Was the Super Bowl family-friendly entertainment?
Published: 2/4/2013 2:23 PM
Last Modified: 2/4/2013 2:25 PM
I watched the game Sunday with my wife and 4-year-old son. But if it hadn't been the Super Bowl, we would've kept him away from some of the content.
First, CBS seemed to bleep some of the language that the players used on the sidelines before kick-off. Of course, it would've been worse not to bleep it, but why not cut away after the first cuss word?
A GoDaddy commercial featured a gratuitously sloppy kiss between a supermodel and a geek. But the most offensive part was the insinuation that beautiful people are dumb and smart people are ugly -- as if the vast majority of us don't combine a fair measure of both beauty and brains.
Beyonce championed family values by singing "if you like it, put a ring on it." But the advice might have been take more seriously if she had put some clothes on it.
Calvin Klein tried to balance the objectification of women with the objectification of men.
And the game itself turned in a brawl in the second quarter, with the refs and at least one coach having to break up the fight. When my kid throws a tantrum, he gets a time out. But when NFL millionaires throw punches at each other, they get off-setting penalties that amount to nothing.
How's that for setting an example?
At least my kid was asleep before CBS turned Sherlock Holmes into a sex-crazed bloodbath.
But there was one good reason to watch the Super Bowl.
Written by
Michael Overall
Staff Writer
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