the colts

[grimm]

Originally posted by JoesHO1@Jan 16 2005, 04:11 PM
I think it should be mandatory for the playoffs to be weather free..
indoors or held in areas with good weather
every fucking year someone gets robbed cause of the weather, ( that is not football in the 21st century imho)

i stand on the opposite side. I think domed stadiums are the downfall of football. When you build your team around an indoor stadium, you dont go all the way. The exception being the Rams, who went all the way because they had homefiled advantage and the superbowl was indoors. a complete anomaly. put them outdoors and they show up like the vikings and colts today.

However... put an outdoor team indoors, and it makes no difference. a level playing field for the most part. they dont lose any advantage. the pats beat them in the warm weather as well.

All of the colts losses were on the road, in outdoor stadiums.

the vikings won one what, 2 games outdoors, to the texans in OT(wait, was the roof closed?), and the lions?

The Rams...at san fran and at seattle were their only outdoor wins... so your dome teams on average, win 2 out of the 8 road games that are not in domed stadiums per year.

and this is not counting the 2 or 3 dome teams that didnt make the playoffs.

The obvious exception would be the falcons, but they are the oddity.. an indoor team that features the run. so they can win on the road, outside.

So we should adapt the NFL to accomodate those teams? what about the other 27 or so teams that do just fine in the regular season and the playoffs and ..win superbowls



Watching a live football game indoors does not compare to watching one outside. The weather has been part of football since the league began. Ill watch a Bengals game outside over a Colts game indoors every time. and ive lived in both cities.

Games in the superdome do not compare to games in outdoor stadiums.

Its a game played outdoors with a funny shaped ball that turns stone in the cold and bounces unpredictably. thats the way it should be.