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'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.
John Madden ?!? Hilarious? Really?? I think you meant fucking annoying especially when he told the fans his uncanny grasp of the obvious! I hated that guy!!
@@paulmolloy7206 Yes, he was hilarious! And he was also a well loved announcer. They made a football video game with his name on it! You must be the only person in the world who hated him.
Fun fact about the final play of the Ice Bowl, the original play was a standard running play up the middle, but Packers running back Donny Anderson couldn't get back to the line of scrimmage without losing his footing. So Bart Starr took a timeout and went to the sideline where he suggested they change the play so that he would run the ball instead. Vince Lombardi's response to the suggestion was, "Then run it, and let's get the hell out of here."
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
As a resident of northeast Ohio, when the narrator said the Great Lakes don’t spare anyone, he means it lmao. I went to a browns game with my family in late December 2022, and the actual temperature was 3 degrees Fahrenheit, with the wind chill being -15 degrees Fahrenheit due to the wind coming off of the lake. The stadium was roughly 1/3rd filled, but I had a blast freezing my ass off while watching my team, the browns, lose with everyone else who was crazy enough to go to the game. We might not get tornadoes or hurricanes, but we get snow from mid October to May and our weather can change on a dime. Hell, it’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit as I’m writing this (mid May) and last week the highest it got was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Our weather truly is bipolar.
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...
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.
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
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.
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
Rain or snow or wind will never cancel a game..the one,thing that delays a game in lightning..people can die from electrical storms..so the safety of players and finds sitting in the stands is of utmost importance..if lightning is ten miles away..a game can be delayed and people will usually just get up and head under the stands in the hallways..because a bolt of lightning can travel longer than 10 miles..but playing in rain and mud or with snow on the field and snow coming down..is quite common..never too cold..or too wet..
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.
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.
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 🏈🏈😁🌅♨⛈
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 RUclips.
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.
Another thing being how they can't just reschedule the game a day or two later, due to broadcasting schedules and the fact that the NFL only plays on certain days
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.
@@appaloosa42 Wisconsinite here so I am talking Green Bay but definitely Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Decatur (Bears first home), etc. fit also. Much respect from one old school football team's fan to another.
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.
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.
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.
Football was evolved from rugby after the Civil War to be a simulation of the war. Each play is a battle. Each drive is a campaign. Each game is a war. Wars are fought in any weather. Check out the old Vikings games back when they played outside.
I don't remember any NFL games being actually cancelled because of weather. A Buffalo Bills home game last season (iirc) was postponed a day because of blizzard, but only because the governor of New York had placed a travel ban on the state. I think Buffalo had another game around that time moved to Detroit (with a domed stadium) because of the weather. And there might have been a few games moved a day or so either way because of hurricanes. But, yeah, NFL doesn't stop for anything.
Twice has a Bills game been postponed due to overwhelming snow, once aginst the Jets and then against the Browns. The games were moved to Detroit not because of travel bans, but because there was so much snow and no place to put it. IIRC, the Chargers, when still in San Diego, moved a game to Phoenix due to wildfires, and a Bills-49ers game was moved to Phoenix due to COVID. And of course, the Saints playing in San Antonio and Baton Rouge after Katrina.
Fun fact: the dolphins beet the longest play record by about 50 yards recently(the jets threw a Hail Mary from around the 25 then the dolphins caught it at the 1 and got a pick 6)
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.
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!
I went to the first ever NFL game to be delayed for lightning strikes. In Kansas City, MO. It ran so long and so hard. It was an adventure to get home. Interstates, highways, and backroads all closed due to flooding. Fun game lots of fumbles.
Green Bay has had 2 more Ice Bowls since, including during the 1996-97 season in the NFC Championship game against the Carolina Panthers where it was 3*F at kickoff, and I recall one playoff game (a loss) to the 49ers where it was well below 0*F at kickoff. Our winter weather can be WILD! Either we get blizzards, or below 0*F temperatures, at times we've been colder than Alaska, and sometimes our blizzards come in spring, in 2018 we had one that dumped over 30 inches of snow in one weekend, in April... We cheeseheads are nuts
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.
