Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware filmed a public service announcement with President Obama that will air during the three Thanksgiving NFL games, stressing the importance of physical fitness to America’s children.
The commercial was shot by NFL Films on the White House lawn, and it shows the players, Obama and a collection of kids playing football together, promoting the NFL’s Play 60 program and the president’s United We Serve initiative.
Brees said he was thrilled at the opportunity to take part in it.
“Thanksgiving is a time when families come together, and it is also a perfect time to focus on the importance of keeping kids healthy and active,” Brees said. “I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.”
All of the NFL’s Thanksgiving weekend games will be used to showcase the league’s efforts to combat childhood obesity and encourage exercise.
Cue the right wing extremists outrage over this, and jokes about the irony of using Thanksgiving as a way to promote healthy lifestyles.
Isn’t there an Olympics bid or some other pressing need for the Supreme Leader to occupy his time?
Oh, God! Here come the posts from the right wingers. I guess exercise will now be called socialist.
Awesome, I got the chills.
Great, glad to see Obama’s getting things done…. (rolls eyes)
Finally we’ve got a president with good hands! Too bad we waited til we were down by 2 scores to bring him in…….
Awww, that’s nice.
Cue the “liberals this” and “conservitards that” in 3… 2… 1…
Mangini, Rex Ryan, Wade Phillips, Tom Cable ect.. should take notes for this.
I have great hopes for this sort of thing – I mean, look at the track record!
Everyone knows that telling kids to do or not do something can fix anything!
And if it doesn’t – you still get points for making an effort – no matter how useless the gesture is.
I’m a fan of kids growing fat and lazy. They’ll be less competition in the work force once I’m old.
I saw MORE video games! MORE sugary foods! Do things out of addiction, not work ethic!
Soon the world will be mine… and fat, and lazy, and costing health care a bundle. Hmmmm, okay so maybe my opinion is only good as satire.
Hey Washington, leave my kids alone! If I want my kids to be fat lazy slobs with diabetes and heart disease, that is my choice!!! No nationally mandated exercise!
good. this country is too overweight.
did casey hampton make a cameo on the PSA?
exercise this Nobama …
I’m all for this! Anything that keeps Obama preoccupied from governing is a good thing. Hopefully they can selectively edit the commercial like FOX did in the All Star Game so no one sees him one hop a pass back to Brees.
Wait for the followup commercial, Play500 where Obama makes up 440 other minutes he played for so that he can claim he saved/created more healthy kids than he did.
Just about the only thing I agree with Obama on 1000%. Way too many excuse making fat asses in this country.
Can’t wait to see how conservatives try to spin this into a bad thing…
Plenty of time to stay in shape with over 10% unemployment.
How’s that hope & change working for ya?!
“I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.”
Brees was also impressed with the President’s ability to smoke 3 cigarettes in 45 seconds.
Cue liberals complaining about conservatives mocking Obama for this and denying that they did the exact same thing any time they heard anything remotely about Bush in 3…2…1…
Is he sure about that? Obama hasn’t made a solid decision since he took office.
Of course with socialized medicine he’ll be able to provide healthcare to all those that sit at home, watch Oprah and gorge themselves on foodstamp bought sweeties.
How’s that hopey changey thing going?
Ahhh, nothing to worry about. When this Play60 thing fails, I’m sure he’ll mandate some type of exercise when all the kids are submitted to his socialist re-education camp, er…I mean, school.
Buck Ofama.
Let’s complain about the cost of providing healthcare for OUR citizens while we spend trillions over in Afghanistan and Iraq helping THEIRS.
THAT is perfectly logical and rational. Oh wait.
You know, someone could save a lot of time and money from putting on this commercial if they would just buy Obama a mirror. You have to wonder if he told the kids though, “you guys make a pretty good photo op.”
It must be bitterly depressing to be an older white gentleman in this societyand be reduced to another minority faction clamoring for attention, taking solace only in a television network that panders to your predjudices while it’s sister network exposes your grandchildren to every form of perfidy it can. Serenity now!
