Posted on 01/13/2024 10:02:58 AM PST by Red Badger
The New York governor made the announcement Saturday
Multiple Super Wild Card Weekend matchups will be affected due to weather, and now, one game has been postponed because of it. Saturday, New York governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Pittsburgh Steelers at Buffalo Bills playoff matchup will be moved from 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, to 4:30 p.m. Monday due to dangerous conditions.
Governor Hochul posted on social media that travel is going to be extremely dangerous in Western New York, and that a full travel ban has been implemented for Erie County starting at 9 p.m.
The Steelers have not traveled to Buffalo and are scheduled to leave on Sunday, according to CBS Sports Lead NFL Insider Jonathan Jones.
An update on our Super Wild Card game. #PITvsBUF pic.twitter.com/0JuHh6ls5i
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 13, 2024 According to Weather.com, Buffalo is under a winter storm warning from 10 a.m. Saturday until 7 a.m. Monday morning. Heavy lake effect snow and strong winds are expected this weekend, while snow accumulations in the area could range from 1 to 3 feet. The Bills even previously asked for help to shovel snow in Highmark Stadium through the night so it could be ready for Sunday afternoon.
The last time an NFL playoff game was moved came in 2016, when Steelers vs. Chiefs in Kansas City was moved back from 1:05 ET to 8:20 ET due to an ice storm, per ESPN. While the NFL world does lose a Sunday playoff tripleheader with this rescheduling, it does mean we now get a Monday doubleheader, with Steelers-Bills kicking off at 4:30 p.m. ET, while the Philadelphia Eagles play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 8:15 p.m. ET.
Doesn’t matter if you agree. The reality is settled. Has been for over 30 years. It’s no more behind a paywall than any other game that’s on a service other than the broadcast networks.
If you read the condition of spectrum use in the TV license agreements of the FCC, network are to “serve the viewing public”. I think the networks established a precedent of service by historically broadcasting these games on network TV. In essence, such licenses privatize a public resource (i.e., spectrum) which is why the FCC exists in the first place. I would not be surprised to see a class-action suit filed against NBC.
Yup. I seriously doubt the NY State Constitution gives her power over the NFL in her state.
Unconstitutional government action = tyranny.
Generally, women in power don’t get it because they don’t generally belong there. They belong at home with their babies and husband and their inborn homemaking skills where they are happiest.
Also, all the taxpayers who've paid for the new stadiums should file a class-action suit against NBC (and the NFL?) We have a vested interest in making sure the games are available for the general public since we are financing corporate welfare.
The end goal of the NFL is to put the Super Bowl on pay per view. Secondary is to make recording the games and watching it without commercials more difficult. Often on Sunday I record the early games and try to go on a media blackout so I don’t hear the scores and watch it them later. They and the networks hate that.
“Yup. I seriously doubt the NY State Constitution gives her power over the NFL in her state.”
Does the Constitution of the State of New York provide the governor power to direct state resources for security and to clear roads of snow?
The end goal of the NFL is to put all NFL games on pay per view.
Advising the Bills of issues with state resources for security and to clear roads of snow is not the same as tyrannical ORDERING the game to be rescheduled.
Probably not. They make way too much money from the networks getting the SB on rotation to make up for that on PPV. As for recording and watching without commercials the whole industry hates that, which is of course part of why they’re learning to love streaming, all the convenience for you of recording to watch later (maybe without commercials, if you pay extra) but they still get paid.
Technically they didn’t order the game rescheduled, they issued a travel ban. Which of course forces the game to be rescheduled. But that’s more of a side effect. Given everything even if there wasn’t a game in Buffalo tomorrow (like if the Bill’s had lost last week and therefore stayed in Miami) the travel ban still probably happens.
50 million Americans paying $250 for the Super Bowl. That’s $12.5 Billion.
I'm guessing the weather will NOT be much better on Monday and LESS people will attend.
Ever consider running for public office?
Yes indeed...
Never let a chance for rehearsing for future events pass...
The covid fantasy worked so well, travel is the obvious next freedom tp go...
Not that it is relevant to the issue at hand, but in a way I’m a public officer now. As an attorney, I am an officer of the Court.
A “travel ban”? Isn’t what they misnamed the INVASION of our southern border?
Not sure the State Constitution gives the Governor the power to ban travel.
Advisories and warnings seem more appropriate and let the principles decide from there.
lol. Ok.
You’d have a great political campaign running on the Jim knows what makes women happy platform.
No women judges where you practice?
Not that’s I’ve heard.
It probably does. Once a state of emergency is declared governors can do a lot of whatever they want. Is the state that pays for the various emergency services that might have to rescue people in stuck cars not a principle? Not to mention how those emergency services people wind up putting themselves at risk. Weather shut downs happen. There’s really nothing that new about it.
Look, fuzz, you’re shoveling sh#t against the tide.
Women are more lost, dazed, and confused than they ever were and a push back to normalcy and women’s homemaking has begun with the acceptance that the diabolic Women’s Movement did not deliver as promised. Like Eve after she was deceived by the devil in the garden.
I am shocked she didn’t postpone the game until January 2030.
By her own stated convictions, Buffalo will be sub-tropical with 70 degree temps this time of year by that year.
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