The CRAZIEST BROADCASTING DECISION in NFL on CBS HISTORY | Heidi Game 3 | Chiefs @ Chargers (2000)

In a 2000 NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers, the Chargers led it 17-16 with 2 minutes left, looking to get their first win of the season. And then, CBS stopped showing the game everywhere, including Kansas City and San Diego, leaving tons of fans upset and wondering how it ended. It's yet another sequel to the Heidi Game controversy. This is the story behind the NFL on CBS and their broadcasting screwup
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[@TheSonicsean]

"All Ryan Leaf had to do was not do anything stupid" See kids, that's what they call foreshadowing And regarding Heidi Game 2000, you know what they say, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.

[@americangiant1003]

LMAO 😂 at Sonicsean.

[@JasonMarsalis]

“They” is George W. Bush.

[@DanStrayer]

“For once, we could all agree.” (Credits roll over Neil Young’s Keep On Rockin in the Free World)

[@timdere]

"...when Walter Mondale stood as much of a chance of winning, as I have at successfully tackling Derek Henry." Keep the running commentary jokes coming. 😂 🤪 😆 These are comedy gold

[@DolFan316]

I'm old enough to remember Mondale running for president and even as an elementary school kid I knew he had no chance.

[@gluserty]

@@DolFan316 Same here, "Where's the Beef?" and all that good business. In retrospect I find Geraldine Ferraro to have been one formidable person.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@gluserty Yeah, unfortunately, the whole thing reeked of False Progressivism, Walter Mondale knew he had no chance, so, he named a running mate that was historic, just, like, how, when, Ringling Brothers was going out of business, they hired their first female ringmaster.

[@donaldpaluga]

Don't even think Jesus would have beaten Reagan in 84 given the state of America that year

[@matthewdaley746]

@@donaldpaluga John Lennon may have been, "Bigger Than Jesus," but, even were he, somehow, not, dead, he'd have lost, too, that election was as good as finished.

[@mfm4205]

to show how crazy it is you're seeing footage of the game, this not only aired back in 2000, the game started at 5am tokyo time, so the last bit is airing at around 8am local time there. someone there not only watched the game, but recorded it, preserved it, and uploaded it online years later. a game between a winless chargers team and a freefalling chiefs team to boot.

[@yakamarezlife]

I found the cowboys first tv game on a vhs back in the day

[@SamnissArandeen]

I have to believe it was a serviceman in Okinawa, either a Chiefs or Chargers fan.

[@CTubeMan]

(That Guy Alert) The first two “Heidi Games” were cut off in selected markets, not the whole country. And I was watching the Broncos-Seahawks game taking place at that time and I recall CBS going to a split screen when the election result was announced.

[@heartlandauthor]

In 2001, NBC preempted nearly all of a NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (then Lowe's Motor Speedway for naming rights reasons) because the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. I remember Tom Brokaw making an on-air mention during the special report that the race was going to air on TNT (which aired the vast majority of the race prior to NBC being able to show the conclusion of the race). Regionalized coverage of NFL games can't simply be shifted to a cable network if breaking news warrants it, although I can remember at least one instance of part of an NBC Sunday Night Football game airing on CNBC and NBCSN (the latter of which is now defunct) so that NBC could air a presidential address. Local TV stations have had to air severe weather bulletins by pre-empting NFL games or other sporting events countless times over the years. The earliest known instance of split-screen usage by a local station in this situation was WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama (then an ABC affiliate, now a Fox affiliate) using split-screen and a weather anchor voice-over to announce a tornado warning during the 1983 Alabama-Auburn football game, which took place at Legion Field in Birmingham that year. I can only think of one other usage of split-screen to broadcast severe weather information during a network sports event before 1990, and that was WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky (then a CBS affiliate, now an ABC affiliate) during the 1989 NCAA Men's Basketball title game between Michigan and Seton Hall in Seattle.

[@WaltGekko]

I remember. CBS as I remember did a split-screen during its NFL coverage as did FOX. The rescheduled Emmys (that were supposed to be Sunday 9/16 before 9/11 happened) were supposed to be that night but were quickly re-scheduled a second time to Sunday, November 4, where the Emmys wound up opposite Game 7 of the World Series between the Yankees and Diamondbacks, with the D-Backs in just their fourth year of existence then. FOX was showing the winners of the Emmys during their telecast of that game, which infuriated many on the west coast where the Emmys were airing on a three-hour delay and FOX did not apologize for it, as they were more concerned about losing viewers in the east if they had not done that cutting away to watch the Emmy telecast live. That World Series Game 7 is also memorable because the Yankees led in the bottom of the 9th in Game 7 only to have Mariano Rivera, who is maybe the greatest closer of all time in MLB (and fittingly the last active player in MLB to wear #42) blow the save in that game with the Yankees losing to the D-Backs. Many fans of the New York Islanders actually CELEBRATED the Yankees losing that World Series because the Yankees were going for their fourth consecutive World Series and losing that game meant the 1979-'83 Islanders remained the last team in ANY of the four major pro sports to win four consecutive titles (four straight Stanley Cups) and to this day are the last to do so, making them in the eyes of many Islander fans THE LAST TRUE DYNASTY of any team in professional sports.

