This isn’t really anything new. Each year, at least one controversial company submits a Super Bowl commercial for airtime approval and it is shot down because no matter what the content is, the network wants nothing to do with that company. It could be a 5-second spot of an open field, but as long as that 5-seconds concludes with a NAMBLA logo, that spot will never see airtime. That’s why it comes as no surprise that CBS shot down PornHub’s oh-so-innocent 20-second spot for Super Bowl 47.

The spot, which you can view after the jump, features two old people sitting on a bench. That’s it. Well, there’s also some light music, but there’s nothing else out of the ordinary that might suggest, say, amateur bondage or a Brazilian fart fetish, but the mere inclusion of that PornHub logo is a dead giveaway that no network would have even taken a second glance.

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As much as Texas and Florida are synonymous with football, Connecticut seems to be the land of cheerleading, seeing as all the big spirit finger stories are coming out of the Nutmeg State these days. First, a Connecticut judge reaffirmed what we all knew – cheerleading is not a sport. And now a cheerleading team… wait, no. Team implies sport, sorry. A cheerleading coven has appealed to the Connecticut Board of Education because their uniforms… wait, no. Sorry. Because their costumes are too revealing. Oh the horror.

The girls are upset because the tops reveal their midriffs, and they believe that this is demeaning to them as proper young ladies. Instead, they want to wear less revealing tops and longer skirts. Should they succeed in their pleas, when they ask the crowd what that spells, the response will be, “Hey sweater, you‘re blocking the game!”

Give me a P, give me a R, give me a U-D-E! What’s that spell, Yahoo! Prep Rally?

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