Posted on 01/13/2024 10:02:58 AM PST by Red Badger
The New York governor made the announcement Saturday
Multiple Super Wild Card Weekend matchups will be affected due to weather, and now, one game has been postponed because of it. Saturday, New York governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Pittsburgh Steelers at Buffalo Bills playoff matchup will be moved from 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, to 4:30 p.m. Monday due to dangerous conditions.
Governor Hochul posted on social media that travel is going to be extremely dangerous in Western New York, and that a full travel ban has been implemented for Erie County starting at 9 p.m.
The Steelers have not traveled to Buffalo and are scheduled to leave on Sunday, according to CBS Sports Lead NFL Insider Jonathan Jones.
An update on our Super Wild Card game. #PITvsBUF pic.twitter.com/0JuHh6ls5i
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 13, 2024 According to Weather.com, Buffalo is under a winter storm warning from 10 a.m. Saturday until 7 a.m. Monday morning. Heavy lake effect snow and strong winds are expected this weekend, while snow accumulations in the area could range from 1 to 3 feet. The Bills even previously asked for help to shovel snow in Highmark Stadium through the night so it could be ready for Sunday afternoon.
The last time an NFL playoff game was moved came in 2016, when Steelers vs. Chiefs in Kansas City was moved back from 1:05 ET to 8:20 ET due to an ice storm, per ESPN. While the NFL world does lose a Sunday playoff tripleheader with this rescheduling, it does mean we now get a Monday doubleheader, with Steelers-Bills kicking off at 4:30 p.m. ET, while the Philadelphia Eagles play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 8:15 p.m. ET.
Another example of a Democrat governor locking something down.
Times have changed.
I’m glad...cuz winds were supposed to be 25 mph...which would make it a handoff or short passing game....equivalent to a High School Freshman game.
Hochul is a Buffalo girl...Nevertheless....she does whatever Schumer tells her to do,.
I’m furious. I have a public meeting I have to run at 5:30 Monday. They had the option of moving the game to Cleveland, but wouldn’t do it. Dammit!
Why the hell is the governor making that decision? Shouldn’t it be a local decision? Politicians always say, never let a crisis go to waste.
Not in North Texas...lol. Even at that level, the offenses have pretty good passing games. For powers like Southlake, that extends down to 7th grade.
Anyone else PO’ed at the NFL for blacking out the Chiefs/Dolphins game? I hope this comes back to bite them in the butt.
Move the game to Rio. Wimps.
Oh yeah....I forget to say...”except in North Texas of course”
Bit of a difference between cold and enough snow for a travel ban. Can’t get the teams to the game, much less fans, with a travel ban.
Move the game to Green Bay.
Home team forfeits because they could not provide suitable game conditions for the networks.
Today is January 13. SB III, when the Jets beat the Colts, was played on January 12 of that year. This is not a weather thing; this is greed and money and gambling.
It’s not blacked out, it’s on a streaming service. Spend $4 and you can watch it, then spend the next month watching Columbo, which is the best thing on Peacock.
It might have looked better if the NFL had done this on their own, rather than letting the governess do it by decree. I think it was the right thing to do in this situation, though.
We pay billions of dollars in taxes to pay for the stadiums. Now they want to charge us just so we can watch a game on streaming?
Usually the NFL makes the announcement. But we are dealing with Hochul here.
No. Streaming is no different than cable. It’s TV you pay for. You need to subscribe to Amazon to watch the Thursday games. You need to subscribe to ESPN to watch the Monday games. And you need to subscribe to Peacock to watch the NBC’s “bonus” games. None of this is terribly complicated and no different than when they first put games on cable in 1987.
I bet the governor is making the announcement to try to take credit for the decision. But the decision was likely made by the league and the teams.
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