[@aaronmccracken7351]

Dammit JG9, you cut away from the last 25 seconds of the game!!

[@djohns808]

Great video. I remember watching NFL Primetime and it being odd that there was no footage of the Chargers' defensive stop. Also, Ralph Nader might've been better off spiking the ball into the ground on every play.

[@marcus813]

I didn't know about this. Even in 2000, CBS could've done a lot better in this case. As you said, JG9, saying something brief about the result and saying more details would come after the game would've been a much better way to go.

[@WaltGekko]

That might have been an FCC mandate, which would have superseded NFL Broadcast rules.

[@SWalkerTTU]

@@WaltGekko AFAIK, there's no FCC mandate to cut away from sports for news like this. There is a mandate to air EAS messages, but this wasn't one, and that requirement is for the local stations and not the national network.;

[@WaltGekko]

@@SWalkerTTU NOW that is the case, but even in 2000, the rules may have mandated such. And in any event, that was news that could not wait for the end of the game even if it was a title game.

[@caughtashot]

As a 15 year old gigantic Chargers fan at the time with NFL Sunday ticket in Minnesota I will never forgot this!!!!! I watched all 16 games and never actually got to see my team win!😠

[@ThreePointOneFou]

4:39 "Plenty of teams have finished the season with one win, and no on remembers them as a punchline past a few years." True. The 2016 Browns went 1-15, and I don't remember them as the punchline-they were the setup.

[@WaltGekko]

And that win came on Christmas Eve 2016 against a still-San Diego Chargers team that had one foot out the door heading for LA and their players did not care about that game at all. The Browns the next season finished 0-16.

[@mickeylynch8982]

Ugh, I know. I recall betting on the Browns for a few weeks, saying, they gonna win one of these last few games. Won big on SD game, but wish they would've lost and eventually replace TB with the longest losing streak in NFL history. Everyone forgets how close they came to Tampa's record after that win anyway.

[@DolFan316]

Only the Chargers could get their only win of a season and not even have the end of the game shown 🤣

[@jimnfl7134]

Lions and Browns may object to that LOL!

[@DolFan316]

Fun fact: This was not only Warren Moon's final NFL start at age 44, but the last game of his career period.

[@matthewdaley746]

Just couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, really wonderful, so, is.

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 Haha, I KNEW you'd have a response 😋

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DolFan316 Duty requires it, absolutely.

[@CTubeMan]

He’d be the last quarterback to start a game at 44.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@CTubeMan Forgives absolutely nothing, period.

[@recklssabndon]

Lifelong Chiefs fan - over 30 years of fandom - I remember this game VIVIDLY. We had a whole chain of people calling one another til someone figured out what happened in the game. Then everyone had to call everyone back to let them know. As mad as fans were - I still think the maddest person in SD that day (or in the country) was still Gunther Cunningham.

[@raymond3803]

If self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you need to let the Chiefs go. Kansas City has two BRITT problems that are not going away. 1) BRITT Reid - Pleads "Not Guilty" after nearly killing 2 little girls (3 days before the Super Bowl) and blowing over the legal limit 4 hours after the accident. 2) BRITTney Matthews - Pat has gotten worse every year since 2018. Now he's stuck with a 3rd-rate-skank who trapped him with an ugly honkey baby. Take up fandom of All-Star Wrestling. Women's roller-derby. Or something that's not detrimental to your health.

[@CTubeMan]

The Florida Supreme Court ruled on its own to extend the initial post-recount certification announcement to November 26 from the legal date of Saturday, November 18. Had the Court not intervened the election announcement may have provided fodder for Jaguar Gator 8.

[@Badmothafucka1222]

I was 8 years old living in San Diego at the time & I remember watching this happen live. It was crazy lol also for some reason when I tell people about this NOBODY seems to know about it so I’m definitely showing them this video I had a feeling you would cover this some day

[@MillionaireWizard]

At least unlike with the OG Heidi, the team that was in the lead when they cut off did indeed win the game. I can only imagine how San Diego fans would have reacted had Todd Peterson kicked an game-winning field goal to give the Chiefs an 19-17 victory.

[@ajk]

Or how Chiefs fans woulda reacted....

[@reverend_wintondupree]

Don't forget Sunday Ticket subscribers saw the ending.

[@msarzo]

It was 2000. C'mon! CBS could easily have run a crawl saying, BREAKING NEWS: Bush certified winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes during the late stages of the game. The technology was there. This was worse than doing nothing but spiking the ball into the ground on every single play.

[@matthewdaley746]

The same thing happens, whenever, a player is immobile on the ground, despite, other Games, (usually), being available, the network stays on the field, as, going away from this broadcast would be considered, "callous."

[@americangiant1003]

Being fair CBS and even Fox which was broadcasting those afternoon games on that late November weekend in 2000, could have notified NFL headquarters on their plans to possibly switch away in case the final victory certification for Bush, Jr. was going to be announced during the games. I agree with Jag here in his summary. CBS could have called the league offices to have a short 5 minute “hold” so that Dan Rather could have announced the historic breaking news to the entire nation that then Gov Bush will be the 43rd POTUS. Then go back to wrap up the Bolts/Chiefs game. And finally stay with Rather and CBS News having coverage for the rest of that evening.