Let me guess, these ads are sponsored by McDonalds?
If you really want your kids to be healthy stop letting them eat the crap Mickey D is serving up.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees, Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware filmed a public service announcement with President Obama that will air during the three Thanksgiving NFL games, stressing the importance of physical fitness to America’s children.
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Yes, it seems Grady Jackson ,Hollis Thomas and Vince Wilfork were originally scheduled to take part, but declined when they heard the filming was due to begin at lunchtime.
The Neo choked down a carton of Marlboro reds.
Charlatan.
And they don’t dissapoint. It’s a good cause you negative retards. Regardless of your politics, what exactly is wrong with this? Sniffle Sniffle cry cry, I hate Obama, NobamaCare, Nobama, Hope and change, bitter bitter sour grapes, what a bunch of pansies, let it go, it’s about excercise, and in a country with a burgeoning population of young fatties, what’s the harm? Man, politics suck, and you guys are the reason why. Cue the “and YOU’RE the reason this country is in such a mess” responses, c’mon, don’t let me down.
CurseofBoJackson says: November 20, 2009 10:55 AM
Cue the right wing extremists outrage over this, and jokes about the irony of using Thanksgiving as a way to promote healthy lifestyles.
Exactly. This is outright Marxism !!!!! BTW, shouldn’t he be working on the economy rather than wasting tax payer money doing this ?
shinsnake says:
November 20, 2009 11:57 AM
You know, someone could save a lot of time and money from putting on this commercial if they would just buy Obama a mirror. You have to wonder if he told the kids though, “you guys make a pretty good photo op.”
You mean like landing on an aircraft carrier?
YEAH OBABMA>>>>
The NFL is sure a great Influence on our CHILDREN……..NOT
Never post anything ever again about this narcis man child ever again, who the hell cares what this tyrant thinks, he is a terrible president and is a toolbag. We need an American President not a corporate bought special interest wastefull clown. Stop making him to be a celebrity, when he is robbing, lying and screwing you over and people glorify him, sad. Point being, who cares? he is a Clown on a tv show that is entertaining with no substance.
@ CurseofBoJackson
You’re so cynical it’s kewl…. haha
If you are an overweight football fan(it’s not difficult to tell if you are) and you have overweight children, this PSA is directed towards you.
# pocket says: November 20, 2009 12:50 PM
Never post anything ever again about this narcis man child ever again, who the hell cares what this tyrant thinks, he is a terrible president and is a toolbag. We need an American President not a corporate bought special interest wastefull clown. Stop making him to be a celebrity, when he is robbing, lying and screwing you over and people glorify him, sad. Point being, who cares? he is a Clown on a tv show that is entertaining with no substance.
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Maybe you don’t realize it, but Bush is no longer in office……..
“You mean like landing on an aircraft carrier?”
Why is it that the left thinks it’s OK that Obama act like a ignorant jackass and can do no wrong by referencing Bush. Dude was a jackass too so what? Your golden boy is flawed… very VERY flawed. What does that have to do with Bush landing on an Aircraft carrier, etc?
I love how you guys are so full with hate and anger that you fail to realise the main goal is focusing on our youth and helping them to be healthier. But I bet you guys are the main ones that would be crying years from now if those same kids grow to be unhealthy adults and the country is using your tax dollars to pay them disability because they aren’t able to get out and work. The only thing clear after reading through these comments is that you guys should have been in the commercial because you are the real kids
CurseofBoJackson
You’re probably right, we should give Obama a break. Luckily this wasn’t a Geography50 PSA, Obama wouldn’t be able to figure out why there weren’t 57 states.
bluestree
You don’t have to worry about Obama landing on an aircraft carrier. After spending hours contemplating different landing plans that his general requests, he’ll run out of gas and crash into the ocean.
mixman34
“Why is it that the left thinks it’s OK that Obama act like a ignorant jackass and can do no wrong by referencing Bush. Dude was a jackass too so what? Your golden boy is flawed… very VERY flawed. What does that have to do with Bush landing on an Aircraft carrier, etc?”
