Porn Interrupts Comcast Super Bowl Broadcast
Comcast customers in Tucson, AZ watching the Super Bowl saw more pigskin than they bargained for when 30 seconds of a porno movie cut in to the final minutes of the big game. "I was watching the game with my family, Larry Fitzgerald scores the go ahead TD - then bam, penis," writes reader David. A Comcastic Fight Club homage, perchance?
UPDATE: Comcast To Give $5 To Every Accidental Penis Viewer?
The clip from cable show "Club Jenna" shows a woman sitting on a couch and struggling to pull out porn actor Evan Stone's genitalia from his pants. The pair laugh at the difficulty. Mr. Stone then jumps up and pulls his pants down and twists from side to side, slapping it against his body, and then the game comes back on.
""We were like in shock," said Cardinals fan Alice Soto, 53, who was watching the game with her 11-year-old daughter and 80-year-old mother," writes TucsonCitizen.com.
The NSFW clip was captured by a viewer and is hosted on comcastsuperbowlporn.com (also mirrored by Gizmodo)
Comcast said the interruption only affected the standard definition broadcast and engineers were banging away furiously at the problem around the clock to figure out what happened. There were also reports of an earlier interruption where some movie credits played on the screen.
Comcast 09 Super Bowl Porn [Official Site, NSFW]
Porn interrupts Super Bowl broadcast in Tucson [Arizona Daily Star]
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Did Mr. Stone at least give her a Terrible Towel at the end? I guess we'll never know.
Come on, they were just celebrating the Cardinals' touchdown! Can't porno actors be football fans too?
It will be interesting to see whether they determine this was a true mistake (human error, equipment malfunction, etc.) or if it was malicious.
Woah.. Comcast Pulled a Tyler Durden on the Super Bowl!
Somehow a certain commercial scene in Used Cars is being pictured in my head at the moment.
Except those were boobs. Finally something for the ladies!!! Am I right? Ok not so much with Evan's Nathan Explosion face but whatever.
Wonder if the fundies will whine about this destroying their kids like they did during Raisingate w/Janet...
BTW, awesome job with engineers were banging furiously away at the problem Ben!
I'd have rather seen that than the way the game ended...
Comcast should be more anal about preventing stuff like this. That's a ballsy move on their part. Why those boobs needed to do that is beyond me. It's hard enough already to watch the game, but something like this happening during a critical moment will just make it that much harder for Americans to swallow.
Please, please, please say that this means the FCC is going to give Comcast a spanking on at least the scale of what they did for those who broadcast Janet's nipple a few years back.
Comcast Standard def in Minneapolis we got a random blue screen towards the end of the game...
At least they were only "like in shock." It would've been much more serious if they truly had been in shock.
Happy endings for everybody!
(except Cardinals fans)
@LetMeGetTheManager: thats what she said?
seriously though how would something like this even happen without it being malicious...for shame comcast for shame...
that slappity slap he did reminds me of the black dude from that movie "kids" anyone remember that?? by the pool?
@Pylon83: Yeah, seems a little bit too coincidental to be an accident. I bet it was some disgruntled outgoing employee or something.
at least it's nice to know at least one man other than myself closed the night with a happy ending
That'll go down in history alongside the Hedi Game.
Paraphrasing the Wiki entry...
"One of the most remembered games on NBC was a 1968 game known as the Heidi Game. With its nationally-televised game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets running late, the network began to show the movie Heidi just moments after the Jets' Jim Turner kicked what appeared to be the game-winning field goal with 1:05 remaining. While millions of irate fans, missing the finale, jammed NBC's phone lines, the Raiders scored 2 touchdowns in eight seconds during the final minute to win 43-32.
The reaction to The Heidi Game resulted in the AFL, and most other sports leagues, demanding that networks thereafter televise all games to their conclusion. NFL contracts with the networks now require games to be shown in a team's market area to the conclusion, regardless of the score.
To avoid a repeat incident, a 1975 NBC broadcast of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was preempted until the completion of a Washington Redskins-Raiders game.
At NBC, the network installed a new phone in the control room wired to a separate exchange, becoming known as the Heidi Phone."
@RedwoodFlyer: ROFL I thought I was the only one who caught that. The whole thing is tongue on d!ck... i mean tongue in cheek.
