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(196,002 posts) Sun Jan 15, 2012, 09:10 AM Jan 2012

CBS sells another timeslot to Focus on Family during much watched football game (Patriots won 45-10) [View all]

Focus on Family, the organization that combined with Tim Tebow to air a commercial during last year's Super Bowl, aired a timely second-quarter commercial during the Broncos-Patriots game.

With Tebow's faith bringing a lot of attention to his favorite Bible verse – John 3:16 – the organization's ad spliced together several kids reciting the verse, which says:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2012/01/focus-on-family-has-another-tebow-related-commercial/1

Here is the commercial

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CBS sells another timeslot to Focus on Family during much watched football game (Patriots won 45-10) [View all] underpants Jan 2012 OP

Jebus wept malaise Jan 2012 #1

Obviously it didn't help. hobbit709 Jan 2012 #2

LOL underpants Jan 2012 #3

As long as they would except an offer to run an Atheist or a Muslim commercial I'm okay with it. aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #4

I agree but they already said no to a counter commercial during the Super Bowl underpants Jan 2012 #5

If Satan wanted to run an ad on CBS asjr Jan 2012 #8

And they say the media has a liberal bias. nt aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #23

I know CBS rejected an ad for a gay dating site, but I don't remember NARAL trying to buy an ad onenote Jan 2012 #26

If you dissect the passage (John 3:16) edhopper Jan 2012 #6

I thought the use of kids was cringe worthy underpants Jan 2012 #7

I call it the "what's in it for me?' passage rucky Jan 2012 #12

It is a delusion TheOther95Percent Jan 2012 #18

Tebow must have pissed off God edhopper Jan 2012 #19

Or the prayers from the Niners QB were more worthy. TheOther95Percent Jan 2012 #22

Maybe God just loves Tom Brady and the states that are solidly blue a little more! aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #24

We thank God for touchdowns but we don't blame him for fumbles underpants Jan 2012 #21

I am convinced that the elite's #1 goal is to get as many of us as possible... stillwaiting Jan 2012 #9

It doesn't require christian pipoman Jan 2012 #13

You're right. It doesn't REQUIRE it, it just helps in predisposing individuals to think this way. stillwaiting Jan 2012 #17

+1 Fumesucker Jan 2012 #14

Blind faith in religion takes the ambiguity out of life/existence for conservatives. Zorra Jan 2012 #29

I see it as the dying gasps customerserviceguy Jan 2012 #30

Big Deal.. pipoman Jan 2012 #10

Sport events are usually watched live. edhopper Jan 2012 #11

We mute all commercials, that's potty break/snack break time around here. madmom Jan 2012 #20

That's the original and intended purpose of commercial breaks 47of74 Jan 2012 #28

Commercials are powerful. Think about it. aaaaaa5a Jan 2012 #25

Preaching to the choir customerserviceguy Jan 2012 #31

Child explotation at its worse-nc randr Jan 2012 #15

It's good to be reminded customerserviceguy Jan 2012 #32

Even as an atheist, I though it was a very well done commercial hack89 Jan 2012 #16

Oh, yeah, Tebow? Well, Austin 3:16 says, "The Pats just whupped your ass!" Crankie Avalon Jan 2012 #27

Eh, the commercial could've been a lot worse... Drunken Irishman Jan 2012 #33