Comments on: CBS criticized for failing to bleep Flacco F-bomb

By: tmkelley1

tmkelley1 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:13:25 +0000

Oh, good lord, grow up. Anyone who watches any televised sporting event knows you’re going to be exposed to foul language. Don’t like it? Don’t turn it on! No filtering mechanism in any setting is 100% effective. Ever.

By: nwfisch

nwfisch — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:05:45 +0000

Drew Brees wants an explanation.

By: psychotim

psychotim — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:55:33 +0000

Good lord, I can’t even get all my non-profane posts approved on this site, yet _NBC_ is trying to bash CBS about a missed F-bomb?

There’s blocking profanity and there’s censorship. This post probably won’t last long.

By: oaklegend

oaklegend — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:48:07 +0000

You people have missed the point completely. This isn’t about whether or not kids should hear the word or not, whether Flacco was wrong for using the word or not or whether his use of the word is going to corrupt a child and scar them for life. This is simply about CBS’ responsibility to excercise a reasonable control over their broadcast.

I’m sorry so many of you seem intent that the world would be a better place if people just used the “f” word more often, but for now it is not legal to do it. So, did CBS drop the ball, under those circumstances, by failing to take the simple, common, reasonable precaution of employing the 7-second delay.

They failed to do that. They should have done that. Would’ve saved a lot of bandwidth.

By: voldermort1993

voldermort1993 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:18:51 +0000

I am not remotely offended by this. Kids need to know the truth as people will cuss them out. Joe is absolved from the cursing rule as he is MVP.

By: 4getu

4getu — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:13:37 +0000

I’m more offended when they play salsa music for victor Cruz’s stupid dance

By: sadnfl

sadnfl — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:38:29 +0000

I wanna know how many curs words parents in San Fran and Baltimore used during the game in front of their children.

By: granadafan

granadafan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:32:22 +0000

“listenup823 says: Feb 5, 2013 10:34 AM
If I used it in a sentence that included your mother in it… It no longer becomes “just a word” does it.. Liberal idiots..”

Newsflash to listenup823, the Parents Television Council is a very very CONSERVATIVE advocacy group. People with modern views are tolerant of others and language. The problem lies with people with conservative and archaic views who ruin TV watching and tolerance in society. They call themselves the party of values but are the biggest hypocrites around.

By: flaccodelic

flaccodelic — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:57:27 +0000

As someone with an 8 year old and a 5 year old, I’d rather my kids hear an F-bomb that can be explained rather easily (He’s an adult, he makes choices you don’t get to make yet) than constantly having to flip the channel as CBS shows simulated dead bodies with holes in their temples in their endless and without warning promos of the CSI franchise. That requires either a lot more explanation, or most likely a flat out lie. (He was just sleeping honey!)

Relax already…

By: jagsfanugh

jagsfanugh — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:49:49 +0000

Isn’t Monday a school day for most kids? I would think by 9pm they would have to at least be in bed.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:40:44 +0000

For those who keep posting that the game ended at 11PM, that was on the east coast. That’s 8PM on the west coast where plenty of kids were still awake.

That said, it’s still my job to teach my 8 year old proper use of language.

By: fortphiladamsterdam

fortphiladamsterdam — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:33:30 +0000

Oh right, of course, PTC! It’s everyone’s job to parent your child, except the actual parents! How could I have forgotten that part?

By: fruitcovejag

fruitcovejag — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:06:16 +0000

It was late so hopefully most kids were asleep. My 12 and 7 year olds were. Lets try to help them keep their innocence as long as they can. It doesn’t hurt to have standards guys!

By: SilentMajority

SilentMajority — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:05:33 +0000

I’m not sure why anyone would criticize Flacco? I thought a 10 second tape delay was normal operating procedure after the”wardrobe malfunction” from a few years back… It’s not like some super-secret rule, that if you broadcast the f-bomb you’re station will get fined. This is completely CBS’s fault and no others.

By: shlort

shlort — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:35 +0000

The real question is this. What kind of League or team mandated training will Flacco have to go to? If you say something, and someone complaines, you are required to go see some professionals to help you get over whatever it is you said.

By: shen90

shen90 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:54:25 +0000

Come on, be realistic! dude just reached pinnacle of his profession after years of coming so close and coming up short. Probably most emotional moment of his life, if you can’t understand that then I don’t want your “Morales” infecting me and my family.

