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MrsCavalluzzi


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Leading up to the Super Bowl, much news and debate was stirred up over the plans of Focus on the Family, a famous conservative interest/action group, to air a Super Bowl commercial that espoused a pro-life position (with the help of the mom of University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebo) 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Tebow-s-Focus-on-Family-ad-could-change-future-S?urn=nfl,218119

In the past, the Super Bowl commercials have been focused on "only one form of morality: worship of the Super Bowl itself and its sponsors...the Super Bowl advocated and promoted a mainstream, middle-of-the-road existence that steered clear of divisive or controversial subjects"

More people watch the Super Bowl than any other single event on television, making it a prime time to reach a large audience.

Do you think that political/controversial ads should be permitted in this forum or should the focus be on commercials that are not divisive?

Ads for Snickers, Dockers, FloTV and Doritos (Yahoo! TV) 



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Briana Anita Hudson


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I think that the more controversial commercials should be able to be there as well. If they are willing to pay the astronomical amounts for the time slots during the superbowl ($3.01 million for 30 seconds) then they should be able to air anything thats controversial as long as its appropriate .

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Well the commercial ad of the Tebow family was different then the other ads and was on a more serious note than most ads. I think that it is okay to have controversial/political ads during the super bowl because like Briana said it costs $3.01 million for 30 seconds, so if the company is willing to pay for it then I think that it is fine.

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It is the people's choice whether to watch the ads or not. I mean the for the family ad was horrible anyways so doesn't really matter.

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