Heidi Game

You know, I wasn't sure what context you were going to end up putting the subject of the NFL, which you brought up in.

as far as if it was broader than the NFL or as far as American history or what, but what you triggered in me was when it comes down to something that I have considered the most significant as far as the NFL and the media, I grew up in Oakland and when I was a kid, and I think it was 1969, I attended the occasional Raider game and I happened to attend the Heidi Bowl.

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Have you heard of

But, yeah, it was, you know, the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders.

And I pictured all the football fans back in New York sitting there.

And what I – they call it the Heidi Bowl because I understand that at the end of the three hours, they said, well, it looks like this game's – you know, the outcome's obvious.

And all of a sudden, all these football fans are watching Heidi.

Sorry I never got to buy you that beer I promised when you moved to Vegas.

I've been a Raiders fan since nineteen sixty-nine and the Heidi Bowl.

I agree with you that we shouldn't put Mendoza in yet.

It's not Captain Kirk's fault that we lost those games.

No.

I made the comment in our radio broadcast that, uh, uh, this is, th- there's not gonna be another Heidi game.

Yeah.

I mean, but just because, I mean, you think that-

They flood the phone lines.

Did Oakland come back? You know, what happened with this game? Who won this bruiser? Now, the reality is, within 45 seconds of the TV station shifting its coverage over to Heidi, forever naming this game the Heidi game, Oakland would come back with two touchdowns and win the game.

NBC turned off the uncompleted game in favor of a kiddie special called Heidi.

And the Oakland Coliseum became an enormous secret love-in called the Heidi Bowl.

There you go.

Ever since we saw the Heidi game.

She's an old hag now.

The Raiders are still here.

And, and I got a little bit more coming up, more of a heavy one part of the subject.

But, like, I, I'll go through 'em real quick, right? You got, this is not necessarily conspiracy, but this is part of our lore, right? You got the Heidi Bowl, 1968.

The Raiders are down, I think it's by 14.

Yeah, it's 43 to 32.

Let's change the station." So what-

The station stopped broadcasting

... yes, stopped broadcasting to play Heidi.

The movie Heidi, right? Like, they're like, this thing, and this is it, and this is another thing that we've changed.