Ed Rendell Not Happy With Eagles-Vikings Game Being Cancelled Because of Weather, "It's Ridiculous, This Is Football"

Rendell declares Americans are wusses after Eagles game gets postponed
Stumble This! The Philadelphia Eagles had to cancel their football game Sunday because of snow and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell isn't happy "I think it's a joke," Rendell told the local Fox affiliate. "We cancel the game and there's less than 3 inches of snow … I think the fans can make their own decisions about their own safety." "This is football! Good lord, Vince Lombardi would be spinning in his grave that we canceled the football game for the snow." Fox 29’s weatherman John Bol...

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell Calls Delay Of Football Game A Joke, Argues With TV Weatherman Over Snow
Gov. Ed Rendell thinks we’re becoming a “nation of wussies” for delaying the Eagles-Vikings game because of the blizzard not “in any way, shape or form a blizzard.” The Pennsylvania Governor went on FOX’s Philadelphia station, saying it was a “joke” that the football game had been scrubbed, saying that football fans were smart enough to make their own decisions about getting safely to the stadium̵...

Was The NFL Wrong To Cancel The Vikings/Eagles Game?
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was irate in a live interview Sunday night that the Philadelphia Eagles game was postponed by the NFL. The Guv was obviously upset during a phone interview with Fox 29 and at one point, he was arguing with Fox 29 chief Meteorologist John Bolaris about the details of snow amounts in the Philadelphia area. When Bolaris told Rendell that measurement was taken at 7 p.m., Rendell argued the point. He also said with only several inches on the ground in the Pennsylvania sub...

Punishing winter storm sacks Vikings Eagles game
Fans walk around Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, as snow falls, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, in Philadelphia. The Eagles' NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings was postponed from Sunday night until Tuesday due to the winter weather. A fierce winter storm sacked Sunday's Vikings-Eagles game like a blitzing Linebacker, forcing a postponement in Philadelphia that displeased Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, and disrupted travel plans elsewhere in sports. But...

Punishing winter storm sacks Vikings Eagles game
A fierce winter storm sacked Sunday’s Vikings-Eagles game like a blitzing Linebacker, forcing a postponement in Philadelphia that displeased Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, and disrupted travel plans elsewhere in sports. But, overwhelmingly, the games went on. The New York Jets were forced to spend the night in Chicago, where they could mull their 38-34 loss to the Bears. The New England Patriots routed the Bills 34-3 in Buffalo, but victory came at a cost. They were unable to travel home im...

Eagles-Vikings Tuesday night football to make history
Forget that the 5-9 Minnesota Vikings were pretty terrible even before Brett Favre began showing his age and before star running back Adrian Peterson banged up his legs. Forget that the 10-4 Philadelphia Eagles have been one of the most dominant teams all year, have already clinched a Playoff spot, and are Las Vegas' two-touchdown favorite in the game. Forget that the Eagles last year knocked the Vikes out of Playoff contention and that the Green Bay Packers have already handed the Eagles t...

Rendell on postponement of the Eagles game: You think the Chinese would cancel?
- Jennifer of Cubachi Governor Ed Rendell was not all that impressed with the postponement of the Vikings v. Eagles game last night. He said it proved our nation is full of wussies. "My biggest beef is that this is part of what’s happened in this country," Rendell said. "I think we’ve become wussies." ...

Chinese would handle snow better: US governor
Stumble This! The Governor of Pennsylvania blasted the precautions over this week's blizzard as a sign of growing US feebleness, saying that the Chinese would not have flinched at the snow. "We've become a nation of wussies. The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything," Ed Rendell, the Governor of the eastern state, told a Philadelphia Radio Station on Monday. Rendell was upset about the National Football League's decision to postpone the Philadelphia Eagles' home game against the Minnesota...

Eagles-Vikings: Did the NFL cave in to Mayor Nutter?
You've all heard about it by now, especially if you're a sports fan: Soon-to-be-erstwhile Pennsylvania Democrat Governor and former Philly Mayor Ed Rendell's comments about the postponement of the Eagles-Vikings game have been nothing if not cutting and scathing. And Rendell is on point about everything, strange as that may sound. (Strange since this writer holds much disdain for one of America's worst governors) Here's a quick rundown if you've been a) living under a rock for the past few days ...

Punishing winter storm sacks Vikings-Eagles game
A fierce winter storm hit the Vikings-Eagles game like a blitzing Linebacker, forcing a postponement in Philadelphia that upset Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and disrupted travel plans elsewhere in sports. But, overwhelmingly, the games went on. The New York Jets were forced to spend the night in Chicago, where they could mull their 38-34 loss to the Bears. The New England Patriots routed the Bills 34-3 in Buffalo, but victory came at a cost. They were unable to travel home immediately afterwar...

"We're Becoming a Nation of Wussies"
That is not a paraphrase of Attorney General Eric Holder. Good guess though. No, that is Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, getting into a bit of a spat with a local Philly weatherman over the NFL's cowardly decision to cancel last night's Eagles-Vikings game because of forecasted snow, wind, and who knows what other nasty atmospheric disturbances that would have affected the playing conditions. Rendell is right, for once in his politically misguided life. Football is a cold weather sport. Snow...

Snow Storm Postpones Eagles-Vikings Game in Philly
The NFL postponed Sunday night's Eagles game with the possibility of blizzard-like conditions being forecast for Philadelphia. The game will now be played Tuesday night at 8 p.m. on NBC. Light snow was falling in Cape May Sunday morning and moving up to the Philadelphia area as people braced for the first major Snow Storm of the season. We're forecasting between 10 and 20 inches in the city. The heaviest snow will fall from 2 to 10 p.m. with winds gusting up to 40 and 50 miles per hour. Snow ...

