The Really Super Bowl

A crucial final moment of last night's Super Bowl was interrupted for Comcast customers in Tucson, Arizona by a switchover to a sex scene on pay-per-wank channel Club Jenna. Apparently, it was an inside job. Heh, job.

Comcast believes the pornography that interrupted its feed of the Super Bowl Sunday night was the result of foul play, a company spokeswoman said Monday morning. “Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act,” spokeswoman Kelle Maslyn said in a statement emailed to the Star. “We are mortified by last evening’s Super Bowl interruption and we apologize to our customers. We are conducting a thorough investigation to determine how this happened.” It is still unclear how many viewers were affected by the clip, which lasted about 30 seconds, and featured full male nudity, Maslyn said.

Comcast is working on a plan to compensate customers, but nothing has been set in stone, Maslyn said. The pornography clip was from Club Jenna, an adult cable television channel. The Arizona Daily Star newsroom was flooded with calls from irate viewers who said that the porn cut into the game with less than three minutes left to play, just after Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored on a touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to put the team in the lead. Callers said that the clip showed a woman unzipping a man’s pants, followed by a graphic act between the two.

I can only imagine being at a Tuscon sports bar where five seconds after a scream of outrage, the room suddenly became rather silent....