The CRAZIEST MISTAKE in NFL on CBS HISTORY | Vikings @ Bears (1989)

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned that Wade Wilson’s passer rating for the game was only 3.6 points higher than if he would have spiked the ball on every play.

[@costalamb3065]

Or that his performance was "ugly with a capital U"

[@cameronhalas3171]

“Maybe they should trade for a superstar running back. I’m sure that will fix their problems and won’t come back to haunt them in any way whatsoever down the line.” Love the sarcastic foreshadowing.

[@seekanddestroy7343]

I know, I couldn't help but laugh when he said that.

[@thomash.schwed3662]

Indeed! And, I'm quite certain that, thirty-three years after this proposed trade, this "star running back" won't have any trouble (due to problems of his own making) running for the Senate from his home state of Georgia which would potentially put his entire career into question.

[@leaderofnoone9087]

This decision reminded me of the kid who screams he's already dead in The Simpsons.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to what happened in Canada with CBC across all of Alberta during the 2014 World Cup semifinal between Brazil & Germany. I should point out that this match is widely regarded as the biggest beat down in the history of the World Cup with Germany beating Brazil 7-1 on Brazilian soil. At halftime, with Germany leading 5-0, CBC decided to break away from the match & show the local news during the halftime break with the intention of it wrapping up in time to show the 2nd half. Instead what happened was that when the news ended, CBC accidentally switched on a cooking program that was supposed to air after the match. This caused fans to miss Germany's 6th & 7th goals of the match & by the time CBC fixed the mistake, the match was over and viewers got to see the majority of Brazil fans boo their team mercilessly as they walked off the field. It is quite easily one of the darkest moments in the history of Brazilian soccer.

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

I remember watching this game. I lived in Northern Minnesota at the time. The CBS affiliate that was available in Northern Minnesota back then was KDLH of Duluth, MN. I don’t specifically remember KDLH leaving the game early, although I’m not 100% sure on that one. This is the first time I have ever heard that the game was not shown in its entirety on WCCO.

[@tonythomas2391]

When I hear the name Wade Wilson these days, the first thing I think of is Deadpool 😄

[@altfactor]

In those days, WCCO carried televised Vikings games except when the Vikings hosted an AFC team (which would be on KARE through NBC) or a Monday night game (which would be on KSTP through ABC).

[@altfactor]

Today, the only time WCCO generally carries the Vikings is when they host an AFC club.

[@altfactor]

And most Vikings games today are on Fox affiliate KMSP.

[@lmswentzeljr]

The dark ages before NFL ticket, I love 49ers and live in Indiana, it was terrible only getting about 6-8 games to watch them, and 3 were always on MNF

[@DERRTYCHYBO]

Watching this video just reminds me they never should have fucked up soldier field the way they did. Turned a classic stadium into complete trash.

[@Backpackfiles]

I remember watching the Vikings-Bears from my dorm at NIU, where we got both Chicago and Rockford IL television stations. I realized that for the first time when the Rockford affiliate cut to the Niners game, and we Chicago kids had to find WBBM to finish watching the massacre.

[@MattD3344]

I live in the Bears market (about 3 hours away from Chicago) and they cut away from here too. I didn’t see Robert Greens TD either but when they came back I saw Minnesota try a FG for some reason and miss. The Bears kneeled down after that.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

The reason they tried a Field Goal is because they would have needed one at some point so why not then?

[@aceckrot]

I was raised in the WCCO market but was serving in the USN when this game was played, so I never knew about the broadcast blunder. But I do remember this game, because in those days, the ship would receive news headlines and sports scores via telegraph, so I knew that the Vikings had been blown out. When a shipmate of mine, a huge Bears fan, received a VHS copy of the game, we sat around and watched what was a surprisingly close game, to the point where I began wondering if the score received on the wire was actually a mistake. Then came the fourth quarter and I was equally surprised when one team exploded while the other collapsed. This blunder reminds me a lot of the Heidi game, but on a much more limited scale as most viewers across the nation probably welcomed the switch to the 49ers - Bucs game.

[@stevedownes5439]

Bucs were in the Central Division then too, that makes the second blunder even worse. Minnesota fans probably would have gained some solace in watching a div opponent clutch defeat from the jaws of victory instead.

