Bud Lite paintball commercial

[joe bob]

if i were a mod i would put this in the gold board, this could be history in the making here!

 

[pb-afroman]

One of the better main stream media representations of painball I've seen. And as they say, any publicity is good publicity.

 

[Tom Tom]

Funny as, such a good idea,

 

[Dazdread]

Cool Ad, do you think that they will use it in the UK LOL

I want to save it

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by KillerOnion
Who saw the rec baller Bud Light commercial just after the Super Bowl last night? It was funny, and itt's probably the strongest free publicity paintball has ever gotten. Perhaps Anheiser Busch knows we're out there now?

Potentially BIG implications here. Any thoughts?

I might be talking out my ass here but I don't see what all the fuss is about.
I can't see this having any major affect on how people perceive or even react to paintball Stateside.
My god, 10, million people already play paintball over there anyway, it's not as if the average Yank hasn't heard of our beloved game.
The game as portrayed on that ad is recball, the Yanks are already well aware of paintball in this sense.
What would have made a whole world of difference is if the ad was centred on tourney play where players look like extreme athletes instead of wannabee Rambos.
If moves were being busted all over the place as we see in some of these Paintball vids that have come onto the market, then and only then I would have got excited at the prospect of significant growth but not with what I saw.
Recball sucks as an advert for our game, it has been holding us back for years in terms of mainstream and or media acceptance.

 

[snowythehobo]

i think it was really funny
its not gonna do anything for the sport good or bad... but its a funny advert...

 

[Ms Bossy]

Originally posted by Dazdread
Cool Ad, do you think that they will use it in the UK LOL

I use to work at Bud few years back and the yanks have this idea that the brits don't have a sense of humour and still have that 1940's stiff upper lip, until we manged to get through to them that the carling adverts were far more acceptable to joe public due to the humour, this took us a good 2 yrs to persuade them to air the frog and lizard idea over here and when they did sales went up 33%, so i reckon they will air it for the profit margin


And Robbo..............true true



(see how i slotted in the Bud catchphrase there, i really surpass me self sometimes)

 

[Philip]

Hahah.....good stuff.

 

[shamu]

I thought it was a great ad and was surprised to see it during the superbowl - one of the biggest audiences of the year. It's "only" recball, but as they say "Any publicity is good publicity".

If it gets a few more people out to the fields or makes the sport a little more mainstream, all the better. Maybe seeing the commercial will encourage people to tune in to the various paintball TV shows when they see them.

 

[Chris *MT*]

Very funny, and a bit of publicity doesn't hurt.