NFL team-specific beer cans

[oldecapecod11]

Another fine example for the youth of America...

NFL team-specific beer cans coming to stadium and store near you...

(Kudos for the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings.)

http://www.silive.com/giants/index.ssf/ ... ws_article

[Ronfitch]

Brings back memories of the Iron City Beer cans from the '70s:

https://www.google.com/search?q=iron+ci ... IAUl&dpr=1

[oldecapecod11]

WOW!!!

For years, the New York Yankees main TV sponsor was Ballantine Beer (and Ale) but they never had anything like that.

(Yes; the team once owned by Jacob Ruppert, who owned the Yankees and Ruppert's Brewery [Knickerbocker Beer] was sponsored by another brewing company long after the death of "the Colonel." The legendary Mel Allen made the term "Ballantine Blast" synonymous with a Home Run in the metro-New York area.)

"Whether inculcating 10 year olds with the message that a game requiring highly refined motor skills and a drink that suppress same is a good idea is a question for another day."
~ Thom Forbes

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=balla ... ny+yankees

[ChrisBabcock]

I remember these NFL team Coke cans from the early 90s.

http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/d-8314 ... teams.html

[oldecapecod11]

Coke also did it with bottled product - photo images under the bottle caps.
The first page of this link shows Giants but the second and third has Bears and Packers so maybe it was league-wide?

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?page=1& ... 89e08e28be

[MatthewToy]

Don't local beers do this or just Iron City Beers? Fun fact, Iron City is a terrible beer.

[Rupert Patrick]

Don't local beers do this or just Iron City Beers? Fun fact, Iron City is a terrible beer.

True dat. I last visited Pittsburgh in 2010 and drank an Iron City just to remember how awful they tasted, but their sports can designs, not just for football but also for other Pittsburgh sports, were the gold standard for commemorative sports beer cans. I remember my aunt visited here about 25 years ago and brought me a six pack of IC with the special Roberto Clemente commemorative cans which were beautiful, and they also did cans to celebrate the Penguins winning the Stanley Cups.

http://www.collectorsworld.us/viewProduct.asp?pro=404