Minnesota-Philly Ppd...WHAT?

[Bob806]

Am I in the minority here? Why is this game being postponed until Tuesday?

 

Unless it's a thunderstorm, football needs to be played. There have been many games played in cold/blizzard conditions. Looks like the NFL wants 32 domes....

[Mark O]

they're expecting 20" of snow this afternoon. The game was postponed for public safety reasons.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Because Philadelphia gets one or two storms a year (usually) and freaks out. That, and the area is extremely crowded population wise with New York, Baltimore and DC within a hundred some miles.

[BROWNandORANGE]

Am I in the minority here? Why is this game being postponed until Tuesday?

 

Unless it's a thunderstorm, football needs to be played. There have been many games played in cold/blizzard conditions. Looks like the NFL wants 32 domes....

 

how exactly do you expect fans to get to the stadium?

[WRREBEL]

No this is a consirpacy...

The nfl will do anything to try to get farve enough time to play

[Mark O]

Of course...because that worked out so well on Monday night right? He's played most of the year and what is the Vikings record?

[Bob806]

how exactly do you expect fans to get to the stadium?

 

Plan accordingly, seems reasonable to me.

[BROWNandORANGE]

Plan accordingly, seems reasonable to me.

 

Its a bit hard to drive to the stadium with 20 inches of snow on the ground, not to mention 50 mph gusts of wind.

 

BTW, what is the symbolism of your avatar, with the S-Hawks logo?

[Mark O]

plan accordingly? in 20" of snow and the Mayor saying it's a state of emergency in the city? Should they have left yesterday to get to the stadium?

[Bob806]

Its a bit hard to drive to the stadium with 20 inches of snow on the ground, not to mention 50 mph gusts of wind.

 

BTW, what is the symbolism of your avatar, with the S-Hawks logo?

 

ESPN.com had a bunch of logos last year, making fun of lousy teams. I liked it, and put it on here (always hated Seattle).

 

I disagree with postponing the game. I think it sets a bad precedent for the NFL.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

They are calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow, not twenty. The Mayor is over-reacting in my opinion.

[Mark O]

A better precedent would be for people to die on the roads trying to get to the game in blizzard like conditions.

[Bob806]

A better precedent would be for people to die on the roads trying to get to the game in blizzard like conditions.

 

Ok...thanks. I guess I'm just another dumbass with an opinion.

 

 

 

[medicineman]

No this is a consirpacy...

The nfl will do anything to try to get farve enough time to play

Farve just needs to give it up already. He looks like he needs crutches while standing on the sidelines.

[Mark O]

Ok...thanks. I guess I'm just another dumbass with an opinion.

 

You asked if you were in the minority.....clearly you are.

 

 

[Kosar_For_President]

how exactly do you expect fans to get to the stadium?

 

It's not getting there, it getting out with a parking lot of 40,000 cars in 2 feet of snow. It would be pandamonium, Hulksters.

[Mark O]

They are calling for 6 to 12 inches of snow, not twenty. The Mayor is over-reacting in my opinion.

 

 

It was reported on the pregames shows this morning that they could get up to 20" of snow in the area around the stadium.

[BROWNandORANGE]

It was reported on the pregames shows this morning that they could get up to 20" of snow in the area around the stadium.

 

bam! Mark O swoops in to defend me

[miktoxic]

although i agree it would be a cool experience to watch a game to rival the outdoor games of latter years, they had to postpone it for 2 reasons:

 

1. safety reasons as pointed out by previous posters and

 

2. revenue loss by the city and nfl

 

besides us tuning in would have to sit through gruden and jaws yammerin on about "this is footbal" yadda yadda yadda while we at home are trying to see the game with zero visibility.

[Bob806]

although i agree it would be a cool experience to watch a game to rival the outdoor games of latter years, they had to postpone it for 2 reasons:

 

1. safety reasons as pointed out by previous posters and

 

2. revenue loss by the city and nfl

 

#2 seems to be the driving force. Tom Jackson & Trent Dilfer echoed that last night.

 

The "safety issue" is minor, as most people in snowy climates find a way to deal with the weather.

[ATENEARS]

Am I in the minority here? Why is this game being postponed until Tuesday?

 

Unless it's a thunderstorm, football needs to be played. There have been many games played in cold/blizzard conditions. Looks like the NFL wants 32 domes....

 

I agree with you Bob, that game should have been played.

