Epic Hockey FAIL

[silverscreenselect]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

[Bob78164]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

Holy Heidi, Batman! --Bob

[rayxtwo]

I wish my station had cut away. I hate the chicken hawks.

Ray

[littlebeast13]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

They like their Heidi down in Austin....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

Holy Heidi, Batman! --Bob

Dammit Bob! You stole my joke while I was drawing!

lb13

[SportsFan68]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

They like their Heidi down in Austin....

lb13

I will take partial credit for this avatar. Sure, the hair and dress are different, and there are Swiss Alps in the background, and you changed the goat to a pigladillo, but other than that, it's just like the design you drew for HeidiAlice last year!

[Bob78164]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

Holy Heidi, Batman! --Bob

Dammit Bob! You stole my joke while I was drawing!

lb13

Couldn't be helped. I was watching the Heidi game, so it instantly leapt to mind. --Bob

[littlebeast13]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

They like their Heidi down in Austin....

lb13

I will take partial credit for this avatar. Sure, the hair and dress are different, and there are Swiss Alps in the background, and you changed the goat to a pigladillo, but other than that, it's just like the design you drew for HeidiAlice last year!

Since when do YOU take credit for ES's handiwork? You won't even be his muse....

lb13

[SportsFan68]

I do not take credit for anything any mangy rodent does ever.

I do take credit for inspiring you to draw HeidiAliceAngel via last year's special order.

[TheConfessor]

A TV station in Austin, TX, cuts away from last night's Bruins-Blackhawks Stanley Cup Finals game during overtime to air a promo for the morning news and misses the game winning goal. To make matters worse, they had just posted a link on their Facebook page to a story about the growing popularity of hockey in Austin.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/06/tv-stat ... me-winner/

I can verify that this happened. I had just finished playing a pub quiz with some friends from Chicago, and the game was in overtime so we sat at the bar to watch it on TV. In the middle of the action, they cut away for local station promos and a commercial for a car dealer. When they switched back to the game, we just saw a bunch of players hugging each other. My friends were pissed, but they would have been even more upset if the other team had won.

It was my first time at this hipster location, which used to be a barrio bar called El Lobo, until it got swept up in the gentrification trend.
http://www.geekswhodrink.com/index.cfm? ... ntid=24965

[Bob Juch]

They didn't have instant replay?

[Sistine Fanny]

They didn't have instant replay?

Spoken like a true non-sports fan.

Replay doesn't count unless you saw it LIVE!! Replay serves merely to play back, marvel and scream "did you fucking see that!!!???!!! DID YOU??!!!??!!!" repeatedly.

[ontellen]

This would have NEVER happened on Hockey Night in Canada!

[ten96lt]

If that happened in Chicago, there would've been rioting. lol

[littlebeast13]

If that happened in Chicago, there would've been rioting. lol

Win or lose, there will probably be rioting....

lb13

[ten96lt]

If that happened in Chicago, there would've been rioting. lol

Win or lose, there will probably be rioting....

lb13

Hey! Who do you think we are? Vancouver?

[ghostjmf]

Board traffic is so slow I'm actually intervening in sports threads. Sigh.

But in defense of Heidi; I was maybe the only person in America who was severely bummed when my eagerly awaited broadcast of Heidi was cut off to bring the end of some dumb sports show. I remember I went out for a walk instead, & I was living in Arizona at the time where people didn't usually go out for walks voluntarily, even in the evening. The landlord's deputy tenant, who collected the rents, had malamutes who could only be walked in the evenings or very early am, otherwise they'd fall over dead from heatstroke.

I identified with Heidi, because my version of the book as a child depicted Heidi as having dark, curly hair, rather than being the placid blonde all other child's book heroines, & child's TV heroines at the time were. (Well, I guess Nancy Drew wasn't placid, but she was very bossy, & is usually depicted as having light brown straight hair.) Heidi was neither blonde nor placid, so having dark, curly hair myself & maybe not being so placid either, I identified with her.

[TheConfessor]

Board traffic is so slow I'm actually intervening in sports threads. Sigh.

But in defense of Heidi; I was maybe the only person in America who was severely bummed when my eagerly awaited broadcast of Heidi was cut off to bring the end of some dumb sports show. I remember I went out for a walk instead, & I was living in Arizona at the time where people didn't usually go out for walks voluntarily, even in the evening. The landlord's deputy tenant, who collected the rents, had malamutes who could only be walked in the evenings or very early am, otherwise they'd fall over dead from heatstroke.

I identified with Heidi, because my version of the book as a child depicted Heidi as having dark, curly hair, rather than being the placid blonde all other child's book heroines, & child's TV heroines at the time were. (Well, I guess Nancy Drew wasn't placid, but she was very bossy, & is usually depicted as having light brown straight hair.) Heidi was neither blonde nor placid, so having dark, curly hair myself & maybe not being so placid either, I identified with her.

I don't know what you're remembering, but it wasn't the "Heidi Game," which happened November 17, 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
There was no schedule conflict between Heidi and the football game in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, and I don't think you were at risk of heat stroke that day, since the high temperature in Phoenix was 66 degrees.
http://www.wunderground.com/history/air ... izona&MR=1

[ghostjmf]

I will grant you the temperature, because I did not in fact get heat stroke. When it's 66 in Phoenix, natives, not me, get out their sweaters. But my TV show, which I remember being Heidi, definitely was taken off the air, after a few minutes, for Sports Stuff. I wasn't interested enough in What Sports Stuff to tell you if it was a game still going on or people nattering about a game that had finished. I'm not trying to make an argument here, but I remember this & always assumed it was "the famous Heidi scandal". And I do remember the show I was waiting for being "Heidi".