I asked the NFL to delay the start of the super bowl by 15 minutes so I could watch a jaguargator9 video. They laughed at me.

ABC: Can we delay game three for a few minutes for "Happy Days"? MLB: Sit on it.

Being a child of the 70s and somewhat of a TV addict, as soon as he made the comparison about The Masked Singer, I figued it was Happy Days. My wife still thinks I watch too much television. My dependence on TV has come in handy playing trivia games, though. I won a bottle of champaign on a cruise we took. That kind of impressed her. 🍾

Outstanding video! The thing I thought was REALLY interesting was in the paper it stated the Commissioner wasn't for Howard Cossell calling the game. I wonder why?

@pronkb000

Жыл бұрын

Cosell was openly distasteful of baseball.

Something similar happened this year with the NHL on ESPN. A golden knights vs oliers playoff game got scheduled for 10 pm once even though it was the only hockey game of the day so that ESPN could air sunday night baseball.

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

Yes. MLB and ESPN have 7:00 PM ET for Sunday Night Baseball and it made perfect sense for the hockey game to air after that. In fact, the NHL should look in this and subsequent seasons to work with Disney to have a game at 11:30 PM ET (30 minutes after College Football and later the NBA is scheduled to end on ABC) throughout the season on Saturday nights. You'd likely get the post-SNL audience for part of the second and the entire third period for such games.

I'm an early Millennial, so I didn't know about Happy Days until I saw it in off-network syndication in the '80s. ABC signed on to air MLB playoff games regardless of the night when it was that network's turn, so it had to be prepared to not air its usual primetime programming on certain days, including Tuesdays. Also, whether the game was in The Bronx, NYC or Kansas City, Mo., pushing back the start time was gonna make the fans and whoever else was at the venues freeze their asses off for longer than they would otherwise.

You could say ABC jumped the shark

No, they weren't all happy days. Like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad, Tom Bosley, had to get it back.

Well, for what it's worth, the OJ Simpson chase was happening simultaneously with Game 5 of the NBA Finals

@RetroJR3379

Жыл бұрын

I remember and I was living in San Diego and KUSI was airing Full House and after they would aired Padres/Astros and it was a rare home game on KUSI. During Full House they cut away to show the OJ chase and it lasted for about 3 hours

@jokersinurface

Жыл бұрын

I still remember this happening. NBC doing a split screen of the chase and the game.

@dionr1168

Жыл бұрын

@@RetroJR3379 I don't remember what channel I watched the OJ chase on, other than the fact that it was NOT NBC, since it wasn't split-screened with the game.

@RetroJR3379

Жыл бұрын

@Dion R I know what you mean. I couldve switched it back but me and my sister were continuing watching on KUSI we didn't wanna missed a moment

@muggsyaxton8085

Жыл бұрын

As a Knicks fan, that made my dislike of the Juice even more severe.

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 7/9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how Tuesday Night Football didn’t take off in 1978.

The video says 1976, which is correct, so I think you may need to edit the listing.

You remember what happened in the 2008 World Series, where the start time of the restarting of the final game from where the rain delay started two nights earlier was delayed half an hour to air an informercial for Obama's presidential campaign?

@quantumfootball

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewdaley746 I totally agree with all of that, I was just pointing out something similar that happened when Colin Giuliani was still pretty young.

@chrisp679

Жыл бұрын

Commas. Commas. Commas. Enough.

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

And that IMO should NOT have been done. How that SHOULD have been handled IMO (and especially to appease purists who felt the game should have been completed that day) was to declare that Game 5 a 2-2 tie with Games 6-7 as originally scheduled in Tampa that Wednesday and Thursday. If the series was tied after Game 7 at 3-3-1, then the Series as I would have done it would have returned to Philly that Saturday (November 1) for the first Game 8 of the World Series since 1921 (when the series was a best-of-nine I believe). There was a precedent MLB could have used from the NHL 20 years earlier in 1988 when the Edmonton Oilers were playing the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals. In that case, Game 4 could not be played at the Boston Garden due to a power outage caused by extreme heat (the Boston Garden was never air conditioned). That Game 4 was moved to Edmonton with Boston had it been necessary getting Games 5 & 7 and Edmonton Game 6 (the Oilers completed their sweep of the Bruins in that Stanley Cup Finals in Game 4 that turned out to be the last-ever game that Wayne Gretzky was a member of the Oilers before being traded that off-season to the Los Angeles Kings).

