Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Of course it does no good to complain about sports running overtime and
pre-empting other shows after what happened some 30 years ago when the
Super Bowl ran overtime and NBC went, as scheduled, to the movie "Heidi,"
prompting millions of irate football fans to call their stations because
the end of the Super Bowl had been cut off. (Football fans tend to be
somewhat less polite in their complaints than SF fans. Perhaps it has
something to do with the large quantities of beer consumed during the game.)
Minor sticking point, from web site:
http://www.nfl.com/news/mostmemorable10.html
No. 10:
The Heidi Game
Oakland Raiders 43, New
York Jets 32
Nov. 17, 1968
Not a super bowl.
Kevin Tarr
Too much information
*Something I've been saying to friends, because we have the technology to do
it now, is that they should delay the broadcast of any 'live' sporting event
for five minutes. That way they can edit out all the miscellaneous stuff.
I'm sure with practice, that is having the control technicians and
broadcasters go over a tape of a game and remove the not needed stuff, they
could take broadcast times back to 3 hours and still get in plenty of
commercials. Do we really need to see the pitcher stepping on the rubber,
looking to first, stepping off, stepping on, the batter steps out, catcher
runs and talks with pitcher, umpire comes out, catcher returns, pitcher
sets, throws to first, no result, back to the pitcher, looks in, checks
runner and on and on and on.
