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Return of 'Heidi' if not Raiders
From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20031115
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SHE WAS ONCE the most powerful girl in sports. She had grown men cursing.
She made the front page of the New York Times. Not bad for a 10- year-old goat-herder in a dirndl skirt. Not good for the AFL or NBC. We speak, of course, of Heidi, the Swiss Miss heroine of Johanna Spyri's 19th century fiction and 20th century film.
It will be 35 years Monday the movie "Heidi" displaced a game between the Raiders and New York Jets, gaining a niche in infamy. Nov. 17, 1968, Oakland Coliseum. Jets score on a field goal by Jim Turner -- of Crockett -- to lead the Raiders, 32-29. Nearly 4 p.m. in ...
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