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Why the F-Bomb Made It to the Air

By: Variety
Published: Mon, February 04, 2013, 1:40 PM
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A note about the "fleeting expletive" that came through at last night's broadcast of the Super Bowl.

Joe Flacco uttered it at a time when CBS was no doing a five-second delay of its broadcast signal. The network does delay the pre-, post- and halftime show, but not of the game itself. Flacco's expression of jubilation, as players swarmed the field following the Ravens victory, came when the network was still providing live coverage and had yet to go to its post-game show.


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Posted: Mon, February 04, 2013, 1:02 PM

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