And I saw a Montreal Alouettes poster on a wall in an episode of 30 Rock, and laughed after hearing that it was signed by Marc Trestman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL7kDpJF3_Y
And did anyone shout “put Glenn in!” after seeing that?
I got a big kick out of the The League, an American comedy about fantasy football, when one of the characters who doesnt know anything about the NFL tries to draft Joffrey Reynolds, from the Calgary Stampeders`.
The reality is the modern family is not pro-creating sufficiently to sustain our modern society. There will be huge socio-economic issues here soon and in Europe before that. National debt is the tip of the iceberg.
However, it is cool to see the American entertainment industry throwing a bone to our league. For whatever its worth.
Modern family is on City TV a Rogers station.
Saying that both CTV and City TV have nothing to do with the actual show they are just paying for the rights to air them.
Is it possible that this is a tailored product placement, where each broadcaster has the ability to place logos or, in this case, a TV show, in specific locations on-screen, similar to a green-screen projection? Sort of a higher-tech version of those billboard ads you see on NFL game broadcasts. Anybody watch these shows on a direct US feed?
No. The image was on for about two seconds, it was barely noticeable on the screen, only CFL fans would even realize it was a CFL game and Rogers (owner of the Cdn rights-holder Citytv) does not have any reason to embed a CFL screen image into MF.
Well in the case of Brokeback Mountain, the '77 Grey Cup was mentioned in the end credits. I believe they paid for the rights, they just didn’t pay through the nose…
There are quite a number of Canadians working in the film and tv industry south of the border, maybe they are just having some fun and sneaking these little snippets in trying to catch our attention!