{"id":1462,"date":"2023-08-16T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzodakota.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:59:50","slug":"vintage-scoreboard-as-wall-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/vintage-scoreboard-as-wall-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage scoreboard as wall art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always find it interesting to see what people like to showcase as their background while doing Zoom interviews for news programs. There’s often a strategy involved to include some sort of art that makes a statement about the person being interviewed. I’ve seen all kinds of different things, but recently was the first time I had seen someone with a scoreboard hanging on their wall as wall art.<\/p>\n

I think the fact that it’s a vintage scoreboard does indeed help with the appeal – in this case, it’s a “Fair Play” scoreboard that my research seems to indicate might be from the 1960s or 1970s. In all the years I’ve been interested or involved with art, I don’t think I’ve seen a scoreboard as art before, but it’s kind of a fun idea, especially if it still works! (this one appears to be off)<\/p>\n

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A vintage Fair Play scoreboard installed as art in the background for this tv interview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note: I blurred out the person for the sake of privacy and retaining his anonymity – the point here is the scoreboard, not the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always find it interesting to see what people like to showcase as their background while doing Zoom interviews for news programs. There’s often a strategy involved to include some sort of art that makes a statement about the person being interviewed. I’ve seen all kinds of different things, but recently was the first time … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[281,761,784],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-interesting-products","tag-fair-play-scoreboard","tag-tv-interviews","tag-wall-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}