violence good, sex bad!

Since absurd overreactions to Janet Jackson's boob are so outdated now, some of my fellow Americans have found another "shockingly inappropriate" scene to bitch about. This time there wasn't so much as a nipple exposed. We got to see.... a bare back! Oh my God! Call Jerry Falwell! Bring in the moral majority! The minds of America are being poisoned by a Monday Night Football opening featuring Nicollette Sheridan's bare back! Yes, the very idea, presented jokingly in the MNF opening, that a sexy blonde woman seduces star Eagles player Terrell Owens into skipping the game, is too hot for our virgin minds and must be stopped!

Now the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles, and ABC are all furiously apologizing for this horrible incident sure to turn our children into perverted sex fiends. They even got Owens to apologize... sort of. Oddly he seems to think the controversy is about him rather than the simulated nudity, but that's not the point.

So once again part of this country goes insane at the hint of sex. Juxtaposing the Puritanical opposition to anything sexual, our society's loving acceptance of violence was highlighted oh so effectively by this controversial opening scene being followed by three hours of 300 pound men attempting to beat one another senseless while trying to get a ball across a line.