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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Football Season = Beer Commercials

With football season comes the beer-commercial season. Beer and football go together like the proverbial peas and carrots, so it's only fitting that beer companies spend big bucks on memorable commercials. Not every beer commercial is successful, though. Some beer commercials are controversial, racist, and notorious in the industry. I've compiled a list of some of these infamous beer commercials.


- In 1972, a Schlitz commercial featured two black men removing their ski masks, placing their guns and a large bag of money on the table, and partaking in "That smooth Schlitz taste that blacks love."

- During a 1983 NFL playoff game, Miller ran a commercial promoting Miller Lite as "The Ultimate Bitch Beer."

- The Pabst brewery ran a commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon during Super Bowl IX that involved 3 male Green Bay Packers fans sodomizing a male Chicago Bears fan with various items, one of which was a "Cold, refreshing Pabst Blue Ribbon longneck bottles. Now available in an 18 pack!"

-Anheuser-Busch ran a radio commercial in 1943 during a Giants-Eagles game that went "Budweiser. It may have a kraut name, but not that Nazi kraut taste!"

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