Fox just showed a live shot of a Saints fan wearing a t-shirt that says “F*** da Eagles.” Heh.
First “West F***in’ Virginia” (warning: link contains profanity!), and now this. But that was on ESPN; this was on broadcast TV. That noise you hear is the Family Research Council’s fax machine going into overdrive.
Incidentally, the Saints lead 3-0 early. This after a touchdown-less 15-6 Colts win over the Ravens earlier today. We’ve completed almost five quarters of divisional-round playoff football, and nary a touchdown has been scored yet.
UPDATE: Michael David Smith at AOL Sports Blog is calling the t-shirt incident “Wardrobe Malfunction Part 2.”
UPDATE 2: More blog posts about Shirtgate here.
Deadspin already has video up.
I can’t get that one to play, but here’s a YouTube video, in slow motion. (Warning: profanity… obviously.)
Deployed and blogging has a downloadable WMV version. Better quality, with sound, non-slow-mo.
Looking at the video, you can see that it wasn’t actually a live shot… it was a replay! So Fox can’t even use “hey, it’s live TV, anything can happen” as an excuse… they actually chose, despite at least several seconds’ lead time, to show an instant replay of a female fan jumping up and down while wearing a vulgar shirt. Awesome. This controversy is going to be fu-u-n. :)
After the jump, photos of the shirt. Again, warning: profanity!
Here’s the embedded video, in slow-motion:
January 13th, 2007 at 8:56:50 pm
I’m glad someone else caught that!
January 13th, 2007 at 9:03:41 pm
Lots of people caught it, apparently. God bless the blogosphere.
I predict this will seriously become a controversy, which is so dumb.
January 13th, 2007 at 9:21:11 pm
I love it when she jumps up and down and the twins go flying around.
January 13th, 2007 at 9:36:37 pm
Please note, for accuracy’s sake, that “UPDATE 2″ is actually a whole bunch of updates combined. I decided to delete some extraneous information once it became irrelevant, and combine other stuff together, so things wouldn’t get unnecessarily confusing and long-winded.
January 13th, 2007 at 9:36:40 pm
Forget the shirt. Why is it okay to be showing crackwhores on TV?
January 13th, 2007 at 9:37:42 pm
Now, Casey, looks can be deceiving. I don’t think that’s actually Courtney Love.
January 13th, 2007 at 9:54:38 pm
Breaking news… reports out of Rochester indicate that Pericles the octopus has somehow adjusted his/her camouflage such that he/she appears to be wearing a shirt that says “F**k Giant Squid.” DEVELOPING…
January 13th, 2007 at 11:06:24 pm
On the blank DA Eagles T-shirt. My reply is Your place or mois?
January 13th, 2007 at 11:10:09 pm
http://thumbsnap.com/v/dXMbWSnr.jpg
January 14th, 2007 at 12:56:12 am
Damn.
We will have to wait to next year.
January 14th, 2007 at 1:36:14 am
well first off, who cares. I noticed it and thought to my self, hmm, why did the cameraman frame up that shot, that was stupid, he should know better than to frame a shot he knows can’t be used. But then again, can short people really read… will they really notice if the adults around them don’t make a big deal about it? Probably not, so who cares… Which is, I believe, back where I started.
January 14th, 2007 at 1:40:06 am
Anyway, this is a far superior t-shirt (Note, profanity, not safe for work etc. etc. Although very good for, say, a typography or other design related final)
January 14th, 2007 at 3:46:39 am
Heh.
January 14th, 2007 at 6:19:51 pm
I’m offended. Someone fine the shit out of Fox and the chick who wore the shirt.
Now maybe we can finally end this stupid nonsense. Shit happens, especially on live TV.