Dan Graziano experiences from Buffalo on how suspending the Steelers-Payments wild-card matchup has affected each groups’ preparations for the sport. (1:52)
BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says the playoff recreation between the Steelers and Bills “is not going to be pushed again once more,” regardless of an ongoing journey ban within the space round Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
The wild-card recreation is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET Monday after initially being deliberate for 1 p.m. Sunday. The choice to push again the sport was introduced early Saturday afternoon.
Hochul was talking in a information convention Sunday afternoon with different authorities officers amid the lake-effect snowstorm within the Buffalo space. Snow continued to fall Sunday in some areas at a charge of three to six inches an hour, along with wind speeds as much as 50 mph, in line with Hochul.
“Sport time on Monday, climate situations will probably be very chilly. They will be within the teenagers, and even wind-chill components as little as zero, possibly to 9 levels, however that is going to be very, very chilly,” Hochul stated. “However this will probably be with out the hazard of the winds and the blinding snow and the hazardous site visitors situations for these as they traveled to the stadium or leaving primarily based on present predictions. So that may be a higher dynamic, by much better dynamic, than we’d’ve had right now. I am not saying it’ll be nice, however situations will not be life threatening both.”
A journey ban stays in place for Orchard Park and different surrounding areas, together with downtown Buffalo, with Erie County government Mark Poloncarz saying the ban within the space across the stadium will doubtless keep in place till Monday.
Regardless of the journey ban, some individuals have walked to the stadium with shovels to assist start to filter the snow, and when the journey ban is lifted, extra assist will probably be wanted in preparation for the sport.
The Steelers’ flight landed within the Buffalo space Sunday afternoon.