If that's the NFL's licensing rules, then that's that. If an exception is made here, then anyone can argue that they deserve the same.
What's a church doing showing the Super Bowl on the Sabbath? If it was on another day, that's one thing, but shouldn't they be preparing a sermon, not a football get-together?
The Superbowl is one of the most overrated events ever invented. I can't stand to watch it anymore.
Wow, I know a lot of big evangelical churches in the U.S. are planning to show the game on huge screens to large groups of people this Sunday.
The NFL better get busy!
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Thanks.
So wait, if in theory I had a wide screen TV in my theoretical home theatre that is bigger than 55 inches, I could only watch the Super Bowl on it by myself?
Something smells kind of fishy about this supposed 55 inch screen rule thing.
"But the NFL objected to the church's plans to use a projector to show the game, saying the law limits it to one TV no bigger than 55 inches."
I know several people with tvs (both projection and non projection types) bigger than 55 inches.
So are they violating he law by watching the game?
Show the game anyway. I'd love to see the NFL sue the church. Great PR.
Since football is a "religion" where I live, it seems to me to be a family squabble. I certainly cannot see how one mega-church (the NFL) can tell another "church" how it can run its business. (:^)
I live in Indy. I hear they can get around this by merely billing it as something other than "Superbowl". They can call it "Big Game Party" , but than cannot use Superbowl.
This from the same jackasses that violated the indecency laws and called it a "wardrobe malfunction!"
Hey, maybe Superbowl nite should be "Bible-at-the-Bar" night? Bring the whole family!!
So the whole issue is Nielen ratings (amounting to advertising rates), nothing more. But when sports bars are exempted that shows the NFL is perfectly willing to make exceptions. Because sports bars hurt Nielsen ratings since the congregation of viewers is undercounted.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league's long-standing policy is to ban "mass out-of-home viewing"
OK. What law imposes the screen size limit? If I have a TV larger than that, I'm breaking some law regarding watching the Superbowl?!
And by what authority does the NFL 'ban' 'mass out of home viewing'?
Guess we have to show them our papers.
The place to get even with the NFL is with your respective state legislators who vote for public funding of stadiums and tell them no more public funding.
What if you have a 60 inch television? ;^)
The NFL is being penny wise and pound foolish.
this is a defect in the Neilson system.
So now all this chuch need do is sell a spagetti luncheon and advertise they have a projection screen TV without mentioning the foot ball.
Quite frankly the more social the event becomes the better it is for the NFL.
Also for the fact it is IN the church as part of the church's regular operation, then the NFL has nothing to complain about with their own reasoning.
Somewhere in the NFL there is a desk jockey suffering from cranial rectal self insertion.
I don't think I'll be watching the game this year.
Let's hear it for the National Felons League.