Obesity is now the leading cause of death in Australia.
Around 9 million Australians are overweight and another 5million are obese this includes over 1million overweight and 250,000 obese children.
More than 5million Australian have fatty Liver disease and over 1million have type 2 diabetes.
Meanwhile every AFL club has an affiliation with Coca-Cola and or the Pepsi Owned Gatorade brand or similar.
Players do ads for Gatorade and PowerAde, supposed sports drinks that contain around 25 spoonfuls of sugar with high salt content and market them as healthy drinks that makes you an athlete.
Somehow this is overlooked while people are outraged about poker machines that adversely affect a tiny fraction of the population.
If we are going to run the morality meter over AFL and club revenue this is the first place to start.
My God, what a crap thread. Sooking it up because someone dared criticise his magnificent club. I hope he's pleased with the 5 pages of obesity discussion he has generated.
And then coming up with corkers like this:
You're really comparing losing money to a life long disease like diabetes ? Your kidding right ?
You are comparing the break-up of families and the destruction of lives to someone needing to get to a gym every now and then? Or are you sheeting home the entire obesity epidemic and diabetes to drinking soft drink? Either way, you are a &^*%ing moron.
Here's the difference between soft drinks and pokies. Soft drinks are merely a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic. By contrast, pokies are completely responsible for tens of thousands of people's gambling addictions. The Hawthorn football club is almost certainly directly responsible for the ruining of lives. Not that you give a sh!t.
If you want to practice sophistry, we could just as easily go the other way and ask why footy clubs shouldn't be allowed to accept sponsorship from cigarettes. You'd probably be delighted to see your precious baby hawks accepting ice sponsorship if they could. Just as long as you guys get your hands on more cash. Hey, drug addicts should practice more personal responsibility!
But to answer your supposed question: If it shuts up people like you I would happily stop footy clubs accepting sponsorship from fast food companies and soft drink manufacturers to stop them from running pokies. Pokies should simply be banned outright - or at least limited to casinos like they are in WA.