The Bills/Steelers matchup scheduled for tomorrow afternoon has been pushed to Monday. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the first-round playoff game has been postponed to Monday at 4:30pm ET (via Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports). The Bills have officially announced the decision.
Per Jones, Hochul has been communicating with commissioner Roger Goodell about a potential postponement. The storm is expected to reach it’s peak in Buffalo tomorrow afternoon, and the game was set to kick off at 1:00pm. Buffalo is expecting two to three inches of snow per hour, and there will be a travel ban in the city starting tonight through at least 6:00am Sunday morning. Hochul declared a State of Emergency on Friday.
“I’ve been in communication with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding the dangerous conditions in Buffalo this weekend,” Hochul tweeted. “In consultation with our emergency response teams, [Bills] leadership, and the NFL, the Bills game will be postponed to 4:30 pm Monday.”
As Troy Renck of Denver7 tweets, the decision was made to protect those who will be traveling to the game, including fans. In other words, the decision wasn’t made in an effort to improve the on-field product. Per Jones, the Steelers have yet to leave Pittsburgh as of Saturday afternoon, and the organization is now expected to travel on Sunday.
The NFL certainly isn’t afraid of staging playoff games in inclement weather, and while the Bills/Steelers game has been pushed back, the Chiefs and Dolphins are still expected to play tonight in what will rank as one of the coldest games in NFL history (per the Associated Press, via ESPN).
While the NFL rarely moves games, this move isn’t completely unprecedented. In fact, the Steelers previously dealt with a postponed playoff game in 2017, per ESPN’s Brooke Pryor. The game was pushed back seven hours due to traveling concerns in Kansas City. The Steelers ended up winning that game over the Chiefs, with all 18 of Pittsburgh’s points coming via kicker Chris Boswell.
Nature… Can’t beat that..
Still undefeated.
Smart move.
Communists
If you are talking about Hochul, then I agree
Of course
How many MAGA does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1. How many liberals use oil based electronics, 100%.
Lib sports fans always amuse me. 95% of the players and coaches and staff and 100% of the owners despise the things you love.
You really don’t know what communism means.
Please daddy govern me harder
Probably the right move but 4:30 on a Monday damn most blue collar ppl which both cities are work
Couldn’t get 6 pm ?
Monday is a bank holiday in the US (Martin Luther King Day) when schools and government offices are closed.
A 6 PM Eastern kickoff would’ve overlapped the ESPN game and the NFL tends to avoid that type of scheduling.
Blue collar people don’t work for schools or the government
@Ronk325 (and the 4 people who gave you a thumbs up) janitors, mechanics, electricians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, etc… work for schools and/or governments. In fact, that is mostly who works for schools and government. 90% blue collar and 10% administration. You demonize the 90% because you don’t agree with the 10%. Government is mostly just regular Joes doing a regular job.
I think you’re reading too much into it bud. I also think your percentages are quite a bit off
I know you think that the percentages are off, friend. That is why you made the comment in the first place. If you look at the federal government, 2.25 of the 2.95 million employees are military personnel. The others include janitors, mechanics, electricians, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, etc. I’m telling you that only one person that works at the White House is the president. There are more people that work on the grounds than in the Oval Office. I know that it shakes your world view to think of the government as a collection of workers, but that is all that they are.
This is clearly a sore subject for you and I really couldn’t be bothered to discuss it any further
Not a sore subject, but you sort of missed the point of the governor postponing the game so that the government workers that work in emergency services can concentrate on keeping people safe instead of football, and then you turn around and say that nobody in the government is working on Monday.
You got all of that out of a simple joke?
I didn’t realize that “Blue collar people don’t work for schools or the government” was a joke. Not a very funny joke, I guess?? Jokes start with knock, knock, or what do you get when a cross a…!! Have a good weekend, brother! Hope we get some good football games to watch!!!
There’s plenty of people who pose as comedians these days despite not actually being funny. Comedy is subjective. There’s also plenty of ways to blow off some steam so you don’t get upset over trivial message board comments
Stupid is as stupid does. Union members are not blue collar. They are significantly overpaid and benefit from the same work schedules as corporate white collar workers.
But that is irrelevant compared to you clearly made up statistics. Schools have 1 janitor, maybe 2. They hire non-government contractors to clean after hours, and those people do not get non-holidays like MLK day off. 90% of school employees are teachers, not the other way around.
Must hurt your fragile brain that blue collar workers vote republican, and corporate white collar America votes democrat.
“Only 1 person at the White House is the president”. Ok. And how many hundreds of lawyers, secretaries, accountants, policy advisors, and coke dealers work there? Again trying to pretend government workers are all janitors is mind numbing stupidity, but really can’t expect more from a low IQ dim voter.
