November 30, 1924: The STRANGEST Snow Game in NFL History
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- If a football game is played in the woods but no one is there to watch it, does it make a sound?
On November 30, 1924, to close out the NFL season, the Rochester Jeffersons were set to take on the Akron Pros in Akron, Ohio. However, what was supposed to be a rainy game turned into an insanely snowy game, or rather, a game that never happened at all... and a game that disappeared without any mention of it ever happening or being set to happen
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Thanks for this most interesting video. This style of video is a breath of fresh air from some of your recent tone and content about what’s dumb and who is the dumbest. Looking forward to more videos on the early history of professional football. Keep up the good work.
Yeah offseason content is very different from in-season content. Way more history and historical accounts of the game
Akron on Lake Erie!!! Try 50 miles south. The football game Buffalo at Cleveland would have had more snow. It's called Lake Effect Snow.
Thank you for making a video about my hometown of Akron, OH. I was born in raised in Akron.
And he thinks Akron is on the shore of Lake Erie. It would be like me thinking he lives on the Gulf Coast.
This made me think back a couple years to the Bengals/Bill's game. Thankfully, Demar Hamlin made a full recovery. Aside from that, though, the confusion that resulted from not rescheduling the game had every sports reporter theorizing how the league was gonna handle it.
Love stories from the early years 🔥
Wanna do way more of these from the 1920s this offseason. Won’t be able to use footage for a lot of them just because it doesn’t exist, but if that’s alright with people, I have no problem doing them! So much fascinating stuff that I haven’t really touched on before
@@OfficialJaguarGator9bring up the Dayton Triangles who are ostensibly the Colts today.
The Buffalo-Cleveland cancelation seems like a MUCH bigger story... it seemed to help decide the League title!
Great video and I do give you props for being creative I was expecting black and white and players running like Benny Hill LOL
People that complain about wearher moving/postponing games need to watch the videos the NFL releases on how the stadium/host city prepares for a game. The logistics are insane
The 1948 championship game was played in a blizzard because the commissioner didn’t want to lose out on revenue from the radio broadcast
Can you do a Tonawanda Kardex video? That team played 1 game & then forfeited back in 1921
They got beat by the Rochester Jeffersons 45-0!
Tonawanda Forever? Not so much.
The 1947 NFL Championship was played in ludicrous snow. It did happen sometimes
On an similar note, three years prior, in the APFA, the very same Rochester Jeffersons played a game against the football Washington Senators on a snowy field. That game also had some controversy, as Washington were not willing to play in the snow. Owner Leo Lyons ordered Washington pay $800 as a result for no showing, further approved by the APFA. To this day, it remains the only forfeit in NFL history, albeit disputed.
So the next thing on your to-do list is to find an old leather helmet to add to your collection?
Snow Games are Peak Football
In 1926, Los Angeles had an nfl team, the Los Angeles buccaneers.
Technically speaking, but they never played any home games
@@OfficialJaguarGator9Imagine people in LA deciding to become a Buccaneers fan in 1926 but you never witness your team play a single home game in their existence
If Akron suffered a blinding blizzard that day would its residents have said, “My city was gone?”
A O WAY TO GO
Ah, early football where forward passes were considered goofy trick plays.
Who remembers Shady in the snow vs. Indy.
And Adam Vinatieri’s extra point.
Anyone got a helmet from Akron and Rochester to give to JG9? Oh wait, they didn't wear helmets back in the 1920s?
The more you know
The Rochester Jeffersons averaged 1 point per game💀💀💀
Calling the game due to lightning was a great decision they started doing it in the 80s I believe, however the fans sitting up high in metal bleachers are stuck in it. The only other game that maybe should have been called for weather was the fog bowl. Watching it on tv you literally couldn’t see crap and had to rely on announcers who couldn’t see crap. Lol. But the game was made to play in the weather. Teams based their styles on it. Southern teams trying to overcome the cold up north and northern teams trying to keep from passing out due to the heat in the south with humidity.
There's no way that this kind of thing would go unnoticed these days even if the two teams playing each other were hot garbage. Cancelling an NFL game without any fanfare is wild!
Is there a reason Buffalo has never considered an indoor stadium?
Because they don't want one and even if they did the games would still be postponed/moved
The games that got moved/postponed wouldn't have been played because all had travel bans implemented at the time, so it would have been illegal for anyone to be on the road to get to the stadium, including the players and officials involved in the game.
The worst stretch for an NFL team has gotta be the Colts franchise in the late 1920s when they were the Dayton Triangles.
