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December 26, 2010
NFL Postpones Eagles/Giants Due to Blizzard: The NFL has postponed Sunday night's Eagles/Vikings game in Philadelphia due to a "snow emegency," rescheduling the game for Tuesday night. The game originally had a 1 p.m. start time but was chosen by NBC for its evening broadcast. The rescheduling occurred before much snow had fallen, though a blizzard is expected across the northeast.
With the Giants losing to Green Bay, the game has become meaningless as far as playoffs. But no Sunday night football? Wait, the Little Caesars Bowl. Florida International and Toledo are football teams, right?
posted by graymatters at 08:03 PM on December 26, 2010
You would make the second confirmed viewer for the Little Caesars blockbuster.
Once an Akronian, now a Miamian, LeBron has to be gripped by bowl fever over that one.
The action comes to you live from sunny Detroit.
posted by beaverboard at 09:17 PM on December 26, 2010
Considering how rarely you get to see a snow game to begin with, this is a real bummer. I guess the Luries really needed that concession money.
posted by feloniousmonk at 09:31 PM on December 26, 2010
You would make the second confirmed viewer for the Little Caesars blockbuster.
Turned out to be a pretty good game all in all, what with the comeback, the second comeback, the trick play on fourth down, and the winning field goal as the clock ran out.
posted by graymatters at 09:18 AM on December 27, 2010
Alex Karras's 1991 novel "Tuesday Night Football" finally has real meaning.
posted by Newbie Walker at 12:40 AM on December 28, 2010
"We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything," [Governor Ed] Rendell added. "If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down."
posted by yerfatma at 08:26 AM on December 28, 2010
I hate when people compare areas that don't receive tons of snow to those that do, and complain that those places are just wusses. Obama did this same shit when he came from Chicago. The DC metropolitan area does not spend a fraction of what Chicago spends on snow plows and the like. It would be a waste of money to do so since the area gets serious snow once every 10 years. Philadelphia does not get the amount of snow that they get in the Midwest. Anyway, I don't think it says anything good about Rendell that the NFL cares more about the health and safety of people going to and working at the game than he does.
posted by bperk at 09:08 AM on December 28, 2010
After seeing DC/NoVA's excuses for snowplows during the blizzards last winter, I have much greater admiration for those locales (Wisconsin in particular) that put a lot of dollars towards snowplows. But again, the blizzards in this area last year were anomalies and expenditures on actual snowplows would have been seen as very wasteful any other year. I may have bitched about never getting snow days growing up in Wisconsin, but I wonder how many jurisdictions even in the Midwest will start seriously crimping their plowing budgets in efforts to save funding.
Also, after the Vikings' "snow bowl" at TCF Bank Stadium Slash University of Minnesota Frozen Iceball Field of Death and Concussdom, I think they got their fill for the year.
posted by evixir at 08:50 PM on December 28, 2010
If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game?
I, frankly, have no idea. Was he expecting a resounding, "NO"?
posted by tron7 at 11:03 PM on December 28, 2010
I agree it's a bit of a puzzler. I think they would have asked why the hell someone was calling what appears to be rugby "football" and then said they didn't care because they weren't going to attend anyway.
posted by yerfatma at 08:27 AM on December 29, 2010
And here I thought this was a link about football.