h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was an 8 year old girl living in New York at the time. My dad is a *huge* football fan, and we were, of course, watching the game. I was looking forward to football being over, and Heidi coming on! We were thrilled that they went to Heidi! Dad and my brother weren't quite so happy. It's funny, but this is still a very vivid memory for me, and just the other day when I mentioned to my sister that my husband's college football game wasn't being televised, she said, "Oh, another Heidi bowl?"

Given this piece of evidence, and one's own natural inclinations, it seems hard to conclude that [American] football viewers would be the sort who want to see Heidi (or vice versa), and thereby puch the ratings up...but then, maybe the TV scedulers had a rather differnt system of logic to the majority of us- how I'll never know.

(I put 'American' in brackets for the benefit of my fellow Brits, to avoid confusion between it and real football, or soccer (a slang form of 'asocciation football'). The realness I refer to all has to do with the relationship between foot and ball, which justifies the name rather more for soccer than the American game, where the ball is mostly picked up-not allowed in soccer. I do not take it to mean that one game is better than the other.)