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Casey appears on _"View, The" (1997)_ and the team follows the story of seven college football players who are suspended for refusing to play under the Confederate flag.
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Trivia
A subplot of this episode is the team recognizing the support staff who help run the show. Many of the names they read (including the costumers mentioned earlier in the episode) are real crew members.
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Goofs
The show within the show's web site is given as "www.csc/sportsnight.com" which is not a possible address. Possibly done on purpose to avoid registering and maintaining an actual site.
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Quotes
Dana Whitaker:
By the way, in the memos that are circulating we're spelling Chattanooga about fourteen different ways. Now, what do we know?
Jeremy Goodwin:
Two O's, three A's.
Dana Whitaker:
That's it?
Jeremy Goodwin:
No, there are other letters too. But surely that's not what you meant.
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Crazy Credits
The "Sports Night" logo in the end credits has a Santa Clause hat draped over the first "S".
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The View (1997)
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Having just reviewed a couple of bad TV shows, I had to remind myself sometimes I like TV. Rome, this show, and a handful of others make television into art, into what it has the potential to be but so seldom is. And this is my favorite episode of the show, in which black football players refuse to play under the confederate flag, and Casey (Krause) assumes his black boss will do a broadcast editorial on this issue--and is surprised and hurt and what he hears back. The episode explores racism, expectations, friendship, morality--it does a lot in a very few minutes.
I love when Sorkin twangs my heartstrings as he did in this episode. Boy, I cried at the end.