SectionC3
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41 minutes ago, Bill51390 said:
Will be interesting to see if they can clear the stadium and roads of snow before the game.
Roads probably. Stadium no. Private lots are going to be tough. Depends on whether the mains get cleared.
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7 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:
Do Bills still play on Saturday then? That doesn't seem fair
Doubtful. Probably Sunday night if we win.
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34 minutes ago, CEN-CAL17 said:
Move it to Cleveland or move the time back?
Looks like 430 Monday. Too late to play on Cleveland
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Just now, CEN-CAL17 said:
Is not supposed to stop snowing around or shortly after kickoff? Why not just push it back to a 4pm kickoff…..? Vs potentially moving the game.
It’s probably too late to move it for Sunday
Just now, Draconator said:All I know is that my automobile has a full tank of gas, and my 5-gallon gas can is full to the top for my snowblower, which is in tip-top shape.
This thread can now go pound sand. I'm ready to blow (some snow. Yikes, Stop thinking dirty).
I gassed up at speedway last night. Heard there was a run on gas. I’m ready to roll.
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12 minutes ago, Beast said:
As long as the Bills can get people to do that for 15 dollars, things won’t change.
However I do agree with you. In these situations the Bills should be treating these employees like gold.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.
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9 minutes ago, Draconator said:
I live about 3 miles from the stadium due east.
Was sleeting when I got up. (6:30 am), now it's heavy wet snow. Not much wind to speak of.
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.
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2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
I wonder how the shovelers plan to get there …
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1 minute ago, Milanos Milano said:
There are risks in every day life. A deer can run out at anytime and knock you off the road. If people are scared, they can stay home, and let the brave people venture out and enjoy a snowy game.
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.
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10 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
Look, if there's a massive blizzard Sunday, they will cancel the game for Sunday. They won't play it Monday because of the massive blizzard Sunday. You can't dig out a stadium and all access to it overnight. Anyone who went through last year's storm would find this quite obvious.
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.
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1 minute ago, stlbills13 said:
When's the latest the NFL can realistically reschedule the game?
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.
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1 minute ago, Simon said:
He claimed And right at kickoff the band becomes more intense dropping another 8 inches from 1pm to 4 pm.
The chart actually shows 2.6" during the game
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.
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Just now, BillsShredder83 said:
this is the 2nd place ive seen monday afternoon...... why during the day? that would really F us. pitt ppl already planned around work and travel.... hard to take a monday off to go, when you wouldnt even know until the weekend
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.
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16 minutes ago, stlbills13 said:
This could be a dangerous post but with Monday also being the Iowa Republican Caucuses, I have to think that networks like CBS, Fox, NBC don't want to be televising football during those evening hours. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a factor here.
All the more reason to counterprogram with a playoff game
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14 minutes ago, Milanos Milano said:
Born and raised on it. Get a lifted truck and some chains and go 5mph. It’s not a big deal.
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.
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2 minutes ago, TheFunPolice said:
easiest solution if something has to be done is play the game Monday afternoon/evening
4:00 PM kickoff Monday could work. MNF double header.
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.
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Just now, BrettFavre said:
It's crazy that we've had two months of zero winter and now we're set to get blasted by a storm directly on a playoff game.
For those who care about Buffalo's image to the outside world, this is about to be a hilariously unfair portrayal of what life's been like here lately.
It’s been a boring winter. I’d be thrilled about the forecast if it didn’t affect a home playoff game.
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Just now, SCBills said:
That stadium looks like it might be half empty based on the Twitter screenshots of ticket sites.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.
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Just now, Big Turk said:
I call it the White Wall...if you are coming into a snow band from outside of it, it looks like a giant white wall and as you drive inside of it all you hear is this crazy "whoosh" sound and see snow falling in literally every direction.
It's surreal almost.
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.
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Just now, SCBills said:
-2 degrees at game time now with 15 to 30 mph winds in Kansas City tomorrow night.
Just insane weather for these games this weekend.
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.
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1 minute ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
Doesn't Detroit host a game this weekend? Cleveland seems to be the best bet.
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).
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1 minute ago, JMM said:
If there are truly going to be blizzard conditions during the scheduled time of the game they are going to have to do something. You can't put peoples lives in danger for a game. Especially when we just lost lives tragically last year. I think the most obvious solution is to move the game to Monday at 4. They moved a game to Tuesday a few years ago because of Covid, so what could the excuse be to not now??
It shorts us a day of rest, but I’d rather have that than an unpredictable affair in the forecasted weather.
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22 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
We were already in the playoffs. We'd have played backups.
I don't think people are getting the difference between ordinary "bad weather" and the kind of conditions we played in vs. the Colts in 2017 (sustained massive snow but no wind; we pulled it off in OT with Joe Webb playing QB - that just shows how flukey the conditions made it) or vs. the Pats in 2021 on Monday night (they won with Mac Jones throwing 3 passes). THAT's the kind of weather I'm talking about. If we get that, it's basically a coin flip.
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.
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2 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:
There is zero chance that a day after a storm like that ended a game could be played. Some people were stuck in their homes for a week. over 30 people died. Plowing routes to and from the stadium was not a public priority, as you should already have known.
If it is to be as bad as you are saying, they wouldn't be playing Monday.
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.
6 minutes ago, zow2 said:Alot of us have driven in these snow bands. One time I was driving from Williamsville to Ithaca. I hit the band a few miles after i got on the Thruway going Eastbound, after Pembroke. It was terrifying. The only thing that saved me was following directly behind a Greyhound bus, barely seeing his tail lights and going 10mph. I followed and drove in his tire tracks all the way to Rochester. When we got to Roch, out of nowhere the sky was blue and sunny and the snow machine turned off. I was sweating bullets and was so happy to make it. And this was just a snow band not 45+mph winds and a blizzard.
So Getting back to the Bills game.. how in the world are they gonna put 60,000+ people out there in conditions like that?!? That would be insane.
This. It’s nuts. Unless you’ve been in it, you don’t understand.
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2 minutes ago, RiotAct said:
I was at that game (which was also against the Steelers IIRC)… not the stadium grounds crew‘s finest hour!
Yeah. No kidding. I think the crew actually had to shovel the pellets after halftime.
Game Postponed! - To be played Monday at 4:30pm
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It's nuts. Thundersnow here in OP.
You're not in OP. It is coming down.