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Originally Posted by richardp
Its a hard choice. While their is nothing against it, that is the current situation. This might happen although I doubt it I would not want to be the team that makes FIRST create a ruling against sponsors. Also casinos in Las Vegas sponsor teams out their so I think you will be OK.
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It's a touchy issue with people. Some people are annoyed that our school has coke machines and have major problems that we have Coca-Cola logos all over our gym because of obesity (can't spell), so I bet you'll have a hard time gaining support from parents and stuff about a brewery.
The reason why I quoted the vegas message, how many times during school do we (students) play cards for money or roll dice? Look at the NCAA bracket, the teachers have their secret tourny pools, and the students have their own as well, thats gambleing and it has gotten some of my friends in trouble financially.
I mean if they allow casinos to sponsor teams anybody could argue that they lead to gambleing when in reality haveing a casino on the side of your robot probably won't influence anybody to gamble if they don't want to.
Drinking is the same way, just because we see Dale Earnhardt Jr. driving a budweiser car or thinking the taste loss commericals are funny, that dosen't mean we're going to drink. The #1 thing about teenagers is, most of us choose on our own or to peer preasure to drink and smoke, not advertiseing, and when kids do that stuff, they go for the cheapest stuff they can buy, not the sponsor of a robot or their favorite nascar driver or anything like that.
If FIRST and your school OK it, as a student I really wouldn't care, and I don't think it would lead anybody to drinking just beacuse we saw some kids with Bud logos on their shirts.