TheMorningFive 02/02/10
In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, the Drew Brees/Peyton Manning match-up isn’t only football topic being debate—both players seem to be overshadowed by another story involving a different quarterback.
University of Florida superstar QB Tim Tebow (who enters the NFL draft this year), is at the center of a controversy stemming from an ad that will reportedly be shown during next weekend’s big game. According to The New York Times, “Tebow helped film a Super Bowl ad for a conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family. The details of the ad have not been released. But reports say that he and his mother will talk about how his birth was threatened by disease while in the Philippines and how she ignored medical advice to have an abortion.”
Some pro-choice advocacy groups have complained that CBS should not allow the ad during the Super Bowl, and the controversy surrounding the spot (which, at this point, no one has even seen yet) has set off a firestorm of debate on the Internet. Adding to the debate is that fact that it has also been reported that CBS rejected an ad by a gay dating site.
So what do you think? Do you think a network should have the right to choose the ads it plays? Do you think ads about politically sensitive issues should not be shown during the Super Bowl? Or, considering no one has actually seen the spot, that it could all be an over reaction? Sound off on myCBN.
A Super Controversy
In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, the Drew Brees/Peyton Manning match-up isn’t only football topic being debate—both players seem to be overshadowed by another story involving a different quarterback.
University of Florida superstar QB Tim Tebow (who enters the NFL draft this year), is at the center of a controversy stemming from an ad that will reportedly be shown during next weekend’s big game. According to The New York Times, “Tebow helped film a Super Bowl ad for a conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family. The details of the ad have not been released. But reports say that he and his mother will talk about how his birth was threatened by disease while in the Philippines and how she ignored medical advice to have an abortion.”
Some pro-choice advocacy groups have complained that CBS should not allow the ad during the Super Bowl, and the controversy surrounding the spot (which, at this point, no one has even seen yet) has set off a firestorm of debate on the Internet. Adding to the debate is that fact that it has also been reported that CBS rejected an ad by a gay dating site.
So what do you think? Do you think a network should have the right to choose the ads it plays? Do you think ads about politically sensitive issues should not be shown during the Super Bowl? Or, considering no one has actually seen the spot, that it could all be an over reaction? Sound off on myCBN.