Heidi game and late running football games

bradhig22 · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

NBC did the right thing in 1968 shutting that game off at 7:00 . It
was five years before my time but I don't like games running late
causing this or that show to be delayed. How many series were killed
by late running games. Fox's The Big Deal , Earth2 ,Space Above and
Beyond. After that incident in 1968 the NFL should have changed its
policies to get games done on time not networks change to kept running
late games. Somebody ran out of bounds stop the clock, Two minute
warning why? , incomplete pass, penilty , how many stupid reasons
does the clock get stopped for in a games.

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me · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

bradhig22@yahoo.com wrote:

>Two minute warning why?

Definitely my biggest pet peeve. Just an excuse for more commercials of
which there are more than enough throughout the game.

Mpoconnor7 · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 129

If Fox were smart and wanted a stronger lead in to their Sunday Night
programming, they should run their football broadcast to 8PM, and when the
games end at 7:15 or 7:30 they can have Terry and Howie and JB doing an
extensive post game show a la ESPN that would run to 8. That way, if a game
runs over it doesn't affect the rest of the evening's programming but instead
cuts into Fox's postgame show.
It wouldn't work at CBS because it would mean moving 60 Minutes.

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

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santolina · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 26

wrote in message@4ax.com...
> NBC did the right thing in 1968 shutting that game off at 7:00 .

Psssst.....in three quarters of the country the late games end before 7
PM.....pass it on......

user · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

bradhig22@yahoo.com wrote in message news:...
> NBC did the right thing in 1968 shutting that game off at 7:00 . It
> was five years before my time but I don't like games running late
> causing this or that show to be delayed. How many series were killed
> by late running games. Fox's The Big Deal , Earth2 ,Space Above and
> Beyond. After that incident in 1968 the NFL should have changed its
> policies to get games done on time not networks change to kept running
> late games. Somebody ran out of bounds stop the clock, Two minute
> warning why? , incomplete pass, penilty , how many stupid reasons
> does the clock get stopped for in a games.

I disagree. Let the game finish, then run the show.

Gary Rosen · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 71

wrote in message@4ax.com...
> NBC did the right thing in 1968 shutting that game off at 7:00 . It
> was five years before my time but I don't like games running late
> causing this or that show to be delayed. How many series were killed
> by late running games. Fox's The Big Deal , Earth2 ,Space Above and
> Beyond. After that incident in 1968 the NFL should have changed its
> policies to get games done on time not networks change to kept running
> late games. Somebody ran out of bounds stop the clock, Two minute
> warning why? , incomplete pass, penilty , how many stupid reasons
> does the clock get stopped for in a games.

How about a split screen, with effects? We could see Ray Lewis level
Heidi's grandmother with a forearm.

- Gary Rosen

Robert Goodman · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 35

wrote in message $h2j$0@pita.alt.net...
> bradhig22@yahoo.com wrote:

> >Two minute warning why?

> Definitely my biggest pet peeve. Just an excuse for more commercials
of
> which there are more than enough throughout the game.

Its original purpose was served when no official time was visible and
the referee just used a watch. (NCAA & Fed still provide a 4-min.
warning when no official time is visible. Canadian football had a
1-min. flag raised on the fly, without stopping the game, like the audio
"2 minutes" anmt in NBA.) NFL's excuse for stopping play is long gone.
(The American Football League similarly kept it after adopting official
scoreboard time, which was adopted by NFL at the merger.)

Robert

Stan-Fan · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 44

I agree that the 2-minute warning rule is just an excuse to zip in
another commercial - as is the first television timeout for tv the NBA
uses. If nobody has called a time out the NBA refs call an official tv
one if the game is broadcast. Than again - the difference doesn't matter
much, as the NBA plays 48-minutes, the NFL 60-minutes. They can afford
to stick some extra commercials in there.

The Heidi game is famous for the amazing 2-touchdown comeback after the
game had been taken off the national feed for the Heidi story. Thousands
called in, and were amazed at the action that happened in the last
minutes, think it was 2-long touchdowns and a Jet win, don't remember
the score - Raiders - Jets if I remember correctly - Namath at QB. Led
to a policy change - all games played and televised to conclusion, and
no switching from one game to the other - unless a team was 20-points
down (not sure how late in the game that has to be).

Also agree that the post game show's would be a good idea to the next
1/2 hour before prime time, but you don't really run into a Heidi
difficulty now - thing is much more organized from the truck feed. Heidi
was a New York City network call - think by Don Olmayer. Now the truck
editor outside the stadium has control, not the network in New York -
and they can't overide him, except for a national news or weather
emergency.

Wouldn't have affected CBS much anyways, 60-minutes has always enjoyed a
good bump into its program, top rated for years, from the NFL - NFC.
Most viewers of that show wait for regularly.