{"id":22932,"date":"2013-11-17T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=22932"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:17:21","slug":"heidi-bowl-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/11\/17\/heidi-bowl-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Bowl Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulCubbyBryant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Cubby Bryant<\/a> reminded us that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/the-heidi-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today was the anniversary of the Heidi Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the\u00a0New York\u00a0Jets&#8211;and no one sees it, because they\u2019re watching the movie\u00a0<i>Heidi<\/i>instead. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, a made-for-TV version of the children\u2019s story about a young girl and her grandfather in the Alps. Viewers were outraged, and they complained so vociferously that network execs learned a lesson they\u2019ll never forget: &#8220;Whatever you do,&#8221; one said, &#8220;you better not leave an NFL football game.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/11\/17\/jets-crushed-by-bills-37-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jets get crushed by the Bills<\/a>, the thought of the network turning the game off sounds appealing. \u00a0So we want to let all the networks know that we are okay with that idea going-forward.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Heidi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22933\" alt=\"Heidi\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Heidi.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Heidi.jpg 625w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Heidi-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Heidi-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Paul Cubby Bryant reminded us that today was the anniversary of the Heidi Bowl. On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the\u00a0New York\u00a0Jets&#8211;and no one sees it, because they\u2019re watching the movie\u00a0Heidiinstead. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/heidi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-5XS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58874,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions\/58874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}