I don’t know, if I can see the players sitting around stretching, they can see the ball. There’s this huge mythology that the NFL builds about The Gridiron, and how The Players will Play no matter how snowy or cold or muddy it is, but they can’t get up and play in a half-lit stadium? Please.
I don’t know, if I can see the players sitting around stretching, they can see the ball. There’s this huge…
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That stopped being true decades ago. There’s not a chance in hell the Ice Bowl would be played again today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game
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Gus Hartmann Actually, next year’s Super Bowl is going to be in the open-air Met Life Stadium here in New Jersey.
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And yesterday it was 20F and snowing. Bit warmer today, but still cold weather.
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Clay Caviness Sure, but Lambeau during the Ice Bowl was -15F with -40F wind chill. The malfunction of the turf-heating system would probably get the field declared unplayable.
That said, if there’s snow forecast before next years’s Super Bowl, I’ll watch it.
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Gus Hartmann makes a interesting point, actually. I don’t watch enough NFL to know if the players are still being billed as Peterbilts; From what I saw last night, they’re being presented more as they are: Ferraris. In that context, waiting for the perfect stretch of road to open up the throttle makes sense.
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Had nothing to do with the players. There was equipment that both teams use that had to be functional or else there would be fairness issues. It was also a fixable issue. I imagine there were fan liability issues. The NFL still plays in mud, snowstorms, and whatever nasty weather. The only time I can recall a game being stopped was last season in a mad electrical storm. And that was to evacuate the fans to underneath the stadium.
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