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Return of the Victorian age

Published Wednesday, November 17, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

This FCC "standards" issue really needs to be knocked down. Soon. Before everyone goes bonkers. Uh oh. Too late. ABC and the NFL both apologized for the Monday Night Football promo featuring the network's newly popular Desperate Housewives. Even more disturbing was the NFL's statement that the spot was "inappropriate and unsuitable for our 'Monday Night Football' audience." This is the same audience that has to endure Hank Williams Jr. and whatever other outrageously idiotic celebrity promotion the NFL and ABC have cooked up every other week. Really now. Ack!

To recap...
Hank Williams Jr. and friends in elaborate song-and-dreck numbers: OK
Janet Jackson's covered-up boob: not OK
An ode to veterans, especially those who fought in D-Day: OK last year, not OK this year
Levitra ads: apparently OK, since the penis pill is an offical NFL sponsor
White actresses hitting on black athletes: OK, just not on camera
Joe Namath hitting on the sideline reporter: OK, just not on camera
Athletes doing drugs, shooting guns, implicated in murder: OK, just not on camera

I smell a pattern here...