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I'm going to go total Tipper Gore here, but the violent and sexualized commercials the NFL shows during afternoon Sunday games has been on my radar since I've had kids. Normally I just pause the game or mute commercials.

Today, Thanksgiving at 1pm, FOX is overlaying the game with the asshole from Sportsnight hitting a snake with a sledgehammer and some lady pulling a gun on someone? Our culture is fucked.

I'm not into censorship, but I don't really see the need for this shit at 1 in the afternoon overlaying the game.
Hey @luckiestman ...how you feeling the halftime show?
 

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Watching Matt Stafford talk about the importance of family and veterans while driving a Ford F-150 on the field in Detroit is like some kind of advanced technical engineering in pandering.
 

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How long ‘til the NBA considers making a move on Thanksgiving?
Last night's Lakers/Kings was more fun than any non-Patriots NFL game I've seen in a while. Would gladly watch a few marquee basketball games instead of the Lions. But I think we're still too far in minority to overturn decades of tradition.
 

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Hahaha. You guys talking about inappropriate commercials and sexually suggestive dancing during halftime during Thanksgiving 2017 are the epitome of "old man shakes fist at cloud"/Allan Bloom. And while you are doing that, every kid in the Western world under the age of 18 who has a smart phone has access to content that is orders of magnitude worse than anything seen on Fox thus far today. Well except those obnoxious Lexus ads.
 

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Last night's Lakers/Kings was more fun than any non-Patriots NFL game I've seen in a while. Would gladly watch a few marquee basketball games instead of the Lions. But I think we're still too far in minority to overturn decades of tradition.
yeah but you are a total #NBAnerd. Like, really, you watch too much NBA to be healthy.
 

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Hahaha. You guys talking about inappropriate commercials and sexually suggestive dancing during halftime during Thanksgiving 2017 are the epitome of "old man shakes fist at cloud"/Allan Bloom. And while you are doing that, every kid in the Western world under the age of 18 who has a smart phone has access to content that is orders of magnitude worse than anything seen on Fox thus far today. Well except those obnoxious Lexus ads.
Did you not read where I compared myself to Tipper Gore? No one else is complaining, I think I'm the only one complaining.

Giving a child a smart phone is basically child abuse but I'm going to let it go and go make a leaf pile for the kids to jump in.
 

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Hahaha. You guys talking about inappropriate commercials and sexually suggestive dancing during halftime during Thanksgiving 2017 are the epitome of "old man shakes fist at cloud"/Allan Bloom. And while you are doing that, every kid in the Western world under the age of 18 who has a smart phone has access to content that is orders of magnitude worse than anything seen on Fox thus far today. Well except those obnoxious Lexus ads.
Excellent post. Oh no, the commercials are suggestive. Seriously?
 

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Did you not read where I compared myself to Tipper Gore? No one else is complaining, I think I'm the only one complaining.

Giving a child a smart phone is basically child abuse but I'm going to let it go and go make a leaf pile for the kids to jump in.
You are far too decent a human being to be compared to Tipper Gore.
 

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yeah but you are a total #NBAnerd. Like, really, you watch too much NBA to be healthy.
If that's unhealthy, I don't want to be healthy.

But five years ago, I was all about watching as much NFL as I could, with just a few basketball games here and there. One is just a much better product now.
 

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These little commercials they sneak into the game coverage has to be most annoying development in television this year.
 

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If that's unhealthy, I don't want to be healthy.

But five years ago, I was all about watching as much NFL as I could, with just a few basketball games here and there. One is just a much better product now.
I know. I dont want to be healthy either. I wish the NBA had four games on today. I would watch the shit out of it.
 

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The Lions just gingerly waiting for the extra point is ridiculous. Just horrendous presence of mind, putting a TD at risk.
 

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You can deny your child a smartphone for as long as you want but one of their friends already has one and they are watching two-girls-one-cup at recess.
 

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You can deny your child a smartphone for as long as you want but one of their friends already has one and they are watching two-girls-one-cup at recess.
Recess? Only if your kid is at a school that has it before their first class/homeroom/first period.
 

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Last night's Lakers/Kings was more fun than any non-Patriots NFL game I've seen in a while. Would gladly watch a few marquee basketball games instead of the Lions. But I think we're still too far in minority to overturn decades of tradition.
The National Dog Show shows no such unearned deference to the Shield...
 

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Recess? Only if your kid is at a school that has it before their first class/homeroom/first period.
I wonder how many of us saw the middle school dance team from Miami performing at half time last night in the arena feed...

Which was borderline terrifing and I’m largely inured to that shit from years of teaching. Something about how awful and ostentatious their makeup was took it to a level beyond even the, er, dance performance.
 

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Marvin Jones Jr. just schooled a couple of guys and made a man v. boys play. Woof.
 

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That was like watching Captain America play against two Star Trek redshirts.
 

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Great—all you jerks are at dinner. :p

Enjoy. May your evenings be full of conversations of politics and religion.

The sooner you all return to your screens. ;)
 

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Only Jim Caldwell would try to waste a timeout on a play with a penalty.
 

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The play clock was a half second ahead of the game clock, so that Vikings should have had to run a play before the two minute warning.