Super Bowl, the one day in the life of American when the country slows down, divides over team loyalty instead of political or social issues opinions and parties down. I had hoped that the Vikings would have gotten into the Super Bowl this year, it would have made our "First Annual Sober Super Bowl Party and Chili Cook-Off" at Recovery Worship a bit more interesting. But hey, most of us are less than enthusiastic observers and really only watch the game for the commercials anyway…..right?
I have been to a lot of Super Bowl parties where the room only became quiet when the commercials came on, especially the beer commercials. The football games themselves, for the most part are normally pretty ho hum, but the commercials have been cutting edge and very funny. Commercials this year, as most years in the past have been, are almost, if not more, anticipated than the game itself.
This year the debate has started early, with CBS agreeing to allow two ads that many say are "activist" spots that have in the past been refused by the network showing the game. The first commercial and the one receiving the most attention is a commercial sponsored by "Focus On The Family." Their own website says that they are "dedicated to nurturing and defending families worldwide" and protecting family values. The commercial they are sponsoring is an ad featuring Tim Tebow, Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Florida. He will appear along side his mother who will tell the story of his birth. She was in the Philippians when she was pregnant and was suffering from a tropical illness and the doctors suggested that she have an abortion. She chose life over the option of aborting her son who would turn out to be a fabulous athlete.
I am sure it will be a powerful commercial, I can also appreciate her difficult decision, and however, the same kind of argument can be made on a lot of other issues concerning the importance of life. As an example: war. How many of our youth have been lost in war? Maybe we can make the point against war by saying that maybe, just maybe, one of the 58,236 American killed in Vietnam might have been gifted by God with the intelligence to cure HIV/Aids or cure Malaria. Maybe one of the young Army nurses would have mothered the person who would have found a pollution free energy source to fuel cars. We will never know, will we?
The other ad is for a match making website for homosexuals. I wasn't aware that homosexuals needed a match making website but I guess I am not that in touch.
This is not a political cause I am on, I am just wishing we could escape the pain of our time for just a couple of hours to watch a football game and laugh at beer commercials. Mrs. Tebow should give thanks to God that she had the choice that she had to make, not all women get that choice. The match making website for gay people, well, visit the I-Beam bar in Moorhead, good hunting!
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