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There's quite a hoopla brewing over the intro to this week's Monday Night Football, which featured characters from the ABC show "Desperate Housewives" and (gasp) a woman clad in a towel who shed the towel to reveal (double gasp) a bare back. Apparently, there were numerous complaints, including from the NFL, which is still smarting from the Janet Jackson debacle. I, for one, thought the spot was actually kind of funny, but maybe I'm just prurient like that. (If you missed it, you can see the clip on www.ifilm.com.) ABC is now tripping over itself to apologize for its judgment in airing a segment that isn't half as sexual as the show it was promoting. While I'm willing to accept that there's criticism from some parents who see Monday Night Football as a family event, I think it's somewhat hypocritical from the NFL. This is the same organization that dresses hundreds of women in tight, skimpy outfits and parades them on the field as eye candy, is it not? Maybe I'm just missing something. Even funnier, all the attention this has gotten has led to the promo being shown over and over on news networks and Internet sites, effectively quadrupling the audience. Man, what a wacky world we live in.