British Guy Reaction to Craziest Weather Games In NFL History
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The only weather they will cancel for is lighting. These are professionals and are expected to find a way to win, full stop!
Hahaha yep tornado hurricane or lightning anything else get your @$$ on the field
yeah, that's at all levels of football, teams are expected to play through in college and high school too...unless there's lightning or a tornado has touched down in the area.
They should listen to George Carlin's take on baseball and football 🏈. 😂
Recently a game in Buffalo was played in Detroit because there was too much snow to clear the seats for the fans.
I feel like the 50 thousand plus fans in the stadium have a bit of an influence on that
The only time the NFL postpone games is when there is a thunderstorm. They dont play when its lighting.
they'll generally try to wait it out a bit.. like a rain delay in baseball. If they have advance warning of a hurricane or tropical storm, they try to make arrangements to move the game.
The only times I ever heard of the NFL actually postponing a game (not counting strikes or lockouts) is when JFK got shot in 1963, and the week after 9/11.
There used to be an NFL announcer named John Madden. At one time he was a coach for the Raiders. Hilarious guy!! He hated AstroTurf and believed the best games were played in weather like this.
One of my uncles would actively search for snowy games. He'd check the weather forecasts the day before, and list which games were supposed to have snow. If the snow didn't come, he'd complain.
I used to make it snow all the time in Buffalo in Madden
The only game I remember being cancelled was one in Omaha when a tornado was sighted heading for the stadium.
The Eagles and Bears seem to be in more than half of all "weird weather" games!
The only things that will stop NFL games are lightning or a blizzard. But the blizzard only if the city shuts down. Having played football for several years, I can say the weather games were the most fun.
Lol, I was at the Blizzard Bowl in Philly. I’m not sure Ive ever had more fun before, during and after a game!! 😂😂
What a game. I watched at home, but it must have been such a blast to be there.
Even as a kids we realized that football felt like a test of manhood in the sense that you don't back away from adversity you face it head on no matter what your fears. In fact the mindset is that you face it BECAUSE of your fears. So of course with this early "conditioning" carried on into adulthood on a professional sports level...
As kids, we played every winter in snow--no pads, no helmets, just the snow to cushion the tackle--face/mouth full of snow, though, but the cold made the hits hurt more and the ball hurt to catch and hard to catch. But we would not have it any other way. Played basketball in the winter, too. Just shovel away the snow, put down some salt/ice melt, wait a short bit until it melts/drys a bit and then play. Definitely played football in rain/sleet--nothing more fun than playing in mud--parents were happy to get us out of the house. A Thanksgiving Day morning football game (again no pads, helmets--that is only in organized school leagues or professional football) was a yearly tradition--then you eat like an animal all day and watch the 2 (or 3 these days) scheduled NFL games. The best.
We actually live for these crazy weather games. They make for crazy outcomes and unpredictable play. That is why we do not cancel them
Kids grow up playing football in the autumn/winter months. They are used to playing in all weather.
Football has such a tight schedule that games are difficult to make up.
From the 1920s to September 11th there was never a cancelled or rescheduled game in the NFL. They would play in sleet, lightning, snow, wind, cold, heat, whatever. After 9/11 they made a few changes for lightning and national tragedies.
They do not play if there is lightning
[disclaimer: these are generalizations based on traditional models -- local variations often occur]
Football is our Autumn sport; everybody starts their season the first week in September-ish. High schools play on Friday nights after school through the end of October with tournaments in November. Colleges play Saturday afternoon or night through November with tournaments and Bowl games in December. Bowl games are post-season invitationals, the most prestigious being the five held on New Year's Day in gigantic bowl shaped stadiums which gave birth to the term. NFL plays on Sunday afternoon or night and the odd weeknight with the season extending into January, followed by playoffs and the Superb Owl is mid-February.
So there's going to be bad weather. I mean, there'll be good weather too, and good that changes to bad and bad that changes to good or worse. But it's a short season and you have one bye date and rescheduling is a royal pain. And moving a team to an away game is a major expense (react to NFL logistics), with scholastic teams often accompanied by a marching band larger than the team and with its own equipment handling issues to boot, just to turn around and go back home. So playing in the weather, yup. Because we're 'muricans and we're tough enough to handle it. And crazy enough to do it.
