DMN: The end of watching Cowboys games as we have come to know them?

[cowboyjoe]

The end of watching Cowboys games as we have come to know them?
5:33 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Barry Horn E-mail News tips

Well not exactly the games but the commercials. If a Pennsylvania congressman/grandfather has his way, there will be a definite change in the viewing experience. The 2-minute warning will remain but the 8-hour warning will be history. Tune in here for details:

So long Viagra, Cialis and Levitra? Say it ain't so
12:11 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink
Barry Horn E-mail News tips

You can't watch a sporting event on network TV these days without seeing a commercial for Viagra, Cialis or Levitra. The products are omnipotent omnipresent.

But now along comes Pennsylvania Congressman Bob Brady with a bill that would ban those commercials and any other male sexual enhancement product from TV and radio from 6 am to 10 pm. Given the state of the economy and the retreating auto industry, the bill, if passed, could stick a dagger in network cash flow.

Sportsradiointerviews.com has audio from Brady being interviewed on a Philadelphia sports talk show.

Why sponsor the bill?

"I'm watching TV with my two granddaughters and it was a little embarrassing and I think it was bad that they asked me, "What is erectile dysfunction?" And I stumble along and they're too young to understand it and they're much too young to learn about the birds and the bees yet....If they're on a show and you don't want your kids to see a certain show, you don't put that show on, but you can't control when the commercials come on. I think that it's the wrong place, on a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday afternoon, these shows are dominated [by these commercials]."

On possible damage to the TV sports business:

"Are you telling me that Major League Baseball and the NFL are going to go out of business if Viagra doesn't sponsor them? Are you telling me we're going to take money off those owner's table? What table?...What table am I taking food off of? They can put in another sponsor and I'm sure they will."

 

[Cowboys22]

I have no problem with this. Its getting to the point where you can't watch anything with your kids without those commercials coming on. If nothing else, you ought to have a setting in your receiver menu that allows you to block them out. I'd rather have a blank screen for 30 seconds.

 

[aikemirv]

I am on board with it. Thank goodness that I have a DVR to fast forward through most commercials but it is very difficult not to watch the Cowboys live.

That is just a bit too much to ask of me!

 

[firehawk350]

I am on board with it. Thank goodness that I have a DVR to fast forward through most commercials but it is very difficult not to watch the Cowboys live.

That is just a bit too much to ask of me!

It sounds like some excuse making for poor parenting to me. The world exists outside of your children and their sensitivities. What are you going to tell them when you are eating at a restaurant and you overhear somebody BSing with his friend about banging the waitress?

The point being is a good parent doesn't necessarily have to get rid of those occurences, but rather explain them in a way that the youngster understands. When a Viagra commercial comes on and the child asks about erectile dysfunction just say it's a sickness that some men have that keeps them from having special time with their wives. If they ask what special time is, just tell them it's time adults spend together expressing how they love each other. Most kids are fine with that as an explanation.

 

[HoosierCowboy]

It sounds like some excuse making for poor parenting to me. The world exists outside of your children and their sensitivities. What are you going to tell them when you are eating at a restaurant and you overhear somebody BSing with his friend about banging the waitress?

The point being is a good parent doesn't necessarily have to get rid of those occurences, but rather explain them in a way that the youngster understands. When a Viagra commercial comes on and the child asks about erectile dysfunction just say it's a sickness that some men have that keeps them from having special time with their wives. If they ask what special time is, just tell them it's time adults spend together expressing how they love each other. Most kids are fine with that as an explanation.

will you come over and talk to my kids?

 

[AKATheRake]

I think this is a decent bill being proposed. They'll just dump another beer commercial or two in there anyways.

 

[BBQ101]

It sounds like some excuse making for poor parenting to me. The world exists outside of your children and their sensitivities. What are you going to tell them when you are eating at a restaurant and you overhear somebody BSing with his friend about banging the waitress?

There you go blaming the parent...come on...its the governments responsibility to take care of our kids. Us parents can't be troubled with that.


BBQ

 

[Chocolate Lab]

It sounds like some excuse making for poor parenting to me. The world exists outside of your children and their sensitivities. What are you going to tell them when you are eating at a restaurant and you overhear somebody BSing with his friend about banging the waitress?

