NFL Sunday Ticket (commercials)

I've been watching golf on TNT for the last couple of days, and I'm sure I've seen these commercials on other channels as well.

There are two commercials that I've seen so far.

In one a bunch of people in Boston or somewhere, shoveling snow, have a new neighbot who's a Dolphins fan. So they're standing out in their yards, shoveling snow, and one of them sends a shovelful at the guy's front door.

In another, more egregious version, a group of young businessmen are in a country inn, and they ask for more tea from an old waitress, who proceeds to wring out her dishrag into their tea, before giving it to them. All because they follow the wrong sports team.

Now of course these are meant to be funny, but I don't think they are. They are catering to the lowest common denominator of people who actually are this obsessed by sports.

There was a case a couple years ago where some guy wearing a ballcap from the wrong football walked into a sports bar, and got beaten up because of it.

And how many teenagers who are going to work at restaurants for money when their parents demand they get a job, are going to remember that dishcloth-wringing-into the tea schtick and decide they're going to do that too, after all, it's funny and they did it on TV!

Just terrible.