New Zealand Girl Reacts to NFL WORST WEATHER GAMES
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As a former center myself, I can tell you that the worse the weather gets, the more fun it is to play.
Linemen feel differently about bad weather than receivers.
@@paulschirf9259 I can see that, since your whole thing is hanging on to the ball and mine was in the middle of the monster fight. I guess that's why I always loved mosh pits back in the day.
@@benjaminfarias9169 Ha I never noticed. Maybe you have to be a bit weird to love being in the middle of all that.
Because centers are glorified quarterback hand-warmers; jk *former nose-guard*
@@NorthernGrizzly95 My favorite fight.
Rain, snow, hailstorm, heatwave or Satan ascending from hell , the game goes on.
Hahaha xD So crazy to me!! I can't imagine playing in those conditions
@Sandman Huffmaster or the freezer bowl, both are still if I remember, the coldest games in nfl history, ice bowl being base temp, freezer bowl being wind chill
@@CourtneyCoulston Sandman Huffmaster is right...for an extreme example look into the Ice Bowl (1967).
Courtney Coulston it gets even worse in the playoffs
Just imagine them being like mailmen lol nothing stops them from delivering the mail. ;)
NFL Newbie: OMG! They’re playing in a blizzard!!!
NFL Fan(atic): YES!!! It’s finally football weather!
Person who lives in Green Bay: Oh it's Sunday.
I'm a little bummed they didn't include the Ice bowl .
Me(from Georgia): TF is coming from the sky?
@@TehShadowDeath yep. The rain and snow are great a d all...but the Ice Bowl was absolutely brutal. I would call that the worst weather for a game ever.
Thats Buffalo and Green Bay in particular!!
"Why don't they cancel?" Would you cancel Christmas?
Hahahaha xD
If there is lightning, they would probably cancel.
@Derek Johansen or something Yeah that sounds right. I mean even if the power goes out of the stadium they will wait for it to come back on. lol
Only games that have ever been cancelled due to weather were pre-season, and that was due to lightning. The only time regular season was affected was 9/11 and I think Hurricane Andrew in the early 1990's.
@@matthewwilliams2093 Even after Hurricane Katrina, I think the Saints played all their games in another teams stadium. They even were able to scramble for the first game and I think the Giants volunteered for them to use their stadium.
I'm surprised the "fog bowl" wasn't in that clip.
Me too
The ice bowl also
@@thewidowsson626 One and Two
@Jared Zieff Ah, she should've stuck w/ the vid. I remember seeing that 1 on TV. Might as well have been called the Surreal Bowl.
@@thewidowsson626 THIS one she should have watched! The Ice Bowl was EPIC!
"Why wasn't it canceled?'
Uh...cause America. lol.
..nothing is cancelled until it hits cat 5!
@@sarahhaugh7922 Or the stadium roof caves in from snowfall. Kind of hampers play...
Im A buffalo bills fan they had to move a game to Detroit a few years ago because it snowed 5 feet and they couldn't shovel it all out of the stadium fast enough. Snow in winter is just a normal part of life in this part of the world its its nothing to go out and run erronds with 3 feet ( 1 meter) of snow on the ground
The outrage the american people would have if you cancled a football game because of anything outside of tornado.
Lol tell that to baseball
Lightening is the only reason I know of to delay a game of football. I've played in freezing rain in high school and when a guy got tackled you could see the ice fly off his helmet.
holy crap D:
@@CourtneyCoulston Yeah, and is it has to hit the stadium somewhere. Even a few blocks away they won't do anything. In the last few years, there's even been a building fire next door to the stadium and they still played during it. 2 worst games by far are the Fog Bowl and the Ice Bowl. Fog Bowl was just absolute 0 visibility, you MIGHT be able to see 5 or 10 yards in any direction. Chicago's famous lake fog rolled in it's amazing the fan's stayed or the refs even tried. The Ice Bowl is the coldest game on record, and the reason you don't want to see play at Green Bay in January.. the temp got down to a bone-chilling -26 C with a wind chill at -38 C . The only whistle blown the whole game was the whistle to start because it froze to the refs lip on contact and had to be ripped off. The fans and the players stayed through and the Packers won in a low scoring game, where the ground was concrete, any water or metal was dangerous to touch, and frostbite was a real issue.
