Activist wants to sue NFL, says Super Bowl halftime show put souls in ‘danger of hellfire’
Looks like Shakira and J.Lo’s shaking has left one guy pretty rattled.
Dave Daubenmire, whose goes by the name Coach Dave on his Christian-themed podcast, “Pass The Salt,” wants to sue the Pepsi, the NFL, and maybe the local cable company over it.
In case you missed it, Super Bowl LIV’s halftime show Feb. 2 featured singers Jennifer Lopez and Shakira in a tribute to Latin music and dance. They shook, gyrated and shimmied in rather skimpy, bedazzled outfits. Heck, J.Lo arrived on a stripper pole, so …
Well, the performers received more than a few complaints on social media in the days that followed.
But Daubenmire wants to up the ante.
He claims he was a victim, forced to watch the debauchery. And he wants compensation.
“I think we ought to sue,” Daubenmire told his listeners. “Would that halftime show, would that have been rated PG? Were there any warnings that your 12-year-old son — whose hormones are just … starting to operate — was there any warning that what he was going to see might cause him to get sexually excited?”
“Could I go into a courtroom and say, ‘Viewing what you put on that screen put me in danger of hellfire’?” he said. “Could the court say, ‘That doesn’t apply here because the right to (produce) porn overrides your right to (not) watch it’? Yeah, well, you didn’t tell me I was gonna watch it. You just brought it into my living room. You didn’t tell me there were gonna be crotch shots. That’s discriminatory against the value I have in my house.
You can’t just do that. I wanna sue them for about $867 trillion.”
The NFL has not commented on Daubenmire’s idea.
In a video posted on Facebook, Daubenmire said he’s pretty serious about the lawsuit.
“I’m serious as a judge here. I’m looking for a lawyer out there, somebody who will join me in a class-action lawsuit,” he said.
“I tuned in to watch a football game — I didn’t tune it to watch porn show. Why are they allowed to pump that right into my home without my approval?
“I didn’t tune in to see J. Lo’s crotch.”
Chris Pastrick is a TribLive digital producer. An Allegheny County native, he began working for the Valley News Dispatch in 1993 and joined the Trib in 1997. He can be reached at cpastrick@triblive.com.
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