TV viewers are outraged when a tense football game is cut off to air Heidi - November 17th, 1968

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On this day in 1968, football fans got an unwelcome surprise when a televised game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders was interrupted in its final minutes by a made-for-TV movie adaptation of Heidi.