Weather Forecast for Monday

[Bad Things]

I can't believe some of you have given the OP grief about making a post about potentially bad weather.

 

[Malazan]

1 hour ago, MiltonWaddams said:

Common man. Let’s not keep fretting about the uncontrollables.

 

If only we had the technological prowess as a society to keep the elements from affecting a sporting event. One day, I'm sure we'll figure out something. 

[The Frankish Reich]

20 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Remember this bad weather game in Buffalo involving Belichick? 

 

You just had to remind me of this one, didn’t you …. 
… we were the better team then, probably for the last time in 20 years, but weather was the equalizer.  

[Nitro]

7 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Tell that to the diehard "snowday"-ers who will never give up their open stadium experience. Even if it costs them a SB. Whatever,  I'm tired of trying to convince those the value of a domed stadium for enhancing his skills. You'll get what you asked for. 

In the past 20 years, how many dome teams have won Super Bowls?  Two.  Indy and NO.   Sixteen cold team games but cold weather cities, one wet weather (Seattle) and the lone warm weather outdoor team is Tampa Bay.   It is about how you play.  Elements be damned. 

[corta765]

2 hours ago, FilthyBeast said:

 

How is this bad luck in Orchard Park in December?

 

I think the point is more this season has been an unusually bad season in terms of weather compared to the previous seasons. The Washington game was the only one thus far that was truly a good day for football. The Texans/Colts were awful washouts and Steelers/Dolphins high wind days (I was not there this is what I was told). It isn't unusual for a game or two to have adverse weather, but I do agree with the OP that this year has had a seemingly larger amount of truly heavy weather games and heading into December it doesn't seem to be letting up.

[LyndonvilleBill]

1 hour ago, Buffalo619 said:

Typical weather for this time of year.  We should take advantage of this. 

What's the advantage? Were playing NE, not a South team like Miami. Does it not snow or get cold in NE?🤔

[The Frankish Reich]

5 minutes ago, Nitro said:

In the past 20 years, how many dome teams have won Super Bowls?  Two.  Indy and NO.   Sixteen cold team games but cold weather cities, one wet weather (Seattle) and the lone warm weather outdoor team is Tampa Bay.   It is about how you play.  Elements be damned. 

Well, not all “cold weather cities” are created equal. 

[sherpa]

I really get a kick out of these weather posts.

I hope the rank and file understand that the original post that included a surface weather depiction chart was for 0000Z, 6 Dec.

 

A simple understanding reveals that the time of that forecast is for 7pm Sunday in Buffalo.

Can we wait until at least Saturday night to panic?

[WhoTom]

Anyone remember the phrase that begins, "When it's too tough for them ..."

 

 

 

[Blainorama5]

Who cares what the weather is if we're getting Feliciano, Star and Brown back!!!!!   (hopefully)

[Beast]

I'd rather have Josh Allen as my QB than Mac Jones in bad conditions....or any conditions.

[BADOLBILZ]

30 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Remember this bad weather game in Buffalo involving Belichick? 

 

 

 

Yeah the sleet was brutal in the upper deck that day.   Blinding.    So we went downstairs and the place was so empty late in the game that we actually walked across the stands with the teams as they moved up and down the field.    Really started snowing very hard late in the game.

 

Got out to the parking lot and there was like 10" of snow on the cars.   We had a two wheel drive 12 passenger Ram van and got on 20A to go home and the roads were terrible.    Some volunteer fire department had a detour set up about 10 miles outside of OP and idiotically sent us all down a road that had a deep ravine in it.   We were just over the crest of a hill with a line of cars right behind us when I could see cars piled up at the bottom of the ravine.   They couldn't get up the hill and had rolled back.     Only way thru was to ride the ditch around them like a rail.   I flew down no brakes and the piled up snow kept us upright and somehow we got lucky and popped out of the ditch at full speed after the pile-up and made it up the steep hill.   What a cluster.   When we reached Warsaw it hadn't snowed one bit all day and it was like an October ride home from there.    It was surreal but that's lake effect.....and that's why we need a gotdamn dome!    

[Mrbojanglezs]

Im tired of hearing complaints and excuses about the weather,  new stadium should have a roof.

[HappyDays]

Good. Let's see Mac Jones throw the ball in wind and rain. I'll take Allen in that contest.

[TheFunPolice]

I just watched an old Thanksgiving snow game between Dallas and Miami (in Dallas) on YouTube. Field was all ice and snow. In Dallas! 

 

Man the game was so different then. I feel like players are better and definitely smarter now. It looked like nobody could even walk around, let alone play real football. Plus Leon Lett... LOL

 

Now the snow just provides a nice backdrop for the show. It hardly affects players. Wind is what sucks. 