The point being is a good parent doesn't necessarily have to get rid of those occurences, but rather explain them in a way that the youngster understands. When a Viagra commercial comes on and the child asks about erectile dysfunction just say it's a sickness that some men have that keeps them from having special time with their wives. If they ask what special time is, just tell them it's time adults spend together expressing how they love each other. Most kids are fine with that as an explanation.

Sure, that's the easy part...

Now explain what to say when they ask why two people are sitting in separate bathtubs in the middle of nowhere...

 

[dboyz]

It is fine. I think there are a number of commercials in day games for football that are not good at all. I would appreciate if there could be some better judgment. I understand if I watch TV in the evening that I will have to be careful with children watching. But at 1:00 on Sunday afternoon, I shouldn't have to turn the channel for every commercial, which is what it is coming to.

As far as it being the parent's job to raise kids, you are absolutely right, however the government can help in some of these things. There is nothing wrong with that!

 

[tomson75]

:laugh2: @ this thread....and the thought of kids being negatively influenced by viagra commercials. Unless the little buggers are locked in a closet, or shipped of to some ultra conservative boarding school ...they're going to learn about WAY worse things from their peers...and WAY worse things from browsing the internet. JMO, of course.

 

[wileedog]

Sure, that's the easy part...

Now explain what to say when they ask why two people are sitting in separate bathtubs in the middle of nowhere...

Explain it to me too.

 

[Hypnotoad]

That stuff needs to be off tv during the times with kids watching. They dont advertise women self stimulant products, inappropriate gone wilds, or phone a friends during normal hours, why are they allowed to talk about ED or getting it anytime your ready.

Blaming the economy as a reason to support this is WEAK.

You can't win if you treat kids as if they are in a closet and protect them from society, but ED/Viagra isn't something kids need to talk about.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

How stupid. I don't care for the commercials, cause they're stupid, but this is what he's most upset about?

The beer ads, glorifying drinking and making it seem cool aren't a bad thing for his grandkids but a commercial about something that happens to some peoples body is?

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen anyone get upset about. The guy was embarressed, and red faced, cause his grandkids asked him about a topic he didn't want to talk about cause it's 'too serious' and so now he wants to use the Government to keep that from happening?

There is this really cool invention dude. It's called the mute button.

Sure you don't control when the commercials come up but you do control, just like every other person with a functional brain, rather you sit there and listen to the commercial or not.

With all the other issues in our nation right now this is the one he wants to focus on?

Please.

 

[gimmesix]

If we're going to eliminate commercials that children don't need to watch, the list goes much deeper than male sexual enhancement products.

 

[cowboyjoe]

If we're going to eliminate commercials that children don't need to watch, the list goes much deeper than male sexual enhancement products.

well one thing about it, we got alot of different views on this subject;

 

[kmp77]

Ban them! Not that I'm conservative....they just annoy this piss out of me. And ban all feminine product commercials too :laugh2: :laugh2:

And if I ever mee the extenz commercial actors...they're going to walk away with two black eyes. That's the most annoying commercial on tv.

 

[Hypnotoad]

And if I ever mee the extenz commercial actors...they're going to walk away with two black eyes. That's the most annoying commercial on tv.

They just wanted to have more FUN!

 

[jazzcat22]

I think this is a decent bill being proposed. They'll just dump another beer commercial or two in there anyways.

Or another drug commercial to some new made up condition that we never herd of before.....like another restless leg syndrome we need to medicate....get out and take a walk now and then....there's your cure....

 

[Cajuncowboy]

I am totally against this bill. I am probably one of the most conservative people on this board and my faith positions are well known in the PZ.

But there is no way that government should be in the midst of telling private companies who they can sell to. That is restricting commerce for the sake of government regulating morality.

While I feel the commercials are inappropriate and I don't care for them no matter when or where they are shown, it doesn't give me the right to tell a private company how to do business.

The way to deal with this is that if there are enough people who are outraged by this, then they should write to the network, the advertiser and the local affiliate to get their point across.

If you give the government an inch they will assuredly take a mile.

 

[ManicDepressiveMan]

Ridiculous.

So some moron in Congress is trying to screw over Viagra, ect.. because he's too embarrassed to explain male anatomy to his grandkids?

I'd rather ban him from Congress for wasting the People's time with such nonsense.