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The Buffalo Payments and the Pittsburgh Steelers will play their 2024 wild card spherical matchup on Monday with out additional delay, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced Sunday.
Hochul stated temperatures are nonetheless anticipated to be within the teenagers on Monday, however with out the excessive winds and blinding snow that will pose a risk to gamers and spectators alike.
“There’s good karma enjoying within the bitter chilly right here in Buffalo, and that is what we’re hoping for tomorrow. With that, go Payments,” Hochul stated.
The NFL wild card payoff tilt was initially scheduled for 1 p.m. ET Sunday, however was postponed Saturday attributable to lake-effect snowfall and excessive winds. Hochul additionally introduced a journey ban for Buffalo’s Erie County.
The Payments’ Highmark Stadium, situated in Orchard Park, noticed near-zero visibility Saturday as snow blanketed western New York. The workforce went as far as to recruit fans and locals to help shovel snow within the stadium for $20 an hour forward of Monday’s contest.
Present scene at Highmark Stadium.
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“Everyone knows as Western New Yorkers how harmful the triple risk is — the triple risk of icy chilly temperature, with excessive winds and the blowing snow,” Hochul stated throughout a news conference Sunday afternoon. “It is life-threatening climate. That is precisely what is going on on now within the neighborhood of the place there would have been a soccer sport enjoying right this moment in Orchard Park.”
Erie County government Mark Poloncarz confirmed Sunday, “The sport might be held.
If the Payments beat the Steelers, they’re going to subsequent be visited by Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, who beat the Miami Dolphins in the fourth-coldest game in NFL history Saturday night time.
Rishi Rajagopalan is a social media affiliate producer and content material author for CBS Information.
First printed on January 14, 2024 / 7:55 PM EST
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