If a tree falls in the woods. … Are you kidding? Try this on: Fifty years ago, the end of a game no one saw became the end of a game no one would forget.
In 1982, when I was assigned this column, it came with an unspoken obligation to preserve local New York sports history:
Never forget the “Heidi Game” or the “Heidi Bowl,” Nov. 17, 1968, when NBC bolted from the Jets-Raiders — an intense, often brutal, AFL rivalry — for the start of the movie “Heidi.