The FCC announced on Wednesday that it would look into complaints concerning the opening "teaser" for last week's Monday Night Football game in which one of the actresses starring in the TV series Desperate Housewives, appears to seduce a football player in a locker room. "It will be something we ... will have to look at; but that's far from saying what the result will be," FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell told the financial cable channel CNBC. A spokesman for the agency said that it had received "several" telephone and email complaints about the spot. In the spot, Housewives star Nicolette Sheridan asks Philadelphia Eagles receiver Terrell Owens to forego the game for her, then drops a towel she is wearing. She is seen from behind and from the waist up. Says Owens in the clip: "The team's going to have to win this one without me." On Tuesday, ABC and the NFL apologized for the spot, but the uproar over it continued. Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy voiced a new objection to it, questioning the inclusion of a black player and a white actress. "To me that's the first thing I thought of as an African-American. I think it's stereotypical in looking at the players, and on the heels of the Kobe Bryant incident, I think it's very insensitive."
Are you fucking kidding me?
How saccharine does this country need to be? First, the opening "teaser," as they refer to it, is poorly acted, and very boring. If you hven't seen it, you HAVE TO. It's super lame, and totally retarded.
I hate that I'm giving even more attention to something I consider a non-issue, but seriously, this bullshit has to stop. We have more impotant things to worry about than a black football player rubbing bare skin against a white woman.
Reason # 4,526,971 that I don't watch very much network television anymore.
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