There was one Grey Cup game (Canadian Football League championship) back in the '60s that was completely fogged out like that, the TV screen was ironically just grey the whole game.
A good example of this is the rescheduling they were doing for the 2020 season when a team tested positive. One team couldn't play that week, yet they wound up rearranging six different teams' schedules, bye weeks were swapped out, it was a logistical nightmare. I can't imagine if they had to go thru all that just because of unpleasant weather.
Winterpeg vs Hamilton in 1962 at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, final score Winterpeg 28 Hamilton 27
The CFL has had even more wild weather. (Obviously. It's Canada)
I once saw an Australian football game where hundreds of big birds were on the field during the game. When players ran near them, they would fly and land on another part of the field.
I watch the Dallas Miami game from the comfort of my bother house that Thanksgiving. It was hilarious 😂. At one point a Miami play slid across the goal line. He was not run or walking, he just slid into a touchdown.
still Pissed at Lett... told him so at Cowboys Sports cafe in Valley Ranch a few weeks later when he dared show his face in public..
Snow can be the ultimate equalizer, most of the time when I play football, I can be neutralized because I am big and don't have a good top speed. In the snow, I am one of the few who can take advantage of the poorer conditions because it removes everyone's advantages over me.
An NFL game is such a production with many thousands of fans and people attending so it would be extremely difficult and inconvenient to so many to try and reschedule! Besides, the players are professional athletes who are conditioned to just about any environment. If the situation is actually potentially dangerous to fans and athletes or staff then the game might be paused for a little bit but they’ll do whatever they have to in order to get the game played and completed. I went to a high school where we were legitimately and proven to be the best in the country and I only remember a few times when our game had to be paused because our stadium was metal and there was lightning nearby
Playing in the snow is a blast man. I played high school and college in the state of Michigan and have had plenty of snow games. For the most part the only things that cancel a game seems to be power outages and lightning. I'm sure there have been many other reasons but for the most part it takes a lot to cancel a game
The only thing that’s inaccurate about this video is saying the Fog Bowl was played between friends. Mike Ditka and Buddy Ryan were never ever friends
Playing in snow is fun as hell.
Football is a man's game. We don't let a little thing like weather force us to quit. Our mommies aren't saying come inside, the weather's crazy. The weather is half of the fun of the game, with warm teams traveling to cold locations, cold teams traveling to the heat that they haven't felt in weeks or months. The worst thing to ever happen to the NFL is domes.
When you have a stadium full of people who paid for the tickets and drove who knows how far to get there, you can't just call the game and send them home. Some people get tickets to just one or two games a season - they'd be real disappointed if one of their games got cancelled.
The reason the NFL plays through anything has a lot to do with how, why, and where it was founded. The first professional football teams were formed in the area of the US now known as the "rust belt". These are cities around the Great Lakes, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. known for their industry and manufacturing. Very blue collar and football reflected that. It was a game for the rough and tumble factory workers who worked through anything, and the game also had that attitude. Fans would drive from all over the area to see a game and the teams felt obligated to give them a show. This is also how tailgating became a thing. The first fields didn't have concessions so the fans had to bring their own food and drink and, since some of them drove a long distance, they would have full meals before the game started.
I was at my first Bills game this past season. 34 degrees Fahrenheit, or about _1_ degree Celsius. Freezing rain for the first half, the snow made it better the second half, and it felt like Josh Allen wasn't getting the best grip on the ball. They DID win but for weather purposes it was so crazy and yet I didn't even close my overcoat! Which probably lowered my resistance something fierce and knowing my luck I caught COVID in the restroom (I definitely did, the two possibilities are really there or the plane home). I am actually GLAD that the new stadium is gonna be open air.
Also you do need to see the highlights of Colts at Bills, December 10th, 2017. Oddly enough LeSean McCoy was the running back for the Bills that year.
Both teams have to deal with the same conditions. Good weather, or bad, it is a fair contest.
NFL is like the rally racing of ball sports. Weather just doesn't stop them.
I'm from Kentucky and grew up across the river from Cincinnati. I watched the freezer bowl! OMG it was insanely cold that day! I'm still a Bengals fan..WHO DEY!
My husband and I were at an Eagles game in Philadelphia several years ago and it was actually stopped midgame for about an hour for an electrical storm. Rain won't stop the game, but the fear of players being hit by lightening was reason to postpone. We waited about an hour as did tens of thousands of other fans and eventually the game was continued.
