Even by TV’s negligent, incompetent standards, there had to be another reason, a better one, an evil one.
I suspect it was a hostage situation. Radical members of a splinter group, perhaps from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, broke into CBS’ broadcast truck in Wisconsin on Sunday evening and at gunpoint demanded CBS terminate its live telecast of Patriots-Packers at the very bad time.
There can be no other logical explanation for why — at the close of a compelling, fascinating and highly unanticipated overtime game — CBS would abandon the equally compelling postgame scene to show two slow-motion replays of Packer Mason Crosby’s short, game-ending field goal, a kick Tony Romo described as essentially “an extra point.