Guinness, We Have Found Your Hockey Endorser!
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 06:03AM 
In a post a few months ago, I mentioned the incredible experience I had attending an Atlanta Thrashers game at Phillips Arena... The team does a great job bringing the game of hockey to fans in a non-traditional hockey market... The highlight? A Guinness-chugging fan who gets the crowd going crazy during the 3rd period of every game... Well, to share this "experience" with you, I was able to find a clip online... Featured on the video board nearly every game, this fan normally will chug the full glass of Guinness and then go up and bang the boards - it makes the arena go electric!
Now, the next goal is to get Guinness to activate across the NHL (or another sport) by hiring a guy in every stadium to do this! When I attended the Thrashers game this past Fall, I was amazed to see that the team had four (4) alcoholic beverage sponsors, yet all four (4) failed to activate around this "in-arena" legend. Let's make this guy famous!
Reader Comments (1)
Are there liquor license rules against showing this kind of thing? Could that be why the beer companies are reluctant to sponsor this activity?