"What the Hell is going on here?!?!?"
Posted on 12/27/2010 4:26:05 PM PST by Biggirl
Could the NFL now stand for “No Fun League”?
It sure sounds that way in the eyes of many Philadelphia Eagles fans when the Sunday evening NFL game between the Eagles and the Vikings got canceled and moved to Tuesday evening, a first since 1948 for two pro football teams to play.
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I agree with you. One has to wonder if the Ice Bowl or the Freezer Bowl would have been played today under these NFL rules.
The day of the postponed game it was perflectly sunny.
More like 'Bama decided to wimp out because their starting qb had a boo boo and the tide's head coach didn't want to face the Wrecking Crew.
The NFL has been the “No Fun League” for a long time. I haven’t followed it in years. I’m strictly a college football fan and root for the USC Trojans and the Occidental College Tigers.
Fight on and Io Triumphe!
What the heck are they turning the NFL into?
Maybe it's because I'm from the south and don't share any of the dumb nostalgia that yankees seem to have for their snowy football. But down south they have cancelled Miami Dolphins games before because of hurricanes. Does that make them wimps because the league didn't want them to play in 100 mph winds and pouring rain. Like you said, as long as there's no "lightning" they should have played, right?
The issue isn't the athletes, but the people going to the game. This was a night game, and people would be driving home at midnight in 50 mph winds in over 12 feet of snow.
It was absolutely the right decision to postpone the game for the safety of the fans, and anyone who says otherwise if a complete idiot.
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It was hurricane Gilbert, and I lived in Houston at the time. They closed down the entire school system in southeast Texas, and while it did make a left turn at the end and head south, it killed over 500 people and caused billions in damage.
The wrecking crew ended up being a non factor though, when they did play the Tide later in the year at Kyle field Alabama stomped them 30-10.
I remember the Vikings of the early 70s. Their coach, whose name I can’t remember, did not let his players use heaters on the sidelines during cold weather games. They had one of the toughest teams during that time.
"What the Hell is going on here?!?!?"
NOW you understand where I come from. While I root for the NFL Patriots, the football team I ROOT FOR BIGTIME is the University of Connecticut football team, who are in sunny AZ getting ready for the Festa Bowl on New Year’s Day against OK U.
Well, they could have moved the game up to the early afternoon and still had it played. Problem solved.
Well, the Mayor should have with the Governor, asked the NFL to moved the game to a 12-1PM start, which would mean, it would have been done by 3-4PM instead.
Please see post number 31. Thanks.
The goons on ESPN’s Mike & Mike in the morning are puppeting what the NFL wants them to say and are ridiculing fans that criticize the NFL’s decision.
What? And screw up the TV schedule? Can't have that!
They moved it to Tuesday instead, problem solved.
No they couldn’t. NBC pays 650 million dollars a year to have prime time games running exclusively with no other NFL games competing. If they’d gone earlier NBC wouldn’t have gotten what they paid for.
Of course ending by 3 or 4PM would have still had people out after the 2PM curfew the mayor requested.
Other then to move it to Tuesday evening, the only other alternate. What surprised me is that, Gov. Randell, who would have taken the Mayor to task, did not do so since the former would be the later’s boss. Oh well.
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