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they don't get near the bad weather of those other cities (having lived in 3 of them)
Philadelphia does not handle winter storms well at all .... it's more of a cold rain type of place (personally I much prefer the snow when in a city - you can usually just brush that off .... better than getting drenched and then blasted with a cold wind)
I lived in the city so I didn't have to drive that much - but the bus systems get bogged down pretty bad during storms and that has a ripple effect on the rest of public transport .... however, that is more noticeable during commuting hours
if what Rendell said was true and there was only 2-3" in Montgomery County & Wilmington - combine that with 95 & the slow kill being clear .... combine that with a pretty good regional rail network and subway system (with the broad street line stopping right at the sport complexes) ... they should go ahead and play it .... let the people decide at that point
kind of an odd notion for the league shortly after the commish was standing at TCF Bank stadium in bad conditions and having scheduled a NY/NJ superbowl
I remember when living there I had suite tickets to the sixers .... they had about a 4-6" storm that hit during the day .... it was bedlam in the city ....... they delayed the game because players couldn't get there on time, it took forever to get to work, but the trains ran fine to & from the stadium ..... empty building though for the game
maybe it's b/c you're from NC but seriously, that's not extreme weather for the midwest or east coast or inter mountain US.
people learn to deal with it just like people from the south learn to deal with humitdity and high temps and "palmetto bugs" aka. flying cockroaches in the south.
there's just an inherent bias against cold weather in our society - truth is hot weather kills way more people that cold weather ever does.
We all have our opinions! That being said, I am a NJ native and lived there for more than half of my life. Thus, I have enjoyed the hot and cold that that area has to offer.
I still stand by my opinion that putting that many people on the roads with the inherent snow emergency forecasted & the deteriorating conditions throughout the day (not even adding in alcohol, etc) would have been a very irresponsible civic decision to make.
Cris Collinsworth authored a very, very timely article here, concerning future litigious parameters that could ensue on future games not cancelled, using this game as a precedent, benchmark case:
Cris Collinsworth authored a very, very timely article here, concerning future litigious parameters that could ensue on future games not cancelled, using this game as a precedent, benchmark case:
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Thanks for posting it.
