Tim Tebow

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The Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad has been approved despite various protests. A Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad doesn't sound like a cause for outrage - even if he isn't an NFL player yet. Despite that,
Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad Under Fire for Tebow Pro-Life Message the Heisman Trophy winner has immense popularity and star power that can reach an NFL audience. But before he tries to use that star power for an NFL career, he will use it to spread his faith and beliefs. As such, the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad may be the most talked about of the night, since it takes an explicit pro-life stance.

Days ago, word got out that the Florida quarterback had filmed his own Super Bowl ad with his mother. In it, Pam Tebow reportedly talks about how doctors wanted her to get an abortion after she got a disease in the Philippines. But since she didn't, Tim was born and was able to dominate college football.

The Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad was produced by Focus on the Family, one of the more unlikely Super Bowl advertisers imaginable. Though commercials for the big game are as big as the game itself, they are mostly about beer and talking animals, not politics. By combining the abortion debate with college football's biggest star, politics have entered the Super Bowl in a big way.

This is not all that surprising, given Tebow's passion for his faith. He wore Bible quotes on his eye black every game and has done missionary work in the Philippines. His devout nature, and public ways of showing it, has only added to his college legend. But it may be a different story with NFL audiences in the Super Bowl.

Left-wing and pro-choice groups are trying to get the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad cancelled, but CBS has already agreed to run it. David Moulton of the Naples News pointed out that CBS pulled a pro-gay rights Super Bowl commercial six years ago, yet they are letting this one go.

However, that ad didn't have Tebow's star power - and few recent commercials with athletes have had this type of political stance, period.