Originally Posted By DAR Let's also remember that we're dealing with the NFL and if they don't like something they'll swoop right in like a bunch of mobsters. Case in point: <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4872815" target="_blank">http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/...=4872815</a>
Originally Posted By DAR And there was a great letter from Senator David Vitter to Roger Godell about this. <a href="http://www.wapt.com/sports/22402512/detail.html" target="_blank">http://www.wapt.com/sports/224...ail.html</a>
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Again, provide me a link to an ad with that type of lingerie in it. Victoria's Secret will be fine." LOL, I see what you did there! Need to "review" the evidence, huh? ;-)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <David Vitter Junior Senator of Who Dat Nation> Better, I suppose, than "Junior Senator of Who Dat Ho You Wit, Senator? Nation."
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I've read that 1 out of every 4 atheletes is gay. So, I'm wondering if the 30 gay athletes playing in the Super Bowl would like to raise their hands?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, ad another one to the list of banned commercials. <a href="http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/02/ea-dantes-inferno-super-bowl-ad-.html" target="_blank">http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/02...ad-.html</a> This one makes it seem like CBS is tailoring things in conservative kind of way. I mean, sure the violence and gore are A-OK to show on TV, but the tagline of "Go to Hell" is just too much, right? Not that's it's a classy tagline, but it just shows that maybe CBS is making telling choices on which ads get airtime.
Originally Posted By mawnck That's it. Enough is enough. I'm boycotting the Superbowl! Who's with me?
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ Me. Well, I don't really boycott the SB; I just make sure I have something else to do. Not even the allure of seeing all those tight ends and wide receivers pat each other on the butts is enough to make me sit and watch. Maybe I'll watch gladiator movies instead. Or porn.
Originally Posted By DAR My dad who is pretty middle of the road but when push comes to shove will lean towards the left, said that's what the big fuss was about.
Originally Posted By DAR My dad who is pretty middle of the road but when push comes to shove will lean towards the left, said that's what the big fuss was about.
Originally Posted By mele I wonder if that was the original ad or if they changed it after Allred challenged the story. I don't really care, either way.
Originally Posted By DAR It probably was the original I don't think they would have had time to change it.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 Yeah, gotta say that I really didn't get what the big issue was with that ad. I didn't see anything that I would consider offensive.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster The gay is offensive. Just like the swine flu nobody wants to catch the gay.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Tebow's bigger problemis whether any team will bother to draft him. One likely will, but despite his collegiate career, he's incredibly ill suited for the NFL game. His mechanics are horrible to be a quarterback. He's better suited as a fullback or tight end (no jokes), but insists he wants to play QB. He tanked it during the Senior Bowl, a showcase for prospects. He might not be taken until the second day of the draft, which would not bode well for his chances.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I wonder if that was the original ad or if they changed it after Allred challenged the story.<< >>It probably was the original I don't think they would have had time to change it.<< There was plenty of time to change it. Contrary to popular belief, a very basic broadcast-quality ad can be barfed out in a day or two. But that *was* the original ad ... I'm certain of it. Those weasels played this BRILLIANTLY, submitting an essentially content-free ad that couldn't POSSIBLY get rejected, then leaking to the media that it might just possibly be pro-life but they aren't going to show it to us. Apoplectic liberals and sensationalist media did the rest. Absolutely brilliant. We are SO screwed. Even by the Superbowl.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'd say both FOF and ManCrunch manipulated the media brilliantly. The CBS decision that's still a head-scratcher is the rejected Go Daddy ad. Its women were no more scantily clad that in Go Daddy's other ads (certainly of previous years), not to mention the scads of beer ad "Swedish bikini team" type ads they've had many times. So what was "offensive" other than their identifying an effeminate man as a "former NFL player?" Did they think football fans heads would explode at the very idea?