Obama blames everything on Bush, why can’t his sheep?
The teabaggers sure are hostile aren’t they! LOL
Obama needs to get the money thing in order before putting his 2 cents on what children should do.
He’s a puppet president working for the banks. Look at his cabinet. All ex bankers.
Like Bush when he had all the ex CEO’s of oil companies leading the government and the military.
Look it up.
LOL SHULDNT HE BE FIXIN DA ECOMNY INSTED OF MAKIN COMERCIALS ABOT FAT KIDS LOLOLOL
republicans are pretty cool
I feel sorry for these kids and the Play60 message. Less than 50% of the people approve of the job Obama’s doing and by Thanksgiving, that number could be pushing even lower. With such a divisive and partisan President in your message, can it have an opposite affect? Will parents start force feeding their kids double quarter pounders with cheese and keep them away from the football fields and the baseball diamonds? I don’t know, could be risky.
downsouth49er
Hate? No one hates Obama? We feel sorry for the guy, it was so sad that so many people got convinced of his hopey changey message and put him in a position he’s not smart enough to handle. When a man doesn’t know how many states there are in the country or when his parents met or how to speak without a teleprompter…tsk, tsk, tsk, some of us knew he couldn’t manage to succeed at anything. Heckuva job, Barry!
famucancer
I don’t know, I haven’t met many gay people, but just a point of courtesy, you probably shouldn’t slur homosexuals. It kind of makes you look homophobic. LJ, is that you? I thought you were getting ready for Oakland you silly little bigot, you.
“mixman34 says:
November 20, 2009 1:00 PM
“You mean like landing on an aircraft carrier?”
Why is it that the left thinks it’s OK that Obama act like a ignorant jackass and can do no wrong by referencing Bush. Dude was a jackass too so what? Your golden boy is flawed… very VERY flawed. What does that have to do with Bush landing on an Aircraft carrier, etc?”
Dude, you need to learn to read AND comprehend. Your comment has nothing to do with the post.
this is not a f–king political issue of right vs left, or loving or hating obama. obesity is a national heath issue.
And I dont mean a 30+ year old having bit of a gut from too many lunches out, but rather a 11 year old that tips in at 150lbs and eats fast food in front of the Xbox360 for dinner 5 nights a week an gets winded going up stairs because his parents ( if you can call them that)are to lazy or “busy” to make a decent meal or throw a ball with the kid
I’m no body builder and I enjoy fast food maybe once a month or so, but when I see huge ass 1o year old kid at Mickey D’s plowing through a Big Mac, enormous fries, and a 32 oz coke I want to grab the parents and slap them.
Personally I think that borders on child abuse.
This was on page 1783 of senate health bill.
‘Tell kids to exercise, this will save $600 billion and pay for health care for all.’
Judging from daily banner ads, Obama also wants:
1. Moms to go back to school!
and
2. Homeowners to refinance!
All you people without a job how is hope and change working out for you. LOL what a joke.
topcide
Chillax man. No one sees this issue as a left or right thing and everyone agrees with Obama that kids need to be more active. But we’re not going to waste an opportunity to make fun of Dear Leader. In fact, the only ones making the argument that this is a political issue are liberals impersonating conservatives as a joke. It’s not my fault their jokes suck, they just aren’t any smarter than that.
@shinsnake; You lost the election. Get over it. America gave your boys free rein and they made a complete mess of everything. Now, your politics have been rejected, you represent only some southern states and are predominately white. You are 15% of the population and 85% of the political noise. You are not the mythical silent majority, but a bitter minority of blowhards circling the drain of American political life. I know you will never go away of your own accord, but you and your friends are overwhelming older people. How ironic that in your final days you will likely be cared for in a nursing home by people of color.
@ bluestree
If you’ll take the time to READ the other posts, mine was a reaction to someone elses post blaming Bush…. haha
Wow, toolbag IS a tool. You must be mistaking our current president for the former corporate owned nimrod. It is quite amazing that the right wing can find bad things about Obama and this exercise thing. If you stupid right-wingers could read, you would be able to tell that the PSA was part of the NFL program to fight obesity and was not paid for by American taxpayers. Dumbasses. Can’t read, can’t figure shit out for yourselves and don’t want things to be better for our country since your shitty president screwed everything up over the last 8 years. Tools.
