For my spouse, five and nine year old the setting was all set for Sunday to watch the football game with popcorn. We were to watch the New England Patriots against the Superbowl Champs the Colts. Both teams are undefeated for the season.

Wrong: First commercial, I am scrambling to stop the showing of a advertisement of an R rated film of about a killer. The first time was a big surprise, the second and third time just got me me to have to rethink what to have as the family event. It is not my intent to subject my children to watching over and over images of someone creating massive amounts of killing.

So instead of a relaxing family time I had to manage someones lack of judgement and inattentiveness to children for an event I thought was for families. This is not the first time major league football has been broiled in controversy of whether an action is family appropriate. If you take the track record of the commercialization of the football event I would advocate that it be given a rating of PG-13.

Family events are important to instilling values into each other as a family unit. Children learn from their parents. Violence is not a value I wish to instill to my children.

I want to instill the positive aspect of sports, such as working as a team, the use of strength, thinking and outwitting the opponent as positive. The constant message of conveying excitement to seeing “The Killer” was just way inappropriate. Which impression does the football wish to leave on a child? Violent actions are not. Youth violence is up. Who is to blame? What is the Cause? Which image does the football league want children and their families to remember?

I have already decided that the Football games are inappropriate for the five and nine year old due to the uncensored nature of the commercialization. Trust is an important condition a customer should be able to have from a business and the National Football League does not take that seriously enough.

I challenge the National Football League and its teams to make a difference among their fan base as well as their home states to support youth violence and domestic violence prevention programs.

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