In the past there were stadiums that had baseball and football. That's why the one field had the dirt area.

Stopping a game for "bad weather"? Nonsense! It just adds an extra variable. Play on

Lightning is what determines the delay or cancellation of games here.

The only way they call off games is lightning.

They stop a English football match for fireworks meanwhile all the nfl stadiums set off fireworks half the game 😂

The sun glare and also wind issues are why the teams trade sides of the field every quarter.

That voice over voice you heard was the late great Harry Kalas. He was the NFL films voice and the mlb’s Philadelphia phillies announcer for decades. He passed in 2009. One of the most iconic voices.

“Does America ever have music festivals?” You ever heard of Woodstock my guy? 😂😂

Some of the cameras are suspended from cables. You can’t wipe the lenses.

Heavy snow is perfect weather for American football those are the games you dream of playing in high school if you're from the north.

Bad weather make playing football more fun.

"In the frozen tundra of Lambeau field..."

My favorite thing was from the Ice bowl where NFL films had these heroic presentations, then they cut to this one guy who said : "I was so damn cold, I didn't want to play."

13:26. John Facenda, the "voice of God."

Regarding the mud at Glastonbury, we know. Check out the infamous Woodstock 94. During a song with "Mud" in the name was performed, there was so much mud thrown on stage that the bassist on stage was still finding mud in his equipment and cases 20 years later.

"Proper clipboard tosser" freaking epic!

The commentary that you heard during the Mud Bowl was added after the fact for an NFL Films special. It wasn't game broadcast audio, which is why it sounds a bit bland.

6:25 Woodstock, most famous music festival in American history was a huge mud pit. Difference was the attendees weren't wearing shoes to begin with.

The NFL would still play games in any of the weather that was featured in this video. The only thing that stops them from playing is lightning, and even then they just delay until the storm passes. The might move a game if a city gets evacuated due to a hurricane though, but I'm pretty sure that's never happened.

Back in the day, the stadiums were also used for baseball. That's why some of the field is mud, and some is grass

I think if you guys throw around a football on the try channel it will make you truly appreciate the arms these quarterbacks in the vids have

Some of the older stadiums were also home for the cities MLB teams. So half the season they play on the dirt until baseball season is over then they convert it to grass. Now that is pretty rare with the new stadiums.

Playing American football in the rain is one of the funnest things I’ve ever done

The final two voices were both announcers for Philadelphia. The voice over was done by Harry Kalas, long time baseball play-by-play announcer for the Phillies. He did voice over work for NFL Films. The guy doing play-by-play announcing in the game was the Eagles announcer Merrill Reese. They would not call any of the games today. Maybe the fog bowl today, but nothing like that has happened. The monsoon that was shown with lightning was called for lightning. It was a pre-season game with the College All-star team. It's the last time an NFL team played a college team. A lot of these weather games are seen as home field advantages. When one team is used to playing in cold, heat, snow, rain, etc and the other isn't, you usually get a bit of an advantage. And yes, if one bench gets more sun, it's the away bench.

They mostly just call off games if there's thunder and lightning, which is a safety mandate. They'll play through pretty much all the rain or snow. A couple games have been moved because of snow, but one of those was bc Minnesota's roof collapsed from snow (designed to do it). Games are more likely to be called for safety of getting there. They may delay a little if the forecast looks good but generally they play. Baseball is different bc the field can't get to wet and muddy, so any heavy rain delays it bc there's a whole dirt section on their fields, plus guys would be trying to chase down 100 mph flyballs on a soggy field and the ball would just die every time it hit the ground

Yo Office Blokes... I legit cannot get any work done because I am addicted to your videos. Don't stop.

