Yep. Football plays in rain, snow, freezing cold, fog, mud, wind, etc. only thing they delay games for is lightning. Part of what’s great about the sport, honestly.
@@RayearthIX : I LOVE when there is snow (or rain). Some teams that are a "passing" team, suddenly have to prove they can run the ball too. Usually really changes the teams normal strategy. Luv it!!
@@michaelbeecham525 Traditionally, baseball stadiums were also laid out based on the sun. Third base north, first base south, home to the west, CF to the east. That way the batter would always looking east (after noon) and even able to see the pitched ball. A pitcher standing on the mound would have his left hand to the south. Hence the term southpaw for a lefty pitcher.
That voice over voice you heard was the late great Harry Kalas. He was the NFL films voice and the mlb’s Philadelphia phillies announcer for decades. He passed in 2009. One of the most iconic voices.
When it comes to football, college or professional, it's VERY rare that a game gets called off for weather. If there are numerous lightning strikes, then officials will either delay the game and let the storm pass, or they will call off the game altogether. But that's very few and far between. Too hot, too cold, heat stroke, hypothermia, rain, shine, snow, blizzard, monsoon, can't see in front of you, solar eclipse, Armageddon, only half the home team showed up and the other half fell off a cliff... suck it up and let's play some football!!! I love the bad weather games. They're so much fun to watch, and the players really have a lot of fun with them too. If it's snowing, it's not unusual to see a couple players making snow angels on the field in between plays. They automatically turn back into their former childhoods right in front of you. It almost becomes a Charlie Brown special. I swear there have been games where all that was missing, was Snoopy and Woodstock dancing up a storm in the end zone lol.
Kalas for NFL films. I used to love watching that on Saturday mornings after the cartoons went off. His voice and the music they used for it made it worth the watch. Oh, and how all the reels had the guys running in slow mo so you could see their ribs rotating. Great stuff! 😂
As someone from Green Bay the weather can be awful, especially considering Lambeau still has natural grass, not artificial terf, so it can get muddy quick 🤣 winters can be as bad as -40 so depending on the weather it can be a crazy time, especially if the team is from the south where they are not as used to such conditions 😂
Regarding the mud at Glastonbury, we know. Check out the infamous Woodstock 94. During a song with "Mud" in the name was performed, there was so much mud thrown on stage that the bassist on stage was still finding mud in his equipment and cases 20 years later.
"My Name Is Mud" by Primus. When he said the first line of the lyrics, people began hurling mud at Les Claypool, to which he stopped the song and said into the mic, "Well that just opened up a big ass can of worms, didn't it?" But the biggest mud onslaught at that festival wasn't Primus, it was actually during Green Day's set. When they were ending their show with the song "Paper Lanterns", guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong began taunting the crowd, and a mud fight between him and the crowd ensued for about eight minutes. It took the stage hands, camera crew and backstage staff almost an hour to clear the stage of all the mud clumps from interfering with the undercarriage of the circular stage, as the stage was on a spindle, much like a lazy susan, which when turned, would reveal the next act after Green Day's set. Also, when bassist Mike Dirnt was running around onstage during the mud fight, a member of security mistook him for a fan that had gotten on stage and immediately tackled him, making him break off one of his teeth, to which he had to leave to a clinic for emergency dentistry.
My old boss once told us about her experience of Woodstock. She, her sister and some classmates heard about it and decided to go, so they left their Catholic boarding school in Connecticut in their wool suits and their best luggage and showed up at basically a mud orgy. We went with our friends/next door neighbors to their grandparents place in White Lake, NY. They had a cheap country hotel aimed at other Italian immigrants. The neighbors went up there every summer. We set up a stand to sell cans of Penguin soda. It was the Grand Union generic brand and cost around a penny for two cans. We made a killing selling penguin soda to the dirty hippies.
The commentary that you heard during the Mud Bowl was added after the fact for an NFL Films special. It wasn't game broadcast audio, which is why it sounds a bit bland.
The term ''Rain Check'' was for Baseball games that got rained out...They gave you a rain check good for another game, if it rained on game day...Baseball gets called, if it rains hard, but they make up the canceled game later in the season..usually with a double header.
