{"id":361,"date":"2011-02-07T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/rejected-religious-ad-runs-during-super-bowl.html"},"modified":"2011-02-07T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:06:00","slug":"rejected-religious-ad-runs-during-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/rejected-religious-ad-runs-during-super-bowl.html","title":{"rendered":"Did You Spot the &#8216;Rejected&#8217; John 3:16 Ad During the Super Bowl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/02\/super-bowl-ads-green-bay-god-bible\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">USA Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog&nbsp;<\/a>and The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20110207\/john-316-ad-airs-unexpectedly-during-super-bowl\/\">Christian Post <\/a>report that this Super Bowl ad reportedly rejected by Fox execs due to its religious content ran during yesterday&#8217;s game after all &#8212; at least, it did in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nRCZkGshQGc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/02\/god-so-loved-the-super-bowl\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+getreligion\/DmXm+(GetReligion)\">GetReligion also has a post up about Super Bowl commercials<\/a>, including a roundup of links to stories about the (not?) rejected John 3:16 ad..<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t catch it, but then again, I didn&#8217;t catch<a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/07\/christina-aguilera-does-know-the-words-to-the-national-anthem\/\"> Christina Aguilera&#8217;s &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; fumble, <\/a>either. (That&#8217;s what I get for singing along to the national anthem!) But maybe it didn&#8217;t run in the Seattle market? <\/p>\n<p>Updated to add: No word yet on whether<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/catholic-bishops-place-bets-on-steelers-packers-super-bowl\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\"> Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh has paid up to Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken, with a personal donation to Catholic Charities Green Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? 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GetReligion also has a post up about Super Bowl commercials, including a roundup of links to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did You Spot the &#039;Rejected&#039; John 3:16 Ad During the Super Bowl? - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/rejected-religious-ad-runs-during-super-bowl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did You Spot the &#039;Rejected&#039; John 3:16 Ad During the Super Bowl? - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"USA Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog&nbsp;and The Christian Post report that this Super Bowl ad reportedly rejected by Fox execs due to its religious content ran during yesterday&#8217;s game after all &#8212; at least, it did in Washington, DC. 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