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It’s probably too late to move it for Sunday I gassed up at speedway last night. Heard there was a run on gas. I’m ready to roll.

They were short staffed for the NE home game. I’m wondering how many of those workers are going to endure the aggravation of traveling to this one. And how many can make it there. Could be a long line at the gates tomorrow.

I’m probably within a mile of you and i Have nothing here. Snow forecast shifted a little north overnight. Better news for tomorrow, I guess. Or less awful, I suppose.

I wonder how the shovelers plan to get there …

The brave people unfortunately are going to have a lot of people to rescue if this forecast holds and the game is played. So they better take it easy on the booze and be ready to help in the late afternoon.

How much accumulation is there in this “massive blizzard?” Anyone who went through last year’s storm would know that there’s a difference between a mountain of lake effect snow (like Snowvember I and II) and perhaps a little less snow coupled with extraordinary winds. If there’s a mountain of snow (like, say, several feet in 24 hours) a Monday game here isn’t happening. But if the issue is a decent amount of snow on Sunday (like, say, a foot) coupled with tropical-storm force winds, then it would be reasonable to deem Sunday an impassable day on the roads and possible to clean and play on Monday. It wouldn’t be easy, and it wouldn’t be perfect, and there would be a ton of snow in the stands. But roads and lots could be cleared and that game could happen at 4p on Monday afternoon.

Depends what you mean by reschedule. If it’s move it to a different city, they probably can do it as late as tonight if it’s going to Detroit. It gets dicier if done tomorrow morning. If it’s not relocating, but simply changing the date and time of the game, I don’t see any reason why that cant be accomplished tomorrow.

Is the chart for the airport or for OP? (I agree with you that it was read incorrectly.). I ask because there typically is significant variance between accumulation in the Southtowns and the airport.

There’s a MNF game at night. CBS gets an exclusive window for the playoff game. Monday’s a day off. The NFL doesn’t care about travel plans of its fans. And, most importantly, it might be the only way to play this game in Buffalo this weekend.

All the more reason to counterprogram with a playoff game

I wish it was that easy. I’m good with 4WD and a little sand. So many people who live here are cruising around in their little Hyundais or the like and they’re the ones who plant it in the snowbank.

It’s kind of a great thing with the holiday. If it’s a hit on TV, look for the cash pigs that are the NFL to add an extra playoff game (no more byes) and use Monday as the way to get all of the games in. 3 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday 2 on Monday. It’s an NFL weekend.

It’s been a boring winter. I’d be thrilled about the forecast if it didn’t affect a home playoff game.

They don’t know how to dress for it. I stand by the point that, if you’re not hammered, the cold is an easily manageable thing. So is the wind (which is no fun), and the snow (which is very enjoyable, until it’s time to leave). For the players, the combo of predicted wind and snow is terrible. And for the public . . . This just makes no sense. There’s no way to get all of these people in and out of there in a reasonable way if the forecast is true.

And it happens so fast. I get how people get stranded and stuck in those events. If you’re dumb (like a woman stuck near me in one) and go out in, say, a skirt and heels, you’re in a bad way trying to stay warm when you have to clear the snow from behind the tailpipe.

The temp really isn’t that bad. My clothes froze during a run before the NE game. I didn’t think I would make it through the game that night. But the hot hands and gear are so much better now than they were years ago. It was easily the best cold weather game I’ve attended. Warm and fine the whole time.

Detroit goes on Saturday or Sunday. So we theoretically could play there on Monday. Hotels, etc., might be tough. But it’s feasible (and, from our perspective, at least familiar because we’ve played there a few times and we’re used to the routine).

It shorts us a day of rest, but I’d rather have that than an unpredictable affair in the forecasted weather.

I sat through both of those. Combine them and it’s going to be a joke. From a football perspective, this is a horrid forecast.

And yet it still will be better on Monday than on Sunday. So what’s your solution? Bring 70+k people to OP, force the town/county/state to plow to get them out of there (which it did NOT do during the most recent major snow events to force people to stay off of the roads to allow for cleaning), and then deal with those people and others who decide to travel on roads that are marginally plowed? And, frankly, the reason so many people (47, IIRC) died in the last storm like this one is that many of them were out on roads and were stuck in cars during the teeth of the blizzard, which is exactly why, from a public safety perspective, this game should not be played here on Sunday. So it’s either roll the dice on Sunday, play it on Sunday (in Cleveland, apparently), or try it here or in Cleveland/Detroit on Monday. This. It’s nuts. Unless you’ve been in it, you don’t understand.

Yeah. No kidding. I think the crew actually had to shovel the pellets after halftime.

Agreed on the importance. And it’s not a football game, it’s a PLAYOFF game. One must skip at leas the first four of the events you mentioned for such an affair.

That’s the point. I’d run it at 4p on Sunday and use it as lead in to MNF. ESPN may complain, but whatever. Bump the start of that game back a bit to let ESPN have a more captive audience for the pre-game programming. It’s a common-sense, easy solution. Only downside is that the schedule for the following weekend can’t be set until the conclusion of any early Monday game that might be played. (Late game would be a 4/5 game in NFC, IIRC, meaning that the destination of the winner is dictated by the results in other games.) From what I understand Hochul just declared a state of emergency. State and local officials might be able to force the issue here and get it pushed back a bit.

Agreed. All day long. And I get that someone is going to say that this is a football game, not a wedding or a party or whatever. I agree with that point. Football is meant to be played in the elements. But football games with 70k+ attendees are not meant to HOSTED in such elements. I’m going to bang on the Monday late afternoon drum on this one all day long.

Exactly. Made the point upthread. We play Monday, next game for winner is Sunday night. (Makes sense b/c it’s likely to be Bills Chiefs, which almost certainly would be on Sunday night, anyways, or Steelers Ravens, which is an appropriate Sunday night game.) That can be dealt with. It’s not the best use of public resources, but they can get 90/190/219/20A open. Lots can be cleared. Private lots are on their own, but it’s feasible. The big issue is getting people in and out of the Stadium in an ongoing blizzard, which it appears we will have on Sunday. No amount of equipment is going to resolve that issue.