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jmowreader

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23. That's not bad TV. American Forces Network is bad TV.

Reply to SDJay (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:39 PM

Nov 2016

Sometime between 1987 and 1990, the American Forces Network (the tv station the military runs for the troops stationed overseas) ran a "don't drive drunk" commercial during the game-winning play in the Super Bowl.

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