Jennifer Edwards
ABOUT JENNIFER EDWARDS
Star of the made-for-TV movie Heidi who became an unwitting accomplice to the uproar known as The Heidi Bowl.
Her film began precisely at 7pm on NBC, breaking off the last minute of a football game between the Jets and Raiders, with the Raiders staging an improbable comeback.
After her film aired, Angry football fans flooded the NBC switchboards with complaints and overloaded the NYPD's elaborate phone system.
She was the daughter of Pink Panther actor Blake Edwards , and stepdaughter of actress Julie Andrews .
Thirty-five years after the infamous incident, she met the Jets' former QB Joe Namath on a plane to New York; both described the meeting as pleasant.
