was watching the hockey playoff game last night, and they aired a commercial that showed famous hockey playoff moments over the years interspersed with shots of the cheering crowds.

They had grainy 60's/70's crowd shots, and I started thinking, "Someone in the NHL ad department probably went through hundreds and hundreds of hours of footage looking for a black person to show in one of these old hockey crowd shots". Alas, one could not be found, and all the smiling faces in these old clips were white.

But as the clips got more and more modern, and a black person (player or otherwise) still hadn't been shown, I couldn't believe it. But of course, we get jerked back to reality at the end as they showed three successive clips of hockey crowds, each of them with a single black person featured prominently. Who knows how many man-hours the poor NHL ad intern had to put in to find this extremely rare footage? The only real surprise was that they didn't include a single clip of hockey's black superstar, PK Subban, in the commercial.

Why go through what must have been extraordinary effort to include footage of a few black people in this ad? It's not like a random black person seeing the ad is suddenly going to check out hockey, nor are the handful of black hockey fans out there likely to tune out hockey if they don't see a clip of another black hockey fan in the commercial. Could the league be wary of SJWs going after them for not featuring enough "diversity" in their ads, or does the FCC actually have a quota system in place for any ads looking to get broadcast nationally?