I LOVE a good snow game. Now they do all kinds of stuff to try to protect/clean the field so you only get one if there’s a blizzard on game day. And a couple times they’ve moved the game to another stadium for “fan safety” which I think is BS. Snow games are awesome to watch.
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.
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 snow games are the best. The NFL doesn’t give a shit about weather. Get out on the field and play! I just found your channel and enjoy it. GL from Colorado.
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.
Been to a Chiefs at Broncos game in Denver that was -7/-21 with wind chill a few years ago and another where we had to shovel six inches of snow off our seats a couple years after. We don't cancel football for weather unless there's an imminent threat to life.
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.
@L3WG: winter weather is crazy here in Cleveland, Ohio. The wind off of the Great Lakes is pretty cold. Lake Erie is in my backyard. The other seasons are nice.
The only time they cancel or suspend an NFL game is if there is lightning in the area, and they usually suspend it, then finish it later when the lightning goes away. If a hurricane or a tornado has hit near the stadium, they just play the game somewhere else, so it is very rare for an NFL game to ever be cancelled.
Real men play Real football. The only time they delay, or cancel is if there is lighting!!!! These guys are tuff, not cream puffs like the other "football" games.
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.
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
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.
One of the most recent cancelled games was in 2022 when the Buffalo Bill’s Demar Hamlin died on the field. He was resuscitated after 10 minutes the initially were going to give both teams 15 minutes then start again. But decided to cancel cuz it would be in poor taste to play on
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.
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.
The reason the NFL doesn't postpone games is because in the NFL they have men. Not like soccer where blowing on some one makes them hit the ground crying.
With football season happening in late fall and winter, and half of the teams residing in the northern states, that would be a hell of a lot of postponed games. Keep in mind most of these teams play every weekend, so when exactly would all these games be postponed to???
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.
Yes lightning will cancel a game or a blizzard that stops all travel, the other thing that will cause a game to cancel or be moved is the stadium collapsing or being used as a storm shelter.
Football 🏈 is the only sport ever invented that is all weather terrain. Some of the most beautiful and famous games of all time have been played in bad weather. Bad weather forces athletes to not rely so much on athletic ability, instead they must now use mental strategies to out duel their opponent. The added element of weather brings football 🏈 back to its childhood roots. It is much more fun and entertaining.
"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 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
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!
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.
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.
@@LiveFromThePorcelainPalaceWhen Demar Hamlin nearly died on the field, they canceled the game.
Or the fans can't get to the game because of snow.
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
John Madden ?!? Hilarious? Really?? I think you meant fucking annoying especially when he told the fans his uncanny grasp of the obvious! I hated that guy!!
@@paulmolloy7206 Yes, he was hilarious! And he was also a well loved announcer. They made a football video game with his name on it! You must be the only person in the world who hated him.
He was right.
Fun fact about the final play of the Ice Bowl, the original play was a standard running play up the middle, but Packers running back Donny Anderson couldn't get back to the line of scrimmage without losing his footing. So Bart Starr took a timeout and went to the sideline where he suggested they change the play so that he would run the ball instead. Vince Lombardi's response to the suggestion was, "Then run it, and let's get the hell out of here."
The only game I remember being cancelled was one in Omaha when a tornado was sighted heading for the stadium.
Can’t see why they didn’t play through that one😂😂
Pretty sure that would NOT have been an NFL game, since no professional football franchises play (or have ever played, so far as I know) in Omaha.
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.
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.
Lewis: How are they playing in that snow?
Americans: That’s football weather bby!!!
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.
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.
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
There were however several games that had been RELOCATED due to incoming hurricanes.
They even played the weekend after the Kennedy Assassination!
The Eagles and Bears seem to be in more than half of all "weird weather" games!
Location, location, location...