If the weather isn't life threatening you play. So you're looking at lightning, hurricanes, or tornadoes to cancel a game. All those temperatures are in Fahrenheit, since we don't use Celsius in our weather reports.
There was a game, recently (2022) that got called off because a player had a heart attack on field during the game. AFAIK that's only the 2nd time an NFL player has had a heart attack on field. Damar Hamlin survived. The other time, in the 1970s, Chuck Hughes died. Hughes is the only player in NFL history to die on the field as far as I know. That game was not called off.
Though it wasn't the modern NFL, player deaths used to occur in football in the first part of the 1900's. Teddy Roosevelt (the President at the time) is credited for insisting on player safety in order for the game to continue to be played. It is why players wear helmets and pads.
That is why I laugh when people say that football players are soft because they wear pads. Umm, they are just trying not to die. Lol
@@EmmaChihuahua81 Yeah, I know. 40+ players died between 1900 & 1905. We got the forward pass in 1906. Distance to get a first down was lengthened from 5 yards in 3 downs, to 10 yards in 3 downs. 4th down was introduced in 1912.
Many plays back then were like the Eagles' rugby scrum play. I'm surprised that the NFL didn't outlaw the play this offseason. I can't remember when the NFL relaxed the "helping the runner" penalty.
The V formation was been banned earlier for similar reasons.
I have been to some of the coldest games during snow storms wearing full length down filled coat and still got cold. But we need to cheer our teams on rain or shine 🏈🏈😁🌅♨⛈
They have crazy heaters under the field now, it’s wild
you should check out the Army - Navy football game from a few years back. Army wore white uniforms and they were almost invisible. also check out the uniforms and Oregon Ducks uniforms.
They play in any weather that isn't considered to be dangerous ie actual hail storm, lightning, tornado warnings, etc.
Snow and heavy rain change soccer much more than football because the ball is mostly on the ground. I played a college soccer game in Minnesota and we had steady winds of 25mph gusting up to 50mph lol. Even ground passes bent to the wind. Such a tough game to play.
Living in Michigan, our high school played football in the fall, but because fall can have snow, we did occasionally have it. And places north of here had it worse. It is just a part of the game. Even the cheerleaders wore hooded sweatshirts and warm slacks for each game. Love winter.
It’s as cold as fouck in the Great Lakes area…..being from CNY, I naively thought it couldn’t be any colder then it is here. 😂😂😂 lol I froze my face off. I humbly bow to the folks that live in that area.
The only weather to cancel a game are lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes. Lightning could be a temporary postponement if the storm is moving quickly enough. Earthquakes might stop the game too but that's only happened during the Baseball World Series between Oakland and San Francisco.
"Come rain, snow, or shine, we'll meet on the 50-yard line,"
Is a saying I've heard my entire life, used in football games. Whether it be elementary school, high school, college, or the league. Americans take their football seriously. It's just as synonymous with Sundays as church.
I remember watching the Blizzard Bowl, it was fantastic.
51.11 Celsius is how cold that winter game was. negative -60 degrees below zero.
Snow games are the greatest thing ever.
Football in the heat can be deadly. There have been players who have died of heat stroke during training camp.
Football is made to be played in the snow... or on a cool rainy day where the field just turns to mud!
There are two tricks with metal and cold temps... (As someone who played in a band during a parade at -30 C
1. blow in it a lot before putting it near your lips.
2. keep it in your glove so it stays warm.
Otherwise yeah you are going to rip skin.
I went to a game in Cincinnati in the '90s that got down to -33C with the wind chill. It was a hoot.
Football is a Fall sport, so games are played from September through December, and the play-offs happen in full Winter.
Honorable mention goes to the 1977 NFC divisional playoff game between the Vikings and the Rams in Los Angeles. It was raining after a two year drought. And it was making up for lost time. The entire game is available on CZcams.
In Minnesota during school spirit week, schools will often go outside and play powder puff football... which is basically football in the snow and looks like the one game.
They actually postponed a game two weekends ago due to 12 inches of snow while, at the same time, my home team had their wildcard game to make the playoffs during the now 4th coldest game in NFL history. Fifteen people were hospitalized and dozens needed treatment for frostbite and/or hypothermia. One of my husband's coworkers was at the game and is still having trouble getting the feeling back in her fingers!