My grandpa was born in 1924 god rest his soul ❤
Just as a reminder, around 30 people died in Buffalo in 2022 due to the weather
Certainly not to the degree of super bad weather games, but my favorite game to play in the 9th grade was an away game with a team that had a shared football/baseball field. The baseball infield was red clay and it _poured_ rain for the game. Our unis were all white but by the time the game ended we were all red. Slipping & sliding around - so much fun! And we won, so it was even better. 😁
I don't care if there is no footage. Bring the stories from the pre-Playoff era, Eastern/Western Conference, AAFC, and AFL/NFL eras on!
2:45 "De facto" means the opposite of what you seem to think. You could say they were the nominal home team; or if you want to use a legal term from Latin, you could say they were the de jure home team.
So unprofessional we expect you to have the helmets of the team(s) you're discussing in the video and you can't even find these two teams that have been disbanded for 90+ years.
Just joking around love the content. Keep it up.
Do you realize that there's a couple of channels that trace the history of college football. However, there are no vids or series covering the history of pro football. Oh, you'll find lotsa stuf from the '80s on, and a bit from the '60s and '70s, and even a few from the '50s, but no comprehensive history of the pro game. What there is focuses on specific games, teams or players, but nothing like John Johnston's Hardcore History of College Football, or even your own work. There's an opening here for an historian to trace the pro game. Thanks, as always, for another excellent vid.
The infamous Snowballs at Santa game in Philly in 1968 was played after a blizzard. The conditions were why what happened happened as the original professional Santa stayed home thinking the parade was going to be cancelled prompting the Eagles to pluck a guy from the stands wearing a ratty cheap dime store Santa costume as a replacement to which the fans thought it was just another cheap gesture by the team's ownership and showed their displeasure.
Being a Philadelphian and an Eagles fans, thank you for telling the real reason for the 'snowballing of Santa' by Eagles' fans. They were more mad at the cheap owners, just that Santa got the brunt of the fans' reaction.
1924 was the year that there was no radio and no TV at all, just people going to a football game rather than listening to a radio. KDKA was the very first radio station to go on the air in 1921, but sports wasn’t a thing by the early part of the 1920’s. And then, sports coverage started on radio by the 1930’s.
So if the cancellation of this game was never reported, then how did you know it was cancelled? I’m curious because I searched about it and couldn’t find anything.
Let's not forget the NFL playoff game that was moved to Chicago Stadium-- an indoor arena that couldn't hold a regulation NFL field because it was literally impossible. That happened in 1932, back when my grandparents would've claimed to walk 10 miles barefoot to school in a blizzard.
People who say current generations are soft are hilarious
Today's kids are soft wake up 😅
Ah the Portsmouth Spartans--predecesdors of the Detroit Lions.
That was the championship game played in Chicago Stadium
That game caused 2 rule changes
1. A forward pass could be made from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage
2. Goalposts were placed on the goal line
I'd love if you did a video about why the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bangles didn't resume the game that Demar Hamlin collapsed in, cause I feel like that game actually mattered
I think there are two reasons why he won't.
1. It is too recent that most NFL fans are very aware of the circumstances behind it.
2. It was covered ad nauseam by pretty much all sports media that night and the week thereafter when the decision was made. It took almost no effort to find out any information on the fallout of stopping that game.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - these videos get to be a slog at the end because you keep belaboring the point. Yes, we get it - a game got cancelled and nobody talked about it, and that wouldn't happen today. You don't need to repeat yourself four times. I can assure you that your audience remembers what you said five seconds ago.
Is it any coincidence that the Bills surged up the standings once they canned Russ Brandon?
Do they still do snow games these days?
No.... it gets canceled or the game gets replayed the next day..... people are crybabies
Yep. We saw it last postseason with the Bills/Bengals divisional round game
If the roads are safe enough, they’ll play in the snow
No they don’t this generation is way to soft to have snow games these days and this is coming from someone who is 26.
Dec 16, 2007. Cleveland Stadium. Browns vs. Bills. A Game played in the Snow. FINAL SCORE:Cleveland 8 Buffalo 0. 2 field goals and one safety (Punter kicked the ball out of bounds in the end zone to stop a touchdown on a 4 down play which the ball was snap over his head). Turnover in the game?? O for both side.
One of the worst moments in sports history was the Blizzard of 1993 where baseball was in Spring Training, and New York City was the epicenter of the snow storm. The Yankees was in Spring Training, but it was cancelled due to heavy storms to coincide with the blizzard.
And they say Patrick mahomes loves to play in snow ⛄️ games like the one he played against Denver a few years back! 😅😅😅😅
Love seeing old photos of downtown akron ohio..... now its not safe to walk in downtown akron
We need more names like the Rochester jeffersons