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I don't think it's really fair to take ESPN to task for hacking up
the championship replay. I suggested earlier this week that this
would happen, although I didn't know to what extent. The replay
was scheduled a long time ago to fit in a two-hour time slot, and
there is no way ESPN could have known the game would last as long as it
did. If the game ended in regulation, the replay (minus intermissions,
which were probably also cut out) would surely have fit in two hours.
It wasn't as if ESPN could just shift around its schedule at the
last minute to make the replay longer. Maybe 10 years ago they would
have done that, but they're too big now.
In fact, back in 1985 the replay of the RPI-UMD triple overtime game
wouldn't fit in its time slot, so they had to cut parts of the overtimes
as well. That's the copy I have on tape (the first year I started
recording the games). So this is nothing new.
I don't know how much ESPN listens to viewers (they apparently did not get
our message to Tom Mees not to call BU "Boston" or "Boston U."), but the
best hope is probably to get them to replay the whole game again sometime
in the middle of the night so everyone can set their VCRs. The whole game
minus intermissions can fit in three hours easily. It lasted four hours
of real time and there were four intermissions.
If they won't air an entire replay, it's especially unfair to Minnesota
fans since I remember someone saying the live broadcast was blacked out in
their area. They, at least, deserve to get to see a whole replay.
- mike
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