Hornets Game TiVoed, Erased Before Viewing

BROADMOOR — Sports history was quietly made on Monday, May 19th, 2008.

For the first time in American sports history, a game involving the New Orleans Hornets, a professional NBA franchise, was recorded for later viewing.

According to a recently released report by Nielsen Media Research, local Cottman Transmission apprentice mechanic Chad Littleford TiVoed Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Semifinal.

Sports commentators around the world are just beginning to understand the significance of this event.

Sportsblogger Frank Turin of DoubleDribble.Tv wrote:

“The Hornets have been in New Orleans for nearly five years, and have apparently amassed no fans, made no headlines and hardly sold out a single game. They even survived Katrina, so why now?”

Mr. Littleford, who resides with his mother in Broadmoor, took notice of the Hornets after team owner George Shinn threatened to move the team to San Antonio earlier this year.

“I thought they were from Charlotte, Oklahoma,” Littleford said. “But then I saw this T-Shirt at Jazz Fest that said ‘Fan Up New Orleans’ and I put two and two together.”

Littleford claimed to have “taped” over the season finale of “Gossip Girl.”

“I guess now I’ll never know if Georgina steals Dan away from Serena,” said Littleford. “But that’s just the sacrifice I needed to make to fan up.

When asked his reaction to the excitement that transpired in the New Orleans Arena, aka the Hornet Hive, Littleford responded that he didn’t watch the game because he heard the Hornets lost.

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