[@orbyfan]

That's what NBC did with "Heidi."

[@americangiant1003]

@@orbyfan At least leaving this game had a much more valid reason than the “Heidi” game 30 plus years earlier. That is announcing the results of the closest Presidential election in American history.

[@msarzo]

@@orbyfan True, but a Presidential election is a bit more significant of a reason to provide updates via a crawl.

[@pikupanndropof7339]

Even though I love football, I'm gonna be THAT GUY. CBS was competing with 8-10 other networks breaking this story.I bet there were more people in the country interested in the results than a game between 2 not very good football teams so CBS made the call.

[@americangiant1003]

Not just people in America Pikup. There was Reporters from around the World as that was sent to Florida as well to cover that unprecedented Bush, Jr/Gore recount. I think I remembered seeing the BBC even sending their lead news anchor all the way from England to anchor in Miami during this 2-3 week recount period as well.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Yeah but all the other channels having it on means a diluted audience. At least if you keep the game on you have 100% of the audience that wanted to watch football watching.

[@BillGraper]

Yeah, but if people wanted to know the election results, they could've changed the channel. I don't need 10 people to tell me the same news. What's the difference if CBS is one of 10 networks saying the same thing? I would've kept the game.

[@americangiant1003]

@@BillGraper Agreed. However this is the year 2000, internet was still in its very early stages. Not everyone had online access at that time. Thus the fairest way as Jag suggested at end of this segment was a brief 2-3 minute news flash by either Dan Rather or Jim Nantz the Studio Host at the time. Then finish the game and then go to wall-wall News coverage the rest of the night.

[@MagCB32]

I like how you slipped Strategery in there 😂

[@DesmondHobson]

JG9, thanks for the video find from Japan! As for why CBS made that particular decision, perhaps there was fear that ABC and NBC would criticize CBS for not joining them in live coverage at that moment. Nonetheless, it backfired and I couldn't agree with you more. Have a nice week off!

[@DNSKansas]

What about those watching on Sunday Ticket? Wouldn't they have been able to see the ending?

[@PAGoTribe1963]

There's no group of people who love the smell of their own farts than broadcast journalists.

[@DolFan316]

I'd say millennials are a very close second, though. We're talking about the generation that invented selfies.

[@donaldpaluga]

OK Qaren

[@drewzuhosky6826]

Some other options CBS could have done: Quickly deliver the news coming out of a commercial break and then go back to the game. Run the news flash after the game (CBS was going to _60 Minutes_ afterwards, anyway.)

[@matthewdaley746]

Yellow Journalism: The TV Series, a terrible American institution, embarrassing.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

they also could've showed it on a ticker and then at commercials

[@matthewdaley746]

@@UserName-ts3sp Alas, not, incorrigible, enough.

[@donaldpaluga]

@@matthewdaley746 OK Sean Hannity

[@matthewdaley746]

@@donaldpaluga Tucker Carlson, stay in your lane, it's better for everybody around here.

[@nicolesgaming8917]

Reminds me of when NBC broke from a red flag during the 2018 fall race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to air pre-race at the IndyCar season finale at Sonoma Raceway, then switched back to the NASCAR race before the IndyCar race started, missing an incredibly pivotal first lap in Sonoma. They did air the majority of the race, but IndyCar fans were PISSED, especially since NBC was going to be the sole broadcast partner for IndyCar going forward.

[@adriankendrick4281]

That 2000 election was wild and wacky. That was the big story.

[@AdamJ617]

There was one thing that agitated me more than this was how constantly CBS interrupted the Price is Right around this time, and worse yet for two now-former Barker’s Beauties, in Janice Pennington and Kathleen Bradley, not only were those episodes interrupted at that time, but they’ve not since rescheduled in reruns. The only episodes that Were rebroadcast over the Summer months in 2001 were those After the Janice and Kathleen left, and today, 21.5 years later, they Still haven’t seen the light of day uninterrupted. I only wish Drew Carey, who host TPiR now, could invite them both for one episode. The only problem, it might never happen.

[@CTubeMan]

Especially since Bob Barker was responsible for them getting fired.

[@dionr1168]

As was brought up in this video. If ABC can tell Howard Cosell to use his position as the play-by-play man on Monday Night Football to break the news of John Lennon's death during a game in progress, CBS could've and should've done the same damn thing with the election during this game. In fact, the Lennon incident should have established this as standard procedure.

[@matthewdaley746]

John Lennon was a hypocrite who championed the cause of family, despite, abandoning his own, he didn't deserve to die, like, that, but, I shed no tears for him, either, and, considering the way he manipulated the press for his own ends, that they ultimately would exact their final revenge, on, him, (and, Yoko Ono), truly couldn't be more poetic.

[@americangiant1003]

Actually Dion, Frank Gifford was technically the lead Play-Play man most of the time during live action. Howard was basically the On site host/secondary commentator. With that said Dion, Mr Cosell the Commentator was almost always introduced first at start of the game during that era. Back to 2000. Not sure who was the broadcast team during that Bolts/Chiefs game in late November 2000. However I agree that the Studio Host at the time (I think it was Jim Nantz before he switched over to play by play Commentary full time a couple of years later) could have broke in the game to deliver the breaking news that Bush won. Or even Dan Rather.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@americangiant1003 Details never bothered him.