By: balzer41

balzer41 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:42:12 +0000

They need focus more on blurring things rather than bleeping things. How many times have I seen a players ass crack because they can’t seem to tie their pants up tight enough to keep their pants above their crack. I seen a Cowboys player a few weeks ago get his britches completely pulled down and his entire ass was showing. Thats offensive because men are just gross and disgusting. How about getting these guys some belts or are we gonna wait till one of these guys completely exposes their wang and balls on national TV.

By: greeneblitz

greeneblitz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:40:46 +0000

Yeah, we worry about a passing harmless swear word that was pretty hard to hear and said in the heat of the moment, but yet I have to explain freaking Viagra commercials or what the hell LGBT is to my children because they are all over commercial and shows. Sick twisted weirdo society.

By: kevinpowell

kevinpowell — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:34:16 +0000

What bothered me is that every commercial for a TV from CBS either had someone with a gun in it or someone half naked. When you’ve got young kids – its just crazy. And then the Go-Daddy spots etc are just over the top and dumb. So yes…I could care less about the F bomb – the constant violent and sexist images upsets me a lot more.

By: mattolikesthevikes

mattolikesthevikes — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:29:19 +0000

Maybe if parents are worried that their kids will hear aword they are gonna hear many times in their lives anyway, maybe a sport where guys knock the crap out of each other isn’t good either. Probably too much violence and they should just change the channel. Man someone always has to issue an opposition to something. So sick of it.

By: 1phd

1phd — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:27:27 +0000

They should have criticized CBS for Bill Cowher’s stupid commentary during the power outage. Put Alex Smith in the game? Right Bill. Wise decision on not returning to the sidelines, Einstein.

By: roadtrip3500

roadtrip3500 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:24:47 +0000

CBS had a questionable broadcast.

In 40+ years of watching NFL on television, I have never heard the booth spotter on the air, but you clearly heard him say (to Nantz) “Reed is on the field,” which Nantz repeated a few seconds later – this after Reed had been shaken up and gone to the locker room.

CBS also continued the annoying practice of immediately running into an end-zone celebration with a camera – I’ve seen players bump/crash into this camera all year, and someone is going to get hurt because the players don’t expect it.

And Flacco’s F-bomb is nothing but the unnecessary use of field mics. The networks can’t claim it’s to give the viewer a feel of being at the stadium, because you sure can’t hear any of that while actually at the stadium.

By: jerryjonesmustdie83

jerryjonesmustdie83 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:22:30 +0000

Kids today will hear much worse from their friends, or family. My seventh grade football coach used every swear word in the book. And that was when he wasn’t angry. People need to stop babying kids these days!

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:18:26 +0000

The Parents Television Council is comparing the Flacco F-bomb to the Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.

Really? I’m not sure the word comparable is the word they want to use…

So a word that many kids have heard their Parents or Elders say a bunch of times is the same as Janet Jackson’s big brown tit? My son may have heard an F-bomb or two in his young life, but I know he has not been exposed to nudity. The two are not even close. One is a word, which is usually forgotten, but you never forget seeing something like Janet’s old boob.

By: bobesmash

bobesmash — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:10:35 +0000

Wow so boobs and f bombs are no good but guns and death are ok come on people have you seen the evening news that`s on at 6pm and this was on at 11pm

By: hippieway

hippieway — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:09:42 +0000

As an officer of the Parents Endorsing Safe Television (PEST) I must caution against shopping at Walmart with children as I heard the F-Bomb dropped twice while shopping there for a TV to watch the Super Bowl on in HD.

By: ace8842

ace8842 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:07:24 +0000

I’m not saying it is the biggest deal in the world, but if CBS has everything on 10 second tape delay or whatever, why wasn’t the F bomb bleeped? Sure, the Parents Television Council might overreact, but they do more harm than good with all the trash that passes for TV today.

By: perkdogg2000

perkdogg2000 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:05:58 +0000

If im not mistaken, Joe Flacco was descibed early in the week as being “bland and boring” well… he fixed that! Good for you Joe, you just won the superbowl F’ bomb away, you have earned it!

By: warsal

warsal — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:04:06 +0000

Thats what you risk putting on the sound down on the field. Its common sense that if you turn those mics on, on the sideline 10 times out of 10 you will catch a swear word.

By: imthedudedude

imthedudedude — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:58:10 +0000

This would have never happened if it were Tim Tebow.. Why can’t we all be more like Tebow? Oh yeah we just watched the most violent sport, halftime was filled with half naked women dancing humping the air. But lets focus on the issue.. Bad words