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NFL’s policy over cold-weather games questioned after fans treated for hypothermia and frostbite at Chiefs-Dolphins game

When i used to hunt and it was cold whenever i thought i had enough layers on i would always add another. My biggest issue was keeping feet warm so i always brought extra warmer packs. People just need to use common sense
 
Djfan said:
This stuff drives me nuts. Instead of this article, they should publish one about dressing correctly, not going if worried, getting hand warmers, not painting your chest and going shirtless, etc. If a person wants to be stupid, let them. The consequences, like the choice, are theirs.
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I was AT this game.....

https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.c...history-raiders-patriots-dolphins-week-16-nfl

Fast forward nearly 12 years, and we arrive at the Steelers’ only other reported game with a temperature of 10° or colder: a Week 15 date with the Patriots at Three Rivers Stadium on Dec. 17, 1989. The game featured a temperature of 3°, winds of 10 miles per hour and a windchill of -12.
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And I can tell you, even "layers" didn't really work. They helped, they gave you a chance of being able to brave the temps, but in the end, we left early, it was just too damn cold to deal with. Spill a beer? No worries, it instantly turned to ice on your jacket. But no word on them even talking about moving the date of that game. None. I've never been to a coder event in my life.
 
slashsteel said:
I tell you that Miami game that AB supposibly stepped out of bounds at the end was fricken cold. I definitely didn't dress warm enough. It is a wonder my *** didn't freeze to the seat.
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Wasn’t that the coldest game recorded at a Steelers home game since Dec 89 against NE? That game in Three Rivers was cold as hell. Wind chill was sub zero.
 
Ike Kelly said:
Wasn’t that the coldest game recorded at a Steelers home game since Dec 89 against NE? That game in Three Rivers was cold as hell. Wind chill was sub zero.
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Mrs. Fan and I went to an SDSU vs CSU game in Fort Collins once. It was not only VERY cold, but the wind was whipping like a tornado the whole time. We were so friggin' cold, we still ache 10 years later. Bitter cold.


The Loss to Tebow in the playoffs in Denver was butt kicking cold, too. Just not as bad as the one in Fort Collins.
 
So obviously the Bills game needed to be postponed, but if you think that happened solely because of a fan safety issue, I have a bridge to sell you...

The Bills Steelers was postponed because the high winds would have ruined tge passing game. It was moved to monday late afternoon despite knowing they probably wouldnt have enough time to totally clear the stadiums, and there was a significant chance more snow and ice was potentially coming before the game,( which thankfully missed it)

They tarped the field, but didnt tarp the fans seats... many still had to dig out their seats on arriving for the game.. those same fans still had to travel through perilous conditions because you have to leave hours before the game to get in there, and many roads really werent great until closer to gametime...

They could have just played it at 7 or 8 and given crews extra hours to get everything ready

They could have given it an earlier spot before the storm

They could have absolutely moved tge KC game to the sunday slot in the daytime

Fan safety is lip service... what matters is keeping TV happy.

If tge networks shelling out the billions want the KC Taylor swifts on saturday primetime, thats happening no matter how many peasents freeze their dicks off.

If something is going to **** with their broadcast, like high winds, then they move it to the first timeslot not overlapping another game that isnt windy...


Its a business and tge patron networks get final say on everything...

When they invoke player or fan safety its usually bullshit, though again regardless of tge reason they did it, moving that bills game was correct... they just didnt do the right thing in KC...
 
All games indoors. Rain, wind no longer an element of the game. Perfect 72 degrees F. Flag football. No hitting. The Showboat League.

I'm not watching that.
 
stillwright said:
Make every team have a dome and be done with it.
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Ban football in all cities that don’t have a dome……………. PITTSBURGH excluded, unless coach Tomlin is still here….



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MTC said:
There’s a lot of stupid people amongst who don’t take those precautions however
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It's the same type of stupid people who stay in their houses near the beach with a Cat 5 hurricane coming in that has a 10-15+ foot storm surge. It isn't like the weatherman isn't on tv day and night prior. They illustrate just how screwed you are if you stay in the storm surge zone. People still stay.
 
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I don’t know that you could build a dome in Buffalo that would hold up to the amount of snow they get.
 
Djfan said:
Mrs. Fan and I went to an SDSU vs CSU game in Fort Collins once. It was not only VERY cold, but the wind was whipping like a tornado the whole time. We were so friggin' cold, we still ache 10 years later. Bitter cold.


The Loss to Tebow in the playoffs in Denver was butt kicking cold, too. Just not as bad as the one in Fort Collins.
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YOU also realize SDSU won the FCS Championship again this year,......................... right !!!


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Ron Burgundy said:
I don’t know that you could build a dome in Buffalo that would hold up to the amount of snow they get.
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If you build it, they will come----------------------------------------------------------


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Ike Kelly said:
Wasn’t that the coldest game recorded at a Steelers home game since Dec 89 against NE? That game in Three Rivers was cold as hell. Wind chill was sub zero.
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I was at that game, coldest weather I was ever in.
 
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