Let the good times roll?
Man if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Rumor-mongering is a tough business. Sure it feels good to break that story, just ask Stab magazine’s Ashton Goggans‘ alter ego Adjunct Professor (by the way I found out who the Adjunct Professor actually is and it is the most priceless thing ever. Seriously. Like… I’ve been laughing non-stop for four days.) But in order to get that story you have to be amongst it, not writing damned books or skiing in Aspen. That’s why I am the most thankful for you. You share what you hear, I vet then publish.
And here we go. The vetting on this is, I’ll admit, slim but let’s not let that get in the way. A fantastic gentleman emailed:
This morning out near the Venice Breakwater, I heard a guy talking to another guy about Anheuser-Busch perhaps sponsoring the WSL. The guy saying it was only an OK surfer, so it might be legit! (Clearly don’t run with my word but maybe a well-placed call…) Perhaps the WSL is getting its act together? I kid…
A well-placed text is pending but let’s think about this for a moment. You are of course familiar with the famed Bud Tour. It was a surfing series and a young Kelly Slater won many of the events. You also remember the Bud Light Air Shows where Josh Kerr was the champion. You also remember the Bud Light Lime Surf Tour or maybe you don’t but anyhow it existed.
So for Bud, Bud Light and Bud Light Lime’s parent company to get back in the game… well, it’s a rumor that don’t need much vetting at all. And I have a proposal. Anheuser-Bush should also sponsor the brand new Facebook series “Li’l Jam off the Top feat. Longtom n friends” the new BeachGrit show that delves into the anti-depressive side of professional surfing. Or maybe they will be too busy. Maybe we should get a whiskey sponsor. Just think how angry Joel Tudor would be.
Longtom, do you drink whiskey?
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I feel 30 years younger all the time!
Oh Mr. Choke… I know that I’m not everyone’s cup of tea and I know that BeachGrit is, similarly, not everyone’s cup of tea but that is the point. Surf has been caught in an ugly, thoughtless, wildly conservative trap for near two whole decades. Many of brands pumping out misguided junk. Most of the media doing whatever it needs to do/say to get those brand dollars. Derek and I fail lots and every day but we will never roll over and push anything we don’t believe in. So hate all you want but stay. It’s fun.
Yes very close , Australians actually thought it was some kinda energy drink as it certainly doesn’t get you pissed , but by drinking copious amounts of it , you will notice a positive affect , if you want to become a Sumo wrestler !
So, “This Buds for your Budding , Bud Belly!”
I guess Nugstrain got over the KK thing.
Oh hey girlfrand
We can tell by the structure of your rambling comments.
Wish I could auto-fellate, would’ve saved me a lot of time, effort and money.
Might be time for Cavvy to come back
*I wanted to start a subpar website where I spend my weekends commenting about it being a subpar website
tourism dept doing it big but airfare from anywhere is what, $1500 US? same problem with SA.
Corona didn’t want in on this action? Or have the last couple of years made them realise you don’t really need to advertise beer? People drink what they drink.
You’re right Chas is a “shitty writer”, but he doesnt fully gobble the industry cock with advertorials and constantly heap praise on mediocrity. The entire surf industry is a joke, literaly built upon the idea of “im cooler than you” Chas’s “shitty writing” multiplies that very sentiment ten fold while farcically throwing it back in their faces. Thus is the genius of Beach Grit and the reason people read it.
Your worst assumption is that any of the Stab commentators read any of the articles
Chas is not a shirty writer, shitty winter, whiny shitter…oh fuck, spell check is so eeew.
My inside source at STAB reported he had something for you… is Chas really a shitty writer? is it just these cut n paste stories that piss you off? Or the aloof higher than thou smugness of the average commentator here? all of the above?
i’ll give you 1 to 3 that its the aloof smugness. chokebrain is a man of the people.
Piss!
At what point does “too many” discredit your argument? Far too many? Too too many?
Even if Budweiser jumped on the band wagon to ‘help’ sponsor the Wsl, they would probably only be paying about a million a year–probably about the same as Jeep is paying. It costs about 30 million a year to run the tour, who would be paying the other 28 million. Yah, you got it right, good old sugar daddy Dirk and Natasha Ziff.
how the fuck do they come up with that 30 mil figure? what is that, 3mil per event? does it cost RedBull 3 mil to do that Cape Solander thing?
Google it, do the research. Its been pretty well documented. That’s why Quick, Billabog, Rip Cur all bailed on sponsoring contests, they couldn’t afford it any more when the surf market started to collapse. They pretty much gave the rights to the ‘tour’- to the WSL– just to get out of it and the financial burden of it.
no, its because the WSL said they couldn’t host the broadcast on their own sites. once the companies had to try to justify the sanctioning/sponsorship fee without driving traffic to their website most of them (endemics anyway) gave up on the model.
Maybe what it all boils down to is, the potential audience really isn’t that big. Real surfers don’t want to watch — we want to ride.
At a regional level we haven’t had Beer sponsors for the best part of a decade. It’s been pretty dull ever since, too much Surfing and not enough hijinks.
Hey Choke, just out of interest what did Ashton send you?
I like how there is a line in the sand, I just got accused of being on team BG in a Stab comment. This is funny
so, what’s it gonna be, Greasers or Socs?
Can I just hang on the fence? A double-double agent if you will
It’s like the Trump election all over again…. Chas is Hilary and Goggins is….well who the fuck is Goggins
His own thing?
In your scenario,….THE WINNER!
Must be shit over at stab today! The whole team is here.
But not new David!
I wish they’d sponsor surf expo.I had to sneak a 5th of Jack in only to find out all there was,was Pepsi. Jack and Pepsi,I mean I was doing coke too,but shit. I was the “third alternate” in visslas bullshit shape off which i might ad… Owner of vissla: “It doesnt mean anything,it doesn’t have to people just buy the shit” by that time I was so faced I figured I’d just drive back to Miami grab another ball and have a real friday night. The industry is being propped up by sock companies,seriously 22 sock vendors and like 12 salty crew knock offs,I’m pretty sure I saw goggans and that stupid fucking banks hat,But I couldn’t feel my face by that point So insults seemed pointless.
can i stay with you for the Winter Music Conference in March?
Why not?
Fuck sounds like I missed another Great show!
Did Gotcha have a tent?
Arrgghhhhh it’s the Return of the Bud Tour!!
Cruikshank and Lambresi are chuffed
don’t forget colby outlaw, jim hogan, ted robinson, scott daley and chris brown wrap around.
patented wrap around
whacks it off the top
but imagine if it was , The Weeds Bud Tour , now there’s a different Slant on Bud , or convince the Brazilians that own Budweiser to create a new ‘Real Bud for you!”