11.17.2004

Monday Night Football Controversy
The "Desperate Housewives" introduction to the Monday Night Football game between Philadelphia and Dallas has made a lot of noise in recent days. For those of you who did not see it, one of the show's stars, NICOLETTE SHERIDAN, removes her towel and jumps into the arms of TERRELL OWENS. I have several takes on this...

...After watching the introduction Monday, my first thought was "wow that was lame". It wasn't at all funny. The funniest thing about it was Terrell Owens trying to act. Never did I think that people would be outraged over it.

...I can understand if somebody was offended by the introduction, I realize not everybody has been completely jaded by our culture like I and many others have been. What I don't get is, if Nicolette Sheridan in a towel is so offensive, and the sexual innuendo is so bad, how can you stand watching a football game? Football is loaded with camera shots up cheerleaders skirts and down their tops. The commercial breaks are loaded with advertising for erectile disfunction medicine. I think a voice-over saying "patients that experience erections for more than four hours should seek a doctors care" is more offensive than the Desperate Housewives.

...How hypocritical is the NFL? They immediately denounced the ABC introduction to the game Monday night, but then they have RICH EISEN, the voice of the NFL Network saying "and twins" in one of the Coors Light commercials. This is the same sport that had the Miller Lite women disrobing and wrestling in mud.

...Can I stop hearing about "The Desperate Housewives"? Please? You can't turn ABC on without seeing a promo for it every fifteen minutes, now I have to hear about it on sports-talk radio, ESPN, CNN and everything else in between.


5:13 PM