I’ll be watching the Super Bowl this Sunday and I’ll be pulling for the Saints. If any city needed a lift in spirits, it’s New Orleans.
And I’ll be anxiously awaiting the commercial breaks. Super Bowl commercials are special – almost always entertaining – sometimes hysterically funny – sometimes thought-provoking. And sometimes the commercials have been more interesting than the game. But there will be one commercial that I’ll miss this Sunday.
Focus On The Family is sponsoring a Super Bowl commercial featuring Florida quarterback, Tim Tebow, that advocates for taking away a woman’s right to choose what she and her doctor feel are the best medical alternatives to preserve her physical health.
I haven’t seen the commercial, but I understand it is a testimonial in which Tim’s mother talks about her experience when, as a missionary in the Phillipines, she was advised by her doctor to have an abortion. But instead, she chose to have the baby who later became the All-American, Heismann Trophy winning quarterback at the University of Florida, her son, Tim Tebow.
But, as I said, I’ll be missing that commercial. Because, a split-second after it begins to air, I’m going to change the channel. And I’m going to watch something else, literally anything else, for sixty seconds. That’s how long I know I will have to stay away from the Super Bowl. I also know that, as a subscriber to Comcast, somewhere there is a record of what I watch. And somewhere there will be a record of what I was watching this Sunday afternoon. And wouldn’t it be interesting if the Comcast geeks who track this data find a huge spike in the number of Comcast viewers who changed their channels at exactly the same time this Sunday for exactly one minute? Maybe if they see that several million viewers weren’t there during their precious commercial time, CBS will think twice about providing advertising space for this kind of religious, right-wing propaganda.
Not me. Pass this on if you agree.