
Former NFL star Robert Griffin III implored the NFL to postpone the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs-Miami Dolphins sport after the Buffalo Payments-Pittsburgh Steelers playoff sport was rescheduled due to the climate.
The Payments and the Steelers have been postponed due to the snow and winds set to impression Buffalo by the weekend. The area may see as a lot as three toes of snow.
Griffin, the previous Washington Redskins star quarterback-turned ESPN analyst, applauded New York officers for shifting the sport and mentioned officers must do the identical for the Chiefs and Dolphins. Kansas Metropolis Mayor Quinton Lucas maintained that the town was nonetheless “prepared” for the sport.
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ESPN NFL analyst Robert Griffin III smiles within the inexperienced room backstage in the course of the first spherical of the 2023 NFL Draft at Union Station on April 27, 2023 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Pictures)
“Once you take a look at the Chiefs-Dolphins sport, it’s like, ‘Nope we’re simply gonna play that one.’ Guess what? They’ve damaging 1-degree climate. It’s presupposed to be a wind chill as much as damaging 30 levels. Oh yeah, and there’s snow,” Griffin mentioned in a video. “And there’s winds as much as 29 mph.”
“You’re making an attempt to inform me that that’s secure? No, no, it’s not secure. Not for the gamers, not for the followers, not for the coaches, and it’s not soccer climate.
“Guys, soccer is a brutal sport. It’s the gladiator sport. The hardest folks on the face of the planet play soccer. The saying, ‘Oh, we’ll play them any time, wherever it doesn’t matter what the climate is,’ is only a saying. We use that to pump up our guys, our teammates, as a result of hear, if we gotta go play in these situations, we ‘gon play in them. It’s what it’s. And we not gon’ complain about it.
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The Buffalo Payments emblem is displayed opn the sector at Highmark Stadium earlier than an NFL soccer sport between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Buffalo Payments in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, October 9, 2022. (AP Photograph/Gene J. Puskar, File))
“But when the NFL is absolutely about gamers’ security, it’s their job to do what’s in the most effective curiosity of the gamers. Moreover, the climate is unsafe. And winter isn’t coming, it’s right here! It’s not smooth to say that, ‘in these situations, that they sport must be moved.’”
Griffin additionally mentioned that the NFL stadiums must be domed from right here on out.
“From this level ahead, there ought to by no means be a stadium within the NFL that’s constructed with out a roof. Make all of them a dome, and make it safer for the gamers with out all these components.”
The sport is about to be one of many coldest video games ever. Kickoff is about for 8 p.m. ET.
The 1967 “Ice Bowl” between the Inexperienced Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys was performed in -13-degree climate with a wind chill of -48.

Followers enter Arrowhead Stadium earlier than the beginning of an NFL soccer sport between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders Monday, October 10, 2022, in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri. (AP Photograph/Charlie Riedel, File)
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In 2016, the Minnesota Vikings performed within the third-coldest sport in NFL historical past. The temperature was -6 levels at kickoff, with a wind chill of -25. The sport was performed at TCF Financial institution Stadium.
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