CodeMonkey

What the Bills did with the Schwartz thing was weak and embarrassing as well. If there is a largely pro-jets crowd there tomorrow night (and I doubt there will be, the average fan won't care enough) the Bills brought it on themselves. Karma is a heartless B word.

I was thinking the place would be half empty. Could it actually be fairly full, or are the scalpers just looking for suckers?

I agree. There are a lot of details that need to be ironed out to have an event like this. All in all it seems to being handled very well.

They put this together pretty quickly, and it is festival seating, not assigned seats. I'm not surprised that there are issues.

I'm not sure how that is possible considering they will also honor the tickets for the Ralph and it is festival seating.

Someone called him "Ron" in an interview once and it stuck. I think the person was the "commissioner of tailgating" but I am not 100% sure.

Oh and that was before the latest couple feet

I do not think you are way off, I'm sure the Bills would love to host the game. I'm sure the county would as well. But there are going to be significant flooding issues associated with the melt. That is just an enormous amount of snow that should start melting quickly once the air temperature rises. And as it melts, the snow still left gets saturated with water and gets VERY heavy which will cause even more problems. Plus emergency services peeps have been busting their collective ass, and will continue to do so this week. Will the county force them to work something so unnecessary as a football game after all this? Still too early to tell how it will play out. I don't think it's a slam dunk either way at this point.

No, but emergency services not being available would stop it as well. I'm sure the Bills will do all that they can, but I strongly believe alternate sites as backups are already being evaluated and lined up just in case. If getting the Ralph ready to host a game was a priority for the area I imagine they could make it happen. But it is not, in fact it is not even close.

I sent an email to WROC (CBS affiliate) asking if they will be televising the game Monday. Here is the reply:

I don't, not often anyway. But I would probably go if it were free-ish and there was absolutely nothing else to do. You have to remember, this is Bills/Jets, 7-13 combined record. Not Denver/NE*.

So as a DTV subscriber you can request specific network feeds? If so that is a nice feature.

Maybe Pegula can buy directv this weekend and mandate the game be televised.

The shortsightedness of this is flat out awesome. As mentioned by others, do you really think the Gov, or any government official, gives a !@#$ if the Bills/Jets game is on TV nationally or even statewide when people have died and continue to be in jeopardy due to the weather?

I tend to disagree. These guys have been playing and practicing together all season so far, and since the beginning of camp for most. By now, most are at least dinged up physically a little bit if not more. The lack of practice time really should not be a big disadvantage, in fact it could be an advantage at this point in the season for the players to decompress at home a little bit with their families, and heal a lot more than they would if they were practicing. Plus they played the Jets just a month ago. The disadvantage is that the players that required treatment were not able to get it. It also gives them a chance to reset after losing the past 2 important games and hopefully stop their current slide.

Double header, Giants at 1 and Jets at 4

Except for the fact that it is the Bills and the Jets playing the game.

As was his father. But the guy running against him was even a bigger d bag.

No, they do not. It just can look that way when you are a hard core fan of a team and they lose a lot.

It's the Bills fault to some degree. Roads closed of course is the proverbial "act of god". But no dome in western NY is all on the Bills. My wife asked me seriously last night why they didn't just move the game to "NYC". I almost smacked her That is a very good point that I hadn't considered.

Nate Silver says 2% chance. But what's 1.4% between friends And yes, he is sayin there's a chance!

I hope so too actually.

Updated with Nate Silver information.

It's totally rigged. You don't think 6 feet of snow fell on the Ralph and nothing where the Jests practice is a coincidence do you?

Apparently they are hiring people for snow removal at the Ralph. In addition to being paid, you get tickets to the game Sunday