 

Lost revenue? What about the fan that had that game circled on their calendar, came in to visit Mom & Pop and took an extra day off work already to stick around the area to catch the Sunday game ... but now can't attend the make-up game?

 

I remember attending that game about 6 years ago against San Diego where the streets were closed, yet we still trucked down to the stadium for the game.

 

Sissies

[Pumpkin Eater]

what a bunch of pusses.

[miktoxic]

live in the ny metro area and we got slammed. don't know about philly but i would think it's just as bad. being stuck on a disabled train for 8 hrs. wouldn't be the most pleasant thing. the trains just started running again this morning on a weekend schedule. we've got people stranded at area airports sleeping on cots who might not be able to get out of here for a couple of more days. am i used to it? yeah. do people always seem to travel and get stuck when they know a storm is coming? yeah.

 

the game was to be played at the height of the storm so postponing it was not a bad idea. if the conditions are anything like they are here i doubt if you'll see even 50% capacity (if that) tonite. it's not about wanting to go to the game it's about how do you get there and how do you get back. simple as that.

 

but in an interesting sidenote: the governor (soon to be removed) called the postponment "the wussification of america". guess he's a football fan huh?

[ATENEARS]

Attention NFL Commissioner Goodell - In Cleveland, football is still considered a winter sport

Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 5:00 AM

By Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer

 

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I love this dirty old town.

 

But every once in awhile I peek over at Philadelphia to see what it’s up to. I can’t help myself. That place bills itself as bastion of brotherly love, but it’s really a zoo -- especially its sporting fan base.

 

It reminds me a lot of what I believe Cleveland was like about 50 years ago: full of life, full of attitude, full of vocal people who aren’t wrapped too tight and who aren’t shy about expressing it.

 

Case in point:

 

A football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings was postponed from Sunday until this evening because of bad weekend weather that paralyzed much of the mid-Atlantic and the East Coast.

 

Fearing the worst, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who started with the league as an intern and never left, rescheduled the game because the city declared a snow emergency. Goodell explained that the delay would allow sufficient time to clean up the place.

 

Bad move if he ever hoped to get a key to the city. Bad move if he ever hoped to begin to address the creeping notion that the league is morphing into a confederacy of rich, wimpy divas.

 

Sure, Philly was hit with a foot of snow Sunday and had to deal with 40 mile per hour wind gusts. Sure, nearly 700 flights out of the Philadelphia International Airport were canceled Sunday because of the weather.

 

But one should never make the mistake of confusing the Philadelphia fan base with the average fan base: the team's old digs had a jail underneath it before it became the norm for professional stadiums. And the Vet even had makeshift court where a judge dealt with rowdy fans on site.

 

Here’s how Gov. Ed Rendell, a man who as mayor of Philadelphia once paid a drunken fan $20 to sling a snowball out onto field and then lied about it before confessing, responded to the game’s postponement:

 

"I think it’s a joke. (Legendary Green Bay Packers coach) Vince Lombardi would be spinning in his grave."

 

Now, that’s my kind of governor. Rendell clearly takes his sports very seriously and he doesn’t mince words. (As an aside, I think we may have elected the same kind of plainspoken governor here in Ohio last month. Given the state’s looming $8 billion budget deficit, I suppose we shall soon see).

 

Philadelphia’s sporting public was even less charitable in its denunciation of the game’s postponement. An informal poll by the Inquirer, the more staid of the city’s two dailies, showed that almost 60 percent of responders disapproved of the postponement.

 

But it was left to Will Bunch, a columnist for the tabloid Philadelphia Daily News, to bottle up the town’s frustration:

 

"This is the height of wimpiness, and the girly-men who made this sad decision should be ashamed of themselves. The NFL has been rightfully called the No Fun League for a number of years, but this takes that to a whole embarrassing new level. In fact, let's name names here: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Eagles' owner Jeff Lurie and president Joe Banner, and (Philadelphia) Mayor (Michael) Nutter - you are the Wimps Who Stole Christmas from football fans in Philadelphia."

 

Wow!

 

Let’s not forget, though, that this is the same fan base that once threw snowballs at Santa when he made an appearance at the stadium, and also cheered derisively when Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin was carried from the stadium on a stretcher.

 

Given that the Browns haven’t given us all too much to cheer for this year, I can only hope - it's sick I admit - that we are hit with a blizzard this weekend when the Pittsburgh Steelers come to town to engage our twice-annual rivalry. The more snow the better.

 

Perhaps then Goodell, the former intern, will be reminded that football is a fall and WINTER sport that’s been played for decades in snowy places like Green Bay, Buffalo and Cleveland.

