Bud Light Fumbles While Trying to Recover Brand by Teaming Up with NFL Legend

Two of the most beloved NFL legends in history are Peyton Manning and Emmitt Smith. Manning is the lovable, “aw shucks” goofball who just happens to have a government supercomputer for a human brain (at least when it…

IJR SyndicatedDec 4, 20233 min read

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Enter:

Bud Light

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The embattled beer brand and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, have been fighting a losing public relations battle ever since it briefly partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney back in April.

The company has been working overtime since then to win back fans — and to a certain degree, it’s worked.

Most recently, Bud Light partnered with UFC, which probably has the largest concentration of “conservative” sports fans of any of the major professional sports league.

But while more high-profile endorsements may start trickling in for Bud Light… it’s not clear any of it’s actually working, at least based on the sentiments of the everyman.

First, here’s the latest Bud Light stunt involving (assuredly highly paid) celebrities:

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The 60-second ad, which basically showed Manning and Smith tossing around and enjoying cans of Bud Light with a bar, isn’t anything noteworthy in and of itself.

But looking at the comments? It’s clear that the advertisement did not stick the landing.

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“Still not drinking,” one X user posted.

Bud Light actually responded to that post, posting: “When you change your mind, we’ll have a cold one ready for you.”

That response was promptly eviscerated in the comments, as angry former fans made it clear that their minds won’t be changing.

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At this point, it’s not clear what Bud Light can do — if anything — to win back the fans it lost.

The outcome that Bud Light is clearly banking on is that people will eventually forget, if not forgive, the beer conglomerate after an ample enough passage of time and inundation with celebrity-filled ads.

They may, or may not, eventually be proven correct… but in the meantime, it’s clear that nobody wants to be associated with the beer brand, no matter how many Super Bowl champions the beleaguered beer brand wants to throw out there.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.