Another Gallery Visit

Most everyone likes to watch football games played in ankle-deep snow and see the occasional tarp-whipping wind blow through a ballpark. That's one reason I started this sports weather blog. Bad weather sporting events often provide us with some uber cool images. I've mentioned a couple of times the NFL.com photo feature of bad weather football games. This week SI.com is featuring its own NFL bad weather photo gallery. SI's 12-photo gallery begins with the 1967 Ice Bowl between the Packers and Cowboys, mixes in a few other historical snowy and muddy pics and concludes with this season's snow games in Cleveland and most recent playoff contest in Green Bay. The gallery is worth clicking through as it contains a handful of shots that you normally don't see associated with these games. For example, the Ice Bowl photo is not the usual pic of Bart Starr diving for the game-winning touchdown.

Shuffle Off To Buffalo

We got news earlier today that the Buffalo Bills charter plane got stuck in the mud at a Cleveland airport, forcing the team to ride five buses back to upstate New York. It took a while for images of the plane to pop up on the Web, but now, thanks to Cleveland’s Newsnet5.com, we have visuals. Hey, there’s one the screen now. If you absolutely need to see more, here’s a slideshow. Ok, I’m officially retiring from this blogging stuff for the day. It’s 11:30 p.m. here at Rainout Blog headquarters, and I’m going to watch the Vikings finish the Bears. The Gridiron Norsemen lead 20-13, with 5:32 to play. Good night everybody.

Pats Fans Are Perfect Snow Tossers

I know I said the post below was my last of the day, but I just discovered SI.com has an excellent photo gallery featuring shots from Sunday's bad weather action. In addition to the snow games in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Foxborough, SI's gallery has shots from the evening's game in Giants Stadium, where winds swirled around the huge stadium. Is that why G-Men receivers dropped 12 passes? Of course not. The drops had to be Eli's fault. I hear wind was heavy, too, in Carolina for the Panthers' upset win over Seattle. I try to keep this blog visual, so I didn't mention the windy games because, well, wind is not very visual. Ok, that's it. I'm officially finished for the day.

One more thing: If we learned anything from Sunday's weather games, it's that Patriots' fans like to toss snow in the air like 8-year-old girls. What's up with that?

First Snow, Now Mud Grounds Bills

The bad weather in Cleveland has done more to the Buffalo Bills than cost them a football game. Before the Bills could board its charter flight home Monday morning, the pilot of the plane took a wrong turn between runways and got the plane's front wheel stuck in mud at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The Bills, who lost 8-0 to the Brownies in a Cleveland blizzard Sunday, were forced to ride buses back to Buffalo, where they will be greated by rain, sleet and several inches of snow. The Bills' flight Sunday out of Cleveland was canceled by heavy snowfall.

WIVB in Buffalo has the story on its Web site, but no video of the mud-stuck plane. However, the story does feature a few seconds of game video that are worth seeing. Also worth checking out is Ellen Maxwell reporting the second story. Ellen is very cute in that snow cap. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow... in Buffalo!

White Out in Brownsville

As I mentioned Friday, there are a number of potential bad weather games in store for NFL fans Sunday, including one of the day’s hottest matchups, Buffalo Bills at Cleveland Browns. According to forecasts, temperatures in Cleveland will get no higher than 22 degrees on game day with winds blowing at 22 miles per hour accompanied by a 90 percent chance of snow with accumulation predicted at 1-2 inches. Gusts could reach up to 41 miles per hour according to Accuweather.com. ClevelandBrowns.com reports that the team prepared for Sunday game by practicing outside Friday wearing Under Armour, ski masks and winter caps.

Speaking of snow in Cleveland, remember this?