Tag: NFL Playoffs 2024

Wild video of Buffalo blizzard shows NFL was right to reschedule the Bills-Steelers playoff game

The current Buffalo weather looks so scary.

The city of Buffalo is no stranger to extreme winter weather in January. As a blizzard levels Western New York today, there’s a good reason that the NFL — in conjunction with Governor Kathy Hochul — rescheduled the Buffalo Bills’ Wild Card playoff game with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But without concrete visuals, it might be a little hard to understand why the NFL would postpone a playoff game for some … snow?

Well, about that.

Per a video from the Bills’ Twitter account, their home stadium looks unplayable, unsafe, and probably impossible to reach in the thick of the storm. With this evidence in the account, I think it’s obvious why the league decided to move the game:

Yeah, I don’t think it would have been right to ask fans and emergency personnel to trek through that extreme weather. Never mind what it would mean to ask players and coaches to sit through those conditions. Delaying the kickoff of Bills-Steelers was prudent and proactive.

8 TikToks that show just how many layers it’ll take to stay warm at Dolphins-Chiefs

Take the extra socks. You’ll need them.

In case you hadn’t heard, it’s going to be very, very cold tonight in Kansas City for a playoff game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins. It’s expected to hit -4 degrees at kickoff, and drop more before things end. The wind chill will make it feel like -30.

That’s not cold, it’s soul shuddering. It’s the kind of cold that makes you wonder if you’ll ever feel warmth again. The Day After Tomorrow thinks that it’s too cold in KC for a football game.

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Regardless, football will be played and there will be dedicated fans in the stands. Some of the folks traveling to Arrowhead Stadium took to TikTok to show just how many layers it could take to stay warm enough (no matter what you think, take more socks).

Mike Tomlin will reportedly assess his coaching future whenever the Steelers’ season ends

Mike Tomlin would be the latest football coaching legend to step down.

Mike Tomlin started coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers when he was just 34 years old. After yet another successful season, it sounds like the football coaching icon might be considering taking a break. This news arrives like another haymaker after Bill Belichick and Nick Saban left their respective positions with the New England Patriots and the Alabama Crimson Tide earlier this week.

According to NBC’s Mike Florio, Tomlin will “step back” whenever the Steelers’ 2023 season ends and consider his head-coaching future with his family. The 2024 campaign will be Tomlin’s last on his current contract with the Steelers, opening a potential world of possibilities for one of the finest coaches of the modern era.

Needless to say, Tomlin leaving Pittsburgh for something like a “break” would be a bombshell.

Tomlin has manned the Steelers’ sideline for 17 seasons. In that time, he’s led Pittsburgh to 11 postseason berths, seven AFC North titles, two AFC championships, and a victory in Super Bowl 43. He’s also never had a losing campaign. For all intents and purposes, especially with a blueblood organization like the Steelers, Tomlin’s resume is one of the finest in NFL history.

We’ll have to wait and see whether he wants to continue it with the Steelers soon enough. Pittsburgh takes on the Buffalo Bills in a rescheduled Wild Card playoff game this Monday. Suddenly, considering this Tomlin revelation, that game seems extra important to the Steelers’ franchise.

Texans TE Brevin Jordan hilariously gestured that he needed oxygen after a wild 76-yard TD

The Texans’ Brevin Jordan ran so fast he literally couldn’t catch his breath!

NFL players aren’t accustomed to covering long distances in live game action. Pro football is almost always a short-burst, explosive affair built around five to 10-yard increments.

That’s what made Houston Texans tight end Brevin Jordan’s 76-yard touchdown against the Cleveland Browns on Saturday so special. With Jordan breaking this off against the league’s top defense, it was abundantly clear that this probably wasn’t a bog standard Saturday afternoon Wild Card playoff game. (Heck, it even gave us defenders spinning like tops just over the ground!)

But even though Jordan created some special magic in the open field, he’s still a human being with physical limitations. When he sat down on the sideline after his score, Jordan hilariously mimed putting on an oxygen mask. I personally have never related to a professional athlete more:

I was hoping for a total of 31 points in this game. I didn’t think it’d be 17-14 (and counting) around halfway through the second quarter. If guys like Jordan are breaking these kinds of plays off early, we all might need some oxygen just to watch this exciting game.

NFL fans enjoyed the Texans getting the Saturday afternoon Wild Card playoff game … again

The Texans will ALWAYS get the sleepy Saturday afternoon playoff game.

It doesn’t matter who their head coach or quarterback is; the Houston Texans are probably resigned to a tried and true fate. If they make the playoffs, they will likely be scheduled for the opening Wild Card weekend game on Saturday afternoon.

There are a few constants in life.

Death, taxes, and Houston getting the sleepy NFL playoff game everyone is seemingly half-watching before the main course. And folks, there’s precedent for this statute.

During the Matt Schaub era, the Texans, of course, opened Wild Card Saturday. During the Deshaun Watson era — who once faced more than 20 accusations of sexual misconduct and engaged in what the NFL itself would later call “predatory behavior” — they opened Wild Card Saturday. So it’s only natural that CJ Stroud’s exciting iteration would enjoy the same fate as the Texans battled Joe Flacco’s Cleveland Browns.

NFL fans noticed this delicious irony about the Texans getting their usual non-marquee playoff timeslot with likely the least amount of attention on it.