Week 2 NFL thread

You are right to an extent. But this has been going on for 23 years now. And I can't recall a lightning delay before this season.

Beyond that, I've played, covered, or just watched prep football since about 1980 and I've NEVER been associated with a lightning delay before this season. And this year, it's been two weeks and two lightning delays.

And those games have almost always been at 7 p.m. (they were 7:30 back in "my day," but that changed around 1989 or so). So there hasn't been a revolutionary change their either.

Throw in the LSU-UAB delay and it's just fricking weird.

 

OK, but it is happening far more frequently now.

 

Come on LTL! "More frequently now" = "never in the past" ... don't you know anything?

 

Pretty bad-ass showing by Seattle D tonight.

If only the Seahawks could rein in Kaepernick's running the way Green Bay did.

 

I remember Lee Corso's rental car at VA Tech about 12-13 years ago, but I'm sure it was happening in the prior decades. Just probably not as often.

 

Sorry for not doing 30-40 minute of research before I posted.

 

Yeah, I've seen it happen. Just never been associated with one. I've been involved with games postponed by hurricanes. Been to one delayed by a tornado (and finished). Been to one delayed by a power failure caused by high winds as a squall line passed through.

But never a lightning delay until this year and now I've been to three and seen three in the NFL.

It's Week 3 in college and preps and Week 2 in the NFL and it's safe to say I've seen more lightning delays than I've even heard of in my entire life. And down here, afternoon thunderstorms are a fact of life from May through about September.

 

Lightning delays are fairly common in early-season Texas high school football games.

 

I think it's far more bizarre in this era to have games with halftime scores of 6-0 and 5-0 on the same day.

 

Man. This is fucking beautiful!

 

Like in Week 1, when we had 10 games kick off at 1 p.m. and two at 4:25?
Or this week, when it was an 8/4 split with only two West Coast games on the afternoon schedule?

Most of this season and last it's still been a ridiculously uneven split between early and late games. This year, there's never more than three or four late games on any given Sunday. All putting a few east coast games in the late time slot does, is balance out the schedule a bit.

 

What a beatdown. There won't be a more dominating performance in the NFL all year.