Most of the snow games I've seen were in Buffalo
[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
As a resident of northeast Ohio, when the narrator said the Great Lakes don’t spare anyone, he means it lmao. I went to a browns game with my family in late December 2022, and the actual temperature was 3 degrees Fahrenheit, with the wind chill being -15 degrees Fahrenheit due to the wind coming off of the lake. The stadium was roughly 1/3rd filled, but I had a blast freezing my ass off while watching my team, the browns, lose with everyone else who was crazy enough to go to the game.
We might not get tornadoes or hurricanes, but we get snow from mid October to May and our weather can change on a dime. Hell, it’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit as I’m writing this (mid May) and last week the highest it got was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Our weather truly is bipolar.
We actually live for these crazy weather games. They make for crazy outcomes and unpredictable play. That is why we do not cancel them
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...
That brought to mind the circa 1900 Michigan "point a minute" football teams who swam in cold lakes.
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.
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.
The CFL has had even more wild weather. (Obviously. It's Canada)
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
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.
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
Rain or snow or wind will never cancel a game..the one,thing that delays a game in lightning..people can die from electrical storms..so the safety of players and finds sitting in the stands is of utmost importance..if lightning is ten miles away..a game can be delayed and people will usually just get up and head under the stands in the hallways..because a bolt of lightning can travel longer than 10 miles..but playing in rain and mud or with snow on the field and snow coming down..is quite common..never too cold..or too wet..
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..
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.
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 🏈🏈😁🌅♨⛈
The reason they rarely reschedule is because the schedule is packed and games were planned months ahead
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 RUclips.
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.
Another thing being how they can't just reschedule the game a day or two later, due to broadcasting schedules and the fact that the NFL only plays on certain days
This is America! These are the BEST games!!!
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
I watched the Ice Bowl on TV. Bart Starr's quarterback sneak at the end of the game was legendary. Everybody went crazy cheering.
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.
Yer talking Pittsburgh!
@@appaloosa42 Wisconsinite here so I am talking Green Bay but definitely Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Decatur (Bears first home), etc. fit also. Much respect from one old school football team's fan to another.
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.
Bad weather games, especially snow, are my favorite games
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.
My dad was at the snow game between the Patriots and Raiders. We live 30 minutes away from Gillette Stadium.
Let it snow
Bad weather games is another thing that separates nfl from other sports
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.
Football was evolved from rugby after the Civil War to be a simulation of the war. Each play is a battle. Each drive is a campaign. Each game is a war. Wars are fought in any weather. Check out the old Vikings games back when they played outside.
I don't remember any NFL games being actually cancelled because of weather. A Buffalo Bills home game last season (iirc) was postponed a day because of blizzard, but only because the governor of New York had placed a travel ban on the state. I think Buffalo had another game around that time moved to Detroit (with a domed stadium) because of the weather. And there might have been a few games moved a day or so either way because of hurricanes. But, yeah, NFL doesn't stop for anything.
Twice has a Bills game been postponed due to overwhelming snow, once aginst the Jets and then against the Browns. The games were moved to Detroit not because of travel bans, but because there was so much snow and no place to put it. IIRC, the Chargers, when still in San Diego, moved a game to Phoenix due to wildfires, and a Bills-49ers game was moved to Phoenix due to COVID. And of course, the Saints playing in San Antonio and Baton Rouge after Katrina.
Fun fact: the dolphins beet the longest play record by about 50 yards recently(the jets threw a Hail Mary from around the 25 then the dolphins caught it at the 1 and got a pick 6)
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.
As a kid, my friends and I loved playing in the snow and mud.
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!
I went to the first ever NFL game to be delayed for lightning strikes. In Kansas City, MO. It ran so long and so hard. It was an adventure to get home. Interstates, highways, and backroads all closed due to flooding. Fun game lots of fumbles.
We play football in a stadium or with friends in any kind of weather. I'm a girl, I was qb, receiver, street ball is for any weather
Green Bay has had 2 more Ice Bowls since, including during the 1996-97 season in the NFC Championship game against the Carolina Panthers where it was 3*F at kickoff, and I recall one playoff game (a loss) to the 49ers where it was well below 0*F at kickoff.
Our winter weather can be WILD! Either we get blizzards, or below 0*F temperatures, at times we've been colder than Alaska, and sometimes our blizzards come in spring, in 2018 we had one that dumped over 30 inches of snow in one weekend, in April...