[@altfactor]

Or the announcers could have tossed it to Dan Rather, who would have only been heard while silent video of the game would have been seen by viewers.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@altfactor How, truly sadistically bizarre.

[@donaldpaluga]

If only Al Gore won his home state of Tennessee.....

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

Gaora TV is where they aired All-Japan Pro Wrestling after they lost their Nippon TV deal

[@RetroJR3379]

I did see the game on CBS 2 in LA but I went to Black Angus with my family cause I thought the game wasn't gonna be that good.. Boy was I'm wrong lol

[@altfactor]

What CBS should have done was to tape the ending of the game and run it once the news bulletin/special report ended. This is how Dan Rather could have ended that special report: "In most of the country, we broke into the final minutes of the NFL game between the San Diego Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs. We're now going to show you the ending of that game, picking it up on tape at the point where we left it..." The ending wouldn't have been live, but it probably would have been shown on tape a few minutes after it happened.

[@altfactor]

Or, CBS could have decided on this alternative: "We have a bulletin from CBS News on the election. We're going to switch to Dan Rather in New York, but we're going to keep video of the game, without sound, in the lower left corner of your screen".

[@americanidol30]

CBS could have told the officials to stop the game until their news report was over and continued it afterward.

[@americangiant1003]

Exactly. A short 10 minute break.

[@djohns808]

In 1998, ABC moved a Preseason MNF game from ABC to ESPN2 (during the game) to show a press conference by Bill Clinton. Too bad CBS didn't have another station to move the end of this game to.

[@andrewschultz6608]

It was a nice touch to see the "CHARGERS RECOUNT 11-0" poster just before seeing why the game was interrupted. Well done. (Oh, also, "strategery" at the end, too.)

[@effend446]

I give CBS a pass on this one because even though this game had an exciting finish, it was mainly for diehards. If this game had major playoff implications for BOTH teams, then I can see some outrage. Regardless, Entertainment programming (like the NFL) always takes a back seat to Public Affairs matters (like the 2000 Presidential Election) by broadcasters. And I guarantee CBS didn't want to be the last to break the news of a major story that is far more important than a football game.

[@ajk]

If there was no other news media available....I could buy this, but by 2000, you had cable, you had the internet, you had a wide variety of options to get this news out that wasn't cutting in to the end of a game like this.....yeah, this was a fail.

[@effend446]

@@ajk Doesn't matter

[@WaltGekko]

@@ajk Not everyone had the internet at home in 2000. I was doing a horse racing newsletter back then, and on certain major race days, I made a point of getting it out for a Saturday race program by Noon Friday to accommodate those who only had internet access at work. Most people then still had dial-up (I didn't go to DSL until 2002) as well, so it was not necessarily available then like it is now.

[@johnnyroberts3761]

There really should have just been a ticker that ran at the bottom when the race was called, then go to a Special Report after the game. Thankfully, this wouldn’t happen again (unless it’s an EAS emergency alert- which is a local broadcast decision due to FCC regulations).

[@rlt152]

I can remember I was watching Titanic on NBC and they didn't interrupt the movie at all

[@tobiaswilliamson00]

The networks can still cutoff the ending of a football game depending on the market, what station the game is on, which game it is, of the network the game is on is a double-header that Sunday, AND which station it is on. For example, I live in Knoxville, TN. Most of the Tennessee Titans game is on CBS with a couple of Fox regional games. There have been multiple times within the last five years where the Titans were playing a single header on CBS with Fox getting the double-header and Fox cutoff the ending of the early game to show the entirety of the late game because Knoxville, TN, is out of the market for that specific game.

[@CTubeMan]

The federal government requires stations to air a certain amount of public affairs programming. Therefore I can defend CBS here, as I can when the afternoon games of the first round of the 2003 NCAA Tournament were aired on ESPN due to the US starting its bombing of Iraq in trying to remove Saddam Hussein and his sons from power. However, I find it interesting that the local stations didn’t go along with CBS’s decision in this video. After all, local stations have to worry about the government renewing their broadcast licenses, a worry the national network doesn’t have.

[@americangiant1003]

While Jag makes a good point almost an quarter of a century later than in this tough call, maybe this idea. CBS could have had made contacted both the Refs and League office to hold the game for about 2-3 minutes. So that Dan Rather then the lead CBS Anchor could have went on to announce Bush had won Florida. Then right after the game had non stop coverage for the rest of the evening. However CTubman I agree that CBS should get a small pass here. While not impossible, the chances of an US Presidential election as close as Bush-Gore in 2000, are very slim of every happening again. It was a historic election and sadly led to the long term national “partisan civil war” in America as well that is still in full swing here in May 2022. This small error by CBS is small potatoes completed to the All time “FUBAR” (staying away from the F word here)that NBC did 2x before in both 1968 and 1971.

