Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills fans are livid after “Snow Bowl” was relocated
By Chad Porto
The Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills faithful were hoping to see the two teams battle in the Snow Bowl.
Leave it to the NFL to ruin a great opportunity. Worried more about the quality of the contest than the fans’ fun, the NFL has announced that the Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills will not be playing their regularly scheduled game in Buffalo after all, in a game man called the Snow Bowl. With the city looking at anywhere from three to six feet worth of snow, the NFL has stepped in and moved the game to Detroit, angering fans in the process.
Taking the game out of the elements completely and putting it in a dome at a neutral site. This makes sense for several reasons. Firstly, the fans who live in Buffalo would have to have to drive in that weather, and that’s not safe. Secondly, the fans would be traveling from Cleveland to attend a once-in-a-lifetime moment, so that wouldn’t have been safe either.
Of course, there’s the player safety aspect of it as well. Whether it’s the travel to, travel from, or just being exposed to the elements for a long period of time. There’s a lot of real-world concern here.
That said, fans are not happy about the move at all. It was going to be a chaotic day of football and fans on both sides knew it.
Goodell hates snow. No Fun League indeed. https://t.co/0eRA9sOw2y
— Mike Zimmelman (@MZimmel) November 17, 2022
BOOOOO COWARDS NO FUN LEAGUE BOOOOOOOOO https://t.co/dSE5oWyJLY
— turner (@turnerrrc) November 17, 2022
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I wanted to watch football played in a huge lake effect blizzard! The no fun league strikes again! #FireRogerGoodell https://t.co/QKKGONj7Y4
— Creed Jordan 🥃 (@Its_Me_AU_Creed) November 17, 2022
Oh come on! Snow games are the best games! Goddamn No Fun League… https://t.co/9PuF8H7iod
— Todd The Fox (@ToddFoxtrot) November 17, 2022
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Moving the Snow Bowl to Detroit? Booooo! #Browns
— Joanne (@vanilla_rice) November 17, 2022
Bills Twitter is in full RAGE mode right now. I could’ve seen move this to Monday night instead, but remember the prep and people that go into these games and the logistics of clearing THAT much snow. It’s not just day of game stuff. You’re also playing the Browns… calm down
— @ShortyHasAWagon (@shortyhasawagon) November 17, 2022
Moving the Cleveland Browns vs. Buffalo Bills game was the right call for safety and quality but not fun
It’s hard to argue against the NFL for deciding to move the game, considering all of the safety and quality issues that the game was facing. It makes sense, it really does. Any logical person can see that.
That doesn’t mean that the fans aren’t rightfully peeved at the fact they lost out on what would’ve been a wild day of football. Sure, the memes of players playing in six feet of snow, and only seeing little tunnels were cute, but that wasn’t really going to happen.
No, the game would’ve largely been any normal football game in the elements, but while you wouldn’t see Nick Chubb gaining 10 yards in 10 seconds due to him fighting waist-high snow, you would’ve still seen something that not many fans get to see in their life.
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