Bills-Steelers playoff game moved to Monday amid forecast for dangerous winter weather

[Dulcinea]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills’ wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers that was scheduled for Sunday was moved to Monday amid a forecast for dangerous winter weather, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday.

Hochul and other officials said they were making the change for safety’s sake. “We want our Bills to win, but we don’t want 60,000 to 70,000 people traveling to the football game in what’s going to be horrible conditions,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said at a news conference in suburban Buffalo.

Officials advised residents to stay off the roads starting at nightfall on Saturday, with a driving ban taking effect at 9 p.m. The game will now be played at Highmark Stadium at 4:30 p.m. Monday instead of 1 p.m. Sunday.

https://apnews.com/article/bills-steelers-moved-winter-weather-8c223910644bf803b823597420fb46f8

[Drum]

1. Thanks for passing on the update

[Dulcinea]

2. No problem.

I'm a lifelong Steelers fan & my husband is a Bills fan. It'll be a house divided Monday.

[riversedge]

3. Lucky Packers--and fans will be in Dallas TX vs WI: brisk where it will be bitterly cold RealFeel-13 Sun. in GB

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/green-bay/54303/daily-weather-forecast/1868



Sun 1/14
8° /-4°
4%
Mostly cloudy, brisk and bitterly coldbitter cold; be sure to wear; layers

RealFeel®-13°

RealFeel Shade™-13°

Max UV Index1 Low

Wind

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Green Bay Ice Bowl was

not postponed. Just sayin’

[Postal Grunt]

5. Game On in KC

The Dolphins will be in KC tonight for a real treat with game time temps forecast to be around -6 F. It gets worse. The forecast wind chill for the fourth quarter is in the -30 F area. Ticket prices are dropping faster than the temperature around here. The current wind chill at a little past noon is -18 F. It's already cold enough to take your breath away. Having worked in weather like this and on a few occasions even worse, I'm glad that I'm a retired letter carrier today.

[Botany]

6. Well they should have the roads plowed by then.

Looking @ ? Feet of snow, sub zero temps, and wind driven drifts of snow > 5 feet.

[underpants]

7. First Monday playoff doubleheader since 1977. They didn't play on Christmas Day

Link to tweet

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[Deep State Witch]

8. I'm Glad

I have an event that would have conflicted with watching the game tomorrow afternoon. Now I can watch it live instead of on DVR.

[True Dough]

9. I prefer DVR so I can fast-forward through the commercials

but avoiding spoilers can be a sonofagun!