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17 November 2012

I should have never seen the new Twilight movie

And it's not because it was bound to suck. But first, today is the 44th anniversary of the Heidi Game. This was an American football game played on November 17, 1968. The home team, the Oakland Raiders, defeated the New York Jets, 43–32. The game is remembered for its exciting finish, as Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to overcome a 32–29 New York lead. The Heidi Game obtained its name because NBC controversially broke away from the game with the Jets still winning to air the television film Heidi at 7pm in the Eastern Time Zone. In the late 1960s, few professional football games took longer than two and a half hours to play, and the Jets–Raiders three-hour time slot was thought to be adequate. A high-scoring contest, together with a number of injuries and penalties for the two bitter American Football League rivals, caused the game to run long. NBC executives had ordered that Heidi must begin on time, but given the exciting game, they decided to postpone the start of the film and continue football coverage. As 7pm approached, many members of the public called NBC to inquire about the schedule, either to complain or opine, jamming NBC's switchboards. As NBC executives were trying to call the same switchboards to implement their decision, the change could not be communicated, and Heidi began as scheduled. The movie pre-empted the final moments of the game in the eastern half of the country, to the outrage of viewers who missed two Oakland touchdowns that turned the game around.

Now onto why I should have never seen the new Twilight movie. The fight scene at the end was such a let-down. The fight was actually quite well choreographed, but it was all just one character's imagination, and the scene ended with them deciding they wouldn't fight that day. It was as if M Night Shyamalan was the real director. There, I said it. Now please don't subject yourself to that anticlimactic bull.

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