@chrisp679

Жыл бұрын

@@WaltGekko Major League Baseball games are not allowed to end in ties.

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisp679 In that situation, it was an official game as the game was in the 6th inning. It's been forgotten because it rarely came up in the postseason, but in the regular season games like that would often be postponed with the game played over but because it was an official game all stats from the game counted. That's where the game could have been declared a 2-2 tie with Game 5 played over at the end as a new Game 8 if necessary. That is how it would have been handled in the past but Selig decided to do it this way. As said, I would have used the NHL precedent from 1988 to simply go to Tampa for Games 6 and if necessary 7 and then if necessary return to Philly for the first Game 8 since 1921 (and in the past, World Series games did end in ties and were played over, though usually then because of darkness).

Ten years later, NBC had Game 5 start at 8:30 PM so that their ratings juggernaut, "The Cosby Show", could air at their normal Thursday night at 8 PM, same thing NBC did in 1986 that ABC did in 1976.

The samething happen with NBC during the 1997 World Series when NBC were hoping the World Series end in 4 games but it gone to 7 games hurting it Thursday Night line up

@runrafarunthebestintheworld

Жыл бұрын

back then I'm sure the Thursday Night lineup had the Office or Will & Grace.

@coreylevine8095

Жыл бұрын

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld NBC had Friends,Just Shoot Me,Seinfeld,Veronica Closet,and ER.Back then in the 1990's Thursday Night mean everything to NBC with go back to the Cosby Show and Family tied and back in the 80's i don't think they had a World Series games on Thursday night at the time

@americanidol30

Жыл бұрын

And Seinfeld was in its final season. In fact Sunday, is the 25th anniversary of its final episode.

@mgb4692

Жыл бұрын

As I said above, the 97-98 TV season at NBC couldn't have been any more of a disaster if they ran retro real-time reports of the Titanic

@TMC1982Part2

3 ай бұрын

More specifically, the late Don Ohlmeyer who was at the time, NBC's West Coast president, publicly said that he wished that the 1997 World Series would end in a four game sweep. Ohlmeyer might I add, was the man who wanted Norm MacDonald gone from "Saturday Night Live's" Weekend Update segment because he didn't appreciate the vitriol of MacDonald's OJ Simpson (who was a good friend of Ohlmeyer's) jokes.

4:19, omg that fan tried to snatch the live ball from the shortstop.

This is very similar to what happened in 2000 with CBS, the Daytona 500 & the Big East conference in college basketball. CBS's plan on this day was to air the Daytona 500 followed by the Big East rivalry match up between Georgetown & Syracuse. However because they wanted to get max ratings, the Big East asked CBS if they could move up the start time of the game from 3 ET to Noon ET & push the Daytona 500 back to 3 ET. Both CBS & NASCAR absolutely said no to this as it would mean the Daytona 500 (NASCAR's biggest race) having its ending potentially being cut off due to the local news on the East Coast & the race ending under the lights which the drivers were very uncomfortable with even though NASCAR already raced at night at Daytona with the Pepsi 400 in July. The Big East was so miffed at CBS for prioritizing NASCAR that they offered the Georgetown-Syracuse match up to ESPN which ESPN gladly took. As for the Daytona 500 it turned out to be one of the most boring of all time as Dale Jarrett led almost from start to finish & there were only 2 cautions. It also turned out to be the final Daytona 500 CBS ever covered as NASCAR would be going with Fox (which got the Daytona 500), NBC & TNT for 2001.

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

And especially back then, you could also not potentially delay 60 Minutes unless it was the NFL for a variety of reasons.

@lionsfan7500

Жыл бұрын

The next year's Daytona 500 would be very tragic!

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

@@lionsfan7500 Yep! Also the very first NASCAR race on FOX.

In my country, the BBC successfully delayed the kick off time of the UEFA Europa League semi final first leg game between Barcelona and Liverpool in 2001 for a cliffhanger episode of soap opera EastEnders.

NBC pulled this stunt 10 years later in 1986. They showed a World Series game (no pregame show) right after an episode of "The Cosby Show"

@adamsoboleski6857

Жыл бұрын

Game 5 Thursday night in Boston. Red Sox won 4-2 behind Bruce Hurst. Then game the next two infamous games.

@TMC1982Part2

3 ай бұрын

NBC also did it in 1988, with the clinching fifth game landing on a Thursday night. NBC aired an abbreviated pregame show beginning at 8:30 PM in the East before going straight into Game 5.

