This week the AV Club had a review of the graphics packages for the top primetime show on network television – Sunday Night Football. Although most all of the graphics are very sharp and well-made, they found one very peculiar easter egg.
In the above picture profiling Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, there’s some very small fine print beneath his name. It’s one of those things that goes completely unnoticed over the course of a three hour NFL game. That script isn’t his stats or career achievements though, it’s the beginning paragraph to the Wikipedia entry for the NFL itself!
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. It is composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The highest professional level of the sport in the world…
Zooming in closer, here it is on screen in incredibly blurry form, but you can definitely make out the intro:
That’s some kind of subliminal advertising, isn’t it? At least it’s better than Fox making up headlines about Jay Cutler. I just would have appreciated it more if it was an easter egg for something totally random, like the Wikipedia entry for Community.
[AV Club]
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