I am a football fan. I love playing it, and I love watching it. It’s on a good deal these days, as both teams I root for have gone deep into the NFL Playoffs. For the most part it’s been fun for the whole family. We watch the games together….complete with groans, high-fives and chest bumps!!
The exception to this year’s fun? The commercials.
They have been horrible. If it’s not some scantily clad woman or a promo for what should be an R-rated sit-com, it’s the unbelievably scary images of horror film commercials.
I have 4 kids, the youngest being a six year-old girl. When we’re watching television I have the remote perpetually “at the ready.” Occasionally I miss by a split second, and my daughter is greeted by an image that will undoubtedly haunt her as she sleeps. You mean to tell me that my six year-old can’t watch a football game with me at 2:30 in the afternoon without seeing some mutating body part preparing to slice and dice another human being?
I’m not advocating censorship here, just common sense. Do the network executives have children? Is money so important that they’ll sell their family-time ad slots to anyone?? How about a little integrity and self restraint?
How about you…have you noticed this?
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I don’t have kids, but I was watching this weekend with my mom & we both noticed the inappropriateness (is that a word) of many of the commercials. Mom said she wouldn’t watch much tv if she had grandchildren who were visiting!