the emblem! there is a super-sized controversy brewing over two commercials scheduled to run during fox s broadcast of the big game on sunday. the adds are part of the campaign to promote christianity. some people are not really happy about it. the chief religion correspondent lauren green has that. how do you do all of this stuff? sketchers, baby, shoes made from all walks of life. get your feet off the desk. this year sewell bowl adds super bowl ads feature attention-laden spots as advertisers try to entice the largest audience share of the year. this year a rare religious offering. we believe it could change the world by turning the other cheek. reporter: no celebrities, just modern-day scenes of despair, anger and peril. the tag line reveals it s about jesus christ. they question his ideology. reporter: he gets us ads are part of a three-year nearly $3 billion campaign from billboards to tv spots to bring
audience we have in america. this isa also an amazing ad budget they can do this in addition to their other spending. i think it s a good strategy to not lead with the heavy theology. i think bringing the message at the end, i think as you mentioned, probably with younger people is the way to get the message across. trace: it s kind of been open season for a long of people because the christianity a lot of christians believe is open game. you can criticize and do what you want to. no pushback. you criticize other religiouses and watch out. general motors and netflix using will ferrell for this. watch. general motors is going electric and netflix is joining in by include more ev s in their movies and show. it s the least they can do. so if you re going to get swarmed by an army of the dead, why not get swarmed in an ev or if you re being voluntarily kidnapped, why not be kidnapped in an ev. trace: speak of woke, netflix and general motors are like, oh, everything on netflix
jesus message to the masses. the ads have been airing since last march but the group will kick off the biggest ad at the super bowl. he gets us is for open skeptics. reporter: 110 million viewers are expected to tune into the big game, the highest since 2015. two he gets us eds will air, one ads will air, one in each segment of the game costing $90 million. it s funded by 50 christian individuals and companies including hobby lobby. our focus during the super bowl is presenting the uniting, healing, confounding love of jesus as something that we think will set us on a better path as a country. reporter: the the ads have had mixed reactions on social media. some criticize what they call corporate propaganda of the bible to further an agenda. trace? trace: lauren, thank you. more now on the pushback against
are and maybe that s the wrong way to think things. you were a philly guy for a while and you were down there covering sports. that s where i grew up. we have a big game on sunday. i need a prediction. i don t need a bias production from a philly person. give it to me straight. well, you are not getting a prediction. i am holding off until the last minute of my own show, you get your ratings and you are doing a great job. i got to do the same. you can expect the thrill and the thriller of philadelphia is the most complete team in the national football league this year. a lot of people having them the favorites, jalen hurts, the top two candidates. the other side is the champion and in his first five years in the national football league, he s been in the afc championship game every year and this is his third super bowl. his name is patrick mahomes. he s the real deal. this past season, he lost one of the best receivers in football
then we went with barstool dave portnoy. he owns a bar. he invited us down to give a slice of the younger generation how they celebrate super bowl week. believe it or not it revolves around beer. steve: knowing dave portnoy i hope you went out and tasted pizza for him that s what he is famous for. brian: i know. steve: we will see the nfl honors extensively here in a few minutes here in the east we have some news. ainsley: gearing up for the big game on sunday going to be on fox sunday night. turn from the big game to the latest o. chinese spy flighted. fbi releasing new images as the agents are analyzing the aircraft debris retrieved off the coast of south carolina. steve: still searching for the electronic pay load to figure out what that thing did as president biden argues the flight was not a major breach. alexandria hoff joins us now from washington, d.c. well, you know what?