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2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

But is it, though?   I get that you wouldn't want to go, and maybe that you think the players shouldn't have to play. It isn't going to be deadly - let's not be so melodramatic. 

Let's not act like it's no big deal either.

The Flacco giveth and the Flacco taketh away.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

I think Communist_Whore is going to be my new forum name.

19 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Communist_Whore/the artist formerly known as Admiral knows how to strike when the iron is hot.

3 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:

 

It was fun while it lasted. 

We had our fun, but now it's time to head to a neutral corner.

No one is getting the username "Communist Whore." Sorry.

27 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

And what are these people mad about?

Beats me, but I can't lie, I get a kick out of how much it aggravates them.

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

The "pussification of America" stuff is really overboard with this.

MOD REDACTED by me.

Suffice it to say that a Twitter user was none too happy with Governor Hochul's decision to move the Steelers - Bills game to Monday.

Oops.

8 minutes ago, Germanshepherd said:

The Freezer Bowl was played before the 2001 wind chill recalculation, the same conditions would be -32 today. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140104111820/http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=grb&storyid=99351&source=0

Oh, well that's different. -32 is much warmer than -59. I stand corrected. By the way, at -32, we're only  -8 degrees away from the temperature being the same in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

Alright, I'll get off your lawn. I'm just of the opinion that hazards make a more memorable game which makes better TV. I'm a bit of a psychopath, sue me. If it actually gets to a point where it would kill someone with the physical fitness of an NFL player, the game shouldn't be played. Like lightning. I played football. Bad weather games were what I would kill for. 

I can assure you that my opinion on this has nothing to do with my age. I felt the same way when the '81 AFC title game was played in weather with a -59 degree wind chill.

Snow is a hazard. Rain and mud are hazards. Playing football in "don't expose your skin and be sure to bring your animals inside so they don't freeze to death" weather is insanity. These tough guy football players are going to roll out there without sleeves because they don't want to look weak. Or they're idiots. Or both. It might be memorable, but it won't be good football.

This isn't just "bad weather." This is dangerous to the teams and the fans and the NFL should know better.

4 hours ago, Red Comet said:

I'm well aware you were being sarcastic, hence why I said "But unironically" in the very next sentence.

You kids and your use of unironically. I'm never sure which part is supposed to be ironic when someone says that.

Maybe Generation Jones* has a different definition of irony or something,

*h/t @SFGiants58 for putting a name to the in between Boomers and X  generation I'm a part of.

1 minute ago, Dilbert said:

Bengals and Chargers laugh at your measly -30 windchill. Compared to the Freezer Bowl at -59 windchill, -30 is a heatwave.

Find me someone who can go outside and be able to tell the difference between -30 and -59.

28 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

I agree it’s football weather.

I was being sarcastic. It's not football weather, it's the Arctic Circle come to Kansas City and no one should be playing sports outdoors there.

20 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

I'm reminded of a passage from The Good Book (by which, of course, I mean Football Hall of Shame by Bruce Nash and Alan Zullo) where a southern football team had to play a game in the cold. They saw their breath for the first time, thought their gizzards had frozen, and promptly got destroyed.

 

The Dolphins could shut themselves in a freezer to train, and it wouldn't even come close to what it's going to be like in Kansas City.

You know this weather has been in the Dolphins heads since they saw the first forecast. I mean, no one is used to playing in zero degree weather, but that stuff hits a lot harder when you're in town from Miami.

More "football weather."

"Football weather."

29 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Thanks for the correction. I’ve modified my original post on it. 

Still a solid original point.

32 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

 

The entertainment industry must be staffed entirely by nepotistic morons in order for this to have gone on as long as it did. 

Accurate.

5 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

Wow.  But this raises the question: how could non-existent people have been awarded Emmys? Does this mean that the Emmy people do not actually review the work that is under consideration?

Sounds like the fake names were listed as part of the production crew. My guess is the EMMYs aren't going to dig too deep on the credentials of the below the line staff. Anyone can be a production assistant.

5 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

So apparently ESPN won several Emmys using false names, then handed them to their on-air personalities. 

The EMMY wins were legit. None of the EMMYs  went to fake shows, just fake people. ESPN gamed the system and used the fake names to get extra trophies to give to the on-air staff who weren't eligible to receive them.

12 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Two games with football weather in the AFC side. Only thing ruining it are the Texans because if the game was in Cleveland... man...

"Football weather" usually makes for terrible football. Watching two teams try to avoid freezing to death while playing a football game is not fun. Snow games look cool, but that's about it.

2 hours ago, CS85 said:

I don't see why Belichick would want to coach again in the NFL after this.  I feel like he'd be much more inclined to go to a smaller NCAA program where he could relax and not have the NFL circus all around him.

Belichick would have to recruit if he went to a college team. He doesn't strike me as the recruiting type.

19 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Watch Pete Carroll end up at Bama and watch the :censored:ing Chargers throw huge cash at Saban

Rumors are saying that Saban's wife is really sick and that's why he retired. Take that with a 50 pound bag of salt.

Former Toledo Rockets head coach, Nick Saban, announced his retirement today. In his time as the head football coach at the University of Toledo, Saban had a winning percentage of 82%. Legend has it that after his wildly successful coaching stint at Toledo, Saban went on to have a fairly decent career coaching football at other colleges. We wish Coach Saban well in his future endeavors...wherever he is. 

3 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

They better have someone ready to go.

 

Harbaugh or bust.

Mike Vrabel isn't a bad choice either.

6 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

he never had any season with fewer than 7 losses in 14 years in Seattle. 

Do you mean he never had any season with more than 7 losses in 14 years? I ask because most teams don't keep a coach who is losing 7 or more games a season for 14 years.