Posted on 02/02/2007 9:18:21 AM PST by xzins
INDIANAPOLIS — The NFL has nixed a church's plans to use a wall projector to show the Colts-Bears Super Bowl game, saying it would violate copyright laws.
NFL officials spotted a promotion of Fall Creek Baptist Church's "Super Bowl Bash" on the church Web site last week and overnighted a letter to the pastor demanding the party be canceled, the church said.
Initially, the league objected to the church's plan to charge a fee to attend and that the church used the license-protected words "Super Bowl" in its promotions.
Pastor John D. Newland said he told the NFL his church would not charge anyone and that it would drop the use of the forbidden words.
But the NFL objected to the church's plans to use a projector to show the game, saying the law limits it to one TV no bigger than 55 inches.
The church will likely abandon its plans to host a Super ...
...snip ...(Getting Ready for the Game NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league's long-standing policy is to ban "mass out-of-home viewing" of the Super Bowl. An exception is made for sports bars and other businesses that show televised sports as a part of their everyday operations.
...snip... Newland said his church won't break the law.
"It just frustrates me that most of the places where crowds are going to gather to watch this game are going to be places that are filled with alcohol and other things that are inappropriate for children," Newland said. "We tried to provide an alternative to that and were shut down."
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In order to save his marriage, a brilliant Bears fan married to a slow-witted Colts fan agrees to undergo experimental brain surgery to lower his IQ so that he too can root for the Colts. After the procedure, as he's being wheeled into recovery, the surgeon goes up to the man's wife. "I have awful news," he says. "We accidentally removed too much brain tissue, and the outlook for your husband is grim."
"Oh no, Doctor," says the wife, "what will that mean for him?!?"
Then, to her horror, she hears her husband weakly moaning: "Let's... go... Lions..."
A man took his wife to the rodeo and one of the first exhibits they stopped at was the breeding bulls. They went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said, "This bull mated 50 times last year." The wife
playfully nudged her husband in the ribs and said, "He mated 50 times last year."
They walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said, "This bull mated 120 times last year." The wife gave her husband a healthy jab and said, "That's more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him."
They walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters, "This bull mated 365 times last year." The wife, so excited that her elbow nearly broke her husband's ribs, said, "That's once a day. You could REALLY learn something from this one."
The husband looked at her and said, "Go over and ask him if it was with the same cow."
NOTE: The husband's condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and he should eventually make a full recovery.
It will be sad to see another colt put down as Barbaro's passing still lies heavily on our hearts.
ouch
For those of us who are "maturing":
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Two guys are talking about their boss's upcoming wedding.
One says, "It's ridiculous, he's rich, but he's 93 years old, and she's just 26! What kind of a wedding is that?"
The other says, "Well, we have a name for it in my family."
"What do you call it?"
"We call it a football wedding."
The first asks, "What's a football wedding?"
The other says, "She's waiting for him to kick off!"
"one rabbit stew comin up"
How did it end up in "General Chat"?
Please restore it to the Religion Forum.
Pretty Please
Thanks.
Marlowe.
Lord Protector and all that rot.
Welcome home.
Thanks. I was afraid we were going to have to debate whether or not football is a religion.
It looked like a regular sports article to the moderator.
xzins did it.
Lord High Protector, I believe our brother hath deemed himself worthy of a visit to the....comfy chair.
I hope the NFL doesn't find out about this thread. It owns the words "Super Bowl" and it doesn't let anyone use them without permission.
Football is a religion, football is a religion, football is a religion. Why do you think most of the intense football rivalry is in the bible belt? where is the Super Bowl being played and why in the afternoon? So the people can go to the 11:00 service.
The story of my life.
Try to do something nice and one group'll shoot at ya, and the other'll shove ya over into "chat."
I'm mad as _____, and I ain't gonna take it anymore! You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around.....
:>)
These threads are barren if they don't have at least on lawyer joke. (Feel free to post preacher jokes to your hearts content....BUT...leave chaplains alone! :>)
If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman's credibility...
Q: "Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?"
A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away."
Q: "Officer -- who provided this description?"
A: "The officer who responded to the scene."
Q: "A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?"
A: "Yes, sir. With my life."
Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?"
A: "Yes sir, we do!"
Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"
A: "Yes sir, I do."
Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"
A: "Yes sir."
Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?"
A: "You see, sir -- we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room."
Church 'Super Bowl' festivities may go on
wnd.com | Posted: February 2, 2007 | By Bob Unruh
Posted on 02/02/2007 8:47:12 PM EST by Perdogg
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