Did you watch the early NFL games yesterday? Of course you watched the Steelers game — there were 15,000 empty seats, so chances are you watched it from home — but did you check out the other games at all?
When I turned on my TV yesterday, I saw that the fields in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington and especially Philadelphia were covered in snow. The RedZone channel flipped to the Eagles game and I literally couldn’t tell which team had the ball. The referees had to stop the game to get a snowblower out on the field to even see the goaline.
In Pittsburgh, I thought Emmanuel Sanders was wide open at one point because I couldn’t see the Miami defender. Their green pants and white jersey really blended in well with the field of play.
In February, the Super Bowl will be held MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. I didn’t mind seeing football played in true conditions, but for the league’s title game, I always felt it should be played in the best conditions possible.
Until yesterday, that is.
Come Super Bowl Sunday, I’m hoping, no, actually, rooting for a full out blizzard.
There were 90 points scored yesterday across the league, the most in NFL history for one game.
LeSean McCoy ran for an Eagles single-game rushing record, and Antonio Brown came within a hangnail of winning the game for the Steelers (nevermind the blatant forward pass by Ben Roethlisberger).
The game of the week, though, was the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens. There were six touchdowns in the final quarter, and there were five touchdowns and subsequent lead changes in the last 1:40 of the game. No, that isn’t a typo.
It was the most exciting game I’ve seen in a long, long time.
In total, there were 226 points in those four snow games, including a 45-10 blowout win by the Kansas City Chiefs over the horrible, horrible Washington Redskins.
Sure, it would be ideal for the Super Bowl to be played inside a dome to prevent from any bad weather (unless the power goes out), but since it has to be outdoors in cold weather, bring on the snow.