The only time I've seen recently where a non news story preempts a sport is if it's another sporting event going long. I've seen some times where playoff hockey and basketball games will have their start delayed if the game before is almost over. It's not common (except in the 2020 bubble where multiple games were in the same facility and obviously one stadium can't host two hockey games simultaneously (though that would be AWESOME)), but I have seen it happen.

I can't really think of any other hit shows/MLB playoff conflicts off the top of my head. Edit: Due to a rainout, Game 7 of the 1986 World Series went up against Monday Night Football.

@lsmftymf

Жыл бұрын

You are correct, sir! Just The Cosby Show. Happened at least in 1986 World Series Game 5. Generated tons of headlines.

@drewzuhosky6826

Жыл бұрын

In 2011, the World Series had Game 6 delayed one night by rain. Once the game's final score was known and a Game 7 was needed, rival network CBS pulled the scheduled episodes for Oct. 29, 2011 from the Friday night lineup and moved those episodes back one week. CBS' Friday night lineup has generally been a winning block in the ratings.

@pronkb000

Жыл бұрын

NBC used to not do pre-game coverage of postseason on Thursday nights so as not to pre-empt The Cosby Show. They'd go on the air at 8:30 and just do the standard on-camera intros before going to the first pitch a few minutes later.

@JayTemple

Жыл бұрын

Related: One game in the Series was on a Saturday and ran so late that SNL ended up being recorded and aired a week later.

@drewzuhosky6826

Жыл бұрын

@@JayTemple It aired two weeks later. The taping didn’t start until 1:30 am.

Man: All those Yankee highlights, and they only won 5-3? I’m pretty sure I saw all 27 Royal outs during that video.

Clueless decisions like this video is the reason MLB is losing popularity. Implementation of the pitch clock - rare win! Great video!!

I believe MLB went the other way with the 1989 NLCS when they acquiesced to NBC’s wishes to push back the start time of Game 2 (Giants at Cubs) to show an episode of the Cosby Show

@tommyparkerparker

Жыл бұрын

NBC also did that in 1985. Dodgers/Cardinals

@bentron3030

Жыл бұрын

That sounds really familiar

Please post more baseball videos this upcoming season!

ABC didn't resume nationally televising MLB games until 1976. 1975 was the last year of NBC exclusivity.

@franklingordon3354

Жыл бұрын

The '75 world series was on CBS. You can see their banner during some highlights and Dick Stockton had the television call of Carlton Fisk's epic game 6 home run

@lsmftymf

Жыл бұрын

@@franklingordon3354 Not true. NBC televised the 1975 World Series. MLB telecasts weren't on CBS until 1990. Look it up.

@TMC1982Part2

Жыл бұрын

@@franklingordon3354 Dick Stockton was a beneficiary of a policy that had been in place as far back as to when the World Series first aired on television back in the 1940s. That being that two broadcasters from each of the participating teams in the World Series, would get to work on the network television broadcast. With some modifications, such as the addition of Curt Gowdy as the official representative of NBC during the late 1960s, this policy continued until 1977, when ABC broadcast its first World Series under the new broadcast arrangement with NBC and Major League Baseball. With that being said, Dick Stockton worked on the 1975 World Series as solely a representative of the Boston Red Sox, not a network employee like Curt Gowdy or Joe Garagiola, the other main play-by-play announcer for NBC in that time period..

@WaltGekko

Жыл бұрын

@@TMC1982Part2 Absolutely. It was Stockton's call of Fisk's home run. That also was from what I remember reading years ago the night Stockton met his future wife, Lesley Visser (they married in 1983).

@mgb4692

Жыл бұрын

@@TMC1982Part2 Much as how Stockton appeared on ABC's Baseball Network coverage in the 90s (he was doing A's TV at the time) and possibly became the first announcer to appear on CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX

In the mid to late 1980s, NBC would delay playoff and World Series games 30 minutes on Thursday night so they could air the Cosby Show.

In a way, I can kind of see ABC's point on this. At that point - there was nothing bigger than Happy Days. It would be like having NBC lead into a game in the 80's with The Cosby Show, or Fox leading into a game in the 2000s with American Idol.

@jerseyfla

Жыл бұрын

That actually happened with NBC in the 80s. They did it with the LCS and World Series games that happened on a Thursday when The Cosby Show was on. The start of the telecast was delayed to 8:30.

ABC quickly started to hate running baseball. Its one of the reasons why there are so few recordings of MNB from the 1981 and 1982 seasons.

