would PSA slab it that way ?

tennesseebanker

As a ticket collector there are games that have become notorious for events that happened from the broadcast booth. Three games that come to mind are Monday Night Football games that are more well known for what happened on the air rather than on the field.........

1970 Giants vs Eagles -Howard Cosell drunk on air
1980 Dolphins vs Patriots-John Lennons death announced on air
1983 Cowboys vs Redskins-Cosells "little monkey" comment

Would PSA slab the tickets as listed above or would there be some kind of liability in doing so ?

bobbyw8469

The first and last might be bad. Lennon's death should be ok.

tennesseebanker

I wonder if the word "allegedly" were inserted into the first ?

coachnip13

Add to that list the Brent Musberger - Eminem interview.

Dboneesq

I don't think they would slab any of them that way. However, if they did, I would think #s 2 and 3 would be slabbed, as they could be proven. #1 is no so easy to prove, although the following article may say otherwise:

May 12, 1988|Associated Press

NEW YORK — Sportscaster Howard Cosell drank "before, during and after telecasts" and once threw up on Don Meredith's cowboy boots during "Monday Night Football" after too much vodka, according to a new book by a former ABC executive.

In "Up Close & Personal: The Inside Story of Network Television Sports," Jim Spence also calls Cosell "one of the unhappiest human beings on this planet."

Spence, who worked at ABC for 26 years, was senior vice president of ABC Sports from 1978 until 1986. He is now president of Sports Television International, a production and marketing company.

Spence devotes the first chapter to Cosell, whom he describes as an insecure, overbearing man who became impossible to work with late in his career.

Cosell, 70, could not be reached Wednesday. A woman answering the phone at his home said he was visiting his wife at a New York hospital, where she is recovering from surgery.

Spence said that during a Monday Night Football telecast from Philadelphia in 1970, Cosell "got so drunk he couldn't pronounce the name of the city he was in without slurring."

Cosell left the booth after throwing up on Meredith, one of his broadcasting partners.

Spence said Cosell "again got out of control" during ABC's telecast of the 1984 American League playoffs when he kept kept interrupting colleague Al Michaels.

The next day, Spence got a call from Michaels' agent, Barry Frank.

"Al had told him that Cosell was drinking heavily and was impossibly argumentative, and that Al could no longer tolerate it," Spence said.

tennesseebanker

That is why the allegedly word works wonders in this case.

Dboneesq

<< <i>That is why the allegedly word works wonders in this case. >>


It may, but even with that word added it could lead to possible problems for PSA. I'd think their legal advisors would suggest they do not add those words to the slab.