When the entire nation of basketball fans was watching Game 6 of the Finals on NBC, NBC suddenly switched the live broadcast to a highway in Los Angeles, focusing the camera on a white Ford SUV.
Behind the wheel was NFL Hall of Famer O. J. Simpson, who was fleeing from the law under suspicion of murdering his wife, staging a real-life GTA-style high-speed chase with the Los Angeles police.
NBC knew that they couldn't interrupt the broadcast of the Finals, but they couldn't bear to let the entire nation miss out on the spectacle.
So, they reduced the game's footage to the lower right corner and made the main screen a live broadcast of the police chasing Simpson.
This affected the game because the players on the court also wanted to follow the action!
When Tomjanovich called a timeout and realized the players were actually discussing the case, he exploded: