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If you're planning to watch this week's episode of The Sopranos but haven't seen it yet, you might want to skip this post.On tonight's Sopranos, Tony Soprano bet on a football game. He watched the game on television, and it was portrayed as an actual NFL game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Buffalo Bills.
At one point the announcer even referred to "Losman," as in J.P. Losman, the Bills' starting quarterback. But if you looked closely you probably noticed that it wasn't actually an NFL game. The reason is that the NFL strictly guards the use of images from its games. Before any television show or movie can show footage from an NFL game, the league has to approve the script. And given that Tony Soprano was illegally gambling on this game and watching it surrounded by topless women, you can bet that the NFL would not have approved this script.
The NFL previously turned down the producers of Brokeback Mountain when they asked for the rights to show a brief snippet of an NFL game. Unless the NFL approves of the content of a script, the NFL doesn't allow its games to be shown. And that's why when you watched The Sopranos, Tony was watching a fake NFL game.
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