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The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl was a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets.The contest, held on November 17, 1968, was notable for its exciting finish, in which Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43–32.
Her best known role was the NBC made-for-television movie Heidi (which interrupted the conclusion of the New York Jets vs. Oakland Raiders game now called The Heidi Bowl), which aired on November 17, 1968. Prior to the Jets-Raiders Sunday Night Football game on November 12, 2023, Edwards appeared in the introduction recalling the incident.
1967 NFL Championship Game. The coldest NFL game ever played, with a wind chill of −36 °F (−38 °C). [11] Heidi Game: November 17, 1968 New York Jets: 32–43 Oakland Raiders: Broadcaster NBC's choice broke coverage in the East Coast to broadcast the television film Heidi, causing many viewers to miss the Raiders' two-touchdown comeback ...
Heidi is an American made-for-TV film version of the 1880 novel of the same name by Johanna Spyri which debuted on November 17, 1968, on NBC.It starred actress Jennifer Edwards, stepdaughter of Julie Andrews and daughter of Blake Edwards, in the title role, alongside Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, and Michael Redgrave.
NBC cut to a commercial, and then everywhere but the West Coast showed the movie Heidi, a show which NBC had promoted extensively for the sweeps period. Outraged fans bombarded NBC headquarters in New York with phone calls demanding the game be restored; so many phone calls were made that they eventually knocked out the NBC switchboard.
Heidi (/ ˈ h aɪ d i /; German:) is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning [1] (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned [2] (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). [3]
The 1968 AFL Championship Game was the ninth annual title game of the American Football League, played on December 29, 1968, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York City, New York. In a rematch of the notorious Heidi Game played earlier in the season, the New York Jets (11–3) of the Eastern Division hosted the defending champion Oakland Raiders ...
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