Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial

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  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    keeponrockin wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    Is it Jesus some of you have a problem with, or is it the fact Tims mother did not have an abortion?....
    I think it's the fact that if there was a pro-choice ad put on for the Superbowl, or pro-gay marriage, there would be complete outrage on the right, boycotts, etc...
    Like the outrage on the left

    Personally, I think both points of view should be represented civilly. However, we both know it would be commercial suicide for CBS to air a pro-choice or pro-gay marriage ad on Superbowl Sunday.
    Everyone knows both side. I think this has to do with money...and personally I don't think this, condoms, viagra or any of the other BS they put on tv should be aired....just this minute I heard some guy on tv say this is the "SEX FIEND ERA". I have to agree...
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  • JD Sal
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    cincybearcat wrote:
    I can see the ad going like this...

    Tebow "The NFL scouts continue to dog me for my long release. But, I'll tell ya, I'm thankful the good Lord has given this burden to bear. Without the blessing of Jesus Christ my Savior and the gift of a long release, there is no way I would have made it through college sticking to my Christian upbringing. Because of my long release I was able to both enjoy my time in college with the ladies I have loved and been able to stay true to my church by not using protection. So, here's to a long release, Florida Beach Babes, and my lord savior Jesus Christ. Enjoy the game. And remember, take it from Tim Tebow, pull out for Jesus."

    Well now that wouldn't work, Tim Tebow is a virgin. ;)

    I vote for the pro-drug ad. It could go something like this:

    "Roll, roll, roll your joint
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    Light it up and take a puff
    Then pass it to your friends"
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  • cincybearcat
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    aerial wrote:
    Is it Jesus some of you have a problem with, or is it the fact Tims mother did not have an abortion?....


    Well...for me...I just hate Tim Tebow. But I'm still glad his mother didn't have an abortion...I think.
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  • keeponrockin
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    aerial wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    Is it Jesus some of you have a problem with, or is it the fact Tims mother did not have an abortion?....
    I think it's the fact that if there was a pro-choice ad put on for the Superbowl, or pro-gay marriage, there would be complete outrage on the right, boycotts, etc...
    Like the outrage on the left

    Personally, I think both points of view should be represented civilly. However, we both know it would be commercial suicide for CBS to air a pro-choice or pro-gay marriage ad on Superbowl Sunday.
    Everyone knows both side. I think this has to do with money...and personally I don't think this, condoms, viagra or any of the other BS they put on tv should be aired....just this minute I heard some guy on tv say this is the "SEX FIEND ERA". I have to agree...

    Come on, I don't think the outrage we're seeing now is NEARLY the outrage we would see if someone put on an ad saying 'Rest In Peace Dr. Tiller'. You know that.
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  • xavier mcdaniel
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    I don't think this a big deal. Whether you agree or not with an issue, a group has the right of free speech and a company such as CBS can decide for its own what to do with anyone potentially paying for advertising. And personally, I'll be so into the game, I doubt I'll even notice when the ad runs.
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  • keeponrockin
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    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    I don't think this a big deal. Whether you agree or not with an issue, a group has the right of free speech and a company such as CBS can decide for its own what to do with anyone potentially paying for advertising. And personally, I'll be so into the game, I doubt I'll even notice when the ad runs.
    I would agree if both groups were allowed to be heard.
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  • Jeanwah
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    keeponrockin wrote:
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    I don't think this a big deal. Whether you agree or not with an issue, a group has the right of free speech and a company such as CBS can decide for its own what to do with anyone potentially paying for advertising. And personally, I'll be so into the game, I doubt I'll even notice when the ad runs.
    I would agree if both groups were allowed to be heard.
    As they should be. That's why I find anything involving being aired around the Super Bowl in particular an utter joke because it must be about "family values". If one thing can be aired, it all should be able to be.
  • mickeyrat
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    DeLukin wrote:
    Why is this even news? We're up in arms about a commercial?!?! Sheesh. We (as a nation) need a hobby...
    We have one . Bitching about things we don't like.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    nbc's mike celizic commenting on the tebow add...i agree with most of his points here...


    CBS making huge mistake with Tebow ad
    Will network accept message from atheist group? Probably not

    http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35088506/ ... bowl_xliv/

    By Mike Celizic
    NBCSports.com contributor
    updated 10:06 p.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 26, 2010

    I know why CBS is running an ad sponsored by Focus on the Family and starring Tim Tebow. It needs the money.

    There is no other reason — and certainly no good reason — for anyone, including a television executive, to decide that the ethical standards which had stood for generations are suddenly no more worth preserving than that hairball the cat just coughed up. Advertising revenues are down throughout the industry, and one way to combat that is to accept ads you used to refuse from organizations dedicated to bigotry and divisiveness.

    And so we get an anti-abortion ad by a homophobic organization during the biggest sporting event of the year. At a time when we’re all sitting together watching the big game, we’ll have another reason to argue and yell at each other.

    Thanks a lot, CBS. Hope it’s worth the $2.5 million.

    CBS will still have standards, except they’ll be based on money and who’ll be upset. Focus on the Family can run its ad because everyone likes Tim Tebow, and the anti-choice agenda is buried underneath the feel-good story of the kid who wasn’t supposed to be born but grew up to be a hero. But neither they nor any other network will take an ad from an atheist group whose message is there is no heaven, no hell and no god. That would tick off the paying customers.

