Here’s an old “NFL Today” halftime segment w/Brent Musburger and Irv Cross from 1983. This is from CBS, to be sure, but I’d like for you to look around the 37-sec. mark, because there’s something that I’ve been wanting to hang up in my room. Why, you might ask, would I like to hang that up in my room? A couple of reasons:
–It has NBC’s Proud N on it (a painting of it of which I painted about seven years earlier); I still believe that this was the absolute best of NBC’s logos (outside of the similar, but quite different, early peacock). The peacock here is all red with a white body, though.
–It has “NBC Sports” in ITC Serif Gothic; such, to me, looked entirely more professional then (and still does to this day) than what NBC has now.
That’s just one thing to look for, however. Others:
–It’s only Brent and Irv who were there in Studio 43 of the CBS Broadcast Center in NYC; nowadays, that desk (not in that design, of course) is packed to the max, and that isn’t good (it’s the same way w/FOX, which I have strongly disliked, and still do to this day).
–Brent and Irv wore CBS Sports blazer jackets, and they looked then like sports studio commentators should look now. Nowadays, at least one of the commentators on both CBS and FOX wears cufflinks, and the CBS blazer jackets are nowhere to be found (outside of game announcers, who, if I’m not mistaken, still wear a modified version).
In short, this piece from 1983 illustrates, in all the facets I mentioned, why I have more of a yen for what it was like then as compared to now.