NFL Postpones Cursed Eagles-Vikings Game
AP The NFL announced this afternoon that the Eagles-Vikings game set to take place tonight in Philadlephia will be postponed until Tuesday night because of the blizzard that is currently hitting the East Coast. Essentially, the city of Philadelphia sounds terrified of and unprepared for the snowattack that has yet to reach them (albeit, with good reason). It was the second time this season that the NFL has postponed a game because of snow, a rare occurrence in the league, and the third straigh...

NFL postpones Eagles-Vikings game until Tuesday
The Eagles-Vikings game has been postponed until Tuesday night at 8:20 PM (EST) due to the impending snowstorm in Philadelphia, according to the NFL. Click here to cancel reply. “This Just In” is CNN's news blog. This is where you will find the latest news and information from CNN’s correspondents and sources around the world. We’ll cover fresh stories big and small - stories that are breaking, developing or otherwise driving the collective daily conversation,...

What we lost
Somewhere in Lancaster County tonight, Steve Van Buren is laughing at us. Meanwhile, Ed Rendell and I were both on "Daily News Live" on Comcast SportsNet, where the outgoing gov nominated me for a Pulitzer Prize. I hereby nominate Rendell for the Nobel Prize in physics, for proving the theory of media omnipresence. If you must, you can also catch me on Fox-29 tonight at 10 o' clock, spouting my right-wing blather. ...

Amid gloom, census losers score points
For the nine states that learned last week they will be losing House seats, the reaction to the Census results hit similar notes, ranging somewhere between melancholy and dread. But in many of those places, the news also offered a chance to score a few political points. The chairman of the New York Republican Party, Ed Cox, called the loss of two seats in reapportionment evidence that the heavily Democratic state was a “shrinking empire,” marked by “policies that drive peopl...

Rendell Sounds Off
We’re unfamiliar with Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s politics … but we couldn’t agree more with his take on the National Football League’s Controversial decision to cancel Sunday’s night’s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings. “It goes against everything that football is all about,” the soon-to-be-former Keystone State chief executive said Monday on a Radio Show in Philadelphia. “My biggest beef is that this is...

PA Gov Ed Rendell on NFL and Snow: US Becoming a 'Nation of Wussies'
ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell raised eyebrows Sunday when he complained that the NFL postponed the planned Philadelphia Eagles games against the Minnesota Vikings because of the snowstorm that crippled much of the East Coast. He quibbled Sunday with a Philadelphia Meteorologist Sunday about the severity of the storm . Rendell's anger at the postponed game carried into Tuesday, when he called into “The Fanatic” sports Talk Show on a Philadelphia radio st...

Chinese would handle snow better: US governor
The Governor of Pennsylvania blasted the precautions over this week's blizzard as a sign of growing US feebleness, saying that the Chinese would not have flinched at the snow. "We've become a nation of wussies. The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything," Ed Rendell, the Governor of the eastern state, told a Philadelphia Radio Station on Monday. Rendell was upset about the National Football League's decision to postpone the Philadelphia Eagles' home game against the Minnesota Vikings sche...

Eagles defend mayor on blizzard call
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Philadelphia Eagles said Monday Mayor Michael Nutter is coming in for unfair criticism after the team's Sunday night game was postponed by a blizzard. Fans and local media blasted Nutter after the game was pushed back to Tuesday night because of a blizzard warning, citing his decision to call a snow emergency well before any snow actually hit the city -- about 6 hours before the contest between the Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings. Philadelphia eventually recei...

Obama glad EAGLES signed Vick...
Everyone deserves a second chance was President Barack Obama’s message when he called Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie last week to congratulate him and the team for giving Quarterback Michael Vick a take two. NBC’s Peter King reported the call during “Football Night in America” on Sunday. “I talked to Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Eagles this week, and he said he was surprised to pick up the phone one day and Barack Obama calls him to praise the Philadel...

Travel comes to a standstill as blizzards batter US east coast
guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 December 2010 19.13 GMT A snow-covered bicycle in a New York street. Blizzards have swept the East Coast of the US. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images The East Coast of the US was today recovering from a blizzard that brought Air Travel to a standstill in New York and other cities, paralysed rail services and hit a dozen states. More than 3,000 flights were cancelled, mostly from New York's three main airports, stranding tens of thousands of people returning home ...

New York hard hit as winter storm slams northeast
A blizzard pummeled the northeastern United States on Monday, dumping up to 29 inches (74 cm) of snow, disrupting air, rail and bus travel and forcing motorists to deal with blowing snow and icy roads at the end of the busy Christmas weekend. New York City, eastern New Jersey and western Long Island were the hardest hit by the storm, which blew up the Atlantic Coast on Sunday night and continued up to the Monday morning commute, unleashing powerful winds and grounding cities to a halt. Trade ...

East Coast Blizzard Is One for the Record Books
Monday, December 27, 2010 By Eric Tucker, Associated Press A sign warns motorists of icy conditions on the Long Island expressway in N.Y. on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Providence, R.I. (AP) - A treacherous commute of lashing winds, slick streets and low visibility buffeted workers returning Monday to their post-Christmas routines. A winter storm that dumped about a foot of snow on southern New England crawled up the East Coast, stranding thousands of airline, bus and rail ...

Winter storm is playing havoc with sports teams
Work crews remove snow from the stands of Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team, in Philadelphia on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A winter storm resulted in the postponement of the Minnesota Vikings-Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday night. Sports teams were scrambling a day after a blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow along portions of the East Coast, stranding two NHL franchises near New York City and forcing Philadelphia to dig out before Tuesday night...