With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, it’s time to focus on the main business of the fall: school football television! All week, Grantland will be previewing the new TV season, one network at a time, and evaluating the first efforts of each incoming freshman. Today: NBC.

Not losing isn’t necessarily the same thing as winning. Despite all the chaos, change, and Chelsea marring what proved to be an inauspicious debut for entertainment chief Bob Greenblatt, NBC didn’t finish the 2011-12 television season in last place. Well, OK, it did — but that’s only if you count all of the viewers. If you pour yourself a healthy tumbler of Canadian Club and consider the situation only as an advertiser, then NBC actually bested ABC in the sexiest of relatively meaningless demographics, 18-to-49-year-olds. Screw you, ABC! Enjoy life in the basement! The Peacock flies again!

The New Normal, an NBC comedy about a gay couple and their surrogate mother, doesn't premiere until September 11. But, in a demonstration of resounding resolve, the show has already managed to get banned in Utah. Now this is the kind of go-getter attitude we can all find inspiration in!

Deadline explains that NBC affiliate KSL-TV won't air the show because of a perceived conflict with the ways of its owner — a little Utah powerhouse known as the Mormon Church. According to Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL's parent company Bonneville International: "For our brand, this program simply feels inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time." In particular, Simpson wasn't feeling the "rude and crude" dialogue, scenes that "may be too explicit," and characterizations that "might seem offensive."