Super Bowl XLIII

Today is the biggest day in sports...Super Bowl Sunday! Even though our beloved New England Patriots are at home watching the game just like us...it's still an exciting day for football fans around the world.

It's really no secret that I'm a HUGE Pittsburgh Steelers fan...so you know who I'm rooting for today...but I have an enormous amount of respect for the Arizona Cardinals. You can't deny that the Kurt Warner story is a good one...and the whole Larry Fitzgerald angle is an amazing story as well.

I just hope it's a great game...and as the clock ticks down in the 4th quarter...that my team is the victor. If not...then it was an awesome season all the same.

Enjoy the Half Time Show...Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band promise to rock the house...and of course the commercials will be the subject of water cooler talk everywhere tomorrow...including on Frank's Place with Bill & Heidi.

Don't eat too much at the party...and I'll talk with you in the morning.

NBC Bans a Super Bowl Commercial

This morning I found out that NBC is refusing to air a commercial for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) during the Super Bowl this Sunday. NBC says the commercial is pornographic! Come on...pornographic...really?

While I'm no expert on porn...my eyes may have gazed upon a few magazine and/or movies over the years...but I don't think this commercial is pornographic...provocative, YES...porno, NO!

The ad features actresses getting...ummmm...friendly with vegetables, and NBC says the ladies are doing too good a job for the conservative audience that will tune into Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals. Conservative audience? Hello...can you say BEER DRINKERS? What guy throwing back some cold ones with his buddies is going to object to this commercial? I can tell you with certainty...NONE of my friends!

NBC says they objects to the following:

* licking a pumpkin
* breast touching while eating broccoli
* pumpkin from behind between legs
* rubbing pelvic region with a pumpkin
* asparagus on her lap
* licking an eggplant
* rubbing asparagus on breast

The ad uses the tagline that “vegetarians have better sex.” Apparently NBC doesn’t object to that statement but finds the combination of broccoli and skin too much.

All I can say is...BRING ON THE VEGGIES!