I was at that buffalo bills game it was definitely a cool experience I’ve been to tons of bills games have season tickets but that one was definitely one of my favourites

When it comes to football, college or professional, it's VERY rare that a game gets called off for weather. If there are numerous lightning strikes, then officials will either delay the game and let the storm pass, or they will call off the game altogether. But that's very few and far between. Too hot, too cold, heat stroke, hypothermia, rain, shine, snow, blizzard, monsoon, can't see in front of you, solar eclipse, Armageddon, only half the home team showed up and the other half fell off a cliff... suck it up and let's play some football!!! I love the bad weather games. They're so much fun to watch, and the players really have a lot of fun with them too. If it's snowing, it's not unusual to see a couple players making snow angels on the field in between plays. They automatically turn back into their former childhoods right in front of you. It almost becomes a Charlie Brown special. I swear there have been games where all that was missing, was Snoopy and Woodstock dancing up a storm in the end zone lol.

As a kid (under 25...), playing American football with friends in a parking lot with 12 inches of fresh snow is the year's highlight! So much fun... get exhausted, then food and beer...

You guys need to react to the Ice Bowl. It’s the iconic bad weather game, and I can’t believe it wasn’t on here.

Football doesn't call off any games unless there are legit safety concerns to players and fans. Which is basically lightning or things like hurricanes.

Games are usually only called due to lightning. Anything else is GAME ON!!!!

Oh yeah we have camping music festivals, and you can imagine what those camp sites are like when it rains for a full day or two.

Fun fact: the accent the old commentators use is called a Mid-Atlantic or transatlantic accent, and it wasn’t a regional accent so nobody in America actually talked that way except when speaking formally. It was usually only taught in upper class schools and acting schools.

Funny that you guys are reacting to this because there is a snow storm over Missouri right now

Buffalo is notorious for it's snow (even to those of us in Alaska), so the Bills being unfazed by snow is pretty on brand lol

Being from Buffalo i love seeing reactions to this video!!

Back in the day a lot of places were multi use, so mike was correct that was a baseball field in the middle of that football field. Oakland raiders (now Vegas) used to play out of the same stadium as the Oakland A’s in the MLB until very recent

Snow games... THATS football. Absolute blast to play!

The Freezer Bowl isn't on here, but that wasn't so much severe weather but instead was bitter cold.

We only stop football if the weather is legitimately dangerous; like lightning or tornados. The most fun I ever had playing any sport was a game we played after a rainstorm. Fumbles galore and every tackle you would slide at least 10 yards. It was awesome.

The NFL fields have much better drainage systems now. You’ll still have snowy games and wet games but the fields don’t get saturated now.

Couple things 1. A few years ago I was emcee for the Marshmallow Jam, a 3 day music festival in East Texas in June. Day 1 and Day 3 were absolutely beautiful, but day 2 the rain was non stop. High winds even took down a metal building a few miles away, but we put up a tent over the stage and played on. The Roadies and myself were on all the corners of the tent making sure it didn't blow away. Most of the crowd stayed and we got muddy af together as we jammed out. Being summer in Texas, when it rains, you take it. 2. My favorite memory from high school was playing Jacksonville at the Tomato Bowl in a monsoon. It rained from start to finish on real grass and it got muddy af, but it was so much fun. We lost by a field goal, but that game will always be one of my favorites.

NFL put out a video themselves talking about bad weather games, and a lot of players have actually said they have a lot of fun in them because it reminds them of backyard football back home. They can get all muddy and messy and their mom won’t get mad at them! If you look closely at snow games where people slide around after a tackle, both the receiver and the defender can sometimes be seen laughing as they slide around. It’s a competitive game, but its still a game!

The term ''Rain Check'' was for Baseball games that got rained out...They gave you a rain check good for another game, if it rained on game day...Baseball gets called, if it rains hard, but they make up the canceled game later in the season..usually with a double header.

In my state, rarely does anything close because of the weather. The wind chill right now is -21. Tonight it is forecasted at -44. Nothing ever seems to stop, much to the disgust of school students in particular. The school district handbook says recess MAY be limited if the temperature is lower than -10 or the windchill is lower than -10.

