This is the third Sunday in November--a day that will live in infamy for diehard football fans. The year was 1968. The exact date was November 17. Little did people know as they made their way home from church and prepared for an afternoon of professional football on television that this would be a day that would plunge a large portion of our population, mostly male into outrage.

The New York Jets were playing the Oakland Raiders on the West Coast. It had been a long drawn-out game. The Jets were ahead by 10 points. Just as the game was moving into its critical moments only two minutes remained someone at NBC (an insensitive clod at best, according to football fans; a cultural terrorist at worst) made the decision to cut from the ball game to show the children's movie Heidi. During those tw…