The Heidi Bowl - Raiders vs. Jets 1968

The most memorable game you never saw. The Famous Heidi bowl from 1968 between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets.
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[toucansam3]

I always keep a DVD of "Heidi" on hand just in case a Raiders game happens to come on.

[OutRunr47]

Only idiots who hate pro football like Delbert Mann watch stupid things like 'Heidi.'

[Jatika Manigault]

I remember that game. I am a Native New Yorker who also happens to be a DIEHARD Raider fan. I remember getting out the big Manhattan White Page phone book to look up the NBC's phone number to find out what the hell had happened! I was so mad until I found out the Raiders had won! It was a crazy time in football, y'all.

[Chuck Collins]

a day before I was born

[Steven Little]

Yes, Preston is sadly omitted. I met him in Atlanta in 1993 and he was an awesome gentleman. Our fantasy league is the PRFL (Preston Ridlehuber Football League) partially due to the Heidi Bowl, but more so because he threw a TD pass as a Buffalo Bill (vs. the Boston Patriots) on a halfback option when both OJ and Mini Max Anderson were out due to injury. The first few years of the league he even signed our league awards and mailed them back to us in Buffalo. Super guy.

[Frankie Curra]

i ment the afl championship score: 27-23

[Frankie Curra]

The game was played at Shea stadium

[Frankie Curra]

jets deserved to win. so thank the movie Heidi

[clintonearlwalker]

"The 1967 game was one of the most vicious in Jet history. Namath was slugged to the turf; he was hit late, punched in the groin. They aimed for his knees, tried to step on his hands ... And Davidson got Namath. He got him on a rollout, with a right that started somewhere between [California cities] Hayward and Alameda. It knocked Namath's helmet flying, and broke his jaw, but Namath didn't miss a play, and he threw for 370 yards and three TD's in that 38–27 loss." Namath still posts on YouTube

[TheShield201]

damn the Oakland Coliseum was actually only like a year old now its a damn 45 year old dumpster

[ibbetn1]

Fumbled kickoff recovered by Preston Ridlehuber of the Raiders. One of the great names in football history never gets mentioned when the Heidi Bowl is relived.

[James Martin]

...best practice is to schedule a weak show or a repeat of a one-off show immediately after, then if it needs to be pre-empted, it's not an issue.

Did networks really just join shows in-progress back then? Why would you do that?