[@LogoAttitude]

@@stevedownes5439 the Bucs never made sense in the NFC Central when the Cardinals moved from STL to PHX in 1988, the NFL should have adopted a divisional alignment that better reflected geography, with the Steelers moving to the AFC East, the Colts and Chiefs to the AFC Central, the Bucs and Falcons to the NFC East, the Saints to the NFC Central, and Cardinals and Cowboys to the NFC West the Bucs would have greatly benefited from being in a division with three Northeastern teams, like how the Dolphins benefited from having multiple division rivals in the Northeast; much of Florida contains a lot of transplants from the Northeast; it's like how whenever the Orioles, Red Sox or Yankees are playing the Rays at Tropicana Field, there are a lot of fans of the visiting team in attendance (same for Marlins home games against the Mets, Nationals, or Phillies)

[@WaltGekko]

@@LogoAttitudeI believe when the Bucs came in, they were at first in the NFC West (after being in the AFC Central for their first season in 1976) and then the NFC Central because the other teams wanted to have a warm weather place for their fans to go to late in the season.

[@LogoAttitude]

@@WaltGekko the Bucs played 1976 in the AFC West and moved to the NFC Central the next year New Orleans would have fit that criteria for a warm-weather place from 1988 onward

[@angelsfancrc1]

It took me way too long to realize you “trade for star running back” comment was about Herschel Walker. I thought he was traded way earlier for some reason

[@MustacheDLuffy]

No, early 90s

[@MustacheDLuffy]

Funny enough we’re only 9 years removed from Randy Moss’ rookie year

[@DanStrayer]

He was still a bull in North Texas at that point, one that “got something goin on” with the local 🐄 🐄 🐄

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

@@MustacheDLuffy Actually he was traded in 1989 in a Season in which the Cowboys went 1-15. This is their worst season in Team History.

[@bigbeect]

Wasn''t aware of this CBS screwup. As a NY fan (and not particularly a Jet fan), it's almost as bad as the Jets-Raiders Heidi game nearly 20 years earlier.

[@adamzangara]

3 minutes of info made into 15 minutes. I started hoping WCCO-TV would've cut into this video too.

[@jimroscovius]

Why take so long to tell us the "craziest mistake"? At the halfway point, you finally got to the point.

[@richardm3023]

People used say that CBS stood for "Can't broadcast Sports".

[@ReveiwKing999]

Of course, this would be the last time the Vikings would ever suffer a devastating 38-7 defeat like that. - A Philadelphia Eagles fan

[@IAMGavinMitchell]

Your viewership is growing. Keep it going.

[@marcus813]

KCCO-TV was an Alexandria, Minn.-based satellite of CBS owned-and-operated station WCCO-TV (deactivated in 2017). As for this situation, someone at CBS should've paid attention to what they were doing. There's no way that anyone in Minnesota, including those outside the Twin Cities DMA, should've been switched from Vikings/Bears to 49ers/Buccaneers and get people's hopes up given the latter game's finish. As a side note, I'm a lifelong Tampa Bay resident and while the game didn't sell out, our CBS affiliate at the time, WTVT Ch. 13, got to air the last little bit of 49ers/Bucs. That finish brought back some bad memories. My Bucs had the Niners on the ropes and let them off the hook.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

Let them off the hook? The 49ers were a way better team then.

[@LogoAttitude]

WTVT is still the primary station for the Bucs to this day, as it switched to Fox in 1994 after Fox got the NFC package, later being bought by the network WTVT won't have as many Bucs games starting in 2023, as all Sunday afternoon games will be free agents and can be on either CBS or Fox without any restrictions

[@marcus813]

@@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup Yes, let them off the hook. I said what I said and with my chest. The Bucs let a chance to take down one of the NFL's top teams and let it slip away.

[@marcus813]

@@LogoAttitude WFTS-TV was a FOX lame duck when FOX started its NFL coverage in 1994 and got to air only 7 Bucs games (all the home games were blacked out). As for the way the new NFL media deal will work for Sunday afternoon games, I can't wait because since the advent of cross-flexing, I've been wanting the traditional FOX-NFC and CBS-AFC designations to be deemphasized and we're finally getting it. I don't know what the Sunday afternoon system will look like, but a couple more Bucs games on WTSP would be nice.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

@@marcus813 You must have a very talented chest if it can talk.