We only stop football if the weather is legitimately dangerous; like lightning or tornados. The most fun I ever had playing any sport was a game we played after a rainstorm. Fumbles galore and every tackle you would slide at least 10 yards. It was awesome.
The final two voices were both announcers for Philadelphia. The voice over was done by Harry Kalas, long time baseball play-by-play announcer for the Phillies. He did voice over work for NFL Films. The guy doing play-by-play announcing in the game was the Eagles announcer Merrill Reese. They would not call any of the games today. Maybe the fog bowl today, but nothing like that has happened. The monsoon that was shown with lightning was called for lightning. It was a pre-season game with the College All-star team. It's the last time an NFL team played a college team. A lot of these weather games are seen as home field advantages. When one team is used to playing in cold, heat, snow, rain, etc and the other isn't, you usually get a bit of an advantage. And yes, if one bench gets more sun, it's the away bench.
I was at that buffalo bills game it was definitely a cool experience I’ve been to tons of bills games have season tickets but that one was definitely one of my favourites
I listened to Steve Tasker talk about the wind. During practice they threw a napkin in the air and got yelled at by the coach as they watched the napkin go through the whole stadium
NFL put out a video themselves talking about bad weather games, and a lot of players have actually said they have a lot of fun in them because it reminds them of backyard football back home. They can get all muddy and messy and their mom won’t get mad at them! If you look closely at snow games where people slide around after a tackle, both the receiver and the defender can sometimes be seen laughing as they slide around. It’s a competitive game, but its still a game!
Some of the older stadiums were also home for the cities MLB teams. So half the season they play on the dirt until baseball season is over then they convert it to grass. Now that is pretty rare with the new stadiums.
Since Oakland's move to Vegas, the only major football games in baseball stadiums are a few bowl games such as the Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee stadium...and honestly, those really aren't even that major.
The NFL would still play games in any of the weather that was featured in this video. The only thing that stops them from playing is lightning, and even then they just delay until the storm passes. The might move a game if a city gets evacuated due to a hurricane though, but I'm pretty sure that's never happened.
And they'll try to move a game before cancelling it if possible, too! When Orchard Park got 6+ feet of snow and it couldn't be cleared in time the Bills-Jets game was moved to Detroit so that it wouldn't cause any scheduling issues in the future!
I'm from Miami, and yes, we have definitely had games rescheduled because of a hurricane warning. I remember it happening at least once here, in the last 5 years. Whole cities don't really get evacuated from hurricanes, just areas near the coast. This is because the deadliest part of a hurricane is the rising waters that the storms bring on shore (it's called "storm surge" if you wanted to Google it). Still, the winds can destroy structures, and even weaker hurricanes will knock over trees and down power lines, and create transportation emergencies, so anything non-essential is shut down as a commonsense precaution.
My favorite thing was from the Ice bowl where NFL films had these heroic presentations, then they cut to this one guy who said : "I was so damn cold, I didn't want to play."
that fog bowl game was the most important game for the eagles in like 10 years. they had one of the best defenses ever. (usually its ranked in the top 10 defenses ever) I still feel ill about that game though 30 years later. Randall Cunningham was a great player, his highlights are fun to watch. NFL football teams play in that weather, but so do college and high school. I personally played in a game with a lake in the middle of the field, my hand would disappear into the water it was that deep. Probably 6 inches deep of water right in the middle of the field.
A number of NFL stadiums that are outdoors in snow country have coils under the surface of the turf that circulated heated fluids that keep snow from sticking to the surface. Green Bay and Kansas City are examples but I know there are many more. There used to be quite a few dual use stadiums that did baseball and football. That made mud an issue on the infield base paths and pitchers mound. I don’t think there are any of those left. I’ve been to college games where they had to shovel the yard markers just so you could tell where things were on the field.
As a kid (under 25...), playing American football with friends in a parking lot with 12 inches of fresh snow is the year's highlight! So much fun... get exhausted, then food and beer...
