DAMN YOU, COX CABLE!!! Why do COMCAST customers get all the fun? Me, all I get is this plain old, boring, reliable uninterrupted programming. Like, after the mind-blowing Cardinals this-will-save-the-game-hallelujah-it’s-our-first-time-here-and-we-WON play that wasn’t, bastard Steelers, on my COX viewing of the game, in a cruel twist of irony, all I got to see was the normal run-of-the-mill post-touchdown chicken dance, while COMCAST customers got to see COCK! The outrage!
The article in the Tucson paper today said it all:
Comcast investigating Super Bowl porn feed
(now that’s just an awesome article headline in a family paper if I’ve ever seen one)
Comcast continued this morning to investigate how pornography interrupted its feed during the final quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday. (Disgruntled laid-off employee? Viewer karma? God?)
It is unclear how many viewers were affected by the clip (well not ME, dammit!, that’s for sure!), which lasted about 30 seconds, and featured full male nudity, said Kelle Maslyn, a Comcast spokeswoman.
“We are mortified by last evening’s Super Bowl interruption, and deeply apologize to our customers for the inappropriate programming,” Maslyn said in a statement. “We are aggressively investigating the situation including the possibility of foul play.” (“possibility” of foul play? You think?)
Comcast is working on a plan to compensate customers (dammit! Paid to watch porn and I’m missing out again!?), but nothing has been set in stone, Maslyn said.
The pornography clip was from Club Jenna, an adult cable television channel.
The Star newsroom was flooded with calls from irate viewers who said that the porn cut into the game with less than three minutes left to play, just after Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored on a touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to put the team in the lead. (Imagine the calls if it had been ten seconds EARLIER!)
Callers said that the clip showed a woman unzipping a man’s pants, followed by a graphic act between the two.
The Super Bowl was being shown locally on KVOA. The station sends its signal to Comcast through a fiber line, said KVOA News Director Kathleen Choal.
KVOA’s signal didn’t have porn on it when the station sent it over to Comcast, station president Gary Nielsen said. (lol I should hope not! Can you imagine the station president saying, “Yeah there was porn on there, we just thought we’d float it over to the viewers at Comcast to liven up the game a little in case that touchdown wasn’t enough.”)
The company will continue to investigate what happened to its signal, Nielsen said. Yes and please investigate why the hell Cox was left out of this slice of awesome pie.
The porn broke into the standard-definition feed reaching analog TV sets. Comcast’s high-definition feed was not affected. Haha, eat THAT you HD snobs!
Comcast is the second-largest cable-television provider in Southern Arizona and serves more than 80,000 customers in unincorporated Pima County, Marana and Oro Valley.
Comcast has set up an e-mail account to take feedback from concerned customers. (easier to ignore that way instead of having a flooded regular inbox)
The address is comcasttucsonfeedback@gmail.com. “Dear Comcast Tucson, YOU ROCK!”
Customers can also call 744-1900, Maslyn said. How awesome would it be if that were a line to an adult hotline, as a joke? Are there any website hackers out there who can get the number changed in this article? Anyone?
Contact reporter Alexis Huicochea at 573-4242 or ahuicochea@azstarnet.com. And tell her what an awesome job she did bringing this small Arizona city’s blunder to national and international shame! (The story has reached headlines across the world! Finally! Tucson is internationally famous!)
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2. February 2009 at 2:34 pm
GO STEELERS!!! That’s almost as bad as the legendary “Heidi game.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
I guess that they broadcast the literal interpretation of what the Steelers ended up doing to the Cardinals!
Oh, and just once more…GO STEELERS!!!!!!
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