We cheeseheads are nuts
That's football man. Weather just adds texture.
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.
If the weather is going to present a danger for fans traveling to the game they reschedule.
I LOVE a good snow game. Now they do all kinds of stuff to try to protect/clean the field so you only get one if there’s a blizzard on game day. And a couple times they’ve moved the game to another stadium for “fan safety” which I think is BS. Snow games are awesome to watch.
I remember watching the Blizzard Bowl, it was fantastic.
Go Pack Go!!
nothing goes better together then snow and football!
You don't reschedule American football for weather. The weather is the 23rd man.
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.
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 snow games are the best. The NFL doesn’t give a shit about weather. Get out on the field and play! I just found your channel and enjoy it. GL from Colorado.
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.
If you like this, watch anything about Buffalo, NY winter weather specifically the Christmas 2022 storm.
Been to a Chiefs at Broncos game in Denver that was -7/-21 with wind chill a few years ago and another where we had to shovel six inches of snow off our seats a couple years after. We don't cancel football for weather unless there's an imminent threat to life.
They have crazy heaters under the field now, it’s wild
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.
Love to watch snow games.
@L3WG: winter weather is crazy here in Cleveland, Ohio. The wind off of the Great Lakes is pretty cold. Lake Erie is in my backyard. The other seasons are nice.
You oughta see all the crazy guys with no shirts on at these cold ass games!
The only time they cancel or suspend an NFL game is if there is lightning in the area, and they usually suspend it, then finish it later when the lightning goes away. If a hurricane or a tornado has hit near the stadium, they just play the game somewhere else, so it is very rare for an NFL game to ever be cancelled.
We only have 16 games of football so we don't cancel any games
Philly never gets a break
Real men play Real football. The only time they delay, or cancel is if there is lighting!!!! These guys
are tuff, not cream puffs like the other "football" games.
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.
NFL is like the rally racing of ball sports. Weather just doesn't stop them.
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!
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
I went to a game in Cincinnati in the '90s that got down to -33C with the wind chill. It was a hoot.
Not much more we love than football in the snow! The heat can be the WORST!
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.
One of the most recent cancelled games was in 2022 when the Buffalo Bill’s Demar Hamlin died on the field. He was resuscitated after 10 minutes the initially were going to give both teams 15 minutes then start again. But decided to cancel cuz it would be in poor taste to play on
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.
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
The reason the NFL doesn't postpone games is because in the NFL they have men. Not like soccer where blowing on some one makes them hit the ground crying.
😂They are tough. Rain or shine they play. Some teams now have newer stadiums that have cover.
With football season happening in late fall and winter, and half of the teams residing in the northern states, that would be a hell of a lot of postponed games. Keep in mind most of these teams play every weekend, so when exactly would all these games be postponed to???
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. :)
There was a playoff game last season that was played in something like -40°F (which I seem to recall is right around where F and c actually match up)
I was at the Bills vs. Colts game. It was a BLAST!
Both teams have to deal with the same conditions. Good weather, or bad, it is a fair contest.
You can bear the heat? It was 109⁰ on the field and two days ago it hit 80⁰ in London and it was called a brutal heat wave. Seriously,?
Yes lightning will cancel a game or a blizzard that stops all travel, the other thing that will cause a game to cancel or be moved is the stadium collapsing or being used as a storm shelter.
Football 🏈 is the only sport ever invented that is all weather terrain.
Some of the most beautiful and famous games of all time have been played in bad weather.
Bad weather forces athletes to not rely so much on athletic ability, instead they must now use mental strategies to out duel their opponent.
The added element of weather brings football 🏈 back to its childhood roots. It is much more fun and entertaining.
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! 🏈
Hey From West Central Florida. Truly enjoy your reaction videos. Keep having fun. BTW, here is a Jolly video ya might enjoy. Best wishes.
"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 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
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!
I can't believe they left out the New England vs Miami game where they brought in a slow blower to clear a path for the game winning kick.
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.