Constitutional Law

Superbowl surprise in Tucson

Great game yesterday, but it had a surprise locally. It's in the final minutes, I think while the AZ Cardinals were holding onto a two point lead, so probably half the TVs in the city were tuned to it.

Scene cuts to woman and man, woman reaching into his pants. I thought it a bit much for a Superbowl commercial -- I mean, there are kids watching! Then down go his pants, and there is about 5-10 seconds of full frontal nudity, and I do mean FULL.

I thought maybe the TV had malfunctioned somehow. But the morning paper reports that this happened throughout the Tucson Comcast network. Somehow segments of a porn channel got spliced into the Superbowl broadcast.

I suspect that promptly at 9 AM (1) Comcast is going to get a bunch of calls from upset parents and (2) whoever was working on the broadcast is going to be undergoing a grilling.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).