Ohhhhhhh my goodness 😫😫😫😫
Like the Dolphins game last year that was delayed by lightning so much that it lasted for 7:05 (hours:minutes.) Longest game since the '70s in real time.
I always liked playing in the rain, especially when you tackle somebody and they get up and have to pick the turf out of their facemask
The Icebowl was probably the worst weather game ever in NFL history.
Won on a QB sneak IIRC
Fr 7 ppl went to da hospital for hyperthermia
It was -18°F or -28°C at the conclusion of that game.
It was. That honor now goes to the 1982 AFC Title game in Cincinnati. Wind chill--48*F and still just one thousand out of 58,000 stayed home.
Bad weather games
Me as a Bills fan: "My time to shine :P"
Quick question: your team (Buffalo Bills) playing in feet of snow...isn't that normal?😂
@@noregrets1855 Absolutely! We have ice in our veins and frost in our hair. That's why I knew we would be in this video :P
@@carsomyr8276 😂👍
@@carsomyr8276 you know its bad when the players come running out of the tunnel all carrying shovels 😂
@@noregrets1855 On occasion they will actually give away free ticket vouchers to fans if they come and work for a few hours cleaning snow out of the stadium.
Snow games are the best games to play in. I played in rain so hard my uniform went from muddy to practically clean during the game.
Omg!!! That’s so crazy
@@CourtneyCoulston speaking of snow games, here is a great highlight reel of the 2019 bills. There's no snow games but they'll be a team to watch in 2020
ruclips.net/video/-RcYHoHWO9U/видео.html
The Old-timey commentator coming through with side splitting dad jokes, one after the other.
They only cancel games when there is danger of lightning strikes hitting the field or the stands
List is incomplete without the “Fog Bowl”.
CFL had one too. 1962. The Grey Cup game was played over two days.
or the ice bowl
Snow storms will slow a game down, but rarely will stop it. Old timers would play on fields like Lambeau Field, or Soldiers stadium in conditions below minus forty degrees below zero. Hitting that frozen turf is like playing on the concrete of a parking lot.
The Miami Dolphins have played in honest to goodness hurricane's before.
Look up the Ice Bowl. Coldest NFL game ever.
Wrong! The coldest game was the AFC Championship game, in 1986? San Diego @ Cincinnati. -54 degrees with the wind chill....
Windchill has been widely criticized as inaccurate. The coldest game ever played remains to be the ice bowl. If its 35 degrees but a windchill of 10 degrees, water will remain water and not freeze no matter how cold the windchill is. If the temperature isnt at freezing temperatures, but the windchill is below freezing temperature, you still wont get frostbite from windchill. No matter how cold the windchill is your skin cant drop below the actual temperature. Their is a large amount of information about windchill. You should do some actual research on windchill.
@@storm8192 Tell that to people who were at the Freezer Bowl. Temperature at game time was -9; the wind chill was -37.
All weather is football weather.
But once the thunder rumbles we abide.
The only football god we fear is Þórr Odinson.
It's really eye opening seeing other people's reactions to what we see everyday. Thanks for sharing these reactions!
I agree I saw the thumbnail and I never even gave the snow thing a second thought. She oughta see the Ice Bowl though!!!
No “Ice Bowl?” It’s not your fault, you’re just reacting. The Packers played the Cowboys at Lambeau Field for the NFL Championship Game. It was -26 C with a windchill of -44 C.
That's a good one to watch
At the conclusion of that game, the air temperature was -28°C with a feels like temperature of -48°C.
There's no rules about weather in the NFL and only the league Commissioner can cancel, delay or postpone a game. The 1967 NFL Championship game was played at -13°F (-25°C) with -40° windchill. In 1984 15" (38 cm) of snow fell during a game. In 1998 a thunderstorm dropping 5" (13 cm) of rain delayed a game by only an hour. Pretty much only lightening in the immediate area or maybe a tornado will stop a game.