@TMC1982Part2

3 ай бұрын

I feel like ABC's best era for baseball began when Tim McCarver was hired to replace Howard Cosell for the 1985 World Series. It was already getting better when Al Michaels was finally hired to be the full time lead play-by-play announcer (instead of having to split the duties with Keith Jackson) in 1983. But teaming McCarver with Michaels and Jim Palmer proved to be a formable combination. Part of it was that McCarver actually acted like he wanted to be there and knew what he was talking about unlike Howard Cosell, who always derided baseball and looked for some sort of controversy to exploit and lap on to.

I like to listen to your videos in my truck. I laughed my head off when the Happy Days theme song came on. I was born in 1980 and had heard of Happy Days but I had no idea it was that popular.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld

Жыл бұрын

Happy Days was just as popular as that 70's show and the Dick Van Dyke Show.

Rich Man Poor Book? I think you meant Rich Man Poor Man. The network schedule also had to take into account the different time zones. It's not just about the east coast. In the west this game started at 5:15 with no given end time obviously. They would have no way to schedule the exact start of a show following the game.

According to Baseball Reference, the game time temp was 54 degrees-about normal for a mid October night in NYC.

@americangiant1003

7 ай бұрын

By the time a couple of weeks later for the 1976 World Series, a record breaking cold snap that would lasted almost all of the entire winter season until Spring 1977, would make it's debut in Games 3 and 4. FYI The "Big Red Machine" beat the Yankees in 4 straight sets.

You have 1975 in the descriptions.

@jaguargator7

Жыл бұрын

It’s been fixed!

NBC pushed back game 5 of the 1986 World Series until 8:30pm et to get in a new episode of The Cosby Show. BTW, back then, was it like an evil sin had they wouldve had first pitch of this ALCS game in question 15 minutes later than what was on the printed ticket? I heard they had to reprint Super Bowl 16 tickets because CBS wanted to move back the kickoff like 45 minutes.

Did Fonzie Jump the shark??????

It wouldn't be the case today

George Brett wasn't the star he became later. No Reggie in NY. Minor star power in this ALCS. I understand ABC wanted to show it's cash cow. But post season baseball was still popular in 76.

That homer knocked that fan off the stands. Sick stuff from '76....and why don't the pitchers ever wind up their pitches anymore?? It seemed to work well over 100 hundred years ago.

Masked singer has overstayed its usefulness

They couldve aired Happy Days after ALCS as the lead out

@franklingordon3354

Жыл бұрын

I'm shocked they didn't just Happy Days (my all time favorite show btw) to another night and show it in place of their lowest rated show. I know it would be juggling the lineup but its only one week and I remember shows used to get moved to a "special night" for a week occasionally back when I was a kid in the 80s

@stephenholloway6893

Жыл бұрын

Or see if the stations would drop their 7:30 pm program and put Happy Days there instead.

When the first pitch of this game was thrown, I was 14 hours away from entering the world, yet my mother was not in labor.

@aaronholcomb237

Жыл бұрын

I missed being born on Super Bowl Sunday by two days. It was the Dolphins perfect season.

1976 i think ABC got Monday Night Baseball

I think now it could work just moved Masked Singer as the lead out show to World Series and put the post game on FS1

I get ABC here but they went about it the wrong way. What they should have done was air the pre-game at 7PM to 7:30 PM, air Happy Days 7:30 PM to 8 PM (in this day promotion was everything if they got the advertisements out people would know to tune in.) At 8 PM, jump into abbreviated pre-game 2 then start of the game. Asking MLB to move the start time was completely the wrong thing to do.

@chrisp679

Жыл бұрын

ABC couldn’t do that. The 7:30 time slot belonged to the affiliates. Prime Time Access Rule wouldn’t have allowed that to happen.

@franklingordon3354

Жыл бұрын

Correct and 7pm back then was the network evening news which they weren't gonna blow off for anything

Actually, ABC started telecasting the ALCS in 1976, not 1975.

@jaguargator7

Жыл бұрын

Typo on my end (odd because I talked about the 1976 ALCS the whole time; think it’s because the NFL vid today was from 1975). It’s been fixed!

This game featured Marty Pattin coming in to relieve starting pitcher Andy Hassler, issue an intentional walk to the first batter he faced, and then get taken out of the game after facing that one batter.

Where's the Red Sox?

@crowtservo

Жыл бұрын

In 1976? They’re at home. In 1975 they were playing the Athletics in the ALCS.

#GreatStory!