@ bluestree
I was reacting to and quoted YOUR post! You referenced Bush in giving Obama a pass! DUH!!!
Is the left hereby getting dumber!?!?
I heard Rush Limbaugh tried to get into the action but ended up eating his white house credentials along the way.
That’s touching, coming from a chain-smoking socialist ass-wipe.
George W. Bush sent a more subtle message about American obesity when he had full access to the White House chef for 8 years and his most requested meal was cheeseburger pizza. You read it right. Combining cheeseburgers with pizza. Rich and compelling.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=george+w+bush+cheeseburger+pizza&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Why are Obamatrons so hostile?
bluestree
LOL, I’m 30 years old and I live in Ohio, a blue state the last time around. Sorry we can’t all fit into your little pre-conceived stereotypes. I’m not sure if you noticed this though, but liberal policies are now blamed for the current economic crisis by a plurality. Liberals in Congress are being abandoned by blue dog Democrats left and right so they can save their election hopes in 2010. Obama now has below a 50% approval rating, quite a drop from around almost 70% when he was inaugurated. Sorry to let you in on the secret pal, but fiscal conservatism is on the rise. Now if only we had a party that shared our values and we could find a Presidential candidate who does too, instead of the faux conservative like Bush.
But hey, I’m sure Obama will bail us all out of this mess. Like I said before, so far…heckuva job Barry!
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# Kage10 says: November 20, 2009 1:49 PM
Wow, toolbag IS a tool. You must be mistaking our current president for the former corporate owned nimrod. It is quite amazing that the right wing can find bad things about Obama and this exercise thing. If you stupid right-wingers could read, you would be able to tell that the PSA was part of the NFL program to fight obesity and was not paid for by American taxpayers. Dumbasses. Can’t read, can’t figure shit out for yourselves and don’t want things to be better for our country since your shitty president screwed everything up over the last 8 years. Tools.
Keep drinking the leftist media kool-aid, moron…..
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# Twiz says: November 20, 2009 12:59 PM
# pocket says: November 20, 2009 12:50 PM
Never post anything ever again about this narcis man child ever again, who the hell cares what this tyrant thinks, he is a terrible president and is a toolbag. We need an American President not a corporate bought special interest wastefull clown. Stop making him to be a celebrity, when he is robbing, lying and screwing you over and people glorify him, sad. Point being, who cares? he is a Clown on a tv show that is entertaining with no substance.
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Maybe you don’t realize it, but Bush is no longer in office……..
DITTO!
I think bluestree is feeling the pressure of the incoming wave maybe? I just can’t figure out why he’s so damn angry on a post regarding overweight children.
GO VIKINGS Mo Fers!
Kage10
I’m not sure someone in your position should be commenting on another person’s reading ability. You are arguing a point that no one made. No one cares if this is an NFL program that Obama is contributing to so it doesn’t cost us, the taxpayer a dime. We just like to make fun of the idiot-in-chief and this gives us the perfect opportunity. I mean, really, we haven’t even scratched the surface of the jokes we can make about Dear Leader.
“Kage10 says: November 20, 2009 1:49 PM
Wow, toolbag IS a tool. You must be mistaking our current president for the former corporate owned nimrod. It is quite amazing that the right wing can find bad things about Obama and this exercise thing. If you stupid right-wingers could read, you would be able to tell that the PSA was part of the NFL program to fight obesity and was not paid for by American taxpayers. Dumbasses. Can’t read, can’t figure shit out for yourselves and don’t want things to be better for our country since your shitty president screwed everything up over the last 8 years. Tools.”
RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im so ANGRY!!! RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
haha
The real question about this PSA, will Obama have his teleprompter handy or will this be a non-speaking appearance? Follow up: if he does have his teleprompter available, who will write his thoughts and words for him this time? Bill Ayers again, Saul Alinsky or Jeremiah Wright?