 

Please let it snow!

 

 

[RavensFan1996]

Being from Baltimore, another place where we don't get the annual snows that cities such as Cleveland, Buffalo, and Green Bay do, I can see why they postponed the game. Look, a lot of our football fans, like Philthy's, are idiots in 70 degree, bright sunny weather. You add 6 or more inches of snow, and you would think all hell was breaking loose. I agree that football is a winter game and I LOVE watching games played in the snow. But you put that snow in cities that really don't know how to deal with it, even though it snows there every year, and it's just too much of a risk.

 

A few weeks back, we had our first measurable snow of the winter here, a whopping 1 inch, and it was the lead story on the evening news. I'm telling you guys, the east coast is really stupid when it comes to snow. We get it every year, and yet every storm or flake that falls is treated like the first one. For that reason, and that reason alone, it's a good thing that they postponed the game.

[ballpeen]

I agree with you Bob, that game should have been played.

 

Lost revenue? What about the fan that had that game circled on their calendar, came in to visit Mom & Pop and took an extra day off work already to stick around the area to catch the Sunday game ... but now can't attend the make-up game?

 

I remember attending that game about 6 years ago against San Diego where the streets were closed, yet we still trucked down to the stadium for the game.

 

Sissies

 

 

I was at that game....drove in from Westlake.

 

I would like to see the NFL mandate any team that can realistically project, through past records, temperatures falling in to the 30's on a regular basis, or can project snowfall on a regular basis be required to play in a dome.

 

(Just not a dome made of cloth that caves in when it snows)

 

 

This idea that Football was meant to be played in the snow is rubbish. Back in the day, college seasons were over by mid November....not to mention bowl games aren't played in the snow belt. We have the Rose, Sugar, Cotton and Orange bowls, not the Holley, Icicle, Igloo, and Blizzard bowls...and the NFL season...championship included was over before Christmas unlike today when regular season games are still being played in to the new year.

 

[ATENEARS]

Being from Baltimore, another place where we don't get the annual snows that cities such as Cleveland, Buffalo, and Green Bay do, I can see why they postponed the game. Look, a lot of our football fans, like Philthy's, are idiots in 70 degree, bright sunny weather. You add 6 or more inches of snow, and you would think all hell was breaking loose. I agree that football is a winter game and I LOVE watching games played in the snow. But you put that snow in cities that really don't know how to deal with it, even though it snows there every year, and it's just too much of a risk.

 

A few weeks back, we had our first measurable snow of the winter here, a whopping 1 inch, and it was the lead story on the evening news. I'm telling you guys, the east coast is really stupid when it comes to snow. We get it every year, and yet every storm or flake that falls is treated like the first one. For that reason, and that reason alone, it's a good thing that they postponed the game.

 

TRANSLATION: I can't text message in poor weather and don't want my purple eye liner to run, so let's postpone all nasty weather games (shiver).

 

 

 

 

 

 

homo

[DawgTracker]

Its a bit hard to drive to the stadium with 20 inches of snow on the ground, not to mention 50 mph gusts of wind.

 

Buy a snowmobile like the people in buffalo do. Of course that might be overkill for two storms a year, LOL.

 

[RavensFan1996]

What a freaking pussy. Irsay had the right idea ... you guys don't deserve a football team.

 

Zombo

--Can't wait for that italian biscuit guy to pack up the Mayflowers for L.A.

 

 

Zombo, I've come to expect better from you on this board. I would have liked to think I could come on here and talk football with ACTUAL fans from one of my rival teams. I see that is not possible in some instances, as you continue to denounce my team and my city while I have done nothing but pump up the improving Browns. Given that...enjoy yet another losing season, as your football team once again got trucked by mine. No wonder Art moved.

[RavensFan1996]

TRANSLATION: I can't text message in poor weather and don't want my purple eye liner to run, so let's postpone all nasty weather games (shiver).

 

 

 

 

 

 

homo

 

You know what, you're right. You should trudge your way to Cleveland Browns Stadium to watch your 5-10 team lose yet another game. I agree that as a fan, you have the right to risk your life to watch a garbage team play another garbage game in however much snow falls. One of my best friends is an Eagle fan, and even he was happy with the postponement. But, like my team, his will also be in the playoffs this year, so we at least have something to play for beyond week 17. So you have to think about the future....unless your a Cleveland Browns fan.

 

It's a shame that 6-10 is an improvement.