Border Hiring Too 'Controversial' For Super Bowl

The Border Patrol is looking to hire 3,000 more agents to help protect U.S. borders. What better way to get the word out than advertise to hundreds of thousands of people who get the official Super Bowl printed program? At least that's what Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff thought. But folks at the National Football League thought differently, the Washington Times reports today. They rejected a Border Patrol recruitment ad, saying it was too "controversial." The ad "was specific to Border Patrol, and it mentioned terrorism. We were not comfortable with that," said Greg Aiello, a spokesman for the NFL. UPDATE, 2:41 p.m.: Oops, I didn't read the article carefully enough. The ad was designed to run in the printed Super Bowl program, not during the broadcast, so it wouldn't have been seen by "millions and millions" of people. I've updated the item to correct the mistake.