[@sheldonhoward2491]

The irony doesn't end there... The Bears won their next 2 to start the season 4-0, only to lose in week five to... Tampa Bay 42-35... the Bears finished the season 6-10. The Vikings on the other hand lost the following week to start their season 1-2, and turned it around in week four by beating... Tampa Bay 17-3. The Vikings finished the season 10-6, won the division, only to lose in the first round of the playoffs to... San Francisco.

[@LogoAttitude]

Tom Brady was a 12-year old 49ers fan in 1989. He's now the QB for Tampa Bay.

[@RetroJR3379]

Perfect timing cause just right now CBS just switched the Steelers/Browns with the Chargers/Browns

[@thomash.schwed3662]

Did I read that right? A different visiting team but the same home team in the same game? Not that I would want to play against the Cleveland Browns anyway; I'd be wary of fans tossing beer bottles on to the playing field during the fourth quarter. And the team doesn't play any cleaner either.

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how CBS cut away from the end of a close KC-SD game in 2000.

[@RobHolecko]

Something sort of similar to me, I grew up a Bucs fan in Florida, I watched them every week (except of course the many home blackouts in the 80s and 90s) ... when I moved to South Carolina in 2010 I signed up for Sunday Ticket just to watch my Bucs... at some point the Bucs were playing the Falcons and during the week the local affiliate that was going to air that game decided to air a different game... but the programming still had it blacked out on Sunday Ticket because they thought the affiliate was airing it..... so I could literally watch any game except the only one I wanted to watch... SMH

[@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub]

Interesting video but dude.... Who is this video for? The tone seems like its for someone completely unfamiliar with football. Not meaning to sound like a jerk, but you need someone to edit (and cut down) your script.

[@costalamb3065]

I remember watching that game in my dorm room in college at Carbondale, IL. Our CBS affiliate was KFVS-12 in Cape Girardeau, MO. They showed the first half of the double header that day, and did not cut away to the Bears game until the first game was done. I remember anxiously looking at the score updates to figure out what was going on. Needless to say, as a Bears fan that game was a dandy!

[@darrinlindsey]

Would you please list "Every NFL broadcasting rule, in the book", since they 'broke all of them'.

[@RADRICK19]

Man nobody cared about that game in Minnesota, especially if they were getting blown out. BS

[@StarTropicsKing]

So strange seeing my local CBS station talked about on here. Glad I wasn’t around then to have been affected by this.

[@jimg6261]

Oh, the OUTRAGE! Knowing that such an egregious error occurred makes it difficult to continue everwatching CBS again!!!! How will I cope? Actually KCCO was NOT channel 4, the CBS affiliate in Mpls. KCCO was channel 7 in Alexandria, MN. I worked at channel 7.

[@markjaycox8811]

watch every PRO TOURNAMENT winning Press Conference Phil Mickelson has, and tell me how many times he is asked about Tom Brady. I will be right here. nana nana.

[@NaturalOneNation]

During this past season(2022), the 49ers were blowing out the Buccaneers halfway through the 3rd quarter and Fox took the game off the air and put the Seahawks vs Panthers game on in its place.

[@robertlowrie8446]

If it were Chicago affiliates switching games it would be a mistake but Minnesota doing it seems merciful.

[@rigeur071]

Fair to say most in Minnesota missed part of that game because of the issue on WCCO, yes, but not necessarily all. There are and were more CBS affiliates either in or reaching other parts of greater Minnesota. Duluth has a CBS affiliate, and affiliates for each of the major networks. Mankato (south central MN) has a television station that was a CBS affiliate at the time, and I'm sure Fargo-Moorhead has affiliates for each of the networks too.

[@adamtparker6515]

Duluth was just outside of the 75-mile radius so back in the blackout era, The station could carry Vikes home games if blacked out locally. In the 90's while going to school in Fargo I was able to see a couple of blacked out games thankfully. I believe the Bismarck,ND CBS affiliate would occasionally show the Packers games in the event of both MIN and GB airing games on same network same time.

[@rlt152]

@@adamtparker6515 Only secondary markets are required to show the game in full however many other markets that have a strong fanbase of that team may do as well.

