On this day in 1939, for the first time in history, an American football game was shown on television. It is estimated that perhaps as many as a thousand television sets were tuned in to see Fordham defeat Waynesburg. Dr. Boli offers this information to any owners of time machines who are looking for a turning point in history that might be turned in the opposite direction, in the hope that they will have the imagination to conceive of a world without football games on television.