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NFL Divisional Round weekend thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Cosmo, Jan 12, 2021.

  1. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Playoff football in the elements is real football, so much better than dome playoff football. The weather is a factor. I grew up six miles from that stadium. It's close to Lake Erie, in the southtowns snowbelt, and windy.
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    The most entertaining thing about that game was Al and Chris laughing as Michelle gave her report: "The winds have died down in the second half".
    Meanwhile they are showing the flags are about to be ripped from the poles.
    "The flags are starched", Al says...
     
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Football games dominated by weather suck. I don't care if you were born with a frigging wing in your mouth.
     
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  4. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    In this instance I think both team's defenses had more to do with it than a little wind. It wasn't even cold, and there was no snow. Weather was a factor, but certainly not a dominant one by any stretch of the imagination.

    And wings weren't invented yet when I was born. Genny Cream and Utica Club, OTOH ...
     
  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    The era of the Ain’ts and the Bay of Pigs.
     
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  6. UPChip

    UPChip Well-Known Member

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    Dec. 1, 1985 - Green Bay got a foot the weekend of the game and four, five more inches during. Could happen again, though at present the long-range weather for next weekend in Wisconsin is around 20 with some snow showers, so seasonably cold. Might even be better than current. We've had this yucky run of clammy and 30 for like a week, and that stuff gets into your bones. Sounded like Pam Oliver might have needed a warm-up shack during a couple of her hits today.
     
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  7. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    I am stunned that they didn't put the NFC title game in primetime. Once the Packers won, that seemed like the logical choice.
     
  8. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    It is.alternated.
     
  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Football as envisioned is an autumn sport, with almost every game played before winter. Colleges typically wrapped up their seasons around Thanksgiving. The NFL's "Greatest Game Ever Played" was held only six days after fall ended.

    It only became a winter sport because they expanded the regular season five weeks and kept expanding the playoffs, too.

    This 2 feet of snow "Ah, this is how football was MEANT to be played" is not true at all.
     
  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    You and I didn't watch the same game.
     
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  11. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    The NFL is a game of adjustments.

    Adjusting to injuries is just like adjusting to weather.
     
  12. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    The last Bronco game I physically attended was in 1984(I moved from Denver right after the Drive in 1987). The Broncos were playing the Packers on Monday Night and Denver was experiencing a blizzard. A friend had tickets high up in the south stands. So I drove through the weather to watch the game.

    As I walked to the stadium I could see from a scoreboard 15 minutes on the clock. As I walked underneath the south stands I heard a roar. I asked a guy what happened. Steve Foley had recovered a fumble and scored with 16 seconds in the game. As I walked up the steps of the south stands with my back to the game the crowd rose and roared. Louis Wright had recovered another fumble and returned it for a touchdown. The Broncos lead 14-0

    I sat through the rest of the game in that blizzard and the Broncos basically did nothing else. They won 17-14. And I have never gone to another bad weather game anywhere.
     
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