We did so years ago and in fact we stopped watching all sports back in 2012...too much connection with illuminati, etc...we did not have cable but we would pay on the internet for a sports subscription and soon realized we should not be doing this...too many things that are contrary to God and the life he desires for us

 Pepsi’s Super Bowl halftime show teaches girls that sɛҳuąƖ exploitation is okay
'Moms, are these the kind of shows you want your husbands and sons to watch? Or your daughters to emulate?'
Mon Feb 3, 2020 - 1:46 pm EST

Colombian singer Shakira performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium on February 02, 2020 in Miami, Florida. Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images
By Michael L. Brown
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February 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Parents are expressing their outrage. Religious leaders are expressing their indignation. How dare the NFL (and Pepsi) put on such a raunchy, sɛҳuąƖly explicit halftime show on prime time TV, watched by millions of families together. 
But why are we surprised? Why the shock and outrage? The NFL has been doing this for years.
Have we forgotten that almost every NFL team has cheerleaders – women dressed in the scantiest outfits, gyrating and shaking to the delight of the fans, especially the male fans?
This is a regular, expected part of the game. The halftime shows just take things to another level.
As for the halftime shows themselves, while it has been my family’s habit for many years to skip that part of the game, to my knowledge, these shows are often anything but family-friendly.
The infamous “wardrobe malfunction” featuring Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake in 2004 may not have been an accident after all. Either way, that was hardly a family-friendly performance.
What about past performances by Beyoncé or Madonna? Did they sing old American classics while dressed in wholesome outfits? (Right.)
Moms, are these the kind of shows you want your husbands and sons to watch? Or your daughters to emulate?
Speaking of mothers, both Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, the featured performers at the last Super Bowl, are moms themselves, perhaps very devoted moms. And JLo even brought her 11-year-old daughter on stage to perform with her.
But that makes the performance all the more outrageous. A 50-year-old mother in the presence of her daughter, performing on a stripper’s pole? 
With good reason, Rev. Franklin Graham said, “I don’t expect the world to act like the church, but our country has had a sense of moral decency on prime time television in order to protect children. We see that disappearing before our eyes.”
“It was demonstrated tonight in the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show — with millions of children watching. This exhibition was Pepsi showing young girls that sɛҳuąƖ exploitation of women is okay. With the exploitation of women on the rise worldwide, instead of lowering the standard, we as a society should be raising it.”
A concerned mother expressed it like this (the language is quite graphic): “The FCC still has rules about decency on network television between certain hours when children are watching. It is well established that children are watching during the Super Bowl. I had to send mine out of the room as soon as Jennifer Lopez took the stage in what looked like a two-sided thong and buttless chaps. The camerawork was outrageously gross, zooming in on Lopez's barely covered crotch, so close that the viewer could see some sort of silver maxi pad sticking out from either side of her way-too-small fraud of a garment. If that thing wasn't riding up between her front-hole lips, then my 6o-inch HDTV television was lying to me, and HD never lies.” 
I totally agree with these sentiments, and I applaud those who have spoken out. But I ask again: why the shock? Was this Super Bowl performance that much worse than past performances? And did we expect JLo and Shakira to sing opera?
The first three Super Bowl halftime shows (years 1967-1969) featured top marching bands from different colleges.
The next show added in performances by Marguerite Piazza, Doc Severinsen, Al Hirt, Lionel Hampton, Carol Channing. (Come to think of it, Piazza was an opera singer. As for Carol Channing, she certainly wasn’t sɛҳuąƖly gyrating on the stage.)
By 1974, along with a marching band, there was a performance by Judy Mallette, Miss Texas 1973 – but playing a fiddle.
In 1981, a marching band was still featured, this time with big band singer Helen O’Connell.
Fast forward to 1987, and along with the marching band were funny men George Burns and Mickey Rooney.
1988 was a bit more edgy, this time adding in the Rockettes. But I can assure you that none of them were doing pole dances.
Even in 1992, there was still a featured marching band, and some of the songs performed by guests included, “Walking in a Winter Wonderland.”
1993, however, featured Michael Jackson, and quickly, the trend was changing.
One of the featured performers in 2001 was Britney Spears. 
2004 also featured Jessica Simpson, together with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.
2011 had the Black Eyed Peas, not exactly known for family-friendly performances.
In 2012, it was Madonna and Nicki Minaj.
In 2013, Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child. (Beyoncé was back in 2016.)
In 2015, Katy Perry sang, “I Kissed a Girl.”
And Lady Gaga’s 2017 performance was celebrated as a major moment in LGBT activism.
But this is just the Super Bowl. What about the music videos that young children have been watching for decades. I doubt that anything that JLo and Shakira did during the Super Bowl is any worse than the normal fare many young Americans have grown up with. No big deal, right? 
There have been scandalous, sɛҳuąƖly explicit, virtually nude videos airing 24/7 for many years now. And, to repeat, many American children, even younger than pre-teens, have cut their teeth on this trash. How many crotch-grabbing scenes have they witnessed over the years? Why, then, are we so surprised to see a glimpse of it during the Super Bowl?
Our culture today celebrates prostitution. Glorifies strippers. Idolizes porn stars. (Just think of the cable-TV shows featuring these subjects, and in a positive light at that.)
What happened during Super Bowl LIV was just the latest manifestation of the moral downgrading of our society. When will we wake up?
For my part, I’m not damning the performers as if they are especially evil people. No, I see them as being just like the rest of us: gifted but fallen human beings in need of redemption. And they may be involved in many good and noble causes.
Today is the day for repentance and confession and self-examination. Today is the day to plead for mercy on our fallen and debased culture.
And what does it say of a nation when a 50-year-old mother is celebrated for her pole-dancing agility and a former governor and presidential candidate tweets, “Best Super Bowl half time show ever!”? What does it say?
Making things even worse is that all this has taken place in a climate of increased awareness for the victims of accused sɛҳuąƖ predators like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, men who allegedly exploited women as sex objects.
What does it say of our culture, of our nation, of our morals?
It says that we really, urgently, desperately need awakening and revival.
God have mercy.