 

Either way, NO DOME BABY! These NFL stadiums are basically TV sets because TV is where the money is, and domes look freaking terrible on TV, with a couple of multi-billion dollar exceptions. It's like whoever built these domes tried to think of the worst possible looking backdrop for the product. 

Edited November 30, 2021 by TheFunPolice

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

1 minute ago, Mrbojanglezs said:

Im tired of hearing complaints and excuses about the weather,  new stadium should have a roof.

what new cold weather city stadiums don’t have a roof? It would be so behind the times and a huge waste of money for the city and state and taxpayers if it didn’t have a roof. Just go build the same stadium as in Minnesota or Indy. 

[Mrbojanglezs]

1 minute ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

what new cold weather city stadiums don’t have a roof? It would be so behind the times and a huge waste of money for the city and state and taxpayers if it didn’t have a roof. Just go build the same stadium as in Minnesota or Indy. 

 

New York Jets/Giants is probably the most recent example, but they do not get nearly the same kind of severe weather we do (Wind/Snow)

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

1 minute ago, Mrbojanglezs said:

 

New York Jets/Giants is probably the most recent example, but they do not get nearly the same kind of severe weather we do (Wind/Snow)

yeah, that’s the last I could think of, and that was in 2010! Plus, that stadium is part of a complex, which has other indoor venues. 
 

A small market like Buffalo should be looking at the stadium for all the other events that they can host in it besides football— there has to be a lot more

money to make with an indoor stadium venue. 

[clayboy54]

Be glad we don't play in Erie, PA. LOL

[Mrbojanglezs]

4 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

yeah, that’s the last I could think of, and that was in 2010! Plus, that stadium is part of a complex, which has other indoor venues. 
 

A small market like Buffalo should be looking at the stadium for all the other events that they can host in it besides football— there has to be a lot more

money to make with an indoor stadium venue. 

 

I agree 100%, even if you like football outside which is valid, for such a small market like Buffalo, it makes ZERO SENSE to build a 1 billion + stadium, especially if taxpayer money is involved, for it to be a single use venue with no roof. At least give us the opportunity to use it for other events. 

[TheFunPolice]

We'll be lucky to get any stadium built, but it aint going to have a roof at the cost of hundreds of millions more. 

 

Arguing about a dome is like arguing for the new field to be built at the land I bought in East Newstead along the thruway on the advice of a dude I met from Dunkirk. Now we just grow onions and sit in broken plastic Adirondack chairs watching the cars go by. But that's another story... 

 

1. NYS is flat broke

2. NYS politics is all about COVID, COVID, COVID and now you're asking for hundreds of millions for billionaire owners of an upstate team 

3. The Bills owners aren't even asking for a roof

4. Now you expect the STATE to say "hey, let's do a roof and here's ANOTHER few hundred million on top of the obscene amount you already want from our broke state in the middle of the pandemic?" 

 

There won't be a roof, and we, like the Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, and New England Patriots, will be DOOMED to not get to Super Bowls OR have great passing games because of the weather. 

 

 

[Augie]

3 hours ago, KCNC said:

Embrace it boys!

 

When it’s too tough for them……….

 

 

 

It’s just right for me to watch from my couch! 

 

How shocking that a weather report for a December game turned into a referendum on dome vs open stadiums. Who could have POSSIBLY seen that coming? 

 

 

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Edited November 30, 2021 by Augie

[First Round Bust]

the wind - I heard that the stadium sits on elevated ground thus the wind more of a factor, the city of Buffalo by comparison sits at 600 feet - the stadium is roughly 300 feet higher:

 

Elevation of Orchard Park, NY, USA

Location: United States > New York > Erie County >

Longitude: -78.744092

Latitude: 42.7675323

 

Elevation: 263m / 863feet

[Italian Bills]

I’m from deep north Italy so i know very well winter conditions, snow and wind, today here was sunny but 27f. You call me crazy but Monday night i hope for a super cold night with some snow and no wind at all. Do they have better backs ? So let it snow and relate to passing game, where we have a top five QB and great wideouts. 

[Big Blitz]

So Moss is going to be active isn't he...

[Ramza86]

The wind...the rain....the snow...thats for tough football teams with strong trenches and favor running teams.

 

We have none of that.....why the ***** are we not building a dome for the new stadium. ***** the elements.

[LABILLBACKER]

1 hour ago, Nitro said:

In the past 20 years, how many dome teams have won Super Bowls?  Two.  Indy and NO.   Sixteen cold team games but cold weather cities, one wet weather (Seattle) and the lone warm weather outdoor team is Tampa Bay.   It is about how you play.  Elements be damned. 

