Punishing winter storm sacks Vikings Eagles game

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vikings, Eagles wait around to play postponed game
While the Minnesota Vikings ate cheesesteaks and acted like tourists, the Philadelphia Eagles savored a division title they clinched from their couches. Both teams had to wait another day to play the first NFL game on a Tuesday in 64 years. A winter storm postponed the Vikings-Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday night before any snow had even accumulated. About a foot of snow fell on Philadelphia, though less than five inches was on the ground before the scheduled kickoff at 8:20 p.m. EST. ...

Giants Crushed By Packers
What is it about the next-to-last game of the season and the New York Giants? Last year, with flickering Playoff hopes, they played host to the Carolina Panthers in their final Regular Season game at Giants Stadium and got humiliated by a team going nowhere. This year, needing a win to stop the bleeding from last week and to make the playoffs, the Giants looked even worse while being annhilated 45-17 by the Packers. That would be bad enough under any circumstances, but the fact that Green Bay i...

Patriots clinch AFC home-field edge
The New England Patriots secured home-field advantage throughout the AFC Playoffs by routing the Buffalo Bills 34-3 Sunday. Brady hasn't lost a home game in the last 27 regular-season outings, and the Patriots (13-2) are unbeaten in 16 consecutive regular-season games at Gillette Stadium since losing to Pittsburgh on Nov. 30, 2008 with Matt Cassel replacing the injured Brady. But the Patriots lost their only playoff game last season, routed at home by Baltimore. "We got a W, and that's our big...

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...

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...

Ed Rendell Not Happy With Eagles-Vikings Game Being Cancelled Because of Weather, "It's Ridiculous, This Is Football"
Rendell talks to Fox News and says the reason the game is not being played tonight is because of money, "As and eagle's fan, I am ticked off about this"...The country has become more and more "wussified" "Vince Lombardi would be laughing at us" ...

Keidel: Blizzards, Not Wizards
In a day made for football, New York morphing into a snow globe, neither New York team played in the blizzard. But both played in a fog yesterday. A week removed from gagging a 21-point lead to the Eagles, the Giants are fading from the Playoff picture after the Green Bay Packers dismantled them at Lambeau Field. The Giants now need to win and get by with a little help from their foes. And thus it seems the Jets, hardly a case study in Super Bowl glory, are the lone club to march our city to the...

WR Simpson has big game with TO, Ocho out
Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver Jerome Simpson (89) celebrates with cornerback Adam Jones, right, after Simpson scored on a 59-yard touchdown reception in the second half of an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 34-20. No T.O., no Ocho. It took injuries to the Bengals' top two receivers to finally get Jerome Simpson a chance to show he's not a draft-day bust. Point made. The third-year receiver had a breakout game Sunday, sett...

Last Night's Action: Jets Make Playoffs; Giants Need Help
Bears 38, Jets 34: It was a shootout that the Jets lost, but they stuck their foot into the Playoff door despite the result of Sunday's game. Jay Cutler had three touchdowns for the Bears and Matt Forte rushed for 113 yards in the win. It was the first time an opposing team ran for more than 100 yards against the Jets this season. Things were going well for the Jets in the first half, ending it with a 24-17 lead, but it changed quickly in the second half. On its opening drive in the 3rd quarte...

NFL: Green Bay 45, N.Y. Giants 17
GREEN BAY, Wis., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Aaron Rodgers amassed 404 passing yards and hurled four TDs Sunday, powering the Green Bay Packers' 45-17 thumping of the New York Giants. Rodgers returned after missing one game with a Concussion to dominate the reeling Giants, completing 25-of-37 passes, and John Kuhn scored three touchdowns for Green Bay, which stayed alive in the NFC Playoff hunt. The Packers (9-6) face another must-win situation next week against the Chicago Bears if they are to make the po...

Jets Blog: Jets-Bears Preview
Jets vs. Bears It’s amazing how things can change in just a week. Before last week’s thrilling 22-17 win in Pittsburgh, Jets fans were pressing the panic button after back-to-back losses to the Patriots and Dolphins. Now, while winning the AFC East and hosting Playoff games are a long shot, the Gang Green faithful are feeling a lot better as the Jets head to Chicago for Sunday’s contest with the Bears. While they needed some help during week sixteen last year (even before they ...

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...

Monday Morning Coffee: Your Top Five Reads Of The Day.
Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're off this week, which means a lighter than usual posting schedule. So let's just dive right into it, shall we? 1. Snow, Snow, Snow. The Capital region may have been spared, but our friends in southeastern Pennsylvania are digging out from under the mother of all snowstorms this morning. The monster snow snarled traffic, shutdown airports and caused the postponement of yesterday's Philadelphia Eagles game, which, in turn, prompted criticis...

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...

Hey Gore, Eagles-Vikings Game Postponed Due to Snow
The NFL moved the Vikings at Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of an expected blizzard that could dump up to 20 inches snow on Philadelphia. The game will be played at 8 p.m. EST., and televised nationally by NBC. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency as of 2 p.m. EST Sunday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of though...

Vikings at Eagles game postponed from tonight to Tuesday on account of up to 20 inches of global warming in Philly
As I keep mentioning, this whole Global Warming things sure feel... cold. And white. The viking have had enough of this Global Warming thing their home base being collapsed by many inches of it: Maybe we should rename this the Vikings effect because even their rivals are being pummeled by it. From the AP via The Detroit News: Vikings at Eagles game postponed from tonight to Tuesday The NFL moved the Vikings at Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of an expect...

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 ...

Blizzard cancels Eagles game, snarls Philadelphia travel
The first major snowstorm of the winter, with high winds and freezing conditions, dumped more than a foot of snow on much of the Philadelphia region Sunday, snarling travel and postponing the Eagles-Vikings game. The wintry nor'Easter hit hardest in eastern reaches of the region, with up to 20 inches of snow expected along the New Jersey coast. Philadelphia anticipated nearly a foot of snow, and Mayor Nutter declared a snow emergency Sunday afternoon that was to remain in effect Monday. Although...

Patriots Clinch Homefield Advantage, Top Bills 34-3
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Tom Brady set another passing record and the New England Patriots clinched the top seed in the AFC Playoffs thanks to a familiar pushover, the Buffalo Bills. Brady threw for three touchdowns in a 34-3 rout of the Bills on Sunday and extended his streak of attempts without an interception to 319 – topping the NFL mark of 308 set by Bernie Kosar with Cleveland in the 1990-91 seasons. Rookie Tight End Rob Gronkowski caught two touchdowns in leading the Patriots (1...