It goes without saying that most of these games took place in the northeastern United States, where snow tends to rear its ugly head by November. Cleveland, New York and New England in particular have been pelted by snow and collectively appear on this list six times.
Some of these NFL games looked like they were played while the earth was heading into an Ice Age, and yet we still enjoyed watching them. Hold onto your hats and thank you lucky stars that you are most likely indoors while reading this… because the players involved in these games probably wished they were in the press box instead of on the field during these games.
This game doesn't make the top 10 because it was an incredibly sloppy affair, with wet conditions and thunderstorms even delaying the game. The Steelers emerged victorious on their home field, against a winless Dolphins team. The game was seen by a national audience on Monday Night Football and the action was a snoozefest, with many fans even leaving early, despite the close score.
However, the uniqueness of the conditions merits a mention. Heck, it has just about the weirdest punt you'll ever see. Many wondered if the game would end in a scoreless tie, which would've been the first since and the only one since overtime was established in Steelers kicker Jeff Reed finally managed to score the game's only points, on a yard field goal with 17 seconds remaining.
The Browns had their share of chances to win the game but the kicker had already missed two field-goal attempts earlier in the contest before a potential game-winning drive was snubbed by the Raiders. The wind allowed the ball to stay in the air on a pass that was intercepted near the end zone, handing the Raiders a win.
Coming into this game against the Cleveland Browns the Buffalo Bills had won six of their last eight games. The national anthem is probably the only time the fans knew what was going on because there was so much snow on the field and the visibility was so low.
That said, based on the way the last eight seasons have played out, neither team has done that well even when sight lines are clear anyway. The only thing worse than heavy snowfall is apparently wet snowfall. How the heck is that even allowed? A snow plow in the middle of the game that clearly favors one team? Thank goodness for keeping your college friends close, you never know when you're going to have to borrow a pair of shoes. The weather was so bad that the game was nearly postponed.
The players decided to tough it out and play but before they could even get underway, they had to help the grounds crew clean up the field. Philadelphia scored the only touchdown of the game for the win. Remember the time when the Buffalo Bills offered to pay fans to help shovel snow off of the field in and the fans basically said no, moving a home game to Detroit? Fans and players have clearly gotten way more snobby and pompous over the last 50 years.
RB Ricky Bell was able to run the ball in the rain, getting yards, but no one could score. The win, sending the Bucs to the playoffs for the first time in their history. The Steelers pulled the game out and went on two when their second straight Super Bowl. This game is one of the biggest reasons that the Steelers and Raiders were the bitterest of rivals in the s.
It did rain in Southern California on this day. The Rams all but lost home-field advantage because of the torrential rainstorm that turned the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field into a mud bath. Vikings won For From the Archive blog. However, it became infamous because of a sack made by Charles Woodson on Tom Brady. Brady lost control of the ball, and the Raiders ended up recovering it, but the play was subsequently reviewed and overturned because of an obscure and stupid rule that had been entered into the books in Essentially, it said that if a quarterback is trying to bring the ball back into his body, after deciding not to release it for a pass, but it never gets there, it still counts as an incomplete pass.
Brady and the Patriots finished the drive with an Adam Vinitari field goal that tied the game, and another field goal in overtime to win the game. The Philadelphia Eagles had one distinct advantage in this memorable blizzard.
They had the legendary Steve Van Buren. It was the Eagles first-ever league championship, and Van Buren also ran for yards. Van Buren had to walk through the storm to get to the stadium to even play in the game. The game would be legendary without the weather; you had Landry against Lombardi and many halls of fame. The weather takes the game to an almost mythical nature.
The game ended with Bart Starr leading a final drive that ended with Jerry Kramers block and Starr following him in for the winning TD. This game is frozen in time. This was the coldest game in NFL history; the game-time temperature was -9 degrees. Sure the game was colder temperature-wise, but when you figure in the wind chill factor it was a brutal degrees! The Bengals, on the other hand, were led by one of the best bad weather Quarterbacks in NFL history Ken Anderson who looked like he was playing in degree weather.
Yes, of course, the weather hurt the Chargers, but two months before in sunny San Diego the Bengals had pounded the Chargers , so in the end, the weather did not matter the Bengals were just better.
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