Kalas for NFL films. I used to love watching that on Saturday mornings after the cartoons went off. His voice and the music they used for it made it worth the watch. Oh, and how all the reels had the guys running in slow mo so you could see their ribs rotating. Great stuff! 😂

Those classic NFL films vids are fantastic with the slow mo and dramatic music

In America, we only stop games for lightning, and yes most of our stadiums are wide open. If they aren't, they're totally covered. We don't really do in-between. As for the the clay you see on the football field, baseball and football seasons overlap a little and some stadiums have to keep the clay till the end of baseball season. The funny thing is some teams from bad weather cities do better in bad weather. Green Bay is a good example of that

i've lived in the great lakes area my entire life and "predictable" is not a word i have heard anyone use to describe the weather :)

The only time I've seen game play halted, and that was merely temporary, was during severe lightning. Other than a tornado the maxim is, "Play on."

that fog bowl game was the most important game for the eagles in like 10 years. they had one of the best defenses ever. (usually its ranked in the top 10 defenses ever) I still feel ill about that game though 30 years later. Randall Cunningham was a great player, his highlights are fun to watch. NFL football teams play in that weather, but so do college and high school. I personally played in a game with a lake in the middle of the field, my hand would disappear into the water it was that deep. Probably 6 inches deep of water right in the middle of the field.

I used to love a good mudder. Great fun game. Rarely happens with inside stadiums and artificial turf these days. They go to the locker room to wait out lightning, that is it.

Lightning is about the only thing that will stop a major sporting event here in the states

Thing is, the NFL and even College ball play in just about any weather, except for close by lighting strikes, they will delay the game until it passes.

13:14. Jack Youngblood once played in a Super Bowl with a broken leg. Probably the fibula.

The best bad weather game was the super bowl in the rain when prince played the halftime show.

Surprisingly we get more rain in the US, the average across the country here is 38 inches compared to 34 for the UK, wow

We do have musical festivals that last for days, camping at those are so fun but also chaotic. Everyones also on drugs and drunk so.

Straight face: "It's extremely menacing and mysterious." lol

Where I live in America, there will a thunderstorm for 15 minutes then it will be clear and sunny for the rest of the day.

In Chicago, when the snow is blowing around and it's 20 below zero, we call that "Bear Weather" LOL.

In baseball, they have to stop for rain because, pitchers throwing 90+ miles an hour, you could see how much danger there would be for batters not being able to see the ball and it being slippery in the hand on top of that!

I would say, sometimes the teams from the northern US would have somewhat an advantage over the teams from the more tropical regions during the heavy snow games. Just because they aren’t used to the cold. Also, fun fact, sometimes temps in Buffalo are colder than in Alaska.

Even the angle of the sun isn't considered a true advantage due to teams switching goals at the half. Some people would say that teams that are located in rainy/snowy areas have more experience and practice in those conditions which can give the edge. Same is true for temperatures. Take a boy used to practicing in low elevation high humidity hot place and send him on an away game somewhere that has high elevation and it's cold dry air and he'll tell you he's at a disadvantage.

Certain festivals here in the US have camping near by. I can only speak for a few though.

That one game in the horrendous downpour was actually a "preseason" game that was played between the defending Super Bowl champions (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a group of college all-star players. This used to be an annual tradition but it ended that year (roughly 1975). So it wasn't a real game. When the weather got too bad (lightning), they just stopped the game completely. No one cared because it didn't even matter.

Go to Midwest of the USA. Missouri area 80 degree day. Next day 6 inches of snow and next day 70 and sunny 😂

The great voice over was performed by a man named John Fesenda from Philadelphia. He was doing voice commercials when found one day by NFL films. Once his voice was heard, he became legend here. Want to really hear his voice, watch the NFL film "The 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers".

A number of NFL stadiums that are outdoors in snow country have coils under the surface of the turf that circulated heated fluids that keep snow from sticking to the surface. Green Bay and Kansas City are examples but I know there are many more. There used to be quite a few dual use stadiums that did baseball and football. That made mud an issue on the infield base paths and pitchers mound. I don’t think there are any of those left. I’ve been to college games where they had to shovel the yard markers just so you could tell where things were on the field.

