Feb 26
Manchester City-Manchester United
Know why? "Fixture clash." The "Bucs" have to fulfill their Capital One Cup committment to play Southampton. The second leg of the Manchester Derby postponed for a bullshit match in a third-rate competition. T hey're having a bitch of a time trying to reschedule it, too. The Premier League season MUST END May 12 or something. It cannot be extended. The clubs explored that possibility. No! Why? The league said it would cheapen the integrity of the league schedule. Having the Derby postponed for a Cap1 match doesn't cheapen it.
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Know why? "Fixture clash." The "Bucs" have to fulfill their Capital One Cup committment to play Southampton. The second leg of the Manchester Derby postponed for a bullshit match in a third-rate competition. T hey're having a bitch of a time trying to reschedule it, too. The Premier League season MUST END May 12 or something. It cannot be extended. The clubs explored that possibility. No! Why? The league said it would cheapen the integrity of the league schedule. Having the Derby postponed for a Cap1 match doesn't cheapen it.
Mourinho is going nuts. He has complained about the crowded fixtures down the stretch. They're going to have to play it on a weekday afternoon, say a Tuesday at 3 pm, coming off a Saturday or Sunday match going into a Thursday night UCL match and then a Saturday or Sunday league match. Can you imagine?
Can you imagine this in the U.S.? You don't have to imagine. The "'Heidi' Game," 1968. "Jets" at "Raiders." Game went long. Past 7 pm when NBC was scheduled to broadcast the movie "Heidi." They did:
The television audience saw Smith return Turner's kickoff out of the end zone to the Oakland 22-yard line with 1:01 remaining. Burbank BOC played the closing football theme and gave the word cue, to...outraged shock... and the connection was irretrievably broken...the eastern half of the nation instead saw a little girl on a Swiss mountain and was unaware that Oakland was in the course of scoring two touchdowns to win the game.[38]
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NBC's CIrcle-7 exchange...blew a fuse 26 times in an hour.
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By the time the game ended at 7:07, thousands of viewers were calling the network to complain about missing the end of the football game. Others called newspapers, television stations, even the New York City Police Department, both to seek the final score, and simply to vent.
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In an attempt to inform the audience of the game's outcome, NBC scrolled the following across the bottom of the screen: SPORTS BULLETIN: RAIDERS DEFEAT JETS 43-32. It did so during a scene in the film just as Heidi's paralyzed cousin Clara was taking her first, slow steps. According to sportswriter Jack Clary, "The football fans were indignant when they saw what they had missed. The Heidi audience was peeved at having an ambulatory football score intrude on one of the story's more touching moments. Short of pre-empting Heidi for a skin flick, NBC could not have managed to alienate more viewers that evening."
So there you have it. About started the second American Revolution, it did. England? Keep Calm and Carry On. Americans do not do calm.
The television audience saw Smith return Turner's kickoff out of the end zone to the Oakland 22-yard line with 1:01 remaining. Burbank BOC played the closing football theme and gave the word cue, to...outraged shock... and the connection was irretrievably broken...the eastern half of the nation instead saw a little girl on a Swiss mountain and was unaware that Oakland was in the course of scoring two touchdowns to win the game.[38]
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NBC's CIrcle-7 exchange...blew a fuse 26 times in an hour.
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By the time the game ended at 7:07, thousands of viewers were calling the network to complain about missing the end of the football game. Others called newspapers, television stations, even the New York City Police Department, both to seek the final score, and simply to vent.
...
In an attempt to inform the audience of the game's outcome, NBC scrolled the following across the bottom of the screen: SPORTS BULLETIN: RAIDERS DEFEAT JETS 43-32. It did so during a scene in the film just as Heidi's paralyzed cousin Clara was taking her first, slow steps. According to sportswriter Jack Clary, "The football fans were indignant when they saw what they had missed. The Heidi audience was peeved at having an ambulatory football score intrude on one of the story's more touching moments. Short of pre-empting Heidi for a skin flick, NBC could not have managed to alienate more viewers that evening."
So there you have it. About started the second American Revolution, it did. England? Keep Calm and Carry On. Americans do not do calm.