In America, we only stop games for lightning, and yes most of our stadiums are wide open. If they aren't, they're totally covered. We don't really do in-between. As for the the clay you see on the football field, baseball and football seasons overlap a little and some stadiums have to keep the clay till the end of baseball season. The funny thing is some teams from bad weather cities do better in bad weather. Green Bay is a good example of that
I'm late to the party, and you guys must have heard this a ton already, but a lot of places in America (mostly the "mid-west" have weather that changes at the will of the gods of fate) I'm right in the middle of it, and it's a not uncommon saying that "if you don't like the weather here, wait an hour. It will change." New subscriber, but long time fan. Keep up the great work!
Back in the day a lot of places were multi use, so mike was correct that was a baseball field in the middle of that football field. Oakland raiders (now Vegas) used to play out of the same stadium as the Oakland A’s in the MLB until very recent
Hey guys. Not as many dual use stadiums now a days, so not as many dirt infields come into play. Also a lot more new stadiums being built as domes or have retractable roofs they can open and close as needed. Check out a game from back in the day they refer to as the ice bowl. You poured hot coffee out of a thermos and it would immediately freeze. Sent you guys a link to a Barry Sanders highlight vid a while back. You should check it out even if you don't do a reaction. One the best and maybe the shiftiest runners ever. Stay safe and well.
They mostly just call off games if there's thunder and lightning, which is a safety mandate. They'll play through pretty much all the rain or snow. A couple games have been moved because of snow, but one of those was bc Minnesota's roof collapsed from snow (designed to do it). Games are more likely to be called for safety of getting there. They may delay a little if the forecast looks good but generally they play. Baseball is different bc the field can't get to wet and muddy, so any heavy rain delays it bc there's a whole dirt section on their fields, plus guys would be trying to chase down 100 mph flyballs on a soggy field and the ball would just die every time it hit the ground
Couple things 1. A few years ago I was emcee for the Marshmallow Jam, a 3 day music festival in East Texas in June. Day 1 and Day 3 were absolutely beautiful, but day 2 the rain was non stop. High winds even took down a metal building a few miles away, but we put up a tent over the stage and played on. The Roadies and myself were on all the corners of the tent making sure it didn't blow away. Most of the crowd stayed and we got muddy af together as we jammed out. Being summer in Texas, when it rains, you take it. 2. My favorite memory from high school was playing Jacksonville at the Tomato Bowl in a monsoon. It rained from start to finish on real grass and it got muddy af, but it was so much fun. We lost by a field goal, but that game will always be one of my favorites.
Our wheather here in Oregon's pretty sporadic words surrounded by mountains on three sides and the ocean on the 4th so our weather varies depending on what elevation you live in
In my state, rarely does anything close because of the weather. The wind chill right now is -21. Tonight it is forecasted at -44. Nothing ever seems to stop, much to the disgust of school students in particular. The school district handbook says recess MAY be limited if the temperature is lower than -10 or the windchill is lower than -10.
Even the angle of the sun isn't considered a true advantage due to teams switching goals at the half. Some people would say that teams that are located in rainy/snowy areas have more experience and practice in those conditions which can give the edge. Same is true for temperatures. Take a boy used to practicing in low elevation high humidity hot place and send him on an away game somewhere that has high elevation and it's cold dry air and he'll tell you he's at a disadvantage.
That Carolina game in the heavy rain early in the video was during a tropical storm which was what was left of a hurricane. Might have been Hurricane Florence in 2018.
In baseball, they have to stop for rain because, pitchers throwing 90+ miles an hour, you could see how much danger there would be for batters not being able to see the ball and it being slippery in the hand on top of that!
In and of themselves, rain and snow aren't bad to play in, it's wind that makes things tricky. Extreme cold can also make certain aspects of the game difficult, as well as more painful. I preferred playing in cooler or cold weather over the hot and humid games or practices. I've played/practiced (anyone remember "daily doubles") in weather from 19°F to 106°F. Wind, rain, snow, mud, it didn't matter, win or lose, I had a good time playing football. When I look back, the thing I wish would have been different, is playing on artificial turf (yes, I'm old). It would have been nice if there was field turf like they have now, or just regular grass. That thin sheet of rough plastic layed out on concrete was more brutal on the body than the game itself. As for stopping games, I only remember 4 times while I played (Pop Warner to Semi-pro) where a game was delayed. They were... Lightning (twice). Play resumed both times once the storm cell passed. Bees. Play resumed once the swarm was cleared. A night game when the lights went out. Play resumed once the power situation was figured out.
