CBS.SportsLine.com - Consumer group wants NCAA to nix beer ads

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This is a crock of shit. They claim university officials lose credibility for showing beer commercials during football games?!?! No they don't. Underage drinking on campuses is a problem. University officials lose credibility when they allow alcohol induced tailgating to go on on campus grounds. But beer commercials don't incite young people to drink. They drink because they've heard that it gets you drunk and has the potential to make everything that much more fun.

And then they throw out the stats that the 2003 Final four had more ads combined than did the other major sports. Well yeah, it's a tournament that is virtually impossible to catch all the games in a household where there is only one tv. So people go to bars. When you're at bars there is beer. Why not throw on a commercial to maybe push a multi-beer drinker who's on the fence into drinking your beer.

The Center for Science for Public Interest has entirely too much freaking time on their hands. They claim 'Coaching legends back....' their campaign. How much did they pay these legends? This is utterly stupid.....I wish there were some way I could boycott the CSPI but I've never heard of them before so I wouldn't know where to start!!