[@deathtoll5000x]

6:21 Hershey Squirt Walker

[@yettiman2817]

Man its hard to be a Vikings fan when they have a history of being so close to making it but never winning it

[@markjaycox8811]

You're all falling over drunk- the entire STATE smells of Alcohol.

[@tyronesharp401]

I'm a life long Vinings fan. I can recall games from 55 years ago. I think this is funny because it's true: If you were choking for 60 years, you'd be purple too.

[@markjaycox8811]

@@tyronesharp401 LMAO!

[@CTubeMan]

Funny story, This uOJG9h thought of bringing up a video about how the Vikings, Bears, Packers, and Lions tried to kick the Buccaneers out of the NFC Central when the Panthers started playing in the NFC. I ultimately chose not to, but when I just got back on my Home feed on KZbin that was the first JG9 video that came up. Creepy.

[@LogoAttitude]

It took until 2002 for the Bucs to be moved out of what is now the NFC North, they have the Panthers as one of their division rivals now

[@fionam3554]

"All 60 minutes, no matter what?" Ask an older Jets fan about the Heidi game.... (Granted, that was NBC)

[@danw2112]

Yep, we lived in the stone ages when it came to watching NFL football in 1980s.

[@bildo1977]

We’re back there again!

[@seekanddestroy7343]

I'll go back to that stone age anyday.

[@danw2112]

@@seekanddestroy7343 Unless you live near your favorite team, or your favorite team is the Chiefs, Rams, Buccaneers, Bengals, Steelers, or Cowboys, you'll never see your favorite team on TV or primetime. Just like back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

[@bildo1977]

@@danw2112 You can’t even watch the nationally televised or local games for free on the NFL app anymore!

[@Fencellisk]

I haven't missed a Raiders game since 2011 and I live in Philly.

[@Seanpatf66]

The game did not turn into a blowout until the 4th quarter.

[@yikes6969]

Ok

[@RDAmidwest]

I was watching WCCO. I was furious, despite the move being somewhat merciful. It was the first season I was recording every broadcast Viking game on my new VCR. To this day I do not watch CBS.

[@taz1417]

Bears fan here, I loved this vid. The blunder on top of the blunder by CBS when they tried to rectify the mistake...🤣😂

[@FUGP72]

It was not a blunder upon blunder. They were REQUIRED to go back to the Bears game as soon as they realized their original mistake.

[@ChristineCAlb1]

Wow! I did not know this happened. Learn something new every day. :)

[@okolo22000]

0:09 Well thanks for the heads up in telling us tomorrow’s Dumb Decisions video. 😂 OK, seriously about this video I don’t even want to know what would happen if that mistake would to occur today. To tease a really close game only to screw people out of 2 Touchdown plays thus pissing off 4 team at once is a remarkable feat (even for Amazon Prime.)

[@1who4me]

Why are you yelling into your mic

[@rlt152]

This is why I am happy to have RedZone these days

[@AyjAy011]

And the irony is the 49ers bucs game earlier this week was cutaway from the national market

[@Barraind.Faylestar]

I'm convinced primary and secondary market restrictions in the current era exist solely to get people to buy the premium TV packages and not be stuck watching every 3 hour wasting dumpster fire of a game bad teams play.

[@klax2919]

yeah it kinda does stink being in a secondary market for a team. i remember hearing back in i think it was 2013 that a tv station in orlando,fl had to show the jaguars at the raiders game & the station got so many phone calls complaining because people wanted to see the manning brothers play each other that they had to put an apology up on the bottom of the screen

[@rlt152]

At least nowadays you have Sunday Ticket and RedZone you had none of that back than.

[@LogoAttitude]

Ironically, the first two games between the Mannings were on NBC Sunday Night Football

[@BrianRetro]

What's interesting is that both these teams went the opposite direction shortly after this game. The Bears would start the season 4-0 and then win just two games the rest of the season finishing with a record of 6-10. The Vikings would end up at 10-6 and win the division.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

The Herschel Walker Trade helped the Vikings to Win The Division that year while The Bears got old and didn't win the Division for the first time since The Lions won it in 1983.