[@matthewdaley746]

Slippery slope, kind of, like, when a student broke cell phone rules to talk to his mother in Iraq, when a teacher asked him to put the phone down, he refused, when she persisted, he, not, only screamed obscenities at her, but, threatened her, he got a week of OSS, later reduced to one day of ISS because of, "mitigation," b***s***, he threatened a teacher, that means his argument is moot, I heard about this, and, callers unanimously supported the student, if I were the superintendent, I'd reinstate the punishment, and, suspend the teacher, vice-principal, and, principal, one week each, without, pay, for, "caving."

[@matthewdaley746]

@@americangiant1003 After they'd quit laughing, they'd have politely declined because of the horrible precedent this would set, they'd claim it was just an unavoidable broadcast misadventure, and, hope that it would never happen again, ever.

[@CTubeMan]

@@americangiant1003 Give time to Rather and all his Rather-isms? That would take more than 2-3 minutes.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@CTubeMan The suffering, absolutely enormous.

[@christopherengel7436]

Yes Chargers fans care. Even when the season is a lost cause they care. Someone should tell there owners maybe they'all act accordingly.

[@matthewdaley746]

On their worst day, The Spanos Family were better owners than Gene Klein, he bought the Chargers to be part of a club, and, ran them, accordingly, simple as that.

[@AdamJ617]

What really hurts was this was the only Chargers win that year. I’ll just bet the mansion of whom ever cut away from the game, not only was egged on, but continues to get egged on to this day.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@AdamJ617 Unlikely, gated community protects.

[@ceave]

The CBS affiliate in San Diego (KFMB 8) had a postgame wrapup after every Chargers game. We got to see a replay of John Carney's game winning FG in the postgame highlights and Aaron Taylor finally stopped wearing a dress.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@ceave That was seriously horrifying.

[@travismiller4320]

I remember the “Immaculate Freeception” was the Monday Night game before that Tuesday Election. That final play was the first time Packers held lead in that game.

[@Michael-sb8jf]

I remember this game. Tony Richardson thought he scored a TD and celebrated by spiking the ball only to get called down at the half in line and a 15 yard taunting penalty

[@dangeiger9796]

We have to ask is our networks learning?

[@ellarosenzweig2098]

"strategery". I see what you did there.

[@recklssabndon]

Have you done a video on the 2010 Chargers Special Teams unit? I don’t think any other team in history has had a #1 offense, #1 defense and missed the playoffs because of their league worst special teams

[@matthewdaley746]

SB Nation did, Nate Kaeding prevented them from becoming a dynasty, he was an absolute jinx.

[@recklssabndon]

@@matthewdaley746 I knew Jon Bois did something on it a while ago but I would love to see something on here - with his penchant for finding the actual game footage for this channel - it would be amazing

[@matthewdaley746]

@@recklssabndon It was enormously complicated.

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 Secret Base did as well.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DolFan316 Different names, identical network.

[@bronxsportsfan]

Did CBS ever made a public apology for the monumental blunder? That is an awful job to interrupt a close NFL game for something all other TV networks were covering. I did have a question concerning other games in that same time slot. We're those other games affected by the same special report concerning the Election Day Recount? Unless those games ended early and the Chiefs-Chargers game was the final game among the late afternoon games still in progress, I'd imagine there could've been others.

[@DolFan316]

The weird part is that the '00 Chargers really weren't 0-16 bad. Three teams had a worse point differential and all of them had at least 3 wins including the Cards and Browns who had the 4th and 9th worst point differentials of any team in a 16-game season. Also, the '00 Chargers had the 4th best run D and held their opponents to a measly 3 yards a carry, second only to the legendary '00 Ravens.

[@matthewdaley746]

The very next year, The Legendary 2000 Ravens got completely undone when Jamal Lewis got hurt, and, they decided that Elvis Grbac was a suitable QB, he retired after the season, and, they wouldn't return to the SB until 2012, in a victory that felt far more bittersweet than glorious.

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 Karmic penalty for ditching the starting QB of a Super Bowl winning team in the offseason, which literally no other SB winner has ever done. Even in '83 after drafting Marino, Shula started David Woodley the first 5 games out of respect.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@DolFan316 Yeah, unfortunately, he benched Earl Morrall out of disrespect, and, later gave him the backhanded compliment of claiming he never got the respect he deserved, Larry Seiple saved Don Shula's a**, but, there'd be no saving them after the team broke up in 1975.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

@@DolFan316 I would agree with you, but Dilfer stunk. He was never very good, which is a real condemnation of both Tony Banks and Elvis G. I recall thinking at the time, that the real problem was ditching Dilfer for someone proven to be even less reliable.

[@DolFan316]

@@eugenedenbrook322 The football gods don't lie. You NEVER get rid of a QB if you just won a Super Bowl with him. If he loses a competition for the starting job the next season that's one thing but outright cutting him is just asking for karmic retribution. There's a reason why no Super Bowl winning team's ever been dumb enough to do this since. They know.

[@chriscothron3606]

I can’t be the only one who didn’t know Warren Moon was still playing in the NFL in 2000 lol

[@deepdrag8131]

More people know the name of the movie, “Heidi” than remember the teams involved in the game it preempted.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Sure seems like there are a LOT of 'craziest' decisions lmao.