Drag queen 'makes history' in Super Bowl advert as corporate American toes the line on virtue-signaling

Read the entire article from RT.  Super Bowl advert promoted masculinity as 'toxic' an attack on men.'

We Americans look ridiculous to the world.

It would be an occasion of many sins to watch the Super Bowl.  

I had to go to a Russian source because all of the American media is absolutely corrupt and evil.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/479769-super-bowl-drag-queens-advert/

 to 25 years in prison (by an all-white jury, no less). It doesn’t mention what the father of Corey Jones   about Raja’s conviction: “This was about the truth. And the truth caught up with him.”
The NFL ad reinforces, indirectly, the racial accusations of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, yet the imprisoned officer was of Pakistani descent. The Inspire Change initiative doesn’t feature any ad of any white individual being unjustly killed by police, despite the fact that twice as many whites are killed by police as African-Americans. And since the ad invokes the important relationship between police and community, why doesn’t the NFL also air an ad about the 38 officers killed in the line of duty in 2019?
Is the NFL truly trying to inspire change or inspire division? Corey Jones’ horrific death deserves better than a distorted “social justice” ad from a multi-billion-dollar organization that has a history of selectively addressing injustice.
But today’s “social justice” isn’t interested in context and clarity but confusion.
And what was more confusing than the insanely mixed message of an NFL that poured money into an anti-sex-trafficking ad campaign in Miami while hosting a halftime show that resembled a strip club?
Super Bowl LIV’s halftime show sadly proved this (judging by all of the praise from mainstream media and from unexpected places/people online): cultural identification is apparently more important than character formation. But Latino culture was not celebrated during the Pepsi Halftime Show; it was exploited. Sorry, J-Lo. Flashing and grabbing your crotch isn’t empowerment, no matter the “culture”. 
As a father of two girls and two boys, I want them to understand that their God-given equality, dignity and worth should be used to evoke love not elicit lust. (I understand this is my Christian worldview, and I can’t expect the world to share it; but fellow Christians should.) I love my two daughters too much to let them ever be objectified or think that being paid millions makes self-objectification ever okay. They’re equal without projecting their sɛҳuąƖity.
Our culture simultaneously denounces sex trafficking (which is rampant in Miami), while celebrating a pornographic show to the world. Florida has been ranked #3 in the nation for human trafficking, which led the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee to launch the “Stop Sex Trafficking” ad campaign throughout the city. An undisclosed amount of funding came from the NFL. But don’t worry, that message was clearly offset by the throngs of nearly naked women and mostly-to-fully-clothed men in the middle of the Super Bowl. It’s just (patriarchal) entertainment, right? 
Funny how in this #MeToo era, entertainers seem to vie to be as naked and as sɛҳuąƖ as possible — not on a director’s couch, but in front of over a hundred million sets of eyes. J-Lo, Shakira, Pepsi and the NFL let down a generation of girls and boys who deserve so much better than the fake feminism on full display Sunday night.

