THE HEIDI GAME, 36TH ANNIVERSARY
On November 17, 1968, NBC televised an American Football League game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets.
In a tense battle between two great quarterbacks, Joe Namath and Daryl Lamonica, the Jets took a 32-29 lead on a Jim Turner 26 yard field goal with 1:05 left to play.
But it was 7:00 p.m. on the east coast, time to start the movie "Heidi" on NBC. During a commercial break an NBC executive made a decided to cut from the Oakland Coliseum to the Swiss Alps. An innocent little girl, Jennifer Edwards, instantly became the most hated person in America. Football fans flooded the telephone lines to NBC with cries of protest.
The Raiders scored 2 touchdowns in that final 1:05 minutes to win the game 43-32.
Now THAT's a football controversy.
1 Comments:
I was three when that happened, but NBC continued to show that movie evry freakin year during my childhood, and everytime it came on you could hear the groaning nationwide.
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