If you're old, you will remember the "Heidi Game", but you have to be really, really old.

A newer but not nearly as dramatic "Heidi Game" played out in Houston.

KPRC was so eager to get their newscast on the air, they dumped out of the NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Cincinnati Bengals. 

KPRC viewers missed the last play of the game because the station had already dumped out for their newscast. 

Longtime KPRC Anchor even beat the station to social media to apologize:

Following their Anchor's lead, the station also said they were sorry: 

H/T Mike McGuff