2010-01-04T16:10:07-05:00 The List: Five most memorable broadcasting snafus 2008-10-20T13:30:37-04:00 38 2008-10-20T13:30:37-04:00 1 4 10 2008-10-22T13:54:07-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/546/430/thumb/Guiuseppe.jpg 116 CA Giuseppe Franco Beverly Hills 546890 41 The cablecam was completely stolen from the XFL, brother!!! Vincent Kennedy McMahon is a god! 3120076 2008-10-21T15:20:02-04:00 39 IL steelersfan32 Danville 589084 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 37 The Heidi Game was the same season as Super Bowl 3. What was the result of that game again? AFL dominates NFL. 3110895 2008-10-21T21:28:01-04:00 1595 AK Klee Irwin Nome 582256 The Heidi Game was the same season as Super Bowl 3. What was the result of that game again? AFL dominates NFL. 40 uuuhh, that was an UPSET nitcakes. See, when they use the term biggest UPSET in football history, that means that one inferior team happened to beat a much superior heavily favored team. Otherwise, if they were &quot;clearly superior&quot;, it wouldn't then be called or known as an UPSET. Your comment is aburd. First of all, the Heidi game incident had nothing to do with whether the AFL had passed the NFL in popularity and talent. Huh? A bunch of angry New Yorkers and Raider fans called in about the game being pre-empted. That doesn't prove the AFL was more popular than the NFL or that they had better players. That is the most illogical statement I have ever heard uttered by someone who doesn't wet their pants. Also, stretching the point to who was a better league is silly, given that the evidence we had at that time was that the AFL got thier **** kicked twice in the 2 previous Super Bowls, which weren't even close. Just because the Jets happened to then pull the UPSET of the century that year just proves one thing---the Colts had a bad day. If they played 10 times, the Colts win 7 of 10. Nice try though. Your complete lack of logic is amusing. 3114006 2008-10-21T17:25:54-04:00 479 NC Rey's crew Charlotte 170280 39 last night on on the mnf pre-show, during one of chris berman's long winded 1952 pop cultured referenced diatribes. someone's cell phone began ringing. i think it was chris mortensen. 3112338 2008-10-21T16:20:05-04:00 9 FL Cone Killer Saint Petersburg 584295 38 At a Bucs game a few years ago when an idiot ran onto the field and was laid out hard by a state trooper, he delayed the game a few minutes because the refs had to figure out if the idiot interfered with the play on the field. It was worth the wait. 3111792 2008-10-21T01:51:48-04:00 1595 AK Klee Irwin Nome 582256 Nothing will ever top the Heidi game. It was a national sports story at a time when there were no national sports networks. It was like the power going out and people being confused and angry. On that day perceptive people realized that the AFL had passed the NFL in popularity if not talent..... 32 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 3104920 2008-10-21T15:20:02-04:00 39 IL steelersfan32 Danville 589084 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 37 The Heidi Game was the same season as Super Bowl 3. What was the result of that game again? AFL dominates NFL. 3110895 2008-10-21T01:51:48-04:00 1595 AK Klee Irwin Nome 582256 Nothing will ever top the Heidi game. It was a national sports story at a time when there were no national sports networks. It was like the power going out and people being confused and angry. On that day perceptive people realized that the AFL had passed the NFL in popularity if not talent..... 32 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 3104920 2008-10-21T15:18:19-04:00 39 IL steelersfan32 Danville 589084 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 36 The Heidi game was the same season as Super Bowl 3. Which league won that game? 3110870 2008-10-21T14:05:18-04:00 7 MA pumpkineater76 Melrose 157203 35 Turkey pulled off so many comebacks at Euro 2008, they were an exciting team. One of best soccer tournaments in history. That was a major screw up lamented by 2 billion people worldwide, including here in the U.S. A lot more people in the US follow soccer than people think. 3109807 2008-10-21T09:37:13-04:00 2 papajohn19 580305 34 The real top five SNAFU's: (5) TBS missing the beginning of Game 6 of the Rays-Red Sox last Saturday. (4) Whatever network is was, showing Alex Zanardi's crash in slo-mo, so we could see huge chunks of his severed legs flying through the air. Just typing this makes me want to be sick. (3) Jim Lampley getting caught picking his nose as the camera returned to him while he was reading college football scores in the mid-1980's. Someone's gotta find this and put it on YouTube. (2) ABC showing Theismann's leg break over and over...and over and over...and over and over... (1) Shannon Sharpe 3106252 2008-10-20T14:06:17-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/880/85/thumb/images_2_.jpg 55727 VA rstowe Newport News 88385 4 Would the Cowboys playing in January or the Cubs in October be considered technical difficulties? 3100023 2008-10-21T07:25:47-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/172/34/thumb/soldierflag.jpg 16161 TX HOOAH05! 17274 Would the Cowboys playing in January or the Cubs in October be considered technical difficulties? 33 No, those would be miracles. 3105440 2008-10-21T00:33:03-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/482/462/thumb/JBG11.jpg 10767 NY Johnny B.Goode Blue Point 482902 29 Nothing will ever top the Heidi game. It was a national sports story at a time when there were no national sports networks. It was like the power going out and people being confused and angry. On that day perceptive people realized that the AFL had passed the NFL in popularity if not talent..... 