Thank you for making a video about my hometown of Akron, OH. I was born in raised in Akron.

Love stories from the early years 🔥

Great video and I do give you props for being creative I was expecting black and white and players running like Benny Hill LOL

On an similar note, three years prior, in the APFA, the very same Rochester Jeffersons played a game against the football Washington Senators on a snowy field. That game also had some controversy, as Washington were not willing to play in the snow. Owner Leo Lyons ordered Washington pay $800 as a result for no showing, further approved by the APFA. To this day, it remains the only forfeit in NFL history, albeit disputed.

Ah, early football where forward passes were considered goofy trick plays.

There's no way that this kind of thing would go unnoticed these days even if the two teams playing each other were hot garbage. Cancelling an NFL game without any fanfare is wild!

The worst stretch for an NFL team has gotta be the Colts franchise in the late 1920s when they were the Dayton Triangles.

In 1926, Los Angeles had an nfl team, the Los Angeles buccaneers.

Can you do a Tonawanda Kardex video? That team played 1 game & then forfeited back in 1921

This made me think back a couple years to the Bengals/Bill's game. Thankfully, Demar Hamlin made a full recovery. Aside from that, though, the confusion that resulted from not rescheduling the game had every sports reporter theorizing how the league was gonna handle it.

Snow Games are Peak Football

Thanks for this most interesting video. This style of video is a breath of fresh air from some of your recent tone and content about what’s dumb and who is the dumbest. Looking forward to more videos on the early history of professional football. Keep up the good work.

My grandpa was born in 1924 god rest his soul ❤

Who remembers Shady in the snow vs. Indy.

Certainly not to the degree of super bad weather games, but my favorite game to play in the 9th grade was an away game with a team that had a shared football/baseball field. The baseball infield was red clay and it _poured_ rain for the game. Our unis were all white but by the time the game ended we were all red. Slipping & sliding around - so much fun! And we won, so it was even better. 😁

Akron on Lake Erie!!! Try 50 miles south. The football game Buffalo at Cleveland would have had more snow. It's called Lake Effect Snow.

Do you realize that there's a couple of channels that trace the history of college football. However, there are no vids or series covering the history of pro football. Oh, you'll find lotsa stuf from the '80s on, and a bit from the '60s and '70s, and even a few from the '50s, but no comprehensive history of the pro game. What there is focuses on specific games, teams or players, but nothing like John Johnston's Hardcore History of College Football, or even your own work. There's an opening here for an historian to trace the pro game. Thanks, as always, for another excellent vid.

The 1948 championship game was played in a blizzard because the commissioner didn’t want to lose out on revenue from the radio broadcast

If Akron suffered a blinding blizzard that day would its residents have said, “My city was gone?”

The Buffalo-Cleveland cancelation seems like a MUCH bigger story... it seemed to help decide the League title!

1924 was the year that there was no radio and no TV at all, just people going to a football game rather than listening to a radio. KDKA was the very first radio station to go on the air in 1921, but sports wasn’t a thing by the early part of the 1920’s. And then, sports coverage started on radio by the 1930’s.

So the next thing on your to-do list is to find an old leather helmet to add to your collection?

People that complain about wearher moving/postponing games need to watch the videos the NFL releases on how the stadium/host city prepares for a game. The logistics are insane

The 1947 NFL Championship was played in ludicrous snow. It did happen sometimes

The Rochester Jeffersons averaged 1 point per game💀💀💀

The infamous Snowballs at Santa game in Philly in 1968 was played after a blizzard. The conditions were why what happened happened as the original professional Santa stayed home thinking the parade was going to be cancelled prompting the Eagles to pluck a guy from the stands wearing a ratty cheap dime store Santa costume as a replacement to which the fans thought it was just another cheap gesture by the team's ownership and showed their displeasure.

Just as a reminder, around 30 people died in Buffalo in 2022 due to the weather

Anyone got a helmet from Akron and Rochester to give to JG9? Oh wait, they didn't wear helmets back in the 1920s?

Calling the game due to lightning was a great decision they started doing it in the 80s I believe, however the fans sitting up high in metal bleachers are stuck in it. The only other game that maybe should have been called for weather was the fog bowl. Watching it on tv you literally couldn’t see crap and had to rely on announcers who couldn’t see crap. Lol. But the game was made to play in the weather. Teams based their styles on it. Southern teams trying to overcome the cold up north and northern teams trying to keep from passing out due to the heat in the south with humidity.

Is there a reason Buffalo has never considered an indoor stadium?

I don't care if there is no footage. Bring the stories from the pre-Playoff era, Eastern/Western Conference, AAFC, and AFL/NFL eras on!

Love seeing old photos of downtown akron ohio..... now its not safe to walk in downtown akron

So unprofessional we expect you to have the helmets of the team(s) you're discussing in the video and you can't even find these two teams that have been disbanded for 90+ years. Just joking around love the content. Keep it up.

Let's not forget the NFL playoff game that was moved to Chicago Stadium-- an indoor arena that couldn't hold a regulation NFL field because it was literally impossible. That happened in 1932, back when my grandparents would've claimed to walk 10 miles barefoot to school in a blizzard. People who say current generations are soft are hilarious

The more you know

So if the cancellation of this game was never reported, then how did you know it was cancelled? I’m curious because I searched about it and couldn’t find anything.

And they say Patrick mahomes loves to play in snow ⛄️ games like the one he played against Denver a few years back! 😅😅😅😅

I'd love if you did a video about why the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bangles didn't resume the game that Demar Hamlin collapsed in, cause I feel like that game actually mattered

Do they still do snow games these days?

Is it any coincidence that the Bills surged up the standings once they canned Russ Brandon?

2:45 "De facto" means the opposite of what you seem to think. You could say they were the nominal home team; or if you want to use a legal term from Latin, you could say they were the de jure home team.

We need more names like the Rochester jeffersons

I've said it before and I'll say it again - these videos get to be a slog at the end because you keep belaboring the point. Yes, we get it - a game got cancelled and nobody talked about it, and that wouldn't happen today. You don't need to repeat yourself four times. I can assure you that your audience remembers what you said five seconds ago.