Please do a part two with the Fog Bowl and the Ice Bowl!
Video didn't mention about Lambeau Field, home of Green Bay Packers. During each season, it get really cold there especially on the Field. Lambeau Field is nicknamed "Frozen Tundra". There is a famous game played there. Temperatures were below freezing. Field was frozen solid.
That Eagles - Lions is still one of my favorite winter football games.
Look up the ice bowl in Green Bay, the field was frozen and more guys where cut up from frost bite and sliding on the ice, also fog bowl in Chicago. Only delay if lightning or a weather event prevents players/fans from getting to stadium.
as a Buffalonian I can say being at snow games is a pretty epic time
I remember when I played varsity football (Middle school) and my last game was very and I mean VERY muddy to where one of the guys on the opposite team was covered head to toe in mud. Saw him get sprayed down with a near by hose when the game was over.
Hey, i love your reactions! Yea i’m from Buffalo and i think it’s the snowiest city in the U.S. Rain,shine,sleet, or snow, we’re gonna play football in anything :)
Courtney, that first video was from Buffalo, NY. When we get hit with snow here it comes in one of two forms: a light dusting, or a meter-plus all at once. That game was absolutely amazing to watch here at home, with that same blizzard raging outside of my windows. If you can handle the cold and wind, you should *absolutely* catch a winter game at New Era Field
Opening day, 1987, Dolphins playing the Patriots in Foxboro, MA in the old stadium. Tailgating before the game, the sky was threatening, but only spitting rain. When we walked to our seats, the sky just opened and the game was a deluge. Back then, many stadiums had the old artificial turf. I was amazed to see the water being cleared off with pick-up trucks equipped with squeegees! I was completely drenched after that game. There was not a dry spot on my body. But I got to see Dan Marino play QB, and the Pats still won the game 21-14.
Buffalo, NY gets a lot of snow. So does New England. It's especially fun to see teams from southern climates in the US have to come North to play football.
Check out "The Ice Bowl" for an extreme cold game. Last year's AFC championship in Kansas City featured a starting time temperature of 4° F. (That's a -16° C)
Besides, Green Bay has a open stadium and they're in Wisconsin where it snows a LOT during football season...
What no "Ice Bowl"? 1967 NFL Championship game between the Packers and Dallas Cowboys. Played at Lambeau Field on December 31, the temperature at game time registered a frigid 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-25C)
260 pound men running into each other at 21 miles as hour, snow doesn't seem such a big deal after that.
Look up the "Ice Bowl" back in the 1967. I think the temperature at game time was -13F and a windchill of -36F .
And he's down at the 20, hydroplanes to about 12!
Best fans there are GO BILLS!!!
I remember a game played in Chicago where the wind and rain combined to keep both teams on one side of the field. Literally - one side of the field was a churned, muddy mess, and the other was practically pristine because almost no one had set foot there. The wind messed with passing, and the rain and mud bogged down the running game.
There was actually a punt that went about 5 yards because the wind blew the ball right back at the kicking team.
Should watch Tyrann Mathieu highlights when he was at LSU. His nickname is the Honey Badger and he's one of the best college players I've ever watched
I was at the Eagles-Lions game in the snow (at 3:48). It was a HUGE amount of fun, but it took forever to get home. I've also been at two games that were paused for lightning, but only paused and finished later than expected. And while it doesn't show up in these videos, there are often games played in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures in the northern cities. There are often heating elements at field level, but the air temps are still painfully low.
"Why isn't it cancelled?" Because we're crazy. Duh. ;-)
I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1960's-1970's, when we truly did get more snow during the winter than we seem to these days. As a boy, I loved playing football most of all sports, and I always said, "It ain't football if it ain't snowing." Some fresh snow was typically the best, since the ground was frozen and of course we played tackle ball without using any pads or other gear, so a little snow cushioning was nice.
