Budweiser didn’t pay for Manning’s post-Super Bowl shout out
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In this Sunday photo, Denver Broncos Peyton Manning holds the Lombardi Trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 50 football game against the Carolina Panthers in Santa Clara, Calif.
LOS ANGELES >> No, Anheuser-Busch didn’t pay Peyton Manning to say he’d be drinking a lot of Budweiser after winning the Super Bowl.
The company’s verified Twitter account said late Sunday, “We didn’t know the shout out was coming either, but we’re glad it did.”
A-B marketing director Lisa Weser also tweeted, “Budweiser did not pay Peyton Manning to mention Budweiser tonight.”
Then why use his precious seconds on the third-highest rated show in U.S. television history to call out a beer brand?
Beer Business Daily publisher Harry Schuhmacher tweeted out a possible answer: “He owns a piece of a Bud distributorship.”
Manning also celebrated the win atop a float at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, on Monday.
A Disneyland spokesman declined to comment on whether Manning was paid for the trip.
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active nfl players are prohibited from advertising alcohol. perhaps, manning was hinting that at as of the end of the game, he was no longer an active nfl player.