blooper in Cosell movie

[Bob Nelson <bobonradio@yahoo.com>]

On the 14th, TNT aired the original movie "Monday
Night Mayhem" (a behind-the-scenes look at Monday
Night Football, with John Turturro as Howard Cosell).
I taped it and watched it tonight with a couple of
friends.

OK, I know not everything in movies/TV is 100 per
cent accurate, and nobody's perfect. But I did spot
a blooper in the film. A scene taking place in 1969
showed an NBC exec talking to Curt Gowdy. The logo
behind the exec shows the two trapezoids forming the
letter "N" and a peacock superimposed on it. But NBC
didn't use that logo until years after that.

In the mid 70s, with NBC approaching its 50th
anniversary, they paid a couple million bucks for
a company to come up with a new logo for them. The
result was the two trapezoids (forming the "N"),
one red and one blue. Then someone at Nebraska Public
TV complained: that was the same logo THEY had used
for years!

There was some legal action; I think NBC had to pay
Nebraska Public TV as a result. Later, they "brought
back the peacock" by superimposing it on the "N"
and later they got rid of the "N" entirely.

But they _didn't_ have that logo in 1969! :)

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