Yeah and they both had HOF qbs who thrived on throwing the ball. Peyton has said many times he was grateful to play indoors. Let's take snow completely out of the argument.  Are the anti-domers purposely ignoring the documented fact that JA struggles in wind and rain. We seen this multiple times. Maybe they go cheap and say "screw it we're not spending the extra money on a retractable roof"?  I just personally think it will come back to bite this team. 

[dave mcbride]

1 hour ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

Yeah the sleet was brutal in the upper deck that day.   Blinding.    So we went downstairs and the place was so empty late in the game that we actually walked across the stands with the teams as they moved up and down the field.    Really started snowing very hard late in the game.

 

Got out to the parking lot and there was like 10" of snow on the cars.   We had a two wheel drive 12 passenger Ram van and got on 20A to go home and the roads were terrible.    Some volunteer fire department had a detour set up about 10 miles outside of OP and idiotically sent us all down a road that had a deep ravine in it.   We were just over the crest of a hill with a line of cars right behind us when I could see cars piled up at the bottom of the ravine.   They couldn't get up the hill and had rolled back.     Only way thru was to ride the ditch around them like a rail.   I flew down no brakes and the piled up snow kept us upright and somehow we got lucky and popped out of the ditch at full speed after the pile-up and made it up the steep hill.   What a cluster.   When we reached Warsaw it hadn't snowed one bit all day and it was like an October ride home from there.    It was surreal but that's lake effect.....and that's why we need a gotdamn dome!    

A dome ain't gonna save you from that drive!

[Beast]

38 minutes ago, Ramza86 said:

The wind...the rain....the snow...thats for tough football teams with strong trenches and favor running teams.

 

We have none of that.....why the ***** are we not building a dome for the new stadium. ***** the elements.

 

And what happens when three years after the stadium opens and the Bills have a new HC and GM that prefer power football? Tear the dome off the stadium?

 

[zow2]

All i know is that if Mac Jones, a rookie  from Jacksonville, FL and Tuscaloosa engineers a victory over the Bills in a must-win game in our Orchard Park December weather, i will lose my sh!t.

[Mike in Horseheads]

If we had a dome we'd have a drought.

[Just in Atlanta]

3 hours ago, stevewin said:

If Mac Jones was a storm he'd be soft drizzle

Wrong. Mac Jones is the pleasant earthy smell after a soft summer rain. 
 

There’s a word for that: Petrichor.

 

Mac Jones is petrichor.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

4 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

If we had a dome we'd have a drought.

We're doomed. 🙁  I need a draught beer. 

Edited November 30, 2021 by Ridgewaycynic2013

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 hours ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

lol 

 

You get the opportunity to go to a game and you want to complain about the weather?

 

 

Honestly... I got some normal time off... Thinking about getting tickets.  It's like skiing... I don't mind the temps... Just Hate the rain... I don't wanna sit in cold rain... If they were forecasting a foot of snow, I'd have my tickets alreadt...

 

...Guess I will just wait till we get a little closer..  

 

Really.  I don't mind 30s, 40s... Love skiing in it... Just hate the rain. 

[Nitro]

19 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Yeah and they both had HOF qbs who thrived on throwing the ball. Peyton has said many times he was grateful to play indoors. Let's take snow completely out of the argument.  Are the anti-domers purposely ignoring the documented fact that JA struggles in wind and rain. We seen this multiple times. Maybe they go cheap and say "screw it we're not spending the extra money on a retractable roof"?  I just personally think it will come back to bite this team. 

Do want the city/state/ownership to add millions to a stadium construction budget for one player?  I get your thinking but those who are not football fans will howl in anger over that.

[stevewin]

7 minutes ago, Just in Atlanta said:

Wrong. Mac Jones is the pleasant earthy smell after a soft summer rain. 
 

There’s a word for that: Petrichor.

 

Mac Jones is petrichor.

Or the foul odor after a soft unpleasant bowel movement 

[ExiledInIllinois]

I like the Stadium in The OP, think it should stay... BUT, Devil's advocate... This in between weather blows especially when you're dragging, feeling under the weather.   It's achy when it's damp.

 

Heat is just as bad.  Not sure which is worse...

[Success]

It would be kind of funny amidst all of the Jones hype if he wilted in cold/bad weather.

 

[Mike in Horseheads]

15 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

We're doomed. 🙁  I need a draught beer. 

I need a beer truck in the yard 🍻

[LABILLBACKER]

9 minutes ago, Nitro said:

Do want the city/state/ownership to add millions to a stadium construction budget for one player?  I get your thinking but those who are not football fans will howl in anger over that.

I understand this. 50% of the cost will come from taxpayers. I get it. But if I felt building a dome benefits Josh enough for him to lead this Lombardi-less franchise to a championship wouldn't you say it was worth every penny. And I totally understand the beauty of an outdoor game. It just seems like Orchard park has become the windiest NFL city every Sunday. And you can't deny it affects his play.