Man, teams must hate playing the Packers in the playoffs at home. I just turned on the game, and it looks like half an inch of snow on the field just before the half, and still coming down.

[Going to check Wisconsin radar and weather]

Yup, thirty degrees, and it looks like it's going to keep coming down all game.

I've always thought that it was kind of cool that football doesn't call games for weather. It always made baseball look kind of wimpy when they quit playing in the rain, while the pigskinners will play in a blizzard. But still, you'd think that folks in Green Bay would get tired of it, with almost everyone else indoors now (though I think that Soldier Field is still open, right?). I know that I was happy when the Lions moved into the Superdome in Pontiac.

[Update in the second half]

Wow, the flakes really look more detailed in HD. You can almost tell them apart.

Wow, the flakes really look more detailed in HD.

All I had to do was step outside and see them in real-life - very detailed.

Soldier field is still open. The Steeler's Heinz Field is still open.

I love watching games played in snow.

Am from Chicago although live in Saint Louis Dome.

The game is different - much more of a running game.

Which is why Chicago always focuses on Running and defense.

I grew up in northern Kentucky, a died in the wool Vikings fan. Always liked the games within the old Black and Blue League. There was no such thing as a dome back then.

Football should be played OUTSIDE.

I grew up in northern Kentucky, a died in the wool Vikings fan.

Why not the Bengals?

I love watching games played in snow.

OK, so when the guy goes down and slides five yards further, where do they spot the ball? I couldn't tell.

Rand,
No Bengals for me. I'm SO OLD, that their were no Bengals until I was a teenager. I had too many purple sweatshirts by then to make the switch.

Thought I'd chime in as no one mentioned that the reason people in Green Bay put up with the outdoors games is because they love it. An outdoor BBQ in a blizzard is fun and by the time you've finished a 12-pack, temperature is not an issue during the game. If you want to see 60,000 people having a blast, watch the championship game next Sunday when the temperature is supposed to be in single digits.

so when the guy goes down and slides five yards further, where do they spot the ball?

I think the appropriate rule is ..

"The runner's forward progress toward the opponents' goal line is stopped from contact by the opponent with little chance to be resumed."

To me this would mean that the spot is where the runner stops sliding.

I am pretty sure that I saw a TD that game after the runner slid into the end zone.

The runner's forward progress toward the opponents' goal line is stopped from contact by the opponent with little chance to be resumed."

Yeah, except it says the runner's forward progress, not the slider's forward progress. Wouldn't the play be dead when he hit the turf?

Wouldn't you just spot the ball near the start of the snow skid mark? The sliding player should work like a plow. Indeed, it seemed like the snow, or lack there of, acted as a better marker than the black disk the line man would throw down.

It reminds me of the George Carlin skit where he compares football to baseball.
"Football is played on a Gridiron, Baseball is played on a Diamond."
I don't watch much sports, but playing in all weather; that's why I like football more that baseball.
If Baseball were any slower, they would call it Farming.