 
Jennifer Lopez (R) and her 11-year-old daughter Emme Maribel Muñiz perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium on Feb. 2 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

  |  Feb. 4, 2020

Super Bowl Halftime Show: Worse Than Tasteless, It’s Full-on sɛҳuąƖ Grooming

COMMENTARY: Do not shy away from making the connection between sɛҳuąƖized entertainment and sɛҳuąƖ grooming.

Jennifer Roback Morse

I was outraged by the Super Bowl halftime show. I bet you were, too. I challenge you to do something with your outrage. Otherwise, it is a pointless waste of time.  
First, I’m going to stir up your righteous anger even more. Then, I’m going to challenge you to do something with your anger.
The Super Bowl Halftime Show was not only pornographic — it was an internationally televised sɛҳuąƖ grooming session.

As Catholics, we have had to ask ourselves, “How does sɛҳuąƖ abuse go on for so long?” The answer: Perpetrators groom not only their victims, but often the entire community around the victim.

Clergy sex abuse survivors say perpetrators may victimize some children, but they groom the entire community. One survivor told me that the priest who abused him was a trusted friend of his family. The boy knew if he ever spoke up, the family would be more inclined to take the priest’s word over his.

I recently reviewed a book about public-school sɛҳuąƖ abuse and harassment. The title of the book is , with the dreadfully appropriate subtitle, “Covering Up Educators’ Sex Crimes — and How a Superintendent Was Caught after Decades of Lies.”

In the references to this book, I came across a 2017 publication from the U.S. Department of Education, “A Training Guide for Administrators and Educators on Addressing Adult sɛҳuąƖ Misconduct in the School Setting.” I discovered a section called “Grooming, Trolling and Exploiting.” On page 12, I read this:

Perpetrators methodically increase the attention and rewards they give to their targets. Grooming allows perpetrators to test their targets’ silence at each step. To nurture the relationship, perpetrators make the target feel “special” by, for example, brandishing gifts and/or spending extra time with the target in nonsɛҳuąƖ ways, all in an effort to learn whether the target will keep silent. At the same time, the perpetrator is also testing the adults surrounding the child or school. … It is not uncommon for the behaviors to be done publicly so that the perpetrator can gauge reactions; share information (true or false) to manipulate how the behavior is interpreted by the adults; and further control the child victim. …
School personnel who engage in sɛҳuąƖ jokes without being reprimanded might move on to making physical contact, such as touching a student’s hair or body. If the behavior goes unreported and unaddressed, the adult may grow bolder and escalate to increasingly sɛҳuąƖized behaviors.

Let’s return to the Super Bowl halftime show with this understanding in mind. Superstar pop singers Jennifer Lopez and Shakira performed a sɛҳuąƖly stimulating act in front of millions of people. The Children’s Voice Chorus of Miami, with 40 children, some pre-adolescent, appeared amid the show’s sɛҳuąƖ gyrations. Around the choir of young girls was the symbol for female. Millions applauded. No one objected.

The lesson is clear: Immodesty is empowerment. Femininity means thrusting your private parts toward a camera. A girl will be rewarded with applause and accolades for sɛҳuąƖly stimulating strangers.

If no one objects, the perpetrators can move to the next step of taking sɛҳuąƖ advantage of the vulnerable. In the weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday, sex trafficking surges. Last year, police arrested 169 in Atlanta on trafficking charges — including 34 with minors.

