Watching Super Bowl Can Make You Gay

[Joemailman]

FCC Complaint: Parent Thinks Super Bowl Will Turn Son Gay

Posted Mar 5th 2007 6:50PM by Michael David Smith

The Federal Communications Commission received about 150 complaints regarding the Super Bowl broadcast on CBS, and The Smoking Gun has compiled the best of them. Most of the complaints centered around the idea that the broadcast was promoting homosexuality:

As one viewer noted in an e-mail, the "pro-homosexual theme" of this year's event, telecast on CBS, was "disgraceful." The writer added that "just because 6% of the population is gay," porn did not need to be included in the broadcast. Another purportedly offended viewer was concerned that the halftime show would have an unfortunate lasting effect on his son, who "hoped to be a quarterback and now he will turn out gay...Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY."


What's fascinating is that although most of the complaints were implying that it was a pro-gay broadcast, in the immediate aftermath of the game there were complaints that it was an anti-gay Super Bowl. It should be noted that if the FCC heard from 150 Super Bowl viewers, that means about one out of every million viewers lodged a complaint.

[gbpackfan]

Anyone for a Snickers?

[PackerPro42]

Screw the gays, no pun intended, I don't think that the super bowl should have to appeal to any one group. Whether it be the gays or anyone else, I don't think it's right to bring in an anti-gay or pro-gay scenario into the whole thing. It's football for god sakes, not a runway pageant.

[Charles Woodson]

Screw the gays, no pun intended, I don't think that the super bowl should have to appeal to any one group. Whether it be the gays or anyone else, I don't think it's right to bring in an anti-gay or pro-gay scenario into the whole thing. It's football for god sakes, not a runway pageant.

Im sorry if i affend anyone on this board. But i dont understand why the gays want to make this whole deal about coming out of the closet and telling there teamates. To me that just makes it worse, because now your teamates would be weirder around you. I mean how would you feel if you had a gay guy staring at you all practice. I dont know but i think they should just stop making the whole deal about it.

[BallHawk]

If a kid sees to kids smoking in a commercial, he may want to do it.

However, if a kid sees to guys kissing, he isn't going to run to school asking people to smooch him.

What is wrong with these people?

[gbpackfan]

Ballhawk,

What is the kid smoking? Pole? That sounds pretty gay to me (not that there is anything wrong with that!)

[BallHawk]

Oh, and I love the one about someone calling two guys kissing porn.

I've been to Miami tons of times and South Beach has a fair number of gays, and if seeing two guys kissing is porn, than I'm one messed up pervert.

[MJZiggy]

Well the halftime show was Prince. What were they expecting for God's sakes Christian lullabies?

[BallHawk]

Well the halftime show was Prince. What were they expecting for God's sakes Christian lullabies?

They also thought Prince, behind his shadow curtain, was making "sexual references."

Jesus Christ, Family Guy was right. Soon the Dick van Dike Show is going to be bleeped out. Can I go out on a limb and say some Americans are just a little bit oversensitive?

[CaliforniaCheez]

It is none of my business what they do in their own homes. I don't pry.

But Frankly, I don't like the militant types waving their lifestyle in my face and call me a hater if I do not want to touch their lifestyle with a 10' pole.

[Scott Campbell]

.................some Americans are just a little bit oversensitive?

I think there's some cream you can get for that.

[MJZiggy]

Well the halftime show was Prince. What were they expecting for God's sakes Christian lullabies?

They also thought Prince, behind his shadow curtain, was making "sexual references."

Jesus Christ, Family Guy was right. Soon the Dick van Dike Show is going to be bleeped out. Can I go out on a limb and say some Americans are just a little bit oversensitive?

That's what I mean. He's had that guitar since 1983, what were they thinking was gonna happen? Yes, people are oversensitive. If watching the Prince halftime show can make your son gay, then there's something he wasn't telling you in the first place...

[Lurker64]

At first I thought "Good god, if watching a commercial is going to cause major lifechanges, what the hell is wrong with you?"

Then I thought, "How amusing would it be if people were actually influenced in major lifechanging ways by commercials and other bits of incidental pop culture?"

I mean, you could sue Geico when your children forget about fire and the wheel.

[Merlin]

It's kind of interesting listening to people complain about the overreaction to the super bowl marketing. If you are one of the ones bitching about how stupid this whole thing is and you are a liberal, congratulations on your hypocrisy. If it wasn't for the liberal mindset, we wouldn't have to worry about shit like this. The "everyone is a victim because of the evil rich white man" philosophy appears to have come full circle. I sure hope anyone bitching about this isn't a liberal because I sure would hate for you to explain how you didn't know this was coming with all of your "gay rights" appeals...

[Fritz]

Screw the gays, no pun intended, I don't think that the super bowl should have to appeal to any one group. Whether it be the gays or anyone else, I don't think it's right to bring in an anti-gay or pro-gay scenario into the whole thing. It's football for god sakes, not a runway pageant.

Im sorry if i affend anyone on this board. But i dont understand why the gays want to make this whole deal about coming out of the closet and telling there teamates. To me that just makes it worse, because now your teamates would be weirder around you. I mean how would you feel if you had a gay guy staring at you all practice. I dont know but i think they should just stop making the whole deal about it.

This crap kills me. WTF makes ANYBODY think a gay guy would be "staring" at anyone else all the time?? If you're a heterosexual male, do you "stare" at your female co-workers ina way that makes them so uneasy they'll complain? I bet not. Do you run around at work and try to bed every woman there, even the ones that are not interested in you? Do you harrass them and stare and bother them? I doubt it. Hell, we had this whole conversation ten years ago about female reporters in the lockerroom. Now it's fairly common practice (in Detroit we have female reporters covering the Pistons, Wolverines, and Spartans beats) and nobody's too bothered by those nasty women checking out the guys. People do their jobs.