@mixman34; come back at me a third time and maybe you’ll make some sense.
downsouth49er says:
November 20, 2009 1:01 PM
I love how you guys are so full with hate and anger that you fail to realise the main goal is focusing on our youth and helping them to be healthier. But I bet you guys are the main ones that would be crying years from now if those same kids grow to be unhealthy adults and the country is using your tax dollars to pay them disability because they aren’t able to get out and work. The only thing clear after reading through these comments is that you guys should have been in the commercial because you are the real kids
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Here’s the deal Mr. Focus……..A good parent, doesn’t need an NFL player, the president, or anyone else for that matter, to focus on their child’s health, it’s kind of childish to think otherwise. I’m so sick of people not bearing responsibility, the people who are responsible for their children, know damn well each and every aspect of their child’s health, they don’t need a public service announcement from anyone…..You do what is right and be an adult……Simple as that….I’m paying taxes for those that don’t give a rats ass, and you expect me to have a…Oh.”lets help out those that don’t care or are too stupid to care” attitude?….Not going to happen…..America’s youth is a mirror image of the guidance they get at home…….If Mom and Dad are a POS, more than likely the kid will be……no more excuses……
Did I stumble onto the Fox News website by mistake?
savagenation says:
November 20, 2009 2:09 PM
That’s touching, coming from a chain-smoking socialist ass-wipe.
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Better to smoke an occasional cigarette than become addicted to blow and alcohol while your daddy ran the country, right?
Danwahl80
I can see how you could make that mistake, what with differing opinions being voiced, but no, this is not FoxNews.com. They are far more balanced about Obama than I’m being…and not nearly as funny.
topcide, 5/5 (Florio, BRING BACK THE COMMENT RATINGS)… You’re the only poster here who has a clue
Shinsnake, you’re the only one mentioning Bush, let it go dude, let it go. So predictable some of you are. I am heartened by the lack of personal attacks though, good job!
Man, this Obama is on it, first he tells women to wait 10 more years before getting a mammogram and now he’s telling kids they need to exercise more? Who says rationing our health care is going to be hard to deal with?
A fool judges the source of a message rather than the message itself.
Obama will be known from now on as
Jimmy Carter Black, the colored in the cabinet.
Zappa fans get it. The rest will rant.
@upperthighworm..,I mean shinsnake: A swing and a miss! How Rovian, keep repeating an untruth long enough and it is as effective as the truth. Nice try, though. If your beliefs were sound, you wouldn’t have to support them with untruths. We haven’t had any “liberal policies” economically, in fact most liberals are upset now that they are finding out the President is a centrist, as am I. Of course to you I am a liberal because I’m not a conservative. That’s why Obama won, because his opponent was so out of touch with the nation. You are truly clueless, but that’s ok, it’s the nature of youth. By the way, Stark county nearly led the nation in unemployment long before Obama was in office. I guess you don’t work for Timken or Hoover or Firestone. Live with Mom and Dad?
CurseofBoJackson
I would let it go, but it won’t let me go. Every time I turn the television on there’s Obama staring into the camera waiting for his close up. Like I said, we could solve a lot of our country’s problems if someone would just give him a mirror to distract himself with.
obscenery
I’ve judged the message and that led me to judging the source of the message as the fool.
“shinsnake says:
November 20, 2009 2:50 PM
Danwahl80
I can see how you could make that mistake, what with differing opinions being voiced, but no, this is not FoxNews.com.”
I get it…you work for Rupert Murdoch.
penguininbondage says:
November 20, 2009 3:05 PM
Obama will be known from now on as
Jimmy Carter Black, the colored in the cabinet.
Zappa fans get it. The rest will rant.
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Aren’t you a little old to be using the internet, grandpa? Here, let’s just take that keyboard with the jumbo letters away from you before your crippling arthritis kicks in. Why don’t you go play with the phonograph? It’s more your speed.