In preparation for this year’s Super Bowl, Miami hotel workers, ride-hailing service drivers and security personnel were given a crash course on combating human trafficking. The value of that well-intentioned training was certainly offset by the sɛҳuąƖ stimulation of the halftime show.

Of course, the corporations responsible for the halftime show will never admit to being perpetrators of anything. They can find house feminists who will support them in saying the truly liberated modern woman is “sex positive.” Never mind all the other feminists and mothers and grandmothers and just plain normal people who do not agree at all. Their opinion doesn’t count. Support the sɛҳuąƖization of women and girls and you will be rewarded. Object and you will be denounced.

Now that I have you good and mad, what are we going to do about it? Let’s use our righteous anger and our platforms, limited though they may be, to express ourselves. Here’s a message we need to communicate loud and clear:

Corporate America, major media networks and the NFL, you have shown us that you are all-in for promoting the sɛҳuąƖ Revolution. Decision-makers at Pepsi, your halftime show equates overtly sɛҳuąƖ displays as female empowerment and you roped young girls into performing. That’s sɛҳuąƖ grooming!
NFL corporate executives, softening victims up to consent to sex more readily is sɛҳuąƖ grooming. I hold you responsible for these decisions. You chose these performers. You have been making these types of decisions year after year. One can hardly believe this pattern is accidental.

Christian athletes, especially NFL players, we call on you to stop allowing your talent to be exploited. Let’s use hαɾɾιson Butker, kicker for the Super Bowl champs Kansas City Chiefs, as an example. He is a devout Catholic.

Dear hαɾɾιson,

Great job on winning the Super Bowl! I’m sure you are thrilled. I am writing to you about something else: the halftime show.

hαɾɾιson, you are a good Catholic man. The halftime show was pornographic. It was worse than that, actually. It was designed to sɛҳuąƖly stimulate the massive crowd. This sets up the conditions for sɛҳuąƖ exploitation. hαɾɾιson, the NFL ostensibly sells football. That means you and your talent. But behind the sale of football, they are also selling advertising. The Pepsi Company is evidently selling pornography along with their soft drinks. They are using you and your talent for this unseemly purpose. And they do this at the same time that the FBI has warned of an increase in sex trafficking in Super Bowl cities.

I am asking you, as your sister in Christ, please do something about this. We ordinary fans and citizens do not know the inner workings of the corporate culture around the NFL. You are closer to it than we are. Please use your influence to put a stop to this. Because this needs to stop. What if it were your little daughter or sister being trafficked in the stadium parking lot?

Sincerely
Your friend,
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Write to your own favorite players. Do not shy away from making the connection between sɛҳuąƖized entertainment and sɛҳuąƖ grooming.
When we are silent, the perpetrators move to the next step. Say it in your own words. But say something.

Whenever I hear of, or see things like in the above post, I'm reminded of some of the torments suffered in hell forever:

”In that horrible prison,” writes Hugh of St. Victor, “will be gathered together all the comrades of dissoluteness who formerly vied with one another to see who could be the most impure. There, friends will become deadly enemies; they will insult and abuse each other, heaping upon one another bitter reproofs. Their conversation will be bloody threats and horrible curses.”

There the negligent and scandalous father will find himself next to his son who will scream at him hatefully:
“Wicked father, it was you who set me on the road to perdition; you taught me to deceive the simple and ignorant; to cheat honest laborers; you sowed the first seeds of evil ambition in my heart; you taught me to profane the Lord's Day; to blaspheme; to get drunk; to despise the commandments of God. You caused my destruction. I curse you and shall curse you forever!”

There  the daughter will give vent to her fury, shrieking at her mother:
“Why did you bring me into this world if you wanted to prepare me for an eternity of suffering? Your example was a continual lesson in immodesty, flirtation, of wantonness, freedom; your sinful, 'easy-going' indifference to my conduct was my downfall. Be cursed forever!” And all the echoes of hell will repeat, “Be cursed forever!” - So High the Price

SO HIGH THE PRICE!.

Thank you, Stubborn, for such an appropriate warning.
We must all be reminded of the TRUTH of HELL and the consequences of our choices in this life.