The NFL Goes PC

The NFL Goes PC

 

The National Football League’s annual Super Bowl game is the most-watched sporting event on the planet just about every year and probably will be again for Super Bowl XLVIII when it’s held on February 2, 2014 at the open-air MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, hopefully during a blizzard.

A cash cow for the NFL, the Super Bowl has generated over a billion dollars for the league since its inception in 1967 thanks to exorbitant ad revenues which this year averaged almost $4 million for a 30-second commercial plus gate receipts of over $70 million, fees for luxury boxes, concessions, and parking.

No doubt the halftime show will be another blockbuster replete with half-naked stars of stage, screen, and television and maybe another intentional wardrobe malfunction, and commercials advertising everything from beer to booze to erectile dysfunction remedies–but not guns.

You see, anything related to guns is not politically correct nowadays because guns not people kill people and guns singlehandedly kill many thousands of people in America every year–and the NFL has had more than enough problems with players shooting and killing people, thank you very much!

The oozing hypocrisy of the tax exempt NFL in twice declining to sell airtime for a 30 second spot on the next Super Bowl extravaganza to the Georgia brick and mortar store, (as opposed to online outlets), Daniel Defense, because the ad allegedly violates the League’s non-violent philosophy is beyond sickening. 

Specifically, the NFL advised Fox Television that the commercial violates its inviolable ad restrictions: “Firearms, ammunition or other weapons are prohibited; however, stores that sell firearms and ammunitions (e.g., outdoor stores and camping stores) will be permitted, provided they sell other products and the ads do not mention firearms, ammunition or other weapons.”

However, Daniel Defense does sell “other products,” including men’s and women’s apparel, a fact that went for nought.

Also, the Daniel Defense proposed half-minute spot . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34419.)