Just a few months ago Buffalo, I think, put off one of its games because of snow and cold. They played the next day when it wasn't much better.
I was at the snow bowl in philly! It was freaking AWESOME!
Playing in the snow is one of the finest things in life! Now mud, on the other hand, is terrible.
Monsoon bowl Carolina Panthers vs the Jacksonville, Jaguars torrential downpour.
In the modern NFL the ice bowl would almost assuredly be postponed now.
1994 Halloween Soldier Field Chicago Packers & Bears played in cold monsoon storm with wind blowing down the length of the field. Punts boomed with the the wind and went up then we’re blown back into it. Receivers were wearing scuba gloves to try to catch short passes. It was crazy.
My husband was at that game
My dad was at the snow game between the Patriots and Raiders. We live 30 minutes away from Gillette Stadium.
If you like this, watch anything about Buffalo, NY winter weather specifically the Christmas 2022 storm.
Football only stops a game for one thing. Lightning.
The only times I've ever seen an NFL game stopped was lightning and power outages (but those were usually temporary until fixed). Otherwise, game on.
You gotta understand that we start playing in weather like that when wedoesn't
That horse is RENEGADE from FSU
The thing you need to remember about cancelling games is the MONEY. Stadiums seat tens of thousands of people with tickets costing anywhere from $25 to hundreds, or even thousands for some premium seats. Add to this the high profits from selling over-priced beer and food at the games. Most players are making millions a year and may also get bonuses for play time.
Anything that isn't going to outright kill the players, like lightning, is worth pushing through.
You oughta see all the crazy guys with no shirts on at these cold ass games!
nothing goes better together then snow and football!
Games have been postponed or moved due to hurricanes. Lightening might delay a game. Recently in Blacksburg Virginia a college game was delayed over four hours due to a storm.
It happens in football as well. The US men’s team royally pissed off Costa Rica by playing a World Cup qualifying match in a damn near blizzard. I believe it was in Colorado and it was actually comical to watch. And closer to my home, the US is well known for scheduling matches here with Mexico in February when it’s tit freezing cold. There was a string of 2-0 wins (dos a cero is a local legend). One story holds that the Mexican side once stayed in the locker room for as long as possible because it was so cold. Just Google “dos a cero”. There was one game where the score was 2-0 and a late penalty was given. The player missed the shot by a hilarious margin. Of course he denied anything but the 2-0 score stood. People say the US doesn’t care about soccer, just look into the US v. Mexico.
You can’t reschedule snow games in the states like illiois in the Midwest and all of the east coast. It snows damn near every week in the winter months. They would never get a chance to play the games. Most of these snow games are matches against neighboring cold cities. They can’t even play at the opposers arena cause it’s probably just as cold and snowy
The only game cancelled that I remember was last season between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals after Damar Hamilton had a heart attack on the field.
one time at the 49ers game their was 1/2 inch of water covering the whole field and people were slipping bad that whole game
Lightning usually only is a delay. Earthquake. Covid….that’s is. But I don’t see near the muddy games we saw in the 70s and 80s! WooHoo! 🏈
Here's an example of how the NFL won't cancel a game: Pittsburgh Steelers played the Miami Dolphins on a Monday night. All during the day it was a torrential downpour. Plus the temperatures dropped so there was freezing rain. The game started on time but halfway through the first half, lightning started striking within 10 miles of the stadium. One they restated, Mismi punted the ball and instead of binding like it normally would, it stuck in the ground.
I was at the Bills vs. Colts game. It was a BLAST!
Weather is part of the game. ''See this?'' (Announcer uses marker to circle parts of a seated player) ''This guy has frozen mud caked all over him, there's snow coming down, and that would be blood dripping off his face if it wasn't frozen. Now that's football!'' - John Madden, paraphrased.
They are only covering recent history. I remember one Raiders game in the late 70's that had 4" of water on the field and ball carriers were sliding 20 yards when they went down.
Not much more we love than football in the snow! The heat can be the WORST!
I wanted to add another thought. The fans pay a lot of money to go games. Especially NFL games, but even some college games. Besides the tickets, a lot of people have to take vacation days from work and many times wouldn’t be able to be out for another day or so. Most fans have to travel a good distance to attend and it’s not guaranteed that they could find a hotel room for another night. So there is just so many more factors involved besides just the game itself
I remember the snow game. It was hilarious. The reason McCoy was running all over the Lions was because he changed his cleats
FOOTBALL FOOTBALL GO BILLS GO BILLS !!
