinks men can be women through mutilation and drugs, due largely to that Bud Light advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>And when that happens, the NFL probably won\u2019t like what happens regardless of how that player responds.<\/p>\n<p>If the player speaks up that transgenderism is a perversion of God\u2019s intended will, you can be assured that any number of the Alphabet Mafia will rage about it.<\/p>\n<p>If a player goes in lockstep with the LGBT agenda, it may as well be the national anthem issue all over again, given that there\u2019s probably a strong overlap between the people who think there are only two genders and people who think \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d should be respectfully observed.<\/p>\n<p>Buckle up, NFL fans. This is going to be a fascinating season.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-pro-bowler-gets-big-backlash-starring-bud-light-ad-battles-critics\/\">NFL Pro Bowler Gets Big Backlash After Starring in Bud Light Ad, Battles with Critics<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Goodell&#8217;s NFL faces a major PR problem for the upcoming 2023-2024 season. Surprisingly, spring training hasn&#8217;t even started yet. The NFL, known for dealing with controversies, is now caught up in a firestorm caused by San Francisco 49ers&#8217; star player George Kittle. 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