tim tebow's super bowl commercial...

final (way overdue) update:

first i have to admit that i don't often watch NFL football, i'm an NCAA football girl. this was the first super bowl i've watched in a long time. to me it was a bigger deal because of the new orleans saints playing and of course the curiosity of the much hyped tebow commercial. all that being said...the game was great! the commercial? much ado about nothing in my opinion.

with all of the talk ahead of time i was expecting to see a really serious, conservative, potentially dramatic and football mood ruining commercial. it was none of that, in fact, i thought the commercial was rather cutesy and a bit cheesy. other than promoting a visit to the FOTF website, i didn't see any substance. honestly? it was a huge waste of money! i checked the price to find that super bowl ads typically cost at the least 2.5 million dollars. apparently this ad space was paid for by FOTF, who received generous donations from friends to fund it. very generous friends!

don't you think that money could have been used for the same cause but in a better way? i definitely do. think about all of the organizations out there that help pregnant women who are in unfortunate situations. what about the many couples who would love to adopt, but find it unattainable because of the high costs? or how about the many orphans in our country and abroad? surely that hefty amount of money could have helped many and still promoted the message of life.

i'm still a fan of the tebow family. i'm still not a fan of FOTF. and i believe that all in all, the much hyped, very expensive ad was a big fail. i can only hope that like i previously wrote, the message helped even one woman to have the courage to have a baby that they otherwise felt too scared or overwhelmed to have.

i'd like to know about your thoughts. do you think that any good was accomplished by the commercial?

update:

after chatting about this on facebook, i now see that part of the big deal is the lack of consistency when it comes to what will be aired or not. apparently, there were other commercials in super bowl's past that never made it to tv-i guess they were more liberal in nature. i will say that i do disagree with that. if the network is going to air a potentially controversial commercial then they shouldn't "pick and choose" when it comes to freedom of speech. because we're all created equal right? and i do admit that the super bowl is really not the time that anyone wants to think about heavy topics. though i do support this commerical, i hope that in the future "the platform" will be more equal. oh, and i'm not really a fan of FOTF-for whatever that's worth.

original post:

i would have completely missed this if not for my bloggy friend anemone pie. so i'm glad she posted about this. apparently there's quite the controversy over a commercial set to air during the super bowl with tim tebow. in summary, he is spreading the message about choosing "life". apparently his own mother was ill during her pregnancy with tim and was advised to terminate the pregnancy. she chose to continue the pregnancy and thankfully gave birth to a healthy baby. you can read more about it *here*.

as you know, i am a huge gator fan and i adore tim tebow...not just as a football player but as a person. in the years he spent playing for UF, he never disappointed. and he doesn't just "talk the talk" he also appears to "walk the walk". that is important to me!

i am also a believer in choice. a strong believer in choice. but to *me* choice doesn't just equal one option. it encompasses all options. the topic is a very passionate one and everyone has their own passionate views. i really don't think a commercial will change many views, even if it's from tim tebow.

BUT... if his message will help even one woman to have the courage to have a baby that they otherwise felt too scared or overwhelmed to have...i think that's a great thing!

no need to cause a big ruckus about the commercial, in my tim tebow loving, pro-choice mind. =)

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big move forward and omgosh...tv!

for christmas mr. h and i decided that instead of exchanging gifts with each other, we would get a "family gift". today we got our gift...satellite tv and a dvr. in 2010 we have made the big move forward with technology.

mammie and papa have had their satellite tv and dvr set up for years. papa even has a big screen tv. i think they have an actual answering machine for their phone. so it says a lot that they are so far ahead of us with tv technology.

i glanced at the list of the channels. holey crow! i'm wondering how on earth i'm going to fit watching all of that tv into my days? and i am so far behind. i actually stopped watching tv regularly in april 2007. it wasn't an intentional thing. that was when i got sick and life went crazy. for a long time i couldn't concentrate on tv shows or movies. one of the side effects of chemotherapy. thankfully there are dvd's with seasons of shows on them because i have a lot of catching up to do.

but now! there is a whole smorgasbord of new shows for me to watch. i've never watched the bachelor before, or the biggest loser, real housewives of this place and that, project runway, all those HGTV shows. or glee, dexter, csi, etc. the list goes on and on and on! i don't know where to start...the only reason i can even name the shows is from hearing about what everyone else watches. how am i going to decide what to watch? how will i manage to watch it all? i may never leave the couch again!

then there is the dvr contraption. i've heard about them, they are a recording device of some sort. and you don't have to watch commercials? really? even mr. h is left wondering about this. high definition, i don't have a clue what that means. other than i think we need a new tv. one of those flat things. i bought my tv back in 1997, it's a big box and i thought it was uber cool back then. now i guess it's something i should only use with a VCR and to play atari.

wow. i never realized how dated we are. essentially archaic.

ok, so help a girl out...where do i start? are there any shows that i can just pick up on now without watching seasons upon seasons to get caught up first? what shows should i watch seasons and seasons of? (i do have desperate housewives and sex and the city already to catch up on) is there anything must-see starting new soon? i need the scoop!

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