#Jets game live play by play professional#

Two weeks later, they defeated the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL) in Super Bowl III. The Jets and Raiders met again on December 29 in New York in the AFL Championship Game, with the Jets winning 27–23. NBC's president Julian Goodman formally apologized for the incident. Response to the pre-emption by viewers and other critics was negative the family members of several Jets players were unaware of the game's actual conclusion, while NBC received further criticism for its poor timing in displaying the final score of the game during the Heidi movie. Heidi began as scheduled, preempting the final moments of the game and the two Oakland touchdowns in the eastern half of the country, to the outrage of viewers. approached, NBC's switchboards were jammed by viewers phoning to inquire about the night's schedule, preventing the planned change from being communicated.

However, communicating this revised plan to the technicians running NBC's master control proved impossible – as 7 p.m. EST, but then decided to allow the game to air to its conclusion. NBC executives had originally ordered that Heidi begin at 7:00 p.m.

A high-scoring contest, together with a number of injuries and penalties for the two bitter AFL rivals, caused the game to run longer than usual.

#Jets game live play by play professional#

In the late 1960s, few professional football games took longer than two and a half hours to play, and the three-hour time slot allotted to the Jets and Raiders was thought to be adequate. However, a decision by the game's television broadcaster NBC to break away from its coverage on the East Coast to broadcast the television film Heidi caused many viewers to miss the Raiders' comeback. 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. The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl is the name given to a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets. Jets: Weeb Ewbank (head coach), Winston Hill, Don Maynard, Joe Namath Raiders: Al Davis (owner/general manager), Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Jim Otto, Art Shell, Gene Upshaw

Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California