[@drpete0616]

I remember being at a sports bar in Orange County. The bartender was a Charger fan and was trying to find out what happened. He was relieved yet irritated that the Chargers avoided 0-16 and that he missed it. I never understood how even the sports bar couldn't even show the end of the game until now

[@chriswahl4139]

this was before NFL Network Red Zone or streaming era

[@mfm4205]

yes. hell, even predates sunday ticket being an option for folks at home (was still only for bars and restaurants at that point).

[@Musicradio77Network]

WCBS-TV (channel 2) in NYC did the same thing happened where they cut into the 2000 Presidential Election, because the Jets and Giants are on another network which was either Fox or NBC.

[@matthewdaley746]

That one election seeped into every aspect of our lives.

[@teen_laqueefa]

@@matthewdaley746 yea, then within 10 or 11 months later the way of life was changed on a Tuesday morning and I am still convinced of the guilt not being a thing to do with Bin Laden but Kennedy warned us about a secret society

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 And it gave the media the belief that they had the right to beat us over the head with 24/7 "news" that 1.) is mostly non-stories with no impact on our actual daily lives or 2.) global tyranny propaganda.

[@effend446]

That game would have more likely been on Fox because in 2000, NBC wasn't televising NFL games.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@effend446 Appears logical, it does.

[@vdubproductions2646]

Damn the last two videos happened to be games that were played on my birthday. Yesterdays video was on my 20th birthday and this video was on my 14th birthday lol.

[@propenguin9956]

Kinda like in 2020 where ABC and NBC interrupted college football for the election

[@ajk]

What is the story here? I am not sure I know much about what happened, didn't watch a lot of football in 2020.

[@kevinfriel2858]

CLASSIC !!!!

[@DolFan316]

The fact that people in Japan could watch NFL games in 2000 blows my mind 😳😳😳

[@americangiant1003]

NFL games being shown outside of the US has a long history. In Canada, I think every so called NFL “World Championship Game” later of course renamed the “Super Bowl” has been shown north of the border every year since I think December 1961. When the Packers won the title beating the NY Giants.

[@DolFan316]

@@americangiant1003 Canada is one thing, some parts of Canada can pick up local stations in Buffalo, Detroit, etc. just by default. Japan is another level entirely.

[@NMV-eq5jt]

i think this footage from the part of the game that didnt air is a vcr recording from Japan. Thats wild to think about

[@DanStrayer]

“Strategery.” Well done, JG9. You’ve got a new Patreon if you work in the phrase “lockbox” in an appropriate, politically-related fashion for a future video.

[@juliana.lymond2622]

That Was Just A Mistake He Made. He's Not Going Political!

[@MST720]

Bro....I want you to make more channels and cover a plethora of topics after seeing the 2000 election bit

[@CTubeMan]

Dude needs to sleep occasionally.

[@DolFan316]

@@CTubeMan Meh. Sleep shmeep. Sleep is overrated.

[@magdalenaraspovic614]

Probably half of what I watch on KZbin is JG9 videos.

[@benjaminrealy5661]

At least this one was an important breaking news alert. Unlike the true Heidi game. And on another note, in the news world, news is so competitive that being first on such an important factor. And news is what drives networks. The optimal thing to do is after the news break, continue the game on a delay from where it left off. Yeah, some of fans would have gotten spoilers and be upset, but not many of them. Internet was not in its infancy, but not yet as prevalent as it was in 2004 that a maybe 10 minute delay would have been a factor. Yeah you wouldnt see it live, but you wouldn't miss something others saw and you wouldn't know what happened beforehand so it'd seem live to you.

[@americangiant1003]

Exactly. Either Dan Rather or even I think Jim Nantz could have done a brief breaking news flash. Then back to San Diego to finish the game even on a 5 minute tape delay.

[@juliana.lymond2622]

Did Anyone See The Ending Of This Game On NFL Sunday Ticket?

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Good question that I don't know the answer to, unfortunately. From all accounts that I could find, I don't think so

[@MarkAHoltz]

Wasn't there a Sunday Night Football game involving the 49ers and the Patriots where, due to a Presidential news conference scheduled DURING the game, NBC had to temporarily move the game to a cable channel then back again?

[@TheRealJJJ]

Thanks for reminding me how pissed off I was at the state of Florida in 2000. :)

[@DolFan316]

I'm grateful for Florida in 2022 though. Literally one of the last bastions of freedom on the entire planet.

[@donaldpaluga]

@@DolFan316 OK Darth Santis

[@DolFan316]

@@donaldpaluga I don't take people who insist free speech and human rights are evil seriously.

[@blindjustice8718]

@@DolFan316 I wouldn't take anyone who votes for Democrats seriously.

[@SuperMutant2099]

I recongize Gaora from watching Japanese wrestling.

[@Patrick-hm4eg]

Did Fox do it as well with the 4 pm game if there was one

[@litlblkhouse]

These networks just can't do what CBS did here. That is what tickers and split screens are for, those were not rare in 2000.

