[QUOTE]NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Focus on the Family, a Christian non-profit group, said it will air its first Super Bowl spot during the upcoming game.
The 30-second ad will feature Tim Tebow, a former quarterback with the University of Florida's Gators and 2007 winner of the Heisman Trophy, along with his mother Pam.
"Tim and Pam share our respect for life and our passion for helping families thrive," Jim Daly, president of Focus of the Family, said in a written statement on Jan. 15.
The Tebows decided to participate in the ad "because the issue of life is one they feel very strongly about," the Colorado-based organization said in a press release.
Focus on the Family is opposed to abortion "under all circumstances, except in the rare instance when the mother's life is threatened by continuing the pregnancy," according to the organization's web site.
The Web site for the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association, which is run by Tim Tebow's father, said that Pam has "a national platform to encourage the pro-life message," noting that she refused to abort Tim more than 20 years ago when she was advised to do so
Focus on the Family spokeswoman Lisa Anderson would not reveal how much her organization paid for the ad or provide further details about it. But she told CNNMoney.com that the funds were donated specifically for this purpose by unnamed individuals. She said the money did not come from the group's general fund.
CBS, broadcaster of the 2010 Super Bowl game, is charging about $3 million for 30-second spots, according to spokesman Dana McClintock. But CBS would not reveal how much it charged Focus on the Family for their ad.
Attempts to contact the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association in Jacksonville, Fla. were unsuccessful.
This would not be the first time an agenda-based ad has aired during the Super Bowl. The American Legacy Foundation ran anti-smoking ads during the 2001, 2002 and 2004 games, according to Jon Swallen, senior vice president of research at TNS Media Intelligence. He also said the Office for National Drug Control ran anti-drug ads in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
Swallen said there is no evidence of anti-abortion ads in his Super Bowl records, which go back to 1982. The Super Bowl began in 1967.
Last year was a record high for Super Bowl viewer volume, according to The Nielsen Company, with 98.7 million people tuning in to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals.
The game will be played Feb. 7 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. [/QUOTE]
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wow fuck off tim tebow
i don't want a crybaby telling me what to do with my life
[quote]CBS, broadcaster of the 2010 Super Bowl game, is charging about $3 million for 30-second spots[/quote]
Wow nevermind, fuck.
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730813]I'm sure everyone just mutes the commercials or is too wasted to even know about them during the super bowl.[/QUOTE]
You must not know the Super Bowl very well. Those commercial ads are as famous as the game itself. The price for just 30 seconds of air time runs in the millions of dollars.
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730813]I'm sure everyone just mutes the commercials or is too wasted to even know about them during the super bowl.[/QUOTE]
the commercials are a lot of peoples favorite part of the superbowl
Wow, that must suck for the guy who wanted Tim aborted.
[QUOTE=Waals Vander;19730843]the commercials are a lot of peoples favorite part of the superbowl[/QUOTE]
Really? I'm not much of a sports fan, I wouldn't know.
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730813]I'm sure everyone just mutes the commercials or is too wasted to even know about them during the super bowl.[/QUOTE]
cost of thirty second commercial: 1.2 million dollars
[img]http://www.obsessedwithsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tim-tebow-crying.jpg[/img]
look at that crybaby
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730861]Really? I'm not much of a sports fan, I wouldn't know.[/QUOTE]
THEN LEAVE jeez
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730813]I'm sure everyone just mutes the commercials or is too wasted to even know about them during the super bowl.[/QUOTE]
I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials.
[QUOTE=shibbywalkkpth;19730872]THEN LEAVE jeez[/QUOTE]
:(
don't disagree with my sadface :(
fuck focus on the family
thats one less good commercial that can air
i usually play pool during the super bowl and watch the commercials
[QUOTE=Spacewolf;19730813]I'm sure everyone just mutes the commercials or is too wasted to even know about them during the super bowl. [/QUOTE]
Quoted for posterity.
The commercials are the [I]only[/I] reason a lot of people watch the Super Bowl.
God damn it. I hate my internet. :C
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19730841]You must not know the Super Bowl very well. Those commercial ads are as famous as the game itself. The price for just 30 seconds of air time runs in the thousands of dollars.[/QUOTE]
millions of dollars
tim tebow is a crybaby
[img]http://www.outdoorsportsaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tebow-Crying.jpg[/img]
FUCK YOU
[QUOTE=Waals Vander;19731023]millions of dollars[/QUOTE]
I don't know why I put thousands. Fixed it.
[QUOTE=shibbywalkkpth;19730864]cost of thirty second commercial: 1.2 million dollars[/QUOTE]
3 million according to the article
[quote]The 30-second ad will feature Tim Tebow, a former quarterback with the University of Florida's Gators and 2007 winner of the Heisman Trophy, along with his mother Pam.[/quote]
I did smell 'sellout' until I remembered he usually puts passages on the blackout under his eyes. Now I'm just disappointed football is being infected with religion. Expect a lot of criticism to follow this commercial after it airs.
Fuck, infiltrating the superbowl with boring commercials about shit I'm not interested in. Guess which commercial will win in the most boring category.
[b]My reaction to this news as a pro-choicer:[/b]
[img]http://www.outdoorsportsaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tebow-Crying.jpg[/img]
FTA:
The Web site for the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association, which is run by Tim Tebow's father, said that Pam has "a national platform to encourage the pro-life message," noting that she refused to abort Tim more than 20 years ago when she was advised to do so
Okay...so she gets CHOICE but no one else is supposed to be able to choose?
Oh wait, they are pro-life EXCEPT when the mother's life is threatened by the pregnancy, in that case go ahead and kill the baby, that's their stand?!?!
So then as long as the excuse is good enough, they don't mind abortion. But they want to be the ones who get to decide which excuse is good enough? Nope, not hypocritical at all.
What joke, I can't wait to see their lameass commercial. I'm gonna be yelling "kill it with fire!" while it's playing.
Will this ad accomplish anything? I think not. Maybe they should send the money to Haiti.
At least it wasn't an anti-same sex marriage group.
I thought they refused to sell to political ads
There Better be some Dam 3d ad I need them glasses for mods and shit.
[QUOTE=Lankist;19733012]I thought they refused to sell to political ads[/QUOTE]
Not when they are right wing ads I guess.
[Quote]Focus on the Family is opposed to abortion[/Quote]
Fuck you I'll get as many abortions I want.
Also, I hope it's a good commercial.
[QUOTE=Lankist;19733012]I thought they refused to sell to political ads[/QUOTE]
It's football.
Same demographic as Nascar.
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