There are many fans who think playing in indoor stadiums is akin to cheating the game. It is meant to be played regardless of weather, and is meant to be watched from the stands regardless of weather. Lightning is the only exception.
The NFL used to be more tough than they are now.
Playing football in the heat is your worst nightmare I’d rather it be 0 degrees F
Watching this right now. The mud game. How do we remember? Discipline and The helmet you wear. That is your completion. That is your enemy.
The only thing that takes a team off the field is lightening. That is it. They play in everything else. No cancellations, no excuses. A hurricane will cause a game to be delayed and rescheduled.
THANK YOU!!! I'm soo glad someone else sees it like I do! This is a trend that I want to see die on the vine. Dudes, no more sports bras, PLEASE.
I'm quite happy to hear a Brit start to like the game rather than complaining about the puffs in pads.... One of those dudes hits you at a full charge...
3 things stop a (American) football game. 2 are weather, tornadoes, and lightning. The other is a loss of power for a night game. If possible, they will try to play the next day, much like NASCAR.
I actually watched the Ice Bowl. Been a Packer fan since Moby Dick was a guppy.
It's really hard to postpone or reschedule a nfl game with the way the schedule is and when they play.. only one game on Thursday nights, one game on Mondays nights and the rest all play on sunday.Sunday.. moving or rescheduling a game can be really hard to find time that fits both teams and postponing a game could effect so many more things and other teams schedules and is just am mess... unless there is alot of lightning, they play! Tornado weather, blizzard weather, as long as the players aren't in like imminent danger, they play!
The coldest game I ever watched was the 1982 Polar Bowl in Cinny Bengals vs Chargers that was the year the Chargers were suppose to go all the way . OH the Philly VS Bears playoff game the famous fog bowl. Playing in the rain and mud is a blast we use to make it muddy if it wasn't raining. Where is the famous snow plow field goal between NE and Miami. See the Pats were always cheaters started back in 82
As Ray Lewis used to say before the game, "It's a man's game. It's a man's game." Yep. NFL is the best. NHL second.
Usually the only game that weather matters is the superbowl.. the super bowl is always in a dome or in a city that's weather will be nice and sunny
the players are paid millions of dollars a year to play. For that money they play under any conditions. The fans would not tolerate a game cancelled.
American football plays are expected. As long as fans are willing to watch the players play.
We don't cancel games for weather. This is football!! Get up! Play ball!
Well... except for lightning... because it's dangerous. And the Cleveland-Buffalo game was moved one state over in November because Buffalo got 52 inches (132 cm) of snow the day before game day. They would have played in Buffalo, but there was no real way to get to the stadium.
I’m from Detroit…..I think Buffalo has been here at our stadium twice in the past 10 years due to their stadium being snowed in
@@christineharrison7815 Eh... that sounds about right. :)
Buffalo NY nuff said
9:22 how is biddy even tasting anything from that cigar lol
If a game were to get postponed, it would cause a logistical problem that even our military wouldnt be able to solve. The Super Bowl HAS TO be played on the day its scheduled. Each team only has one week that a game isnt scheduled. Forcing two teams to play two games in one week, to make up the postponed game, is completely not fair. It takes a whole week, between games, to get a team healed from the last game. The city that is hosting the Super Bowl can't switch everything to a different week. Tickets are sold to, mostly, out of town people. The local airport has to do magic, to get all of the people into that city, in just a few days. All of the filled hotels, can't just sit empty, because the game got switched. The amount of hotel rooms available for a different week, would be drastically diminished. People would have to find rooms at in other cities, probably 3-4 hours away.
If there ain't lightning... Football continues just the way God wanted it to.
Philly had 3 of the 10. We have a tough reputation for a reason. Weather is just something we deal with playing or watching.
Chicago’s Soldier Field is notorious for the wind.
I have gotten so soaked to the bone, blinded by rain. Other times frozen half to death and mind you when it's hot it's freakin hot here. The stadium sometimes has to start bringing out big ice bails and fans sit in the breeze way with ice packs on their necks (Well mostly the women and children are packed in ice but still). There is a better video for weather games if I find it I'll link it. Pickle juice is he gh in electrolytes.
sounds crazy, and if you do find the video let me know:)