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Weather Impacts Monday Night Football

Posted by Jim Teske 7:15 AM Tuesday November 27

I hope I'm not stepping on the Sports Department toes but this caught my attention this morning as I was cruising the web: Steelers 3 Miami 0. What's going on with this baseball score during Monday Night football?  The weather, of course:

 

It was the lowest scoring Monday night football game in history.  A couple factors came together.  Heinz Field in Pittsbugh gets a lot of use.  Not only do the Steelers play there but so do the Pitt Panthers and over the last couple of weeks add local high school teams to the mix. The field was so bad that Steelers management decided to put an entirely new turf in last week. On Monday, the same system that brought us steady rain here in Central New York dropped an inch and a third in Pittsburgh turning the field basically to mush.  On top of all that thunder and lightning delayed the start almost an hour. In the end it was not a game for offense.  It took a Jeff Reed 24 yard field goal with :17 left in the game to break the tie. It might have technically have been a Steelers victory Monday night but the true winner was Mother Nature.
Published Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:55 AM by Jim Teske

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dtaylor4 said:

What happened to using topics that developed actual discussion?  This section of your web site has turned into another page for news & weather or to push some new products or services.
The old pages were controversial and did receive some less than intelligent responses but they did show how local residents felt about some of our important problems.  Who knows – perhaps some of our local leaders actually read these remarks and got to know more about their voters.  
Who cares that a football field in Pittsburgh was wet on Monday?  You’re just trying to fill up otherwise wasted space with fluff.  
November 28, 2007 7:11 AM
 

Brad said:

I think this is an interesting and relevant post demonstrating how the weather impacts so many areas of our lives and activites in often rather interesting ways.  I have personally been to both Heinz Field and the former Three Rivers Stadium (home of the Pittsburgh Pirates) and seen pictures of Three Rivers flooded where the Ohio River begins from the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.  Although this may not relate to local meteorological happenings in Central New York, it is an interesting post just the same.  

The weather over the weekend and early next week will provide plenty of local meteorological coverage I am sure.  It looks to be especially exciting for snowlovers in the North Country!
November 28, 2007 8:31 AM
 

Mike S said:

I found this post quite worth the time. I've got to wounder how you can complain about the weather blog being about weather. The news blogs being about news.

You are looking for the forums, which are still the way they used to be. Good topics, no responces.

The blogs are in my opinion an excellent way to get public opinion out on news stories, and I've wanted WSYR to have a weather blog for some time. WKTV in Utica has one, and nobody complains there about a blog aptly titled "weather blog" being about the weather.

Furthermore, I think in between our weekly fix of "Tesk's Tidbits," we should go in depth the weather. Have all meteorlogists at WSYR posting information about what the computer models are suggesting, why they're leaning the way they are, and all sorts of technical stuff like that. Other TV stations outside the market have been doing that for quite some time now, and people (including me) have learned from basically high pressure = good weather to the in depth on different computer models, what the heck ensombles are, and why we don't use certain computer models for certain forecasts.
November 28, 2007 12:38 PM
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