3104764 2008-10-21T01:51:48-04:00 1595 AK Klee Irwin Nome 582256 Nothing will ever top the Heidi game. It was a national sports story at a time when there were no national sports networks. It was like the power going out and people being confused and angry. On that day perceptive people realized that the AFL had passed the NFL in popularity if not talent..... 32 nice historical revisionism. What was the result of the first 2 Super Bowls again? 3104920 38 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img title="Heidi" src="http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/heidi-jets.jpg" alt="Heidi" width="298" height="452" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align: right;"><em>Heidi </em>once preempted one of the best endings in NFL history.</div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align: right;">SI File Photo<br /></div> </div> <p><strong>By Lang Whitaker, SI.com</strong></p> <p>True story: Saturday night around 8:20 p.m., I flipped my TV over to TBS to watch Game 6 of the Rays-Red Sox series. Instead, I found an episode of <em>The Steve Harvey Show</em>. Now we know the <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/10/18/tbs.difficulties.ap/index.html" target="_blank">reason</a>. (Things must have been really bad if TBS had to show Steve Harvey instead of <em>Frank TV</em>.) This isn't the first time technical difficulties have tripped up a sports broadcast -- it also <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/10/19/bills.power.outage.ap/index.html" target="_blank">happened to CBS</a> on Sunday, when some helium balloons knocked out the Bills-Chargers game for almost three quarters. Here's our list of the top five broadcasting snafus of all-time.</p> <p><strong>1. The Heidi Game: </strong>Back in 1968, one of the great finishes in NFL history between the Jets and the Raiders was missed by viewers when NBC decided to switch away from the game to show a TV movie of the children's tale, <em>Heidi</em>. The network cut away from the game with 65 seconds remaining and Oakland trailing New York by three points -- but the Raiders scored two late touchdowns to secure an unlikely 43-32 victory.</p> <p><strong>2. The Wardrobe Malfunction: </strong>Some might argue that there was absolutely nothing wrong with getting to see<strong> Janet Jackson</strong>'s breast exposed on live TV during the Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show. The FCC took objection, however, and the incident spurred sweeping regulation with broadcast TV.</p> <p><strong>3. Euro 2008: </strong>One of the greatest soccer games of the year was the Germany-Turkey match this summer in the Euro 2008 semifinals. It was a high-scoring game with plenty of goals, except the international feed went in and out throughout the second half, meaning viewers all over the world missed long stretches of the thrilling action.</p> <p><strong>4. The NFL Network: </strong>The NFL starting their own channel was a great idea, but because of fee disputes they've somehow only managed to make it available in about 40 million U.S. homes -- and it's not available at all on the biggest cable systems in many of the largest markets.</p> <p><strong>5. Cablecam:</strong> Last year, during NBC's initial season broadcasting <em>Sunday Night Football</em>, the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-10-15-cablecam_N.htm" target="_blank">cablecam</a> -- the camera suspended on wires over the field -- suddenly landed on the field near a Seahawks huddle, delaying the actual game for about 10 minutes.</p> <p>What's the most memorable technical difficulty of all-time? Let us know below...</p> <p><em>Lang Whitaker is the executive editor of SLAM magazine and writes daily at SLAMonline.com.</em></p> 18 NY The SI Staff New York City 21244 15901 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img title="Heidi" src="http://i.cnn.net/si/fannation/heidi-jets.jpg" alt="Heidi" width="298" height="452" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align: right;"><em>Heidi </em>once preempted one of the best endings in NFL history.</div> <div class="photo_attributes" style="text-align: right;">SI File Photo<br /></div> </div> <p><strong>By Lang Whitaker, SI.com</strong></p> <p>True story: Saturday night around 8:20 p.m., I flipped my TV over to TBS to watch Game 6 of the Rays-Red Sox series. Instead, I found an episode of <em>The Steve Harvey Show</em>. Now we know the <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/10/18/tbs.difficulties.ap/index.html" target="_blank">reason</a>. (Things must have been really bad if TBS had to show Steve Harvey instead of <em>Frank TV</em>.) This isn't the first time technical difficulties have tripped up a sports broadcast -- it also <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/10/19/bills.power.outage.ap/index.html" target="_blank">happened to CBS</a> on Sunday, when some helium balloons knocked out the Bills-Chargers game for almost three quarters. Here's our list of the top five broadcasting snafus of all-time.</p> <p><strong>1. The Heidi Game: </strong>Back in 1968, one of the great finishes in NFL history between the Jets and the Raiders was missed by viewers when NBC decided to switch away from the game to show a TV movie of the children's tale, <em>Heidi</em>. The network cut away from the game with 65 seconds remaining and Oakland trailing New York by three points -- but the Raiders scored two late touchdowns to secure an unlikely 43-32 victory.</p> <p><strong>2. The Wardrobe Malfunction: </strong>Some might argue that there was absolutely nothing wrong with getting to see<strong> Janet Jackson</strong>'s breast exposed on live TV during the Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show. The FCC took objection, however, and the incident spurred sweeping regulation with broadcast TV.</p>