Comcast’s Tucson-area Super Bowl Coverage Gets Sizzling Hot
TUCSON, AZ — Janet Jackson was never so bold, yet her Super Bowl XXXVII nipple guard flash is still the stuff of legal and social discourse, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in contested FCC fines. How America’s football watching public, still reeling from the fallout of the social tragedies associated with Jackson’s exposed breast will recover from approximately 10 – 30 seconds of hard core porn accidentally broadcast during this year’s game is anybody’s guess.Fortunately for the economic and moral health of the nation as a whole, only the Tucson, AZ area appears to have been assaulted by the explicit footage, which took over the cable airwaves just after Larry Fitzgerald of the Cardinals scored an impressive, but not game-saving, touchdown with less than two minutes left in the game.
Callers to local television stations went wild, reporting footage believed to have been from a Club Jenna feature that depicted a woman unzipping a man’s pants and revealing his family jewels for all ages to see during what one woman deemed to be a genital jiggling “dance.”
According to Comcast representative Kelle Maslyn, engineers worked throughout the night to determine what caused the feed bleed.
A written apology from Comcast and released today, stated that “Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act.”
While it is unknown how many subscribers were affected or exactly how long the clip played, Comcast reports that those watching its HD feed did so without the incidental pornographic footage. More than 80,000 households in the unincorporated Pima County, Marana and Oro Valley are served by Comcast.