And Brady threw 5 touchdowns in ONE quarter in the snow.
Another great video Courtney. The announcer you described as sounding sarcastic is Chris Schenkel, the voice of TV bowling for many years. He's revered around where i live because he did adverts for a bottle manufacturer in my home town. "Buy beer in bottles" was his catchphrase. Happy 2020!
Oh yeah you should watch the Eagles vs lion's snowbowl game
Also I really like your content keep it going girl!!
Tornados, and lightning storms are the only things that will delay/possibly cancel a football game. Any thing else weather wise:play on.
If you ever want to see how crazy the fans get for American football look up Bills mafia
Being from Buffalo also, YOU NAILED IT!! “LETS GO BUFF-ALO”
That's what I love about American Football. Weather is considered part of the game. The only time they stop the game is if it starts becoming a danger such as large hail or lightning. And sometimes even then the game still continues. I've seen games continue during thunderstorms.
As long as there is no lightning.
Yup,and Tampa has the most lightning delays.
As a kid in the '60s & '70s I loved watching football games in the rain and snow. The advent of astro turf kinda takes away from the players covered in mud, well everybody but the placekicker most times.
The only weather I've heard them delay for is severe lightning.
There is also the famous Ice Bowl from 1967 between Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys.
I was at the game when the ball stuck in the ground. The Steelers won 3-0.
As a kid I loved playing in the rain and mud lol
4:00 “Scattered, smothered, and covered.” Yeah. We know that sports commentator is a fan of Waffle House fan. Good taste. XD
I played High School football in New England, and D1 college ball at a University in the Rocky Mountains. I played in a bunch of snow games, as well as driving rain. Those games can be a total blast to play in.
I was at that first game in buffalo. It was wild
I will never forget that game @3:48 between the Detroit Lions and the Eagles. I was watching it from a tiki bar in Florida . It was about 80 degrees and sunny where I was and I am watching my team The Eagles playing in the snow.
React to the Ice Bowl, -15°F.
Right! -15° at game start...and then it got colder. I had family in the stands of Lambeau for that game. Green Bay was just a lil chilly that day...
At the "Ice Bowl" between Dallas & Green Bay, I believe 2 fans were found who actually froze to death during the game. They now have temperatures below which a game would be canceled, but it is really cold.
One elderly fan suffered hypothermia and died from what I found in research.
Can’t wait to see your reaction
Yayyy! :)
The game at 6:30 was the Colts in Baltimore's old Memorial Stadium up off of 33rd Street. The Orioles and the Colts shared the stadium back then. I always felt for the ground crews as they had to perform miracles when the Colts destroyed the grass an infield. Man were they good times back then.
When you go to the states I hope you don't lose too much of your accent 😄
Well rip to here then
There was a championship game once called the “Ice Bowl” where it was -15°F (-26°C) with a wind chill of -48°F (-44°C). There was actually a fan there that died from how cold it was.
Games are only called if there is lightning nearby. Pittsburgh has had a natural turf field for pretty much forever - one game, they'd had several high school games the day before, and the central part of the field was extremely muddy. I remember one punt that just STUCK when it hit. No bounce, no roll....just splat. Of course in past years, all fields were turf, and players would be just coated in mud to the point its hard to tell teams apart. Wet games limit passing as the ball gets slick, hard to throw, hard to catch, and passers seem to lose a lot of "zip" on their throws. Bear in mind this is a sport that *starts* in the fall, and ends in February. A lot of tough-weather cities have domed stadiums, primarily for fan comfort. Wet weather games are over quite fast, too, since the clock stops for incomplete passes, but not for tackles, unless the runner goes out of bounds. The venues don't like fast games since that shortens the window for concession sales, and that's a huge revenue source since the venues get a percentage of the concession sales (the concessions themselves are usually a business separate from the team, stadium and league - who lease a space to sell food and drink, as well as turning over a percentage of the take - the longer the game, the more gets sold, and the more money for the concessionaires and the stadium. Side note, only 7 of 32 teams actually own their home stadiums, or are owned by the same person/group that owns the stadium. The rest essentially rent the stadium for maybe 8-12 days per year, and the rest of the time, they're available to anyone who can afford to book the space.
