During a game, football players swear. A lot. Apparently, this was news to some people watching the New England Patriots-Green Bay Packers game late last month because the FCC actually received complaints over CBS showing Patriots QB Tom Brady swearing.
The Smoking Gun reports that several viewers complained to the FCC about the Nov. 30 broadcast, which focused on Brady’s frustrations with losing too frequently. The cameras showed Brady saying “f**k,” even though he could not be heard.
Still, Indianapolis parents wrote that their “6 year old children know how to read lips even if there is no sound.” A Pennsylvania grandparent wrote, “My 8 year old grandson was watching the game with me and even commented that he should not have said that.”
“They clearly knew he was saying it and so did my 10 year old son,” one person from Iowa wrote. “It was almost as if the announcers got away with it, because they didn’t actually say it. Very unprofessional.”
It turns out that Brady actually agrees with those who complained about the broadcast. He told Boston’s WEEI that it’s not his fault that networks like to show him swear.
“I wish I did have a better mouth out there at times, but there’s nothing that quite expresses the way I feel like that word,” Brady said in response to a Boston Globe editorial that called him out for his potty mouth. “It is, it is [a great word], especially in the heat of the moment. … Blame CBS and NBC for putting it on TV. Don’t blame me.”
The Patriots are 11-3 after their win against the Miami Dolphins Sunday and clinched their sixth straight AFC East championship. They play the Jets on Sunday.
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