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