Internet webhost GoDaddy.com, known for its racy Super Bowl commercials, will have at least one television spot during the big game. But one of its ads you will not see because it has already been rejected by CBS. That spot features "an effeminate former football star named Lola" who pursues his dream to design lingerie.
"It’s the first time for me I’ve been baffled," said Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons. "Usually we may get an ad rejected and we’ll understand. We may not agree, but we understand."
The network is still debating if it will run a spot submitted by gay dating site Mancrunch. CBS has already agreed to run an anti-choice "issues ad" sponsored by anti-gay Focus on the Family. The ad will feature former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. "Whatever Lola Wants"...unless it's have a choice in life or appear on CBS.
Watch the rejected GoDaddy spot AFTER THE JUMP ...
It doesn't offend me it's just tacky
Posted by: Greg G | 29 January 2010 at 15:12
another flaming black gay man swishing across the screen. yesm very original and creative. NOT!
mabe thats why it was rejected!
Posted by: Findley | 29 January 2010 at 15:14
YUCK
Posted by: Dameion | 29 January 2010 at 15:21
But Findley, if it were about the ad having to be ORIGINAL and CREATIVE, many of those stupid ads would be rejected!
This is about the NFL not wanting this NAME/IMAGE anywhere near ANYTHING perceived to be gay!
Period.
Yes, it was corny and derivative and tacky, but it was GODADDY.COM and THEY WERE SPENDING THE SUPERBOWL DUCKETS. They will take an anti-abortion ad and take that kind of side/stance, saying it has nothing to do with money but run from this ad? It's all a crock.
Thank God Bob Sanders and Darren Sharper are playing because it it weren't for the game AND the eye candy, I'd not be watching. I actually turn the channel on commercials during the SuperBowl because I get sick of the silly and sometimes just outright stupid spots that get on the air!
Posted by: TheRevKev | 29 January 2010 at 15:27
whatever...so stupid..glad it got rejected. who cares.
Posted by: Byron Monte | 29 January 2010 at 15:28
I think the folks at CBS may have been afraid of offending two groups.
Well, if it was just for us gays I'd like it. Some of the imagery was hilarious...if it were just a select viewing audience--like at a Gay & Lesbian Film Festival...or maybe just a Queen Film Festival. (i'm still laughing--an ex-pro football player turned flaming queen. I bet there are a few)
...but I know some big queens that will fight trade...fight two or three rough trade at one time.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 29 January 2010 at 15:32
They didn't like it because it cuts too close to home:-) The ad is what it is. If the guy wasn't an ex-football player they would would have taken the coins and put this Miss Thing on the boobtube, without nary a word.
Posted by: Diva1961 | 29 January 2010 at 16:18
hypocracy still at its finest!
Posted by: CC | 29 January 2010 at 17:03
There's no way CBS could put this on with all the controversy they've been having lately and they knew it. GoDaddy.com got all the attention for free without spending the millions for a Superbowl ad. Everything they wanted.
Posted by: mjolnir202 | 29 January 2010 at 17:27
The execs finally made a smart move and killed this one before any bitter protests erupted. This would have been a disaster. Though, the blood-sucking press would have licked it up for all it's worth. In the end, us black men would have been the ones primarily hurt by it all. Glad this isn't happening.
I love this site. I also read loldarian.com. Is he stealing material from here, or is it just a coincidence that everytime I read something on here I can check his page 5 minutes later and find the same story? Oh well, it doesn't matter. I'm just glad to get the news.
Posted by: Mr. John Thomas | 29 January 2010 at 18:27
The commercial was a spoof.
No need for you "politically correct" liberal gays to cry and run to the PC police everytime someone makes a joke.It wasn't homophobic. I suppose the next thing you're going to say is that it was racist? The star was a black man!
Posted by: GBM and GOP | 30 January 2010 at 06:28
GBM and GOP please tell me I'm seeing things or you had a typo or maybe you are joking.
Posted by: CAJIVA | 30 January 2010 at 14:40
The punchline is that a football player would dare to be feminine. Don't act like rooms full of men aren't going to laugh at this commercial becuase they view being effeminate as wrong, disgusting, etc.
It is homophobic. Is it the most violent worse homophobia ever seen on tv, no.
Posted by: QueerToday | 31 January 2010 at 11:09
They probably rejected this ad because of how offensive it was on so many levels.
Posted by: ThatGuy | 02 February 2010 at 01:11