(In honor of Super Bowl XLIV (44) being played tomorrow here is a re post of 10/17/09. This is a strange Super Bowl story that occurred just over a year ago. I will follow today’s Super Bowl with new material.)

TUCSON, Arizona-

This is one of those things that is hard to believe could ever happen. But it did and was nothing less than shocking!

On February 1^st, 2009, Super Bowl XLIII (aka-Super Bowl 43) was being played between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals. It was a good game throughout the first half and the second half only got better. Pittsburgh had led throughout, but with 2:37 remaining in the game, Cardinals’ fans erupted in delight as they watched their star receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, catch a pass across the middle from Kurt Warner, split four Steelers’ defenders and take it 64 yards into the end zone. It was the Cardinals’ first lead of the game, giving them and their fans high hopes that they could pull off the huge upset and win their first Super Bowl title in franchise history. As Fitzgerald celebrated with teammates and looked up at the JumboTron to watch himself sprint into the end zone on replay, Cardinals’ fans watching the game on their televisions in the Tucson, Arizona market got a lot more for their money than they had expected when waking up that morning.

Viewers in certain areas of Arizona got a 30 second clip of a pornographic movie that was somehow fed into the live Comcast feed of the game. Let’s put it this way, if your child saw this, they KNOW what an erection is. My question is: after the Janet Jackson incident during the Super Bowl 38 halftime show, how could this have happened?

Incidentally, the Cardinals lost the game.

The Moral of the story: Since Super Bowls are now routinely X rated, it is wise to watch the entire game with your children. You never know when that one thing you don’t want them to see will pop up and you will have some explaining to do.

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