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Washington, Pittsburgh aren’t options for Jets-Bills
Posted by Mike Florio on November 20, 2014
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Earlier today, PFT reported that the three primary alternative locations for the game between the Jets and Bills are Detroit, Toronto, and New Jersey.
ESPN also has identified a trio of venues, but with only one common place: Detroit. Per ESPN, the other choices are Pittsburgh and Washington.
A league source tells PFT that Washington and Pittsburgh are not options. And that makes plenty of sense; both fields consist of grass, and both grass fields have in the past demonstrated problems with behaving like, you know, grass.
While both seem to be better (or at least not as bad) as in the past, it makes no sense to play an extra game on a grass field when the extra game can be played on FieldTurf at Ford Field.
For other reasons, Detroit is the best choice of any of the available options. And it won’t be a surprise if, come Friday, the announcement is made that the game will be played in Detroit.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/us/winter-weather/index.html
Buffalo area braces for more snow
By Ray Sanchez, Jason Hanna and Steve Almasy, CNN
CNN Severe Weather Expert Chad Myers said that 20 to 30 more inches of snow will fall Thursday during a 10-hour window.
There is so much snow, Buffalo officials aren't even plowing. Instead hundreds of dump trucks venture out to haul snow away from the 10 square miles that have been pummeled by the lake-effect snow. Other areas of New York's second-most populous city only received 1 to 6 inches, officials said.
Seven deaths in the region -- including one man whose car was buried under more than a foot of snow -- are blamed on the extreme storm, authorities said.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and city officials Wednesday recounted stories of rescuers trudging around snow drifts as high as houses to get people to hospitals, of fire stations turned into temporary shelters and police officers delivering special baby formula to a pair of infants.
Unheard of amounts of snow
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, about a 20-minute drive from downtown, was operating Wednesday afternoon but many people were having trouble navigating the snow-covered streets to get to the airport. Most airlines canceled some flights, according to airline representatives and airport spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer.
Buffalo Bills ✔ @buffalobills
PHOTO: The inside of Ralph Wilson stadium under a thick blanket of snow and blowing drifts.
Washington, Pittsburgh aren’t options for Jets-Bills
Posted by Mike Florio on November 20, 2014
Earlier today, PFT reported that the three primary alternative locations for the game between the Jets and Bills are Detroit, Toronto, and New Jersey.
ESPN also has identified a trio of venues, but with only one common place: Detroit. Per ESPN, the other choices are Pittsburgh and Washington.
A league source tells PFT that Washington and Pittsburgh are not options. And that makes plenty of sense; both fields consist of grass, and both grass fields have in the past demonstrated problems with behaving like, you know, grass.
While both seem to be better (or at least not as bad) as in the past, it makes no sense to play an extra game on a grass field when the extra game can be played on FieldTurf at Ford Field.
For other reasons, Detroit is the best choice of any of the available options. And it won’t be a surprise if, come Friday, the announcement is made that the game will be played in Detroit.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/us/winter-weather/index.html
Buffalo area braces for more snow
By Ray Sanchez, Jason Hanna and Steve Almasy, CNN
CNN Severe Weather Expert Chad Myers said that 20 to 30 more inches of snow will fall Thursday during a 10-hour window.
There is so much snow, Buffalo officials aren't even plowing. Instead hundreds of dump trucks venture out to haul snow away from the 10 square miles that have been pummeled by the lake-effect snow. Other areas of New York's second-most populous city only received 1 to 6 inches, officials said.
Seven deaths in the region -- including one man whose car was buried under more than a foot of snow -- are blamed on the extreme storm, authorities said.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and city officials Wednesday recounted stories of rescuers trudging around snow drifts as high as houses to get people to hospitals, of fire stations turned into temporary shelters and police officers delivering special baby formula to a pair of infants.
Unheard of amounts of snow
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, about a 20-minute drive from downtown, was operating Wednesday afternoon but many people were having trouble navigating the snow-covered streets to get to the airport. Most airlines canceled some flights, according to airline representatives and airport spokesman C. Douglas Hartmayer.
Buffalo Bills ✔ @buffalobillsPHOTO: The inside of Ralph Wilson stadium under a thick blanket of snow and blowing drifts.
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