[@markmoseley5759]

HOOO kay, J9, I get it. It's football. There are MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of football fans in America. No one doubts that being a fan of the game or not. For TV Networks, websites, services and all other means of "NFL stuff (for lack of a better word)," to carry on, you HAVE to aire football in the fall and winter. To avoid controversy and all out mayhem, you need to show games in their entirety. It's important. I GET it!!! It's football. For the Jets' owner's wife to tell Joe Namath, "it's show business," while I kinda get that, too, Joe Namath was right, "NO it's not it's FOOTBALL!!!" (Look that up if you don't know what I mean) ALSO, I can, in confidence and in all understanding of history call this Heidi Bowl 3 (or 2000, however you want to see it). I get it. But I have to give the News Outlets and the major networks a pass here. This election was one of MAJOR importance of our time. Let's take the "politics" of conspiracy OUT of the minds of those reading this and think for a minute. The next President of the United States is being decided. This isn't Mayor of a city, City Councilman or the local President of a Union..... The Leader of the Free World. Not quite a year into President Bush's Administration, I, as a member of the United States Air Force Reserve, was packing to be activated after 11 September 2001. I for one FAVORED Bush personally, however, agreed with his handling not only of that day but of that whole time in our nation's history. I would have recognized Gore had he won but I'm not sure he'd have lead like Bush did. While we didn't know that at the end of this game, we understood it (if you feel as I do) almost a full year later. I'm not one that likes games to be interrupted (by the networks OR my family or any other circumstance) and I feel just as strongly about it as any other NFL Football (or college for that matter) fan would feel. I e-mail, call, post on social media my intended feelings and emotions. We live in a free country where we can do that. But every now and again, when an election of THIS kind of importance happens, let's just understand that movies, TV shows and sporting events will be interrupted (and I'm actually glad you only voiced the HISTORICAL event that happened and didn't get political, GOOD show!!!) ALL THAT HAVING JUST BEEN SAID..... the Picture in Picture COULD HAVE EASILY been done in 2000. I AGREE. Even muting out the sound of the game and having a voice over, SOMETHING like that so that the fans in San Diego could have actually WATCHED the Chargers save themselves from 0 - 16. I DO WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with that comment and I appreciate you saying that as you did. While I give CBS a free pass on this one, there COULD HAVE EASILY been a better way. It was 2000, not the 1960's. Blessings to you, my friend J9. You're awesome!!!!!!

[@Dan-ee4bv]

Haha..... strategery.... well played

[@Donald_the_Potholer]

12:43 - Hold up! Even *Kansas City* was blocked from the game?! Wasn't blocking out the _Primary and Secondary Markets of the Road team_ from playing the game in its entirety a breach of the carriage contract? Also, this was the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Was Chiefs-Chargers the *only* game in the Late Slot? Who had the doubleheader that week? Why was this only a problem for _this_ game? There's a whole bunch about this story that wasn't covered!

[@WaltGekko]

This is where then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue could have stepped in and made clear to CBS (and FOX) they were violating NFL rules for not staying with the game to conclusion and delaying airing the report until after the game concluded unless there was an FCC mandate that story had to air and superseded NFL rules.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

Was this a doubleheader week for CBS? If it wasn't a doubleheader week for the network, this changes everything as less of the country would have had access to the game.

[@jasonfire3434]

Just looked it up, it was though I’m certain it wasn’t the primary game

[@ricknibert6417]

The Clarence Thomas hearings were nothing but CSPAN garbage to me...but the networks felt otherwise, preempting football.

[@Patrick-hm4eg]

Florida and Florida State were playing that day. NBC and CBS carried on with the NFL the next day. Since ABC had nothing that day on Sunday they carried on with the hearings.

[@ricknibert6417]

@@Patrick-hm4eg The coverage was Friday night and Saturday.

[@Patrick-hm4eg]

@@ricknibert6417 it may have started on Friday and continued Saturday but it continued into Sunday on ABC.

[@MrJamieBattle]

Yay my favorites, TV network blunders😇

[@loganmosher5935]

Well What Do You Expect It Was Election Year

[@slibertas1996]

You have the right to supercede the the news feed

[@ricknibert6417]

They didn't want Dan Rather to cause a blackout like he did after the US Open on SEPTEMBER 11, 1987

[@Suarez05]

Watch the HBO film Recount on Max I Recommend It!

[@broney24]

Its probably for the best that this at-the-time 10-year-old Chiefs fan didn't get to see that. Warren Moon was so terrible that day. Strangely, something similar happened during the 2006 Sun Bowl between my Missouri Tigers and Oregon State. CBS cut away to show Gerald Ford's funeral for a big swathe of the game. I have no idea why.

[@orbyfan]

Maybe because he was dead?

[@bronxsportsfan]

It is a tradition to cover the funeral of a former American president, no matter how popular (or unpopular) Gerald Ford was.

[@dicloniusgames]

Heidi Game 2K....even though their hands were tied, CBS could've handled this a lot better, especially given the "semi-Heidi" incident that happened when a network started Willy Wonka 40 minutes into the film after a game ended which you covered.

[@bronxsportsfan]

For your information, the "semi-Heidi" incident from the mid-1970s aired on NBC.

[@spankynater4242]

If Heidi game IV happened today, nobody would notice or care.

[@robertfeinberg748]

Reminiscent of Heidi. I was actually watching that.

