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1968 Hedi Game.

1958 NFC Championship.

Has anyone seen the Heidi Game in its entirety? I've only seen bits and pieces of it through various NFL Films segments (ironically, the 'pieces' are the plays most of the nation never saw). The 'best' source I've seen is the AFL "Week in Review" from that period, which shows some of the plays that took place earlier in the game. It seemed like a fascinating game from start to finish...one of the best regular season games in NFL/AFL history.

Bryan wrote:Has anyone seen the Heidi Game in its entirety? I've only seen bits and pieces of it through various NFL Films segments (ironically, the 'pieces' are the plays most of the nation never saw). The 'best' source I've seen is the AFL "Week in Review" from that period, which shows some of the plays that took place earlier in the game. It seemed like a fascinating game from start to finish...one of the best regular season games in NFL/AFL history.

Nope don't think it exists. The only games that I know of that exist in their original broadcast form from the '60's are the '61 NFL championship game, Super Bowl III, Super Bowl IV, and the '69 NFL championship game. The only reason we start having more games from the early '70's is because MNF made an effort to save their games.

Bryan wrote:Has anyone seen the Heidi Game in its entirety?

I have. Unfortunately, it was 50 years ago, and I don't remember much about it these days -- except that it was cut off, of course.

Not the NFL, but Nov.23rd will be the fiftieth anniversary of the famous Harvard beats Yale 29-29 Ivy League game.

Bryan wrote:Has anyone seen the Heidi Game in its entirety?

All but the last few minutes of it....

Lol this seems to be turning into another one of those threads that 'dates' some of the posters of this forum.

I suppose I could have seen the Heidi game . . . I would have been six months old.

lastcat3 wrote:Lol this seems to be turning into another one of those threads that 'dates' some of the posters of this forum.

September 10th was the 40th anniversary of the Holy Roller game. If the Chargers had managed to win the game, and the rest of the regular season had played out the way it did, a Chargers win and Raiders loss in that game would not have changed the divisional race as the Broncos would have still defeated them due to a better divisional record tiebreaker. On the other hand, with a 10-6 record, the Chargers would be in play for the AFC Wild Card with Houston and Miami, who were also 10-6 in 1978. However, if the rest of the season had played out exactly the same way, according to my reading of the NFL tiebreakers, San Diego still would have lost the Wild Card tiebreaker to Miami and Houston (record against common opponents), and would have thus been out of the postseason. The week 16 Houston-San Diego game (where the Chargers beat the Oilers 45-24) might have turned out a lot differently had the Holy Roller not happened because the Oilers-Chargers game winner would have certainly nailed down a postseason berth.

November 19th will be the 40th anniversary of the other quirky 1978 finish which as it did turn out did affect the postseason standings - the Miracle at the Meadowlands. An Eagles loss in that game, and everything else stays the same, and it's Green Bay at Atlanta in the 1978 NFC Wild Card game.

My earliest memory of an nfl game was the Redskins/Dolphins Super Bowl. And definitely don't remember much of the game I just remember sitting in the basement watching the game with my family and having an image of a Dolphins player running into the endzone. Can remember bits and pieces of games from the '83 season but wasn't until the '84/'85 seasons that my memories of particular games become very vivid. I don't think though I started watching games in their entirety until the early '90's. Prior to that I was more interested in playing outside than sitting in front of a tv watching a game for three hours.