[@LogoAttitude]

@@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup The Bears bounced back the following season, being the only team in their division with a winning record, everyone else was 6-10

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

@@LogoAttitude Did I say that they didn't? Besides that was for a short time as in 1992 they went 5-11 in what was Mike Ditka's last season with them.

[@BrianRetro]

@@LogoAttitude Yeah, but due to the new playoff format, they had to play on Wild Card weekend. They won their first round game against the New Orleans Saints but then lost the following week to the New York Giants.

[@allengillis2636]

And this is why I have DirecTV and NFL Sunday Ticket

[@dianefreeman7194]

I am old enough to remember the "Heidi" game, when the network (I don't remember which one) switched from the Raiders-Jets game to the movie Heidi during the last couple minutes. If a nuclear bomb had been dropped there would not have been as much outrage .

[@fionam3554]

NBC

[@thomash.schwed3662]

​@@fionam3554Interestingly enough, the very next evening on "The Huntley-Brinkley Report", David Brinkley reported on this and, in what had to have been a decision by the network brass, showed the videotape of the end of that game from the moment NBC switched to "Heidi". Granted, it must have been rather anticlimactic to see it after the fact-and particularly after reading the final score in the newspapers during the day-but the stupidity of the situation was such that even David Brinkley and Chet Huntley couldn't help but laugh a little.

[@adamtparker6515]

A little over-reaction by JG9 as this was probably one of the first years of 'flexing' a game like MIN vs CHI which until 89 would nearly always be shown at noon as both teams were either in Central or Eastern time zone. Also this may have been the 1st year of ESPN/TNT airing Sunday Night and likely was a force of habit for the switch. Also this was not a Vikings home game as if it was, the following game would never be shown on the network carrying the game (which was usually WCCO/CBS). 'Cuz in this case Vikes were on the road, and the other game was the 49ers (west coast team) a PD would just assume no prob, cuz usually the 3pm start games should default to feat west coast games. As a Vikes fan, no big deal, and Illinois markets near Chicago also had their game switched. Looking into it about 5 yrs earlier NFC Central Games would be sometimes shown at 1pm instead of noon to ensure games for NFC central markets are shown or blacked out if local home team dictated by not selling out. This was also the time of the Packers playing in Milwaukee as so every team could be subject to the 75-mile blackout rule as Milwaukee was on the fringe of Chicago primary market.

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

ESPN’s first season with Sunday Night Football was 1987, while TNT jumped onboard in 1990. From 1987-97 ESPN only carried games from the second half of the season. Then from 1990-97 TNT carried games from the first half of the season. ESPN was the exclusive Sunday night network from 1998-2005.

[@adamtparker6515]

Also in scan of other Sun. Afternoon games the exact same week as MIN vs CHI which listed "Footage By" Each game that showed footage e.g.PHX vs SEA, all show KBBM (Chicago) but no WCCO. Later CBS Tv from 1989 would list WCCO so don't blame WCCO!!. JG9 should point out that the SF vs TB game ended prior to end of this game...

[@adamtparker6515]

@@veggieoilerfan2940 about a week or so later CBS would add or include other networks incl. ESPN and NBC into their list of 'Footage By' at end of games in which they show the 'All Rights Reserved' toward close of game at sign-off.

[@WaltGekko]

@@veggieoilerfan2940 And when Turner gave up the first half of the year on SNF, it lead to a big battle with Major League Baseball because then-Commissioner Bud Selig was furious about September Sunday night games being relegated to ESPN2 so they were pulled from the ESPN schedule (this is when you still had many older people who looked at baseball as KING to where they looked at being moved to ESPN2 as an insult, even if ESPN2 by 1998 was available in almost as many homes as ESPN). MLB was about to pull MLB entirely from ESPN following the 1999 season but it just happened the final telecast of that regular season, Reds-Brewers that originally was supposed to be the final game in Milwaukee County Stadium was delayed six hours by rain and wound up a Sunday night game on ESPN2, which was when Selig realized it was not as bad as many older fans thought.

[@FUGP72]

This was WAYYYYYYYYYY before flexing started.

[@americanidol30]

Did the CBS affiliate in Chicago cut away from the Bears-Vikings game to show the 49ers-Buccaneers game or did they show that game in its entirety?