As a former player, you live for those games, snow, mud, rain. It totally changes your game and on defense (in lower levels than the nfl) you get to be extremely aggressive. 8 men in the box, 3 man blitzes. So much fun. Bringing so many blitzes also opens up a defense to traps and draw plays or quick outs, so the offense has a ton of fun too. If you make an offensive play in the weather it's generally a big one because someone slipped or rain caused a ball to just roll your way... Agh. I miss it.
Hi Courtney. Was at that first game in the snow. It started to snow about 90 minutes before game time. By the time we walked in...you could not even see the field from our seats.
That game you're seeing at about the 7:10 mark is the Pittsburgh steelers versus the College All Stars from the summer of 1976. I remember watching that game. It rained so hard the cancelled that series permanently after that.
I still remember the 1981 AFC Championship. San Diego at Cincinnati known as the "Freezer Bowl." The air temp was -9F / -22.8 C and the windchill was -37 F -38.4 C. Player's kept hot water bottles in their jock straps and they would put their hands down their pants between plays to warm them. For those of you old enough to remember "the Catch" in the Dallas - San Francisco game, this was earlier the same day.
Greenbay, WI football stadium is open air. Rain,sleet, snow they still play with temps down below -10. It's fun
The last one was the College All Star game July 1976 between the Super Bowl champion Steelers and college all stars. They played that game every year at Solider Field between the NFL champion and college All Americans from 1934 to 1976 - this was the last one...and I WAS THERE! 16 years old and it is still the hardest I've ever seen it rain...and I was one of those sliding around on the turf after they called the game near the end of the 3rd quarter, although some fans ran out there before it was called, the field had become unplayable. This was cool to watch because I've never seen video of it...but I still have a waterlogged program from that game.
Seeing this video brought back memories for me. I played trombone in our high school marching band. We had a halftime show on the field. Rain or shine, warmth or freezing we were out there sitting in the stands getting drenched or freezing playing music sitting at attention till it was time for our show. I wore 9" boots but some of the band members wore low shoes and marched out of them when they got stuck in the mud on the field during our show. We couldn't break formation, so they finished the routine in their socks sliding around in the mud. It was not fun in bad weather at all. At least the players made some body heat running around, we just sat at attention in the weather suffering. Good times LOL.
When I was a football player games on snow were the most fun. It was like playing a street game with your best friends. Ya it was a game, and we played to win, but it was almost like we were just big kids again :) so much fun
This video is why I found you. Definitely subscribing. Happy New Year!
FYI Courtney, at the 6:52 mark you see the field has a curved dirt portion. Not sure if you know this, but that is because that same field is used for baseball as well. That dirt portion is the infield of the baseball diamond. That dirt-grass transition makes for some very interesting plays.
@6:35 that was actually a field shared by football and baseball teams, which is why it was so muddy in that particular spot.
The problem with rescheduling a football game is the huge amount of revenue that gets lost and how tight the scheduling is. Baseball can do things like double headers , play make up games on off days, even have the home team play two games in one day against two different teams.
There is even the option to host make up games at neutral locations. Where I live in Milwaukee Since county Stadium has been replaced with Miller Park and it’s retractable some we have hosted games for teams rained (or snowed) out in their host cities while the brewers were out of town on a road trip. That simply doesn’t work for the NFL except for in the most extreme situations like a Hurricane or Wild Fire, or when the Superdome in New Orleans got trashed and the team moved to Houston for a large chunk of the season. For something relatively mild like a foot of snow or rain and you pretty much have to do your best and get the game out there. That being said there is sort of a gentleman’s understanding between the two teams to look out for each other and not push things too hard.
