{"id":1813,"date":"2003-12-06T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/06\/ppv-halftime-sinks-to-depths-of-deprav"},"modified":"2003-12-06T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T16:05:01","slug":"ppv-halftime-sinks-to-depths-of-depravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/06\/ppv-halftime-sinks-to-depths-of-depravity\/","title":{"rendered":"PPV Halftime Sinks to Depths of Depravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1990'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/lbowl.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"271\" align=\"left\"><\/em>DETROIT<br \/>\n          &#8211; DaimlerChrysler AG&#8217;s sponsorship of a Super Bowl halftime football<br \/>\n          game between lingerie-clad women could draw criticism, say experts.<br \/>\n          But the Lingerie Bowl is a marketing risk the automaker, which has<br \/>\n          become known for its sexually-suggestive ads, says it&#8217;s willing to<br \/>\n          take. <\/p>\n<p>For 20 minutes during the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, 14 models dressed in lingerie<br \/>\nwill participate in a tackle football game. The program will be broadcast live<br \/>\non a pay-per-view channel for an estimated $20 to $30 viewing fee.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is horrendous,&quot; said John Antil, professor of marketing<br \/>\n        at the University of Delaware. &quot;It is blatantly chauvinistic. You<br \/>\n        have the potential of offending a significant amount of people and what<br \/>\n        is the message? I am going to<br \/>\n        think the car<br \/>\n      is sexy or it makes me look more macho. It&#8217;s a boneheaded move.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ap\/lingerie_bowl\">the<br \/>\n          AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8211; DaimlerChrysler AG&#8217;s sponsorship of a Super Bowl halftime football game between lingerie-clad women could draw criticism, say experts. But the Lingerie Bowl is a marketing risk the automaker, which has become known for its sexually-suggestive ads, says it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/06\/ppv-halftime-sinks-to-depths-of-depravity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}