Hey guys. Not as many dual use stadiums now a days, so not as many dirt infields come into play. Also a lot more new stadiums being built as domes or have retractable roofs they can open and close as needed. Check out a game from back in the day they refer to as the ice bowl. You poured hot coffee out of a thermos and it would immediately freeze. Sent you guys a link to a Barry Sanders highlight vid a while back. You should check it out even if you don't do a reaction. One the best and maybe the shiftiest runners ever. Stay safe and well.

Was at the Steelers /Miami game where the punt landed and stuck in the ground like it was on a kicking tee. Two minutes later a deluge came down.

I'm late to the party, and you guys must have heard this a ton already, but a lot of places in America (mostly the "mid-west" have weather that changes at the will of the gods of fate) I'm right in the middle of it, and it's a not uncommon saying that "if you don't like the weather here, wait an hour. It will change." New subscriber, but long time fan. Keep up the great work!

In and of themselves, rain and snow aren't bad to play in, it's wind that makes things tricky. Extreme cold can also make certain aspects of the game difficult, as well as more painful. I preferred playing in cooler or cold weather over the hot and humid games or practices. I've played/practiced (anyone remember "daily doubles") in weather from 19°F to 106°F. Wind, rain, snow, mud, it didn't matter, win or lose, I had a good time playing football. When I look back, the thing I wish would have been different, is playing on artificial turf (yes, I'm old). It would have been nice if there was field turf like they have now, or just regular grass. That thin sheet of rough plastic layed out on concrete was more brutal on the body than the game itself. As for stopping games, I only remember 4 times while I played (Pop Warner to Semi-pro) where a game was delayed. They were... Lightning (twice). Play resumed both times once the storm cell passed. Bees. Play resumed once the swarm was cleared. A night game when the lights went out. Play resumed once the power situation was figured out.

That Carolina game in the heavy rain early in the video was during a tropical storm which was what was left of a hurricane. Might have been Hurricane Florence in 2018.

Most football stadiums in America are open air, though a lot now have awnings over parts of the stands.

As kids in our neighborhood we played football in 8 inches of freshly fallen snow--awesome. The best is actually a muddy field on a cold day--traditional neighborhood football game on Thanksgiving Day--play then feast! We also played basketball in Winter, but of course had to shovel the snow off of the court first. Cold is not a deterrent. Only thing that stops a game is lightning (as I see others below have mentioned).

@2:32 If you think everything grinds to a halt there when it snows, you should see how it is where I live when even the slightest bit of snow decides to stick to the ground lol. I live in Meridian, Mississippi or just Mississippi on general (I only say that in case there happens to be someone who sees these videos or this comment and lives here on in Mississippi at all)! I mean we could get 1/10 of an inch of snow here and there’s wrecks everywhere, schools are shut down, the day before people are buying out the grocery stores like it’s the end of the world, and just all around madness happens lol. Which I’ll admit, it is very rare that there’s snow here seeing that even in the winter here it can be 85 degrees plus a lot of the times. Which I mean, don’t get me wrong, it gets cold af here as well, but snow is super rare. Which I guess explains the pandemonium that happens cause since it never snows the city doesn’t have like the like salt, or whatever it is, that they go out and out on the roads to keep them from freezing or to thaw them out, whatever it is. But yeah, try coming to the south when there’s just the slightest bit of snow and you’ll see Mfs freaking out about the most minuscule ms ever lol.

Those NFL Films narrators and writers are solid gold!

First one is Buffalo NY, which is an hour an half from me.

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Thanksgiving Day in 1969 Viking's played the Lions at Tiger Stadium. 36 degrees with a 12 mph wind. You couldn't even see the team on the other side of the feild it was snowing so hard. Coach Bud Grant said. “It was a baseball park with half grass and half dirt. That day, it was all mud and snow. But we were used to those conditions.” Viking's won 27-0

Our wheather here in Oregon's pretty sporadic words surrounded by mountains on three sides and the ocean on the 4th so our weather varies depending on what elevation you live in

They only stop playing when there is lightning. They did have to move games for the NO Saints because the Superdome in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. I think they had to cancel at least one game but they moved the rest of the games at the Louisiana State University stadium.

