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Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts) Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:18 PM Sep 2018

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I can remember games played in bad weather

Grrr delay

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I can remember games played in bad weather (Original Post) Watchfoxheadexplodes Sep 2018 OP

Lightning delay? muntrv Sep 2018 #1

yup. mercuryblues Sep 2018 #2

Thought so. The rain itself is not the issue. Getting struck by lightning is. muntrv Sep 2018 #3

Could get by asteroids, too. JayhawkSD Sep 2018 #4

Worst ever ? left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 #5

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

1. Lightning delay?

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:23 PM

Sep 2018

mercuryblues

(14,522 posts)

2. yup.

Reply to muntrv (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:23 PM

Sep 2018

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

3. Thought so. The rain itself is not the issue. Getting struck by lightning is.

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:25 PM

Sep 2018

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)

4. Could get by asteroids, too.

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:23 AM

Sep 2018

Should cancel all football games, or any public gatherings. Too much risk of a big crowd being hit by an asteroid.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

5. Worst ever ?

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 06:29 PM

Sep 2018

They nicknamed it 'the Freezer Bowl'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezer_Bowl

In National Football League (NFL) lore, the Freezer Bowl was the 1981 American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The game, won by the Bengals, 27–7, was played in the coldest temperature in NFL history in terms of wind chill.

Air temperature was ?9 °F, but the wind chill, factoring in a sustained wind of 27 miles per hour , was ?37 °F. The game was played on January 10, 1982 at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium ...

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