[lepton]

time to interrupt game for showing of Heidi.. and in half hour announce that Green Bay wins by 3 points.

do any of you remember that ? (or are OLD enough to remember that ) fiasco?

Not directly, but I've heard about it again and again over the years. :)

[DollyCali]

trying to find the Heidi note.. & came across this..

fun... (heidi is sort of "honorable mention" at bottom

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/readers/shockingNFL.html

[DollyCali]

November 17~1968

A made-for-TV production of Heidi interrupts a football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets on NBC. The Jets are comfortably ahead with less than a minute to play, so the network decides to cut away for the movie. But the Raiders score twice in the final minute for a breathtaking win. Thousands of fans Flood NBC and local stations with irate phone calls. The networks get the message: football games will run intact, no matter how long they take