[@davidtaylor-it9pw]

I saw this live i remember being pissed waiting for the game to come back on only getting Larry Himmel on the news at the end.. Only win the Chargers got that year

[@16ktsgamma]

Enter the 2000 Election Oh boy Gore and Bush.

[@johnmanier7968]

This was one of 4 CBS late games this day. The main one was Miami-Indianapolis, and the others were Tennessee-Jacksonville and Denver-Seattle. All were close games decided in the 4th quarter. KC-SD wouldn’t have been shown to much of the nation, but if it was the last game to end, then everyone would’ve been switched to it.

[@GarrettCRW]

According to Pro Football Reference, the Broncos/Seahawks game ran longer than Chiefs/Chargers, Titans/Jags was a half hour shorter, and Fish/Colts went about 15 minutes shorter. I'm guessing that CBS sent the two shorter games to San Diego. But still, these details are an important part of the story.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

@@GarrettCRW In 2002, the markets which were fed Buffalo at Minnesota got hit bad. The game went deep into overtime and because of a number of scoring plays happening in regulation, wound up not ending until more than an hour after the other late _NFL on CBS_ doubleheader games wrapped up. That night's lineup did not begin until roughly 8:30 pm ET in the areas that were fed the game, Pittsburgh included. Due to the length of the game, its highlights almost didn't get shown in the live airing of _NFL Primetime_ that evening.

[@RetroJR3379]

So technically the Chargers did finished 2000 winless

[@KN_1]

That's what I was waiting for the narrator to answer.

[@tobiaswilliamson00]

9:48 I don't want to get too political, but Ralph Nader hurt Al Gore.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

Well, think, the election affects the whole country, the game affects only fans of those two teams. Yes, CBS could have done at least a double box like they do sometimes for the NCAA Championship

[@bronxsportsfan]

The only issue is that just a handful of TV markets was airing the Chiefs-Chargers game at the time. You're right, it was probably easier to show a double box TV setup, but I don't know if that was feasible back then.

[@leogetz3570]

I don't know, probably not a big deal as both teams sucked that year. I'm guessing if they were playoff teams, the local affiliates would have kept the feed going. Depending on how much of the country was watching this game, people with the Sunday Ticket package probably got to see it

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

9:00 -- You think that's crazy...imagine if Bush had won Florida more convincingly and it came down to teeny little New Hampshire of all places!!

[@deepdrag8131]

It could have.

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a game in 1975 between Oakland and Washington that ran into NBC’s scheduled presentation of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. NBC resolved the problem in the worst way possible. I will also remind everyone you made another video about how the very end of a Monday Night game between Pittsburgh and Jacksonville in 1997 was never shown. One more, you also made a video about how fans in the United Kingdom had a better idea than American fans how bad of a decision Packers Coach Bart Starr made in a 1983 Monday Night game against the Giants.

[@DolFan316]

CTubeman doing God's work all up in here 👏👏👏

[@CTubeMan]

@@DolFan316 I try.

[@donaldpaluga]

You'd think with Butterscotch and Butter Gin Willie Wonka would've invented Butterbeer

[@mst3kanita]

dang, cbs couldn't have run a ticker about the breaking news during the game? I guess though, tickers wouldn't be in vogue until a year later.

[@crowtservo]

15:45 Not really but that’s like your opinion, man.

[@WhtAbtBob10]

CBS did nothing wrong here. Sports takes a backseat to historical events. New information as to who will win a Presidentisl election counts as a historical even if it's what's expected. They get a pass on this one.

[@JABoyle3875]

Well…it was the Chiefs and the Chargers. So…ya know… /shrug Eh.

[@BillMorganChannel]

I hated and hate the Raiders.

[@chriscothron3606]

I love this channel. Such great stories. Fuck the Gators tho.

[@mlbolts72]

Rough yrs w leaf ..ill never forget these teams . Chargers will be back Herbert and company ⚡️🏉

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Yeah all 3 of them

[@markmiller3308]

People did see the Heidi Game. You lEast Coast fools thing everything revolves around you. In the Pacific Time Zone as well as in some markets in the Rocky Mountain Time Zone and parts of Central Time Zone it was a shown start to finish. Even this game those of us with Sunday Ticket saw as much as wanted, recorded both the Seahawks vs Donkeys game at Fuskie Stadium where I was at that rainy Sunday and the Chef vs Chargers (as I did for All AFC West Games when I was at the 8 Seattle Home Games during regular seasons since DirecTV and Sunday Ticket came out ) to watch when I got home.

[@scottybbadd]

I might be in the minority here, but the Presidential election is a wee bit more important than a football game.

[@matthewdaley746]

Try convincing viewers that.

[@scottybbadd]

@@matthewdaley746, who's going to be in the White House is way more important than the result of a relatively meaningless football game. Besides with streaming options, this won't ever happen again.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@scottybbadd I know, just, like, only two teams reach the SB, but, good luck convincing the losing team that they had a truly great season, especially, if they were the favorite.

[@DolFan316]

@@matthewdaley746 Not to mention election talk could easily been held off until the end of a football game, considering the media would yammer on about it 24/7 for the next month.

[@DolFan316]

Ah yes, the 2000 presidential election, in which people in Florida who couldn't speak or read English and more people too senile to even remember their own names anymore were actually allowed to vote. Good times.