Growing up playing American football. Rain and snow gave us the jitters. We played all year for one of those types of games. I remember my sophomore year we were playing our state rivals and it was pouring down rain. And when I lined up the guy across me said this is so much fun. And I laughed and said most fun I’ve had all year. They beat us 55-10 lmfao

THE music festival was Woodstock, in 1969. It ran for 3 days and included torrential rains. It was documented in a famous 1970 movie called, not surprisingly, Woodstock.

Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1980s. AFC Championship game. Cincinnati Bengals vs San Diego Chargers. Temp was -9 F (-23C) with wind chill at -59F (-51C)! I watched the Chicago fog game. You really could not see anything that was going on on the field! The Ice Bowl is another extreme weather game. Played in the 1960s for Superbowl Championship at Green Bay Wisconsin! -13 F (-25C) with wind chill at -49F(-45C)!

1. Lightning in the area will stop a game. 2. Governments stepping in for civilian safety 3. Violence such as fans throwing stuff onto the field, not pitch, will also cause delays. A game was once delayed recently a day due to Buffalo City's government stopping the game due to snow. Civilians could get trapped in their cars etc. Otherwise, the game goes on.

Music festivals - There is one called Country Thunder held in six place through out US and Canada. The one held in Twin Lakes WI for the first four or five years always rained bucks-full turning the ground into a mud pit. One year they had a tornado go through tearing up the place forcing the cancellation of the event.

REACT TO THE ICE BOWL! THAT'S EXTREME WEATHER SORRY ABOUT ALL CAPS BUT YOU NEED TO WATCH THAT!! lol

The game usually continues only for football here. If it rains, baseball games usually wait it out, and if the conditions don't improve for a certain amount of time, they just cancel it.

Love your guys material though. Cheers from Minnesota. The land of the snow and 9 month winter. Was -10°F here a while back.

fun, I kept waiting for Denver Broncos snowball incident. Fans threw snowballs and messed up a field goal. I think they got kicked out but if snow is left in the stands don't blame the fans if they want to be involved, especially after 1 or 20 beers. 😆

Playing American football in high school and we had a really cold game. Below 0 Celsius. One of our good players was complaining about it being cold and that's why He wasn't performing and one of our coaches screamed at him, "you think the other team isn't fucking cold? It's the same temperature for them"

The weather is definitely less predictable here than there. The variability in the US is insane: "Near record-setting temperature swing over the weekend" www.fox9.com/news/near-record-setting-temperature-swing-over-the-weekend.amp It's not at all uncommon for temperatures to vary by 50-60 degrees in one day. I also remember going to see Wolves play a few years ago (granted, they were League 1 at the time 😅) and scarcely believing how cheap tickets were. Arsenal's prices are bang on average for the NHL or NFL.

The times that the weather can also give one team an advantage over another team would be if say the Saints who’s an indoor team or use to New Orleans heat has to play in freezing Buffalo NY where they’re use to the weather. Kinda like the Oilers Steelers game was Houston wasn’t use to being in that freezing rain and that’s why they had 9 fumbles that game

As far as glare, that and wind are why they change sides each quarter.

I've field-marched in band in conditions like that; we had a total of 204 shoes between us when we marched onto the field, and 197 when we marched off again. And we lost a cymbal player for the rest of the day.

We'll play in anything. It drizzled during a week long tournament out of town when I was in softball, high was like 33 F (Basically 0 C). Every time you slid for a base it was just mud, hitting the ball hurt no matter what because your fingers were cold. We used toe warmers because there were no more hot hands. Bless the softball moms who got the mud out of our white pants that year. The next year it was dust storms we were so dry.

Music festivals, weather, and mud? Uh, we had this thing in the US called Woodstock... ☺