In the wake of the domestic violence incident involving former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and child abuse case involving Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, sponsors have been forced to react. Anheuser-Busch issued a statement on Tuesday about the status of the NFL and for the most part it was well received.
Then there were others who didn’t feel that way, like Houston Texans running back Arian Foster. He took to his Twitter account to voice his opinion, and he starts of with a valid point. Then he makes a comment and it takes a turn for the worst.
Lol ok, alcohol company. RT @darrenrovell: NFL beer sponsor, Anheuser-Busch, issues strong statement pic.twitter.com/TCEbA4s5Q1
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
Selling poison on that high horse.
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
Domestic violence and alcohol damn near synonymous.
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
You need a company to tell you dv is wrong? RT @eddieb2: Finally a BIG time company taking a public stance AGAINST and you rip them? Huh?
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
Everybody is just riding the media wave. There has been tons of dv cases throughout the years where was all this support then? Its political
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
Anytime it's starts to tinkering with their bottom line, then they act. Now they're concerned.
— feeno (@ArianFoster) September 16, 2014
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