The city of Buffalo is no stranger to extreme winter weather in January. As a blizzard levels Western New York today, there’s a good reason that the NFL — in conjunction with Governor Kathy Hochul — rescheduled the Buffalo Bills’ Wild Card playoff game with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But without concrete visuals, it might be a little hard to understand why the NFL would postpone a playoff game for some … snow?
Well, about that.
Per a video from the Bills’ Twitter account, their home stadium looks unplayable, unsafe, and probably impossible to reach in the thick of the storm. With this evidence in the account, I think it’s obvious why the league decided to move the game:
Current scene at Highmark Stadium.
Stay safe tonight, Bills Mafia. ❄️ pic.twitter.com/FSJvNht1ri
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 13, 2024
Yeah, I don’t think it would have been right to ask fans and emergency personnel to trek through that extreme weather. Never mind what it would mean to ask players and coaches to sit through those conditions. Delaying the kickoff of Bills-Steelers was prudent and proactive.
This was how Twitter reacted to a video of the Buffalo blizzard at the Bills' stadium
My most toxic trait is I would like to see a football game played in this exact weather. https://t.co/jgTEkiZkTz
— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) January 13, 2024
*just the loudest, most obnoxious belch imaginable* football is meant to be played in the elements we have become soft https://t.co/NBQ9dzVF6D
— Chris Perfett (@chrisperfett) January 13, 2024
Hoth System. https://t.co/ssCu2Q7bAa
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) January 13, 2024
My Lord, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed.
Com-Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system. https://t.co/Y6tAlmsh39
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) January 13, 2024
Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker. https://t.co/2PHCvqqmSY
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 13, 2024
This looks fine. Geez https://t.co/WLzVAUiLKt pic.twitter.com/WgdCZagkej
— Ben Anderson (@BenAnderson58) January 13, 2024
If you look close enough, you can see Najee Harris running into the endzone https://t.co/7kfk8ARwGI
— Zachary Smith (@ZacharySmithPGH) January 13, 2024
Football weather https://t.co/fxvclkw6bn
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) January 14, 2024
Tarp makes it look like the ocean. That's insane. https://t.co/nxx5YcGaUS
— Scott Kacsmar (@ScottKacsmar) January 14, 2024