[@AEMoreira81]

CBS has long owned its Chicago station. It would be a corporate CBS decision. By contrast, WCCO wasn’t yet owned by CBS, but by Midwest TV (in which CBS was a minority partner); CBS bought Midwest TV in 1992.

[@mrw1208]

The worst error in NFL history is the infamous Heidi Game in 1968. Look it up.

[@waluigithemaster6864]

Wade Wilson had 4 interceptions, and an abysmal passer rating of... 43.2. We had 'em in the first half boys, not gonna lie.

[@Zoyx]

Were you a Vikings fan growing up?

[@altfactor]

It could have been worse: CBS could have started feeding "60 Minutes" to WCCO. 😆

[@thomash.schwed3662]

Mike Wallace visits the president of CBS to find out why the network cut off the feed of the Minnesota-Chicago game to the Twin Cities. That's tonight on "60 Minutes" on most of these CBS stations. Note: Those of a certain age will understand that if you or your company received a visit from Mike Wallace it meant that either you or your company did something wrong.

[@Rowgue51]

It wasn't "highly illegal". It was just a breach of contract.

[@jamesgeschwender5443]

Growing up in Tampa Florida in the seventies I always got to enjoy my team the Miami Dolphins until the Buccaneers came to town then once in awhile I would get to watch the Dolphins and then the new blackout rule went into effect and I rarely got to see the dolphins but now that I have a fire stick that I jail broke I can watch my dolphins anytime any place

[@marcomacias3960]

at 13:18 why is there a film crew there? i thought that all broadcast where on tape.

[@nickdarr7328]

I live 55 miles from Detroit but in Ohio. There's been several games that weren't shown over the last few years because they wouldn't be competitive. Ironically one was because the lions were so favored 5 or so years ago. I wonder if it has to do with where I live but the replacement games are usually the bears

[@jamiethomas7463]

That’s impossible! Get a map man

[@nickdarr7328]

@@jamiethomas7463 ok 55 miles. I thought it was closer because it only takes 45 minutes to get there

[@rlt152]

Secondary markets are required to show road games but not home games.

[@LogoAttitude]

Toledo has the Tigers' top minor league affiliate as well as the ECHL affiliate of the Red Wings. It is also a battleground territory for the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, as while it is in the same state as Columbus it is closer to Ann Arbor. The UM-OSU game needs to be at night starting in 2023.

[@LogoAttitude]

@@rlt152 this has been a point of contention in Harrisburg PA notably The Ravens and Steelers currently have what is the most intense rivalry in the AFC North because of NFL TV rules, they compete for fans in the Harrisburg area Whenever the Ravens are on the road, Harrisburg stations must show them, even if a Steelers game is on the same network at the same time But if the Ravens are at home, the Steelers get priority

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

6:20 Cowboys fans everywhere chuckling

[@Hutch72284]

Yup, lol.

[@SkolneyVikings]

Yeah maybe we should trade for famous truth teller regarding abortion Herschel Walker.

[@2024magaman]

I thought your side LOVED abortion ? I’m confusion

[@SkolneyVikings]

@@2024magaman Nobody loves abortion. Grow up.

[@MichaelMiller-tm2os]

I live in MN and I should absolutely remember this...but I do not. I would have been 11 years old and was a huge Vikings fan. I wonder why I have no recollection of this happening.

[@jdb2002]

There were multiple affiliates for CBS in MN. The error only affected WCCO. Maybe you lived in a different area.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

Maybe you don't remember because you were 11.

[@indiansack5524]

The CBS affiliate in Minneapolis has ALWAYS been WCCO and never KCCO, do your homework!!!

[@brianbrian4016]

This guy sounds like Michael's son in GTA 5

[@TooColdToBeSober]

Meh...not bad. Still doesn't touch the "Heidi" game.

[@jayramsey690]

What? You mean the Vikings fell apart in the 4th quarter? No way!