@2:32 If you think everything grinds to a halt there when it snows, you should see how it is where I live when even the slightest bit of snow decides to stick to the ground lol. I live in Meridian, Mississippi or just Mississippi on general (I only say that in case there happens to be someone who sees these videos or this comment and lives here on in Mississippi at all)! I mean we could get 1/10 of an inch of snow here and there’s wrecks everywhere, schools are shut down, the day before people are buying out the grocery stores like it’s the end of the world, and just all around madness happens lol. Which I’ll admit, it is very rare that there’s snow here seeing that even in the winter here it can be 85 degrees plus a lot of the times. Which I mean, don’t get me wrong, it gets cold af here as well, but snow is super rare. Which I guess explains the pandemonium that happens cause since it never snows the city doesn’t have like the like salt, or whatever it is, that they go out and out on the roads to keep them from freezing or to thaw them out, whatever it is. But yeah, try coming to the south when there’s just the slightest bit of snow and you’ll see Mfs freaking out about the most minuscule ms ever lol.
fun, I kept waiting for Denver Broncos snowball incident. Fans threw snowballs and messed up a field goal. I think they got kicked out but if snow is left in the stands don't blame the fans if they want to be involved, especially after 1 or 20 beers. 😆
I used to love a good mudder. Great fun game. Rarely happens with inside stadiums and artificial turf these days. They go to the locker room to wait out lightning, that is it.
The times that the weather can also give one team an advantage over another team would be if say the Saints who’s an indoor team or use to New Orleans heat has to play in freezing Buffalo NY where they’re use to the weather. Kinda like the Oilers Steelers game was Houston wasn’t use to being in that freezing rain and that’s why they had 9 fumbles that game
Cuuuuuusssseeeeee!!! The only time in my life I ever watched college basketball was when Syracuse was unstoppable with Johnny Flynn and Paul Harris because Paul and Johnny both went to my high school and my mom had them as students in 6th grade 😂 #716fam
As kids in our neighborhood we played football in 8 inches of freshly fallen snow--awesome. The best is actually a muddy field on a cold day--traditional neighborhood football game on Thanksgiving Day--play then feast! We also played basketball in Winter, but of course had to shovel the snow off of the court first. Cold is not a deterrent. Only thing that stops a game is lightning (as I see others below have mentioned).
I remember that. It was a WCQ in Denver in March or 2013. Vs Costa Rica. Other CONCACAF teams use their shit fields as an advantage against us. So why shouldn't we use our cold temps as an advantage against them? US-Mexico is often played in Columbus, OH.
Music festivals - There is one called Country Thunder held in six place through out US and Canada. The one held in Twin Lakes WI for the first four or five years always rained bucks-full turning the ground into a mud pit. One year they had a tornado go through tearing up the place forcing the cancellation of the event.
Growing up playing American football. Rain and snow gave us the jitters. We played all year for one of those types of games. I remember my sophomore year we were playing our state rivals and it was pouring down rain. And when I lined up the guy across me said this is so much fun. And I laughed and said most fun I’ve had all year. They beat us 55-10 lmfao
Fun fact: the accent the old commentators use is called a Mid-Atlantic or transatlantic accent, and it wasn’t a regional accent so nobody in America actually talked that way except when speaking formally. It was usually only taught in upper class schools and acting schools.
My grandma did. Her family spoke that way and she learned it in school as “elocution”. The fanciest talk was called RP for Received Pronunciation. That hit England first and later it was copied here. Here’s a video of Franklin D Roosevelt’s mom speaking in received pronunciation and really hitting it out of the park. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FL2U0Ed-Nq8.html
@@maxxyang3723 : It is. The Mid-Atlantic accent was used in movies (especially black-and-white era, 1920s-1950s). These 1970s and 1980s announcers are not using a Mid-Atlantic accent. 1970s announcers and weathermen were chosen for their neutral mid-western accents (not southern, but also not NY or Chicago). By the 1980s, the announcers were/are retired football players (like today) with their own unique styles. I have studied linguistics, the "Mid-Atlantic" accent is quite different from the way these announcers are speaking. Edit: for example, FDR's mother (mentioned in a comment above) was born in 1854 (the year Abe Lincoln decided to get back into politics, years BEFORE the Civil War) and died in 1941.
