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Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-like-the-fourteenth-commandment-right dept.

theodp writes "For 200 members of the Immanuel Bible Church and their friends, the annual Super Bowl party is over thanks to the NFL, which explained that airing NFL games at churches on large-screen TV sets violates the NFL copyright. Federal copyright law includes an exemption for sports bars, according to NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, but churches are out of luck. Churchgoers who aren't averse to a little drinking-and-driving still have the opportunity to see the game together in public on a screen bigger than 55 inches."

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  1. Re:Also: Thou shalt not buttfuck little boys by kramulous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You fool! Although you posted Anon. Coward CmdrTaco has access to the apache logs and now has your IP. Prepare for the clone army attack!

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  2. Re:Cops? No. Lawyers, yes. by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Jesus was a pretty rebellious and rock the boat sort of guy"

    Guess that's why he banned slavery ... oh, wait, he didn't.

    Gays and lesbians, and premarital / extramarital sex (never mind that his mother got preggo outside of marriage) he'd condemn, but slavery? "Don't rock the boat!" Really, which is worse?

    And now a word from our sponsors:

    Wilson runs a nail factory and decides his business needs a bit of advertising on the Super Bowl. He has a chat with a friend who works in marketing and he offers to make a TV ad for Wilson's Nails.

    "Give me a week," says the friend, "and I'll be back with a tape."

    A week goes by and the marketing executive comes to see Wilson. He puts a cassette in the video and presses play. A Roman soldier is busy nailing Jesus to the cross. He turns to face the camera and says with a grin "Use Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything."

    Wilson goes mad shouting: "What is the matter with you? They'll never show that on the Super Bowl! Give it another try, but no more Romans crucifying Jesus!"

    Another week goes by and the marketing man comes back to see Wilson with another tape. He puts it in the machine and hits play. This time the camera pans out from a Roman standing with his arms folded to show Jesus on the cross. The Roman looks up at him and says 'Wilson's Nails, they'll hold anything'.

    Wilson is beside himself. "You don't understand: I don't want anything with Jesus on the cross! Now listen, I'll give you one last chance. Come back in a week with an advertisement that I can broadcast on the Super Bowl."

    A week passes and Wilson waits impatiently. The marketing executive arrives and puts on the new video. A naked man with long hair, gasping for breath, is running across a field. About a dozen Roman soldiers come over the hill, hot on his trail. One of them turns to camera and says 'If only we had used Wilson's Nails!'.

  3. Re:Cops? No. Lawyers, yes. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Jesus was a pretty rebellious and rock the boat sort of guy"

    Guess that's why he banned slavery ... oh, wait, he didn't.

    Whatever else you have to say about religion and Christianity and Jesus in general or in the specific, while the man walked this earth he was never exactly in a position of political power where he could start handing down Bans On Slavery or things like that. So it's a very bad way to start an argument with mentioning this.

    You never banned slavery either.

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  4. Re:Good luck with that, NFL by nacturation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like to see this license I supposedly agreed to when I turned the TV on.

    What's that? Silence? The same license that you agreed to in not jaywalking across a street.
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  5. Re:Cops? No. Lawyers, yes. by websitebroke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're quoting from 1 Corinthians, which is a letter from Paul to the members of the church of Corinth. Remember, the Bible is simply a collection of books and letters that a bunch of religious leaders - a few hundred years after all this was written - decided was useful to have together in one volume. It is NOT a unified work. Both Fundamentalist wackos and bible-bashers seem to always make the same mistake. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus had a lot of great things to say, and Paul was, as often as not, a certifiable nutjob. Feel free to ignore that guy. Read further on in 1 Corinthians, and you'll find:
    "Let your women be keeping silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted to them to be speaking, _but_ to be subjecting themselves, just as also the Law says. But if they desire to learn anything, let them be questioning their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful [or, shameful] [for] women to be speaking in an assembly."