Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad 2010 and Tim Tebow Commercial Puts into Controversy – Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow exercised his right to choose to show off his smooth and supple buff chest during a weigh-in for the Senior Bowl in Alabama on Monday.
CBS has given preliminary approval to a Super Bowl ad bought by Focus on the Family that will feature former Florida QB Tim Tebow.
Focus on the Family revealed last week that it had recruited Tebow and his mother for the ad it claims will highlight a theme of “Celebrate family, celebrate life.”
Media Daily News reported that CBS, which is broadcasting the game this year, has approved a script from the Christian group. But a network spokesperson told MDN that CBS will need to approve the final script before the ad is approved for air in the Feb. 7 game.
Several women’s groups have argued that the spot, which is believed to be a pro-life ad featuring Tebow and his mother, is an advocacy ad and is inappropriate for Super Sunday.
“An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year – an event designed to bring Americans together,” said Jehmu Greene, president of the New York-based Women’s Media Center.
The Who’s half-time show appearance is small potatoes, at least in regards to women’s advocacy groups whose focus is on the Tebow ad which Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women, calls “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning” as well as “not being respectful”:
