Twitter: Browns-Bills game moved to Detroit

[Runwildboys]

No offense, I'm not a city guy. Look hard enough, and any large city is a cesspool IMO. Never in Detroit, but figure it can't be worse than Camden LOL

Oh, I agree! I hate cities. I have to deliver lumber in NYC about once a week, and all I keep thinking as I drive through is, "How the **** can you people live like this???"

 

[Cowpolk]

Texans won't drive to the grocery store if it snows at all, but it's "soft" to not play a game with 5 feet of snow coming. Stay in your lane, Texans.

When it starts snowing I start the smoker up and cook In cutoffs t-shirt and flip flops my neighbors think I'm crazy but they like the food

 

[Vtwin]

NE of buffalo is canada, another canadian in this forum?

Right on the border in Vermont.

 

[RonnieT24]

Oh, I agree! I hate cities. I have to deliver lumber in NYC about once a week, and all I keep thinking as I drive through is, "How the **** can you people live like this???"

Amen.. this country boy who grew up among the orange groves and cow pastures in Orlando has never been much of fan of the big city. If it were up to me when we left California for Texas it would have been to move onto a ranch out in the middle of the country.. but the wife is a city girl so we compromised and landed in Fort Worth. She can get to some really good money spending places in Dallas in 30 minutes.. LOL! My daughter the ballerina is dancing with the Oakland Ballet this year so I have gotten to see up close what a cesspool that place is.. She also danced in Kansas City, which is less of a cesspool, last year and Seattle for two years before that. She also danced in San Francisco for three years and Los Angeles for one.. Of that group Seattle was probably far and away the cleanest and safest. Oakland wins the prize for the dirtiest and most dangerous.. but San Francisco aint far behind. Despite it's status as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it looks great from the Goodyear Blimp but walking around downtown is disgusting.

 

[RonnieT24]

Texans won't drive to the grocery store if it snows at all, but it's "soft" to not play a game with 5 feet of snow coming. Stay in your lane, Texans.

Having lived here in DFW for three years now I will have to take exception to this characterization. We've gotten snow the last two years and it hasn't really stopped folks for getting out.. Now the question of whether these wannabe NASCAR drivers have the good sense to slow down in the snow is another matter altogether.

 

[Buffalocowboy]

Green grass 1 mile from the stadium in Orchard Park right now. give it a few hours and that will change. you could have 3 ft overnight and your buddy the next town over might not get anything. Buffalo fans love this weather , but if it gets that bad they can't clean the stadium of snow that quick. A snowfall that large takes days to cleanup.

 

[dcstar]

One of the leading indicators $$$...specifically betting the spread...runs the NFL. What ever happened to the old days of playing in all types of weather?

Would the Ice Bowl live in infamy if the game was moved? Who woulda won?

In other news...participation trophies for all.

Go Cowboys!

 

[AmericasTeam81]

Soft league. Soft society

 

[DZSierra]

Oh, I agree! I hate cities. I have to deliver lumber in NYC about once a week, and all I keep thinking as I drive through is, "How the **** can you people live like this???"

No one hates NYC more than a New Yorker who owns guns Been there done that, will never move back again. Ironically enough, NYC is one city I've never been in.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

Boooo. I wanted to see a snowglobe game. If fans don't want to get stranded at the game they should walk there and back. Uphill both ways!

I think the problem is that this wasn't going to be a foot of snow. It is projected to be between 2 to 3 feet of snow actively falling during the game. I don't actually know how you could possibly operate an NFL game in that weather not to mention the stadium operations problems that would undoubtedly arise with fans being potentially stranded at the stadium after the game. I think it actually became more a public safety issue and honestly if I were the Bills, I would not want to risk liability for the car accidents and people falling down flights of stairs which would undoubtedly occur.

I agree though, the huge snowstorm games are a fun change of pace.

 

[dfense]

Actually the biggest concern was the ability to remove 60+ inches of snow from the stadium by game time. With a state of emergency already imposed they would be hard pressed to get enough volunteers.

 

[WoodysGirl]

 

[DZSierra]

Having lived here in DFW for three years now I will have to take exception to this characterization. We've gotten snow the last two years and it hasn't really stopped folks for getting out.. Now the question of whether these wannabe NASCAR drivers have the good sense to slow down in the snow is another matter altogether.