I was at the Eagles-Lions Snow Bowl at 3:55 :) the players were running at us in the endzone at one point lol. My parents were not loving having to walk through the snow to get into the stadium but 16 year-old me was having a blast 😎
There was once, and as far as I know only once, that they delayed a game at Arrowhead Stadium, in 1998, it was thundering (which meant lightning) and raining so hard that it was compared to a hurricane. It shut down the airport that I was working at, at the time.
I was at a college game where it was delayed around an hour for a tornado before the game started again
Strategy wise, it's fun playing in the snow because you have to change how you run. If you try to run the same way that you normally do, you will slip/fall and possibly injure yourself. Extreme cold weather games are also fun because your muscles begin to tighten up to the point where you can't run as fast as you normally would. It also hurts even more when you get tackled or try to tackle someone and after awhile your muscles start to become numb, so the game becomes more of a psychological game rather than a game of who has the better athletes.
3:50 "I feel cold" ...they missed the "Ice Bowl" game in Green Bay against the Dallas Cowboys in 1967. Starting temperature was -13°F, with a wind chill of 36 below zero.
Games will very rarely be cancelled due to weather. However, they will reschedule games due to forecasted severe storms such as an incoming hurricane, and they will stop play if lightning is in the area. They once played a game when the temperature was -15°F (-26°C).
Here in Canada is so much fun, used to play DE when it snows and there is slush and mud in the ground if you miss the hit you'd just slide or when no one knows who is who cause of the mud, miss those days
I'm from Buffalo. The stadium is located just off of Lake Erie. Until it freezes over, Erie is a big snow maker the area is known as the Snow Belt. Dressing for the weather is a part of life here.
Some of these foot ball arenas pull double duty for other sports. I think at least one of the stadiums is also used for base ball. However I cannot be sure. Some sports arenas are built to switch for multiple sports. The same with at least one Basketball stadium, the wooden floor is removable, and there is an ice rink underneath for hockey.
Football is played in the rain, snow or shine so long as there isn't any lightning.
Tampa gets the most lightning delays.
I live in Colorado and I go to Denver Bronco's games. And when you are sitting in the stands and it is snowing and cold. It really sucks, you have to keep shaking the snow off of your head and then your feet start to freeze. Not fun! Lol
I live in Denver and went to a Broncos-Ravens game back about 10 years ago and it was Monday Night Football in late October and it was probably 25 degrees fahrenheit and a sleet/snow combo. One of the guys I went with dressed up in a Gorilla suit and it was the most fun I've had. We weren't really that cold but we were bundled up pretty good.
Outside of lightning during the game near the stadium they wont stop a game. In case of hurricanes they will move the game 2 another location.
The tennessee played a game in miami last year where it was raining and day and they had 2 or 3 delays because of lightning. The game took over 7hours but they finished it.
Back in high school (in California) we loved rainy days when we could go out and play in the rain & mud. We looked pretty good when we returned to the field house for our showers.
Snow is awesome & a blast.... back in the day we would play in snow.... the more it snowed the better !
We played in one storm that dropped over two & a half feet of snow ☃🏈⛄
Just layer up & hit the snow..... what a riot ! We played for many hours.....
I loved the one, it wasn't shown, where the punter kicked the ball and the wind blew it back behind him. Or who could forget the Iron Bowl played during a Tornado outbreak. lol
We played in snow storms, rain storms, complete white-outs when I played American football in high school. It was fun as hell! lol My mother hated doing the laundry after those games... Couldn't even tell that my jersey was supposed to be orange. Hahaha
They missed the Ice bowl.
Played on December 31 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin 1967.
The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C); under the revised National Weather Service wind chill index implemented in 2001, the average wind chill would have been −36 °F (−38 °C).
Lambeau Field's turf-heating system malfunctioned, and when the tarpaulin was removed from the field before the game, it left moisture on the field. The field began to freeze gradually in the extreme cold, leaving an icy surface that became worse as more and more of the field fell into the shadow of the stadium.
Here in my state of PA in the USA when it snows some of us walk in shorts and heck some people bbq in the snow.
