TEAM Coalition proudly joined forces with the National Football League and Bud Light in support of the national Responsibility Has Its Rewards (RHIR) campaign at the 2018 Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida on Sunday January 28, 2018 and Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis, MN on Sunday February 4, 2018. Throughout the 2017 NFL season, each NFL team offered fans the opportunity to pledge to be a designated driver. At the end of the regular season, each NFL team selected one fan to be the Designated Driver for the 2017 Season.
At U.S. Bank Stadium, 640 NFL fans pledged to be responsible fans at Super Bowl LII. Responsible fans are over 21 years of age, and they made one of two possible responsibility promises. Some promised not to drink alcohol. Other promised to be responsible drinkers by choosing to take public transportation, a ride-sharing app, or to get home safely with a friend after the game. All responsible fans who took the pledge were awarded a Bud Light rally towel and key chain at the game.
Nearly 5,000 fans pledged never to drive drunk at the Super Bowl Experience offered for eight days leading up to Super Bowl LII. Each day, a random drawing awarded a lucky fan who took the pledge with an autographed football or mini-helmet.
The RHIR sweepstakes first prize was awarded to the Designated Driver for the Season from the Chicago Bears – Brenda Musich. Mrs. Musich received a trip for two to the 2018 Pro Bowl in Orlando, FL.
Responsibility Has Its Rewards sweepstakes winner, Brenda Musich, her husband Steve Musich, at the 2018 Pro Bowl.
The positive contributions made by TEAM are far reaching. Its mission is important to fans and spectators in stadiums, but its message also contributes to responsible conduct in our communities at large. The NFL strongly supports the TEAM program, and we are proud to be a member of the TEAM Coalition.<span class="su-quote-cite">Roger Goodell, Commissioner, National Football League</span>
Anheuser-Busch has led our industry in promoting responsible drinking for more than 35 years, and the Bud Light Good Sport program reminds fans who choose to drink to do so responsibly and get their friends home safely. We all share the same streets after the game. This partnership with the National Football League, TEAM and the fans displays our collective responsibility to help keep our roads safe.<span class="su-quote-cite">Katja Zastrow, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility-Better World, Anheuser-Busch</span>
Teamwork is exactly what this organization is all about. Through the Bud Light Good Sport Designated Driver Challenge, we are demonstrating that when everyone – including the fans – takes responsibility, everyone wins.<span class="su-quote-cite">Jill Pepper, Executive Director, TEAM Coalition</span>
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch and its employees build on a legacy of corporate social responsibility by focusing on three key areas: promoting alcohol responsibility, preserving and protecting the environment and supporting local communities. In the past three decades, Anheuser-Busch and its wholesalers have invested more than $1 billion in preventing drunk driving and underage drinking and promoting responsible retailing and advertising. Anheuser-Busch reduced total water use at its breweries by nearly 50 percent over the last 10 years. The company has been a leading aluminum recycler for more than 30 years. Each year Anheuser-Busch and its Foundation invest approximately $20 million in donations to charitable organizations that help in local communities. The company also has provided over 76 million cans of emergency drinking water to people impacted by natural and other disasters since 1988. Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch, the leading American brewer, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the leading global brewer. For more information, visit www.anheuser-busch.com.
TEAM Coalition
TEAM Coalition is an alliance of professional and collegiate sports, entertainment facilities, concessionaires, stadium service providers, the beer industry, distillers, broadcasters, traffic safety experts and others working together to promote responsible drinking and positive fan behavior at sports and entertainment facilities. TEAM Coalition members and supporters include National Football League, Aramark, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, NASCAR, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Americrown, Delaware North Sportservice, Legends, Spectra, Beer Institute, National Beer Wholesalers Association, Constellation Brands, HEINEKEN USA, MillerCoors, Brown-Forman, Live Nation, National Association of Broadcasters, Contemporary Services Corporation, International Association of Venue Managers, Stadium Managers Association and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For more information visit www.TEAMCoalition.org or www.FansDontLetFansDriveDrunk.org.
(L to R):
Jackson Magnini, TEAM Coalition; Katja Zastrow, Anheuser-Busch; Janet Ruggiero, Patriots Responsibility Has Its Rewards Sweepstakes Winner; Henry Kern, Eagles Responsibility Has Its Rewards Sweepstakes Winner; Carl Mittleman, Aramark
US DOT / NHTSA 2016 NATIONAL DATA:
• In 2016, 10,497 people were killed as a result of alcohol-related (BAC > 0.08) car crashes, an increase of 1.7% from the 10,265 fatalities in 2015.
• Many, if not most of those lives would have been saved if people did not drive when they were impaired by alcohol or if they used sober, designated drivers or if they simply wore their seat belts.
• Statistics and research clearly show that 21-34 year old males are the demographic most likely to be involved in an automobile crash, drive when impaired by alcohol, and fail to buckle up.