No matter where you live, from Canada to Florida, there will always be people who don't understand that 4 wheel drive does you absolutely no good when you have to hit your breaks on a snow covered road. People across the country also don't understand that when it's right around 32F outside and raining, bridges can become very dangerous because they will freeze quicker than the road. This coming from a guy who was born in Aroostook county, Maine LOL

 

[RonnieT24]

No matter where you live, from Canada to Florida, there will always be people who don't understand that 4 wheel drive does you absolutely no good when you have to hit your breaks on a snow covered road. People across the country also don't understand that when it's right around 32F outside and raining, bridges can become very dangerous because they will freeze quicker than the road. This coming from a guy who was born in Aroostook county, Maine LOL

This reminds me of a time when we were heading home from Lake Tahoe to the Bay Area and a rockslide shut the mountain road leading out of Tahoe down for a few hours. There was literally nothing you could do but turn your car off and wait for them to clear it. As we sat there in the cold and the freezing rain the road iced underneath us so when the traffic started to move my Suburban just spun in place and then started sliding sideways into the oncoming traffic lane. Fortunately everything was moving so slow that nobody hit me. Crazy stuff. Not showing proper respect to icy roads can git you dead PDQ.

 

[DZSierra]

This reminds me of a time when we were heading home from Lake Tahoe to the Bay Area and a rockslide shut the mountain road leading out of Tahoe down for a few hours. There was literally nothing you could do but turn your car off and wait for them to clear it. As we sat there in the cold and the freezing rain the road iced underneath us so when the traffic started to move my Suburban just spun in place and then started sliding sideways into the oncoming traffic lane. Fortunately everything was moving so slow that nobody hit me. Crazy stuff. Not showing proper respect to icy roads can git you dead PDQ.

I still remember lifting weights at a gym in Syracuse. Guy I was lifting with had bought a brand new 4 wheel drive jeep and he was telling me how great it handled on the ice lmao.

People buy a 4x4 or AWD and they have no concept that the faster your going in horrible conditions, the more risk you put yourself in because 4 wheel drive does nothing for you when you hit or even tap the breaks driving faster than you should.

I felt like a old fuddy duddy driving 7-8 hours (normally a 5 hour drive) on I-80 Christmas eve to visit my parents on the other side in the state in Pennsylvania. Snow packed roads, snowing pretty bad, no clean lanes, and there I'm driving like 50 MPH in four wheel drive when the few people on the road who were stupid enough to be out there were passing me like I was standing still. Most of those people I ended up passing when they ended up getting stuck in a ditch somewhere.

I learned up around Erie for the first time that even on a snow packed road, even driving "somewhat fast" in 4 wheel drive, when going around a bend on the road, even with good tires, the inertia of the vehicle can still pull you off the road. No accident on my end, but when I slid a little into the other lane, scared the living crap out of me. Learned that lesson well.

Having lived down south for the last two decades, southerners get a bad rap IMO for driving in snow. Northerners drive likes idiots as well in the snow

Please note, growing up driving "up north", I had my share of close calls being young driving in the snow, but I like to try and learn from my mistakes so I don't repeat them LOL

 

[nyc-cowboy]

Oh, I agree! I hate cities. I have to deliver lumber in NYC about once a week, and all I keep thinking as I drive through is, "How the **** can you people live like this???"

And people wonder why we curse so much.

Born and raised in the big city, I dont know if I could live anywhere else.

 

[Runwildboys]

Yeah...no thanks.

 

[DZSierra]

And people wonder why we curse so much.

Born and raised in the big city, I dont know if I could live anywhere else.

Just like southern drivers, "city folk" get a bad rap as well from "country folk" IMO.

I shoot and drive my truck on my own land, and have countless cows and horses around me for the last 18 years (not mine, the neighbors as I'm not into farming LOL). That said, worked and lived in a pretty big city for a while in my past. I've done both (city and country) and I like less people because that's the way I am.

I believe cities get a bad rap vs "country" because of population density. You will always have X percentage of the population who are lazy idiots who have no common sense and don't care about anyone but themselves. Even though I live in the country, we have the same share of idiots who don't care about anyone else but themselves, it's just you just have more of them in the city

There is something to be said for "city life" if you embrace it that the country life just can't offer. Just depends on what you want to embrace. I just like to pee and shoot off my back porch when I want, which could be a problem if I live in a town/city LMAO.

 

[Captain-Crash]

this makes me sad. I remember when Greg diehardtcryer was at the ice bowl with no shirt on. wusses.

 

[Captain-Crash]

Before i saw your post on Dome Stadiums, i was going to point out the stunning ongoing mystery as why these owners have no problems building brand new spanking stadiums,
but for whatever reason, they refuse to build Dome stadiums to where it protects the game,.. the playing field, ...their loyal freezing their bones fans and if they posed

With a new state of the art Dome stadium, they could at least have a chance at contention for a Super Bowl bid.

And imagine the cash flow and revenue a Super Bowl could do not only the owners, sponsors, ..and their respective cities ?

But Chicago, Buffalo, Washington, Minnesota, Cleveland, New England (Detroit?) they've built new stadiums, without the thought of a Dome or retractible roof covered stadium.
And long have Chiefs been at snow, rain and wind filled ancient Arrow Head Stadium that come under same dreaded weather conditions ?

yeah and the could have art work and old women's clothing lines.