Monday Night Football Flap
If you haven't heard about the controversial "Monday Night Football" opener on ABC, here's the scoop from Hollywood.com.
"ABC has apologized for its intro to Monday Night Football, which featured a locker room encounter between actress Nicolette Sheridan and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens--just moments before the game against the Dallas Cowboys. Wrapped in a towel but showing less skin than a Cowboys cheerleader, Sheridan asks Owen to miss the game for her--then drops the towel and jumps into his arms when he wavers. With Sheridan's back visible, Owens smiles and says, "Aw, hell. Team's gonna' have to win this one without me." The shot then cuts to actresses Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman, who are watching the scene unfold on TV from the living room sofa. The spot was meant to be a spoof of ABC's hit show Desperate Housewife, which stars Sheridan, Hatcher and Huffman, but the NFL and its growingly conservative fan base apparently didn't get the joke."
So ... what's the big deal? By making such a big deal out of a clever crosspromotional "spoof" and creating such a non-controversy ... more people are going to want to find out what the show is all about! Those up tight conservatives who are in such an uproar, probably haven't even seen the show "Desperate Housewives" ... or they'd get the whole idea of the spoof. Seems to me, like the ones who are complaining, are the ones reading more into it than was intended, and turned it into something "dirty". (Whose mind is in the gutter?)
I wonder what these conservatives think about more progressive countries ... where sex isn't treated as something "dirty" ... but just something that is? Folks in these Countries laugh at us when we make such a big deal out of an exposed breast or a bare back ... while there, nudity is seen on television and on their beaches everyday. It's considered something normal ... and they haven't all burned in Hell!
I also suspect, they have fewer sex perverts or child molesting clergy than here in the states as a result.
"ABC has apologized for its intro to Monday Night Football, which featured a locker room encounter between actress Nicolette Sheridan and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens--just moments before the game against the Dallas Cowboys. Wrapped in a towel but showing less skin than a Cowboys cheerleader, Sheridan asks Owen to miss the game for her--then drops the towel and jumps into his arms when he wavers. With Sheridan's back visible, Owens smiles and says, "Aw, hell. Team's gonna' have to win this one without me." The shot then cuts to actresses Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman, who are watching the scene unfold on TV from the living room sofa. The spot was meant to be a spoof of ABC's hit show Desperate Housewife, which stars Sheridan, Hatcher and Huffman, but the NFL and its growingly conservative fan base apparently didn't get the joke."
So ... what's the big deal? By making such a big deal out of a clever crosspromotional "spoof" and creating such a non-controversy ... more people are going to want to find out what the show is all about! Those up tight conservatives who are in such an uproar, probably haven't even seen the show "Desperate Housewives" ... or they'd get the whole idea of the spoof. Seems to me, like the ones who are complaining, are the ones reading more into it than was intended, and turned it into something "dirty". (Whose mind is in the gutter?)
I wonder what these conservatives think about more progressive countries ... where sex isn't treated as something "dirty" ... but just something that is? Folks in these Countries laugh at us when we make such a big deal out of an exposed breast or a bare back ... while there, nudity is seen on television and on their beaches everyday. It's considered something normal ... and they haven't all burned in Hell!
I also suspect, they have fewer sex perverts or child molesting clergy than here in the states as a result.
posted by Ron at 11:24 PM
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