Crossposted from Town Called Dobson
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I am pretty shocked that the NFL would throw PR to the wind and go after churches for showing the Superbowl. It just boggles the mind. During the game, the NFL played several commercials of NFL players serving the community – I hope it was not court appointed community service, but I digress. You can’t promote yourself as a pillar of the community when you are busy suing the community.
If there was ever a way to alienate more viewers from NFL programming, they found it. Maybe if the churches were serving alcohol and they had a Mary Magdalene Stripper Contest, the NFL would not have an issue?
But I find it even more puzzling that so many fundamentalist churches would rollover for the NFL and cancel their Superbowl showings, especially when many of them make a political point of everything. Has the ACLJ (American Center For Law And Justice is Pat Robertson’s answer to the ACLU) filed suit? Will they?
I suspect something else is going on. This year we have the new controversy of Prince’s guitar and how in silhouette it looks like a phallus. The last time we had a half-time show controversy, it was a Black woman’s nipple.
I sense a trend.
how did the NFL go after churches?
How did the NFL go after churches?
They blitzed, natch.
Hail Mary passes.
Roughing the pastor.
The works.
AG
P.S. Sorry…couldn’t resist.
THE NFL threatened to sue churches that planned to show the Superbowl on any screen over 60 inches and those who replaced the half-time show with religious programming.
Oh. Good. GRIEF.
Like the advertisers’ checks were going to bounce over this? Like people didn’t gather at friends’ houses or sports bars for the exact same reason, then turn the volume down during halftime so they could order out for pizza and get more beer, and go to the john? Do sports bars pay any more for their TVs or cable service on that day than they would have any OTHER Sunday? Or more than my neighbors down the street, or the churches who were planning these parties?
As I understand it (I didn’t watch it), the halftime show is so long now, between the performance and the jabbering of broadcasters, you might as well stick in a DVD anyway (okay, slight exaggeration, but really….).
Next thing you know, they’ll go after those of us who mute commercials….
Why did the churches cave? Because for many of them, especially the fundamentalist branches, obedience to authority is a founding principle, and rebellion against established authority is a sin — because bucking the NFL might give you the idea it’s okay to question the absolute authority of parents, pastors, the government or God. (Sorry, side rant…)
I would think the Superbowl would be a lot more FUN to watch with a bunch of friends, as close to the pandimonium of a stadium as you can get, but without the traffic jams and over-priced food items — whether you’re a football fan or not. It’s that kind of event, you know? Sigh…