Some of the older stadiums were used for football and baseball so there were sections without grass making it muddy
Back in my high school days we loved playing in the rain and snow sliding around and getting muddy as possible. Also as a running back I definitely had an edge over the defense. Good times
Many of the newer football stadiums now have roofs which can be either closed or open. When closed they can even air condition the entire stadium.
My brother played football when he was a kid, till he was 19 years old. He would've played in college, but had terrible knee injury his Junior year of high school (16 or 17 years old). But he would tell me that anytime there was a terrible weather game (rain or snow) he would love it and so would most of his teammates. They couldn't really explain it, but I think it has to do with playing when you're a really little kid and playing the game in the backyard or playground. The only time we were allowed to tackle your friends (or little brother aka me) in a pick up game was when there was a foot of snow or more on the ground. The snow and the extra layers of clothing added just enough padding to soften the blows.
I love bad weather games! They're so much fun. All the guys forget to be big, tough, scary football players and turn into little boys playing like they used to.
The announcer who did play-by-play calls for the rain-soaked NFL football game between the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals), was Chris Schenkel. He was an announcer for CBS Sports for their NFL football telecasts from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s. He then left CBS to work at ABC, and was a play-by-play broadcaster for a much wider variety of sports for the remainder of his career. Chris Schenkel wrote a book in the late-1950s, entitled "How To Watch Football On Television". You might want to try to buy a copy of it, if you can find it, at Amazon, eBay, Abebooks, or elsewhere on the Internet.
Rain or snow makes the ball more slippery. It also makes the footing more treacherous. As a freshman in college I sat in the stands through a game long torrential downpour on a chilly Fall day in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch a marvelous running back, Ron Johnson, run for 347 yards in a college football game. Johnson later had a great career in the NFL with, IIRC, the NY Giants, and I'm sure their fans will also remember him fondly.
The treacherous footing gives quite an advantage to the offensive players. They know where they are heading and can turn more gradually, while the defenders are reacting instantaneously and are prone to end up, well, prone and sliding across the field when the try to plant a foot and cut sharply to counter the runner or receiver's move.
On the other hand, the slippery ball is harder to throw and to catch, and it becomes difficult to simply complete the snap from the center to the quarterback. The cold temps and slippery ball are nightmares for the holder on field goal attempts, and the poor footing is an equal nightmare for the kicker. That applies to punts, also.
All things considered, snow bowls or monsoon bowls involve more runs than passing attempts, lots of fumbles and botched kicks, but some nice runs when defenders can't match the cuts of the runners.
Teams in northern cities that don't play on artificial turf in domed stadiums generally spend more time on perfecting the running game, and its a big home field advantage when the cold and snow weather sets in come late November.
Your clip featured NFL games, but perhaps the most famous bad weathe game was the University of Michigan at Ohio State in 1950. Michigan won, 9-3, despite never making a first down. Both of their scores came off of blocked punts, with Michigan recovering one in the OSU end zone, while the other one slid out of the end zone for a safety.
"The game was played at Ohio Stadium, in Columbus, Ohio under severe weather that altered the normal playing of the game dramatically. The conditions were deplorable with the temperature at 10 degrees, winds gusting to 28 miles per hour out of the northwest and snow falling at two inches per hour. Snow banks lined the field, yard lines were obliterated and at times so, too, were the goal posts.[2]"
Michigan never got a first down. Combined, both teams punted a total of 45 times, often punting on first down out of fear they would fumble the ball if they tried to run an offense, and the further theory that the other team might be stupid enough to actually try to play offense and then fumble the ball deep within their own territory.
The game was delayed when the stadium crew could not remove the tarp from the field, because four feet of snow laid on top of it. Fans came down from the stands to help with the tarp and finally managed to remove it from the field. Fans returned to the stands with many of them starting bonfires in the stands to keep from freezing.
Here's the grainy highlights from that game. Or maybe it's just the snow falling.
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Snow is unpleasant (the pain of impacts, from tackling to even catching the ball, is worse) but the WORST is freezing rain. It turns the ground slippery and any step you take can send you flying.
playing football in the snow or watching football in the snow is the most fun anyone can have