[@mesocorny4366]

I remember watching my team chi leading 31-7 from where I was living and then switch to sf@tb where dick Stockton was on the call, I missed the last chi td but I knew it was over and I had no complaints but I was overly excited at seeing sf struggle (the win showed how consistent they really were), I can’t believe this is considered a controversy, I’m sure there were plenty of fans in mn who didn’t mind the switch

[@failuretocommunicate]

Sports is just money for television, and our insatiable appetite for entertainment, no matter what the cost. 🎲🎲

[@BigDave51]

I'm a niners fan I live in Maryland but what if I lived in Minnesota in 1989 omg I would've had a fit

[@DrLuke49]

This decision is what is known as *"failing upward"* NOT

[@BuccaneerBruce]

Actually you were able to watch your Vikings play until the game was completely out of reach and I bet they had about a dozen complaints and those were all Bears fans.

[@Fencellisk]

CBS ultimate trolling.

[@StoneColdStonerTravisProffit]

Watching this after cbs shut off cowboys vs. Vikings….

[@Seemsayin]

What I'd like to know is how this virtual non-story came to your attention, in the first place. How much digging was necessary to unearth this tidbit? Ya know... All we have to preview a video with is a thumbnail and a title, in our "recommended". When you title a video, in all CAPS, insert the words "CRAZIEST", "NFL", and "HISTORY", and omit the actual event... people are gonna assume whatever happened was going to be monumentally significant. People are quirky like that. Of course, their expectations will rise to that assumption. *In reality,* one Sunday... 33 years ago, CBS made a mistake. They switched games, assuming fans would prefer to watch something competitive. They realized their mistake, and tried to appease fans. Except for a few disgruntled fans... nothing more happened, fans moved on, and this was forgotten (until you showed up). SO WHAT? In the description, YOU said it was HIGHLY ILLEGAL. But the title says it was a "MISTAKE". Which one was it? If it was highly illegal, was someone arrested, convicted, and sent to prison? I must have missed that part. There's NOTHING crazy about this, in any way, shape, or form. I'm not triggered. Not even pissed. I'm just disappointed that a good story-teller used shifty tactics to gain views. Because he's good at what he does... I'm pretty sure he'd have gotten AT LEAST the same amount of views without shamefully embellishing. "The CRAZIEST MISTAKE in NFL on CBS HISTORY". How can you be certain that this event actually IS the CRAZIEST MISTAKE in NFL on CBS HISTORY? How do you know? Their history is BIG. So... how can you be certain? Do you have extensive knowledge of CBS's football telecast history? Are you a "NFL on CBS" historian? I didn't create that title. He did. But from the look of it... you'd think CBS accidentally told the two teams to stay home that day, creating a nightmare, because they were closed for maintenance. Good lord.

[@kabelguy70]

just another average sunday for the vikings

[@videonut1988]

This was before Paramount (CBS’ current owners) owned ‘CCO.

[@Tubewings]

Actually, it was way before that. CBS acquired WCCO's owners, Midwest Communications, in 1992. Then, in 1995, CBS was bought by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which merged the Group W stations with the CBS O&Os. Then, in 2000, Viacom (which owned Paramount at the time) merged with CBS, forming the Viacom Television Stations Group. Then, in 2006, was the CBS-Viacom split, with the television stations and Paramount Television going to CBS (the old Viacom) and Paramount Pictures going to Viacom (the new Viacom). Then, of course, Viacom and CBS re-merged into ViacomCBS at the end of 2019, and recently, the company was renamed Paramount Global.

[@LogoAttitude]

@@Tubewings Chicago's CBS station, WBBM-TV, was originally owned by Paramount Pictures' theater division, which was spun off in 1949 and went on to purchase ABC in 1953, leading CBS to take over the station in favor of ABC keeping what is now WLS-TV (it was under CBS ownership that WBBM-TV adopted these calls). Since then, WBBM-TV has had two more stints as a sister property to Paramount Pictures - 2000-2006 under Viacom and 2019-present under what is now Paramount Global.

[@CTubeMan]

This screams “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” I think between NFL rules and the complaints from the station manager and Vikings fans CBS made the right decision putting the Vikings game back on. It was just a case of bad timing when the switch was made.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

They could have aired what was missed that night as Sunday Night Football only was on starting the second half of the season at that time.

[@zagnorch1336]

IIRC the Vikes went on to win the NFC Central and claim the NFL's best defense that year while the Bears crashed and burned to 6-10, their last game a 26-0 loss to the 49ers. And speaking of the 49ers: Minnesota's top defense didn't look all too good against SanFran in the divisional round that season...

