Showing posts with label Super Bowl XLIII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl XLIII. Show all posts

Monday, February 02, 2009

Oops: Porno Clip Interrupts Super Bowl

No, not the interview with Barack Obama and Matt Lauer. That act of public fellatio was pre-game.

This actually happened during the action.
A Tucson television station's broadcast of the Super Bowl on Sunday was interrupted for some viewers by about 10 seconds of pornographic material, the station said.

KVOA TV in Tucson released a statement saying that the only viewers who were able to see the material were those who receive the channel through Comcast cable.

The station said it will investigate the incident.

"When the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA president and general manager Gary Nielsen said in a statement.

The KVOA statement said the station was dismayed and disappointed that some Comcast customers and their families were subjected to the material.

"KVOA will continue to investigate what happened to our clean signal and make sure our viewers get answers," Nielsen said in the statement.

Comcast spokeswoman Tracy Baumgartner confirmed that the company's standard feed was interrupted during the Super Bowl, although she said its high definition feed was not.

Baumgartner said engineers were investigating Sunday night.

Tucson media outlets reported that they received calls from irate viewers about the pornographic material.

A spokesman for Cox Cable said the company had not been affected.
You figure Cox cable would be the one showing porn.

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Super Bowl XLIII

Here in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, this may rank as the least anticipated Super Bowl ever. After the Giants went down in flames all the interest pretty much died. But since we're been prognosticating all year, we're at least obliged to make a prediction. We went 5-5 so far in the playoffs.

Take the Cardinals with the points (+6.5), but expect the Steelers to win 27-21.

The Giants beat both these teams in their own building, so yes, this will be frustrating to watch.

So with that, we bring you the best play in Super Bowl history. A lovely memory.



Oh, what the hell, may as well add this:



Bruce Springsteen does the halftime show today. But nothing will ever top this.



That still brings me to tears.