We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming. We are aggressively investigating the situation including the possibility of foul play.
Thank you!
Frank Eliason
Comcast
We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com
It's ok though because "the interruption only affected the standard definition broadcast".
Good thing decent people only watch the superbowl in hi-def.
@RedwoodFlyer: I'm not a fundie (I rant against such folks often) but I still would have cringed and became angry if that would have come on my tv screen while watching the Super Bowl with my family.
One nipple busting out is completely different than "Mr. Stone then jumps up and pulls his pants down and twists from side to side, slapping it against his body."
There are times when porn is cool. This was not one of those times.
@Yossarian: Other than the fact that someone offended by nudity to the point of outrage is a reactionary fuckwad? Nope, no support.
@LetMeGetTheManager: nice job, though I would've replaced "during a critical moment" with "during the climax".
I can't be the only one thinking this was attributable to one pissed-off (now former) employee.
I have Comcast and didn't get any porn - Who can I complain to about that? - Not fair!
In an strange twist of irony and double entendre, the AP story says...
"A spokesman for Cox Cable said the company had not been affected"
@friendlynerd: Nope, you're not. Check out the comments; it's a great way to find out what other commenters are thinking.
@Pylon83: Well, hang on a minute. As my Dad always said: "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by mere idiocy."
OMG, ARE YOU GUYS OKAY?
@Hawkins: I know what you mean, and I would agree if the game feed had simply been lost or scrambled or something. But to be replaced by, of all possible things, hardcore porno is more than a little suspicious.
Any press is good press! Dunno why they would be mortified, but I am sure the goober who did it will get the ax! I just hope they ID the guy or if he outs himself when the cut comes.
@Nighthawke: WTF, why the hell did you put that up there? Dont us Jets fans suffer enough as it is.
Next you'll talk about fake spikes and the multiple times our team have collapsed late in the season.
I hate you. DIAF!
@P_Smith: Renamed? That's the name my circle of friends have been calling them for years. It's been in circulation for so long that I forgot that it wasn't actually the company's name. :P
@Wormfather is Wormfather: Give the cardinals credit where credit is due, they played a great 2nd half. But that doesn't make up for their lack of playing the first half. It was a great game though.
@RedwoodFlyer: A. It doesn't have to be "to the point of outrage" and B. I like nudity as much as the next guy, but that doesn't mean that every venue is appropriate for same.
I suspect if the clown at your kid's/nephew's/whatever's birthday party dropped trou, you might be of the opinion that the action was inappropriate, no matter your support for nudity in the abstract.
There are plenty of times when nudity is appropriate and to be encouraged. A halftime show at one of the most popular sporting events in the country simply isn't one of them, imo.
New meaning to COX cable!
I disagreed with most of the reaction to the Janet Jackson fiasco, but this is apples and oranges. A hardcore porn scene (or at least the prelude to it) is WAY contextually different than "whoops, a part of my body just just exposed"
So I can side with some outrage here, especially since Comcast screwed up.
@Wormfather is Wormfather: Win/Loss outcome is not the only thing that defines a "great ending".
One can lose a game and still admit it was exciting and worth watching.
@Yossarian: Fair enough (although you might want to reply to my post if you're, you know, replying to my post).
Anyway, yeah you're right. I'm not saying it's appropriate to be shoving porno in the face of a child. But so many people have absolutely no perspective on that, and I think in many ways it pervades our culture as a whole.
Look at the whole GTA "Hot Coffee" thing. A game full of gratuitous violence and crime is fine, but as soon as there is the suggestion of sex it is pulled off of shelves. Note that I am not anti-GTA, or anti-video game violence; I love the GTA games. I just find it funny that killing cops without a second thought is considered "mature", and filming a virtual girl in her undies is "adults only".
Anyway, I digress. You're right that things like this should be kept from happening; I just don't think it's the end of the world when it does.
@RedwoodFlyer: Janet Jackson's boob is NEVER appropriate. The major complaint is that it was done in the wrong context. If the half time show was supposed to include some nudity it would have been ok. The problem is that a half time show is suppsoed to be a concert. Not a strip show. If nudity was ok then they would rate it as such.
Are they going to be renamed "Cumcast" after this? ^_^
As if the company weren't in enough trouble....