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Campaign Information: Statements of Support
This Campaign has received much support from organizations and individuals
concerned about the infiltration of alcohol advertisements aired during
televised sporting events. Here is a collection of some statements of
support that we have received so far:
I am pleased the Center for Science in the
Public Interest has launched this important campaign and I look forward to
working with them in the future.
--Representative Tom Osborne (R-NE)
Everyone should know that alcohol doesn't
enhance sports. Not as a spectator and especially not as a
participant. If people don't understand that, it's just there, and
it's an annoying part of sports they just don't get it. There is no
connection, only an excuse.
I was recently annoyed by the behavior of
intoxicated "fans" at the NY Jets vs. NY Giants game. They were falling in
the aisles and using profanity in front of young children. Not the
impression of football or the NFL that I want for my 6-year-old son.
--Jim Conklin, Executive Director, The
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council of Orange County (NY)
The Georgia PTA supports efforts to stop
illegal availability and sale of alcohol to individuals under the age of 21.
To that end we think product promotion and marketing at events that have a
high percentage of underage seeks to undermine the health and safety of our
youth. Reducing the exposure of alcohol advertising to underage youth
makes sense. The question is: Why would you market a product to
people who cannot legally buy it???
--Jean Banister, Youth Services Director,
Georgia PTA
Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children
wholeheartedly supports CSPI's Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV. Alcohol
commercials during televised sporting events represent a cynical effort to
hook kids on drinking by undermining what could otherwise be enjoyable,
stress-free family time for parents and children.
--Susan Linn, Ed.D., Stop Commercial
Exploitation of Children (SCEC),
Judge Baker Children's Center (Boston, MA)
Pre-teen and teen-age youth are particularly
vulnerable to messages and pressures from the media as they strive to be
independent, well-liked, attractive, and confident. Marketers of
alcoholic beverages, with their vast financial, creative, and promotional
resources, have aggressively pursued and won the patronage of underage
youth. The celebrities who promote alcohol products are often those
most appealing to teens, such as sports figures. The deliberate
marketing of alcohol to young people is manipulative, unethical, and
endangers the healthy and safety of youth.
--Susan F. Wooley, Executive Director,
American School Health Association
Students, faculty and administrators across
the nation are working hard to prevent alcohol problems on- and off- campus.
Removing alcohol ads from televised college sports is a step in the right
direction for college campuses. Universities and all who care about
higher education must demand the alcohol industry stop feeding students beer
chasers with college sports programming.
--Mark Pertschuk, Executive Director, Marin
Institute (California)
We are supporters of alcohol free sports
advertising. My 22-year-old daughter spoke about alcohol poisoning
today to some high school students. (Her brother, my son, died 1½
years ago due to alcohol poisoning.) One student commented, 'They
don't warn you on commercials what can happen. They just make it look
appealing to the eye. The thing that you are doing is making kids
become aware of the risks that you take [by drinking alcohol].'
--Sally Webster, Founder, www.t-dub.org
(Teaching Drinkers/Non-Drinkers Useful Behaviors)
The NCAA needs to reign in alcohol-related
advertising during its televised events and at its venues or it needs to
embrace the alcohol industry and end the hypocrisy of its current stance.
--Paul Woody, Richmond Times-Dispatch,
January 4, 2004
Support for CSPI's Campaign for Alcohol-Free
Sports TV is growing every day. A national poll showed that 71% of
Americans want colleges to dump beer ads, and more than 80 national, state
and local groups have signed on to back the campaign. Ohio State
University, the reigning national football champion, is the first college to
announce its intention of cutting all ties with beer sponsorships of all the
school's sports programs, just as soon as present contracts expire.
--Monday Morning Report, Volume 27,
No. 23. December 8, 2003
My husband and I having been looking for a way
to try and take a stand on alcohol advertising; we are so glad to find your
website. I have two children, ages 9 and 12. I think we as
parents should stand together to stop the influential message the alcohol
companies are putting across to our children that sports and alcohol go hand
and hand. You can't watch any type of sport on TV without seeing some kind
of alcohol ad: Basketball, Baseball, Nascar and most of all football!...I
feel we as parents have to do something to help show our children a
different path.
--Campaign Supporter
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