Remember it well. heartbreak as a Charger fan. -9F°, when you factored in wind gusts between 20-35mph it was -59F. 2nd worst air temp. Worst was Ice Bowl, late 60s. -13F°
@@gemoftheocean Iirc, bitter cold is one of only three weather reasons to cancel a game now. There's bitter cold (cuz frostbite), lightning (cuz ZAP), and natural disaster (cuz structural integrity, evacuations, field blocked, power out, widespread fires, poor air quality, etc.).
Thanksgiving Day in 1969 Viking's played the Lions at Tiger Stadium. 36 degrees with a 12 mph wind. You couldn't even see the team on the other side of the feild it was snowing so hard. Coach Bud Grant said. “It was a baseball park with half grass and half dirt. That day, it was all mud and snow. But we were used to those conditions.” Viking's won 27-0
Thing is, the NFL and even College ball play in just about any weather, except for close by lighting strikes, they will delay the game until it passes.
I've field-marched in band in conditions like that; we had a total of 204 shoes between us when we marched onto the field, and 197 when we marched off again. And we lost a cymbal player for the rest of the day.
That one game in the horrendous downpour was actually a "preseason" game that was played between the defending Super Bowl champions (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a group of college all-star players. This used to be an annual tradition but it ended that year (roughly 1975). So it wasn't a real game. When the weather got too bad (lightning), they just stopped the game completely. No one cared because it didn't even matter.
I played football in New Mexico growing up .. the weather can be completely different in the city you’re going to play, then it is in the town your coming from.. we went up to the mountains it was 15 degrees and snowing .. we left home it was 75 and sunny .. so we showed up with no long sleeves or gloves .. that was one of the hardest days of my life .. I though my hands were going to freeze and fall off.. and we got our asses kicked in the snow .. in short sleeves and no heaters or extra socks
We'll play in anything. It drizzled during a week long tournament out of town when I was in softball, high was like 33 F (Basically 0 C). Every time you slid for a base it was just mud, hitting the ball hurt no matter what because your fingers were cold. We used toe warmers because there were no more hot hands. Bless the softball moms who got the mud out of our white pants that year. The next year it was dust storms we were so dry.
The weather is definitely less predictable here than there. The variability in the US is insane: "Near record-setting temperature swing over the weekend" www.fox9.com/news/near-record-setting-temperature-swing-over-the-weekend.amp It's not at all uncommon for temperatures to vary by 50-60 degrees in one day. I also remember going to see Wolves play a few years ago (granted, they were League 1 at the time 😅) and scarcely believing how cheap tickets were. Arsenal's prices are bang on average for the NHL or NFL.
Dave, check out Bonnaroo! 4 days of camping, music, etc. Very close to Uk festivals, like Latitude, Glastonbury and Reading. It's in Manchester, Tennessee.
That game around the 12:00 mark -- I could be wrong but I think that was an exhibition game. They used to have an annual game of the Super Bowl champ vs. college all-stars. The last one ended in the 1970s (when the Steelers were defending champs) and fans ran onto the field during a rainstorm, and the players just left.
I remember watching the Steelers game in that tropical storm. It was just horrible. In 2006 the Dolphins came to Pittsburgh and they had just laid down new turf and they got hit by a huge rainstorm before the game. I remember a punt sticking into the turf if was so soggy. Another terrible game.
Notice how in the old school games that the goal posts were on the goal line rather than the back (end line) of the end zone. too many players, looking back to catch a pass, run square into them. One word: ouch! They play is crappy weather not only in the NFL; same thing in college and High Schools
THE music festival was Woodstock, in 1969. It ran for 3 days and included torrential rains. It was documented in a famous 1970 movie called, not surprisingly, Woodstock.
Football doesn't call off any games unless there are legit safety concerns to players and fans. Which is basically lightning or things like hurricanes.
