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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
The NFL is hearing it from the public....the uninformed public. The thing that surprises me about these threads is everyone here already hates CBS. Why the need to hate the NFL too?
1,251 posted on 02/02/2004 8:20:23 PM PST by humboldtconservative (deport ALL illegals......immediately......)
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To: humboldtconservative
You are overstating my position. I've said NOTHING about hating the NFL. What I said was, if they can be used to apply pressure to Viacom, then they should be used.

The NFL has no small influence in the type of entertainment which will be presented during halftime in the future. They may not be directly to blame, but it's still a sin of ommission. If they hear from enough of us, they will be very careful to have contracts written in such a way that penalties or forfeiture of future business dealings with offending companies will apply.

It's just common sense, and these type of business forces are used all the time.

1,252 posted on 02/02/2004 8:37:16 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: humboldtconservative
The NFL is hearing it from the public....the uninformed public. The thing that surprises me about these threads is everyone here already hates CBS. Why the need to hate the NFL too?

Because the NFL is notorious on micromanaging everything in their purview. It's hard to believe that they didn't know what the halftime show was going to be like (and I'm not just talking about the nudity -- the whole show was nauseating.) And also, because of this, from today's Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/160822p-141073c.html

Bono and J-Lo wanted to sing a new song they recorded together, "An American Prayer," which highlights the fight against AIDS in Africa. The NFL said "no" to Bono. "We simply decided that we are going to deliver, as we do annually, an extremely entertaining halftime show," an NFL spokesman said at the time. "We don't believe it's appropriate to focus on a single issue." Unless, of course, it is Janet Jackson's star-covered breast.

1,264 posted on 02/03/2004 1:30:55 AM PST by NYCVirago
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