My own personal 'Heidi'

As an east coaster who has to be at work at 7am, the late starts of both NBA and NHL finals games sucks. I'll give you 3 guesses as to who turned off the TV and went to bed after Wade's 3 pointer made it a 15 point game. You can add your own 'I thought it was over' moment......

yep, we on the East coast get plenty of "Heidi" moments, frankly I have too many to mention.

PS: how old do you have to be to know what we are talking about?

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PS: how old do you have to be to know what we are talking about?

Beats me. But I'm pretty sure the term "The Heidi game" applies to football :P

I live in the Dallas area and I turned it off also. No excuses.

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PS: how old do you have to be to know what we are talking about?

Not sure, but even a non-sports fan like me, who was not a witness to the Heidi incident, knows the basics of what it means.

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PS: how old do you have to be to know what we are talking about?

For me, that was the football season between finishing college and being drafted. Not by the NFL. ;-)

I wasn't even watching the game, but I did see the final minute when David Brinkley introduced the replay the next night. I think I saw it several more times. I can't remember distinctly, because I had no interest in either team. I just thought it was funny.

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PS: how old do you have to be to know what we are talking about?

The game was in 1968, nearly 43 years ago. So add a dozen or so years onto that, such that you'd actually remember and/or care.

As a young Jets fan (8 years old) then, it became big news immediately.

I guess it is one of the things about living in Vegas, much easier to be a sports fan on West Coast time, eh?

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You can add your own 'I thought it was over' moment......

I was at the 96 Masters on Sunday. We liked to station ourselves at hole #5. We had seen everybody and the final group played thru. Greg Norman still held onto a 5 or 6 shot lead. The crowds following the final group were enormous and we knew from experience that the rest of the day we would not be able to see anything so we decided to leave. We were almost home and turned to a sports station and found out Norman shot 78 and Nick Faldo shot around 68 to win!!!!

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Not sure, but even a non-sports fan like me, who was not a witness to the Heidi incident, knows the basics of what it means.

I was watching and thought it was odd, but I didn't learn to think it was a big deal till the press told me to.

One of the things I clearly remember is noting myself before this happened that the network had big, big plans for this "Heidi" production, wanting it to become a yearly event and some big awaited/anticipated thing like "The Wizard of Oz". They had more control in those days, if they had something the only way you could see it was to wait for it. Nobody had a VCR!

The fiasco over this totally killed it all, you never saw anymore about it IIRC.

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One of the things I clearly remember is noting myself before this happened that the network had big, big plans for this "Heidi" production,

In 1968, football was a far different thing than it is today. It was not the number one sport yet, but it was on its way.

While my brother and I were Jets fans, my dad was/is a big Raiders fan. First time I recall he cussed in front of us. GD NBC as I recall.
Tangent but a pro po: In the 70's we went to several Hartford Knights games and saw Half-Back "Marvelous" Marv Hubbard (HOF) play in the Atlantic Coast Football League.

N&B

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As an east coaster who has to be at work at 7am, the late starts of both NBA and NHL finals games sucks. I'll give you 3 guesses as to who turned off the TV and went to bed after Wade's 3 pointer made it a 15 point game. You can add your own 'I thought it was over' moment......

I had to resort to Wikipedia to figure out what all this meant.
Apparently a TV network switched from a football game to the start of the previously scheduled network movie which was a remake of some children's story I never understood about a girl named Heidi. It seems that in those final seconds there was not only a spectacular play but one which radically altered the score in a game which the viewers had been led to believe was a foregone conclusion.
It seems that this 1968 incident became dubbed the Heidi incident rather than being known by the names of the football teams involved in the telecast.
So since I doubt this 1968 incident is being resurrected on a whim, it must mean that this "Wade's 3 pointer made it a 15 point game" refers to some recent incident in a sport of some sort. If we drop the "N" as meaning "National" and assume that the "A" is for Association and "L" is for League, its reasonable to assume that "H" stands for Hockey and "B" for either Baseball or Basketball. Given the fact that I've not seen any baseball games interrupting my favorite commercials recently, the "B" probably stands for Basketball.

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It seems that this 1968 incident became dubbed the Heidi incident

No, its the 'Heidi Game'.. You had to be there to appreciate it.

I almost turned off the game last night when dallas went down by 9 in the 4th quarter..... but propped my lids open with toothpicks and made it to the end...

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I guess it is one of the things about living in Vegas, much easier to be a sports fan on West Coast time, eh?

Actually no. Monday night football starts before most can get home, regular season Sunday games are on at breakfast time. Tape delays of "live" events are common (e.g., Saturday Night Live, has never been shown "live", The Time's Square New Year's Eve is a joke). The left coast always seems to get the short end.

It's a nice change to have games in West Coast primetime... if you don't like it, spend the money on a DVR, and get up early the next day. We've already spent years here not listening to the radio on the drive home just to keep the outcome of that night's game from getting spoiled.