[Autonomous User]

NBC announced that they will honor Franco by showing a rerun of Heidi. Interrupting this weeks Pittsburg game with 2 min left in the came.

[Fair Paul]

Well done. The Jets got their revenge a month later.

[old school]

That’s kinda “inside baseball” don’tcha think?

[SamAdams76]

The infamous "Heidi" game occurred several years earlier, in a game between the NY Jets and the Oakland Raiders. That would be the last time that little girls settling in for a movie would be given preference over their increasingly football-obsessed daddies.

Never again would an NFL game get pre-empted for a children's movie. I remember as a child myself being upset that a showing of "Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" would be not shown on time on account of some football game running late.

The entire "Heidi" NFL episode makes for good reading. It marked the true beginning of NFL football obsession in America and heralded the end of families sitting down to a televised movie together. In not too many more years, games would be scheduled for prime time as well so that the sports obsessed daddies could get their kids in bed before even the kickoff.

Get those kids out of my living room, I have a game to watch!