FOX’s broadcast of Sunday’s San Francisco-Oakland game came close to ticking off fans of “The Simpsons.” In endless commercials broadcast throughout the earlier Eagles-Bears game, Fox promoted the cartoon’s season-opening “Treehouse of Horrors XII” episode. The show was to begin at 7:30 p.m., right after the West Coast game. But choke-artist 49ers kicker Jose Cortez shanked a gimme at the end of regulation, and the game dragged into OT. Cortez eventually redeemed himself, winning the game with a 23-yarder. But by then, it was 7:35 p.m. Fox then filled the next five minutes with enough plugs to float the Titanic. And then, it joined “The Simpsons” in progress. Read More >>>