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

That's because The 49ers had an awesome Team then.

[@wheresatari668]

I don't get it. Why would you give a crap getting switched from a blowout to something tight and intense? If your team was doing the blowout, you have your happy week. If your team was getting blown out, you most likely changed the channel already anyway at that point. I beg the TV all the time to give me a better game during a bloodbath but it never listens😅 If there is nothing but blowouts on, I'll turn on my Playstation until the next series of games comes on. I don't get the big deal about the first part. The second part is understandable.

[@joshpadget5259]

This would've been so much better as a 1 minute short. Jesus did this drag out.

[@JasonPicker]

If I'm not mistaken, week 16 in 1990 NBC in NY switched from the Jets game (one they were winning) to show the Dolphins at Buffalo. I even remember the announcers saying that they would be switching.

[@mpf4114]

Is it just me or if my favorite team is getting their butt kicked I would have no problem with a network switching. I would probably change the channel if they didn't

[@FUGP72]

You say it makes sense since if you asked the cities' fans what they would watch, they would always say their home team no matter what the score. Except there HAVE been polls taken, and overwhelmingly, they DON'T choose their home team if it is a blowout. It is even worse when the city team is the 4:00 game and they cut away from overtime of the 1:00 game just to go to PREGAME shit.

[@stevedownes5439]

NFL was all sorts of messed up that year. For example, the Seahawks were in the AFC West.

[@DownriverBusinessEventsGroup]

That wasn't the only year that they were in the A.F.C. West.

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

The Seahawks were in the AFC West from 1977-2001 before rejoining the NFC in 2002.

[@mikewolverton7904]

In all fairness, I live in the NY metropolitan area. Over the last 8 years there have been so many horrible blowout losses by the Jets & Giants that I wished the stations had pulled these games and switched to others that were more competitive. While your videos are very informative, you miss the overall point. That's like saying that if you were a Vikings fan and you were at that game, you must stay at that game and not leave the stadium under any circumstances because the Vikings are your team no matter how badly they are losing that game.

[@mrchitlin6255]

Who gives a crap

[@thomascrowley9122]

Doubt Vikings fans were complaining about this game getting switched early

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Yep maybe just a few diehards though

[@LazyCat010]

So the Cowboys '90s dynasty happened because the Vikings got blown out in this game? F**king Vikings! I hate them now

[@dutchfan1]

You should make a video on Green

[@FUGP72]

Worst video ever. CBS didn't THINK that was the best way to rectify it. They were doing what they HAD to do to correct the error. What their contract with the NFL REQUIRED them to do as quickly as possible once the error was brought to their attention.

[@CowboysNo1Fan]

Da Bears Fans were going wild when watching this

[@whydoineedahandle406]

What evidence do you have that Vikings fans were "ticked off"? Who wants to watch their team get destroyed vs a fun competitive game.

[@FUGP72]

They likely weren't. This is one of the worst channels on KZbin. Fans have overwhelmingly polled that they would prefer to watch another game if it is close and their home team's game is a blowout (even more overwhelmingly if they are losing, but still majority of they are winning too). The fans were more mad at cutting BACK to the Bears game. But CBS had no choice. They were required to do so by their contract with the NFL as soon as they realized their mistake. This dumb fuck channel just didn't feel like doing any research.

[@rolfseerden5795]

35,791 in North Platte, NE

[@dr.hawkraps8457]

Oh come on! 😆{PUT THE BEARS GAME BACK ON!

[@jefferyespj]

This is my personal opinion I think CBS is the best

[@OneHitWonder383]

In my best joe biden impression, _"Let me say two words -- NFL Red Zone."_

[@thomash.schwed3662]

In my worst Donald John Trump impersonation: "If they switch this game, there will be a &#$@/!:#&. And that'll be the least of it." Oh, and he might add: "Moonves, if you're listening!" (He's so addled that he probably thinks that Les Moonves is still the head honcho at CBS.)

[@OneHitWonder383]

@@thomash.schwed3662 -- You describe *_President_*_ Trump_ as addled. Have you ever seen bidet even attempt speech?

[@fatelvistcb]

This agregious mistake makes Putin's war crimes look like child's play.