CurseofBoJackson
About the personal attacks, you have to understand, everything I learned about politics, I learned from liberals in the last 9 years. Is there a different way to discuss the President other than incessantly insulting him? If so, clue me in on that because I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an event.
Jimmy Carl Black from “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” and “200 Motels”. Played drums. Now what was clever that we were supposed to get.
“Johnny, have you completed your mandatory 22 minutes of daily exercise or exercise related activities, yet? If not, the Obesity Policy will put you in front of a death panel! You haven’t?! Oh dear, let’s put you in your government mandated safety suit and helmet… don’t forget your mouth guard. No! No! Johnny, you’re not allowed to use your arms and legs when doing mandatory government sanctioned exercising. It’s not fair to the handicapped children. Thanks be to dear leader Obama.”
bluestree
Wow, Obama didn’t exist until he came into office? Funny, I thought he worked in the Senate before that…with other liberals…in a majority role…before the deficit ballooned…and the economy went in the tank… Oh I get it, you only watch MSNBC so you don’t realize that Democrats screwed up the economy. Gotcha, makes much more sense.
Either that, or it’s much more sinister, like those people Obama pays to go on different websites to profess your love for him, er, I mean to help progress his plan out to the simpletons of the country. Florio, can we get a disclaimer on this guy that tells me his posts are brought to me by my friendly neighborhood socialists MoveOn.org? Doesn’t seem right for an Obama lackey to be posting without full disclosure.
I wonder if the makeup artists covered up that huge growth on Obama’s face for this commercial. Funny story about that, no one saw it for the longest time because the trail of cocaine coming out of his nose covered it up. First time Teddy Kennedy saw it he told him he’d take him to a doctor to get it fixed, but Obama insisted that he would drive. Kennedy had a little trouble with the sauce, if you know what I mean, glug, glug, drown, drown, what girl?
shinsnake says:
November 20, 2009 3:28 PM
CurseofBoJackson
“About the personal attacks, you have to understand, everything I learned about politics, I learned from liberals in the last 9 years.”
I apologize, I would never have criticized your reasoning had I known you were only 9 years old. Keep up the good work little fella.
Nancy Pelosi owns the UFL Redwoods and Obama will go down as one of the great ones. The UFL supports the left.
Wait, I got an idea, why doesn’t Obama just propose a stimulus plan to buy all these kids a Wii? I mean, sure there should be a stipulation that they promise they will buy Wii Fit Plus and that they will use it only for exercise, but that would surely solve our economic problem and our fat kid problem. Sure, some loons are going to say that you have to pull money from the pockets of American taxpayers and you’re not stimulating anything since you just pull one dollar out of the economy and put less than a dollar back in, but I mean, the last stimulus did a heckuva job bringing down unemployment, why can’t this stimulus bring in waistlines? Can we lose fat? YES WE CAN!
Also, someone should watch these kids when Obama leaves. I don’t want any little Johnny or Susy getting snatched up and handed over to ACORN so they can be used in their clients’ child prostitution rings. And don’t worry about this whole obese kid thing, Obama’s got a plan B. Abortions for everyone, included in your universal health care!
bluestree
Wow, you’re letting a 9 year old run rings around you! It’s like your functionally handicapped!
60 minutes of play a day? Damn, that’s a lot. Can’t Obama just abort the fat kids?
@shinsnake
I sincerely hope you have a job, and if you do, your employer has to monitor your “productivity,” as you’ve been the brain trust for more posts than I care to count in an article about the NFL encouraging kids to exercise, which you somehow turned into a political attack forum. I don’t want MY taxes paying for your welfare checks.
@mattitude; for shizzle
@thighworm; no more time to play, gotta go to work.
Mattitude: One does not have to be old and decrepit to appreciate the genius that was Zappa.
Bluestree; didn’t infer that it was clever. Referenced it for the race card players. And other than a drummer who was Jimmy Carl Black?
Shouldn’t Obama be more concerned with his Cap-and-Trade deception and the redistribution of wealth, as well as public funding of abortion rather than fitness.
By the way, you don’t have to be an extremist or even to the right to see what this guy is doing.