I’m telling your brain that refuses to take in information that is contrary to the narrative that you have in your head that that can’t possibly be true. There aren’t enough white collar jobs/workers in those jobs to beat a republican by 11 or 12 million votes in America. The majority of us, me included, are just regular people working regular jobs, no matter which party they are voting for. I’m sorry if it bothers you that when you say the federal government sucks, you are talking mostly about millions of us that served in the military. I’m not trying to change your world view or care about which corporate shill you vote for in November, but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of government workers are not administration. They are regular people who work regular jobs and vote for both idiotic party candidates.
I work in manufacturing and do not get Monday off.
I’m working Monday as well. Just like most of America.
I’m off on Monday but I’m in NY metro area so a big % of the population including the schools are off or closed. With that said they could have done a 6pm game and pushed the night game back until 9.
NFL doesn’t care about their fans. That’s why they are cutting off the Mia/KC game unless you use a streaming app. That’s the future.
The Mia/KC game is ridiculous. Probably banking on a bunch of Swifties paying for the game.
Sports have been doing this for years. I’ve been paying for the NFL Sunday Ticket for 20 plus years. MLB does the same. NCAA makes people have cable because games are on TNT and TBS now. Peacock is 5.99 a month and they have a lot more to offer than one football game
I’ve had cable since MTV came on the air in the early 1980’s. I pay for the Redzone on cable, but have always had access through my cable for playoff games. Same for NCAA, I’ve never paid more to watch bowl games or March Madness. I don’t watch baseball so can’t comment on that. And no, I’m not paying $6 for 1 game. I’ll watch the highlights on Youtube or Sports Center. It’s a con.
If you pay for cable, you’re paying for the NCAA. Certain cable packages only include certain channels and if you’re team isn’t on your channels, then you gotta upgrade. It’s up to you how you want to spend your money. This is just capitalism at It’s best. Peacock paid for the exclusive rights hoping to get more subscribers. 6 dollars isn’t that much and like I said before, there’s so much more than just 1 football game
Exactly. I’ve had Peacock and I didn’t get it for watching football.
Thursday games were on Prime I don’t hear people moaning about that.
Weak.
Yes you are.
The NFL owes the fans of playoff teams some good football, and you cannot play good football in snowstorms, pouring down rain, or sub-zero temperatures.
The KC and Tampa games should also probably be rescheduled.
Except that’s not the reason this game got postponed.
And it’s a sport that’s played outside. You’re going to get sub-optimal conditions sometimes
Strong disagree. Football is played in the elements. Some of the most iconic games of all time were played in bad weather. The Ice Bowl, the fog game, the freezing game in Cincinnati. You may not think that’s ‘good football’ but millions of fans love it. Bring on the snow and freezing temps. If you want perfect conditions, go watch basketball.
The game is postponed because of dangerous travel conditions not inside the stadium playing the game.
So play without fans. Baseball did it for an entire (shortened) season.
I’m being facetious…for the most part.
Pretty sure they’re doing it bc as the article mentions there’s a travel ban in buffalo through 6am Monday and the Steelers didn’t leave Pittsburgh yet.
Dangerous travel conditions? So? Are you telling me every single store will be closed? Or do grocery store employees not get to be safe while the wealthy people who bought tickets get to postpone?
Well if the Buccaneers Eagles game sucks
I guess this is an alternative
I get the decision but part of me really wanted to see a blizzard game and the havoc it would wreak on both teams’ passing and kicking games.
So says someone whose state’s electric grid might cause him to lose power if there’s another deep freeze like there was a few years ago.
What is this comment supposed to mean? When it snows in the redwood Forrest once every 25 years in California they lose power for two weeks and the roads are closed. What’s your point? You live in New York/New Jersey and it snows every year. You built an outdoor stadium. Grow a pair.
If it gets cold in Texas, you can always go to Cancun
They don’t want both teams to just run the ball, like Bills vs Pats that time.
Last I heard on Thursday or Friday was that Buffalo was expected to get between 1 and 3 feet of snow accumulation over the weekend. That isnt just going to melt away in 12 hours. Sure the field will be cleared off and it probably won’t be actively getting dumped on during the game but it’s still going to be freezing cold, probably windy and generally miserable to be outside in Buffalo on Monday too. Just like every other day in January and/or February in Buffalo since Buffalo became a city.
The Dolphins and Chiefs will have to put on quite a show to top the playoff classic that occurred on Christmas day 1971. I think 10 future hall of famers played in that game which was decided in a double OT.
They can preach safety…but extra night for hotel, flight change, extra day off work, etc.