    This makes me wish an atheist organization would do just that. And if not a Super Bowl ad, maybe one college kid could be persuaded to write “There is” and “no God” on his stripes of eye black. Either that or “Allahu” and “Akhbar.”

    Can you imagine the uproar either one of those messages would inspire? The good folks at Fox News would be apoplectic. James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren and everyone else who has reaped millions by telling people what God wants them to do would start preparing for the rapture.

    The NCAA, which has turned a blind eye to the biblical messages Tebow inks under his eyes, would need all of three minutes to decide to ban all messages on players’ bodies and equipment.

    Pro leagues have long banned such personal messages. You don’t want to allow them and wait for someone to come up with something that’s going to offend three quarters of the planet.

    This is the real problem with the growing numbers of American sports stars who feel obliged to use what they do as a pulpit. You might think there’s no harm to it, but that’s only because none of them have said anything that steps on your beliefs. It’s a trend we just don’t need.

    Tebow is the poster boy for the breed, which has made him a target for criticism. But he’s not the problem. He’s just doing what he was raised to do, which is to try to make everyone believe the same thing he does.

    If he’s hitched up with Focus on the Family, it suggests he believes in some things that are repugnant to many Americans.

    This is the outfit Tebow has chosen to represent, and that’s his right. His parents are missionaries, and he’s got their holy zeal. Like so many evangelical athletes, he believes that he is obliged to use his fame to spread his beliefs.

    The Super Bowl ad will apparently feature the quarterback and his mother, who was advised to abort the pregnancy that resulted in his birth. But she refused, and, lo, unto her a quarterback was born. It will no doubt be a very heartwarming spot. I guess the point is that if Tebow’s mother had followed the doctors’ advice, the world would have been deprived of a desperately needed football player and there would not have been a Heisman Trophy winner in 2007.

    The Super Bowl doesn’t need it, and neither do we.

    You want to stuff your religion down my throat, have the decency to come and ring my doorbell like a good Mormon or Jehovah’s Witness. Then I can at least share with you my own fervently held belief:

    You are a presumptuous and pompous gasbag.
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  • _
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    I'd like to see them air a commercial by the doc who they're accusing of telling the mom to abort. Seems only fair to let him tell his side of the story.
  • OnTheEdge
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    When my fiance' got pregnant the doctors also told her she had cancer and they wanted her to abort. She refused and I supported her decision. Today all is well, with a beautiful daughter that is now five and full of LIFE.
  • youngster
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    JD Sal wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    ...Funded by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, the 30-second ad is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987. After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child. She later gave birth to Tim, who won the 2007 Heisman Trophy and helped his Florida team win two BCS championships.

    The hypocritical folks at Focus on the Family are apparently oblivious to the underlying message here - Tim Tebow's mother had a choice. Good for her. She carried the baby full term and her son ended up being a successful collegiate athlete. So will we see a counter ad that Hitler's mom should've had an abortion?

    Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.
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    mb262200 wrote:
    When my fiance' got pregnant the doctors also told her she had cancer and they wanted her to abort. She refused and I supported her decision. Today all is well, with a beautiful daughter that is now five and full of LIFE.

    Congratulations on your healthy daughter and fiance/wife. But what exactly is your point?
  • Cosmo
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    I'm going to start an organization called, 'Focus On Your Own DAMN Family'.
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  • keeponrockin
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    Cosmo wrote:
    I'm going to start an organization called, 'Focus On Your Own DAMN Family'.
    And yet again..

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,459
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:
    I'm going to start an organization called, 'Focus On Your Own DAMN Family'.
    And yet again..

    Cosmo.. Nail.. Head

    LOL, pretty much...

    +1 to both of you guys..
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  • blackredyellow
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    Cosmo wrote:
    I'm going to start an organization called, 'Focus On Your Own DAMN Family'.

    But how will you become rich by not telling other people how to live? Apparently there is a lot of money to be made in that field.
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  • OnTheEdge
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    scb wrote:
    mb262200 wrote:
    When my fiance' got pregnant the doctors also told her she had cancer and they wanted her to abort. She refused and I supported her decision. Today all is well, with a beautiful daughter that is now five and full of LIFE.

    Congratulations on your healthy daughter and fiance/wife. But what exactly is your point?

    Not sure if I have one. Just this thread got me thinking back, and how close we almost didn't have my daughter. Maybe things happen for a reason and you just gotta let God take over. If she wouldn't have gotten pregnant we never would have found out she had cancer until it was too late.
  • _
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    mb262200 wrote:
    scb wrote:
    mb262200 wrote:
    When my fiance' got pregnant the doctors also told her she had cancer and they wanted her to abort. She refused and I supported her decision. Today all is well, with a beautiful daughter that is now five and full of LIFE.

    Congratulations on your healthy daughter and fiance/wife. But what exactly is your point?

    Not sure if I have one. Just this thread got me thinking back, and how close we almost didn't have my daughter. Maybe things happen for a reason and you just gotta let God take over. If she wouldn't have gotten pregnant we never would have found out she had cancer until it was too late.

    I'm glad it all worked out well for you and your family. :)
  • keeponrockin
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    scb wrote:
    I'm glad it all worked out well for you and your family. :)
    +1
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