2025-26 NFL Thread

[GB Warrior]

The reason the renderings are so zoomed out is to avoid showing people smiling since joy is outlawed in Gary

[Shaka Shart]

At least Gary is closer to a real city with amenities than Green Bay is I guess

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Oh, C'mon! Both "New York Teams" have played in New Jersey for more than 30 years.

You can at least see the Manhattan skyscrapers from the stadium.

[WhiteTrash]

Will MLF come up with a better game plan against the Bears this week than last week?

[tower912]

Layer up tomorrow.

[Dish]

You couldn't pay me to sit outside tomorrow night. It's brutal outside right now and will be worse tomorrow.

[JWags85]

You couldn't pay me to sit outside tomorrow night. It's brutal outside right now and will be worse tomorrow.

I mentioned before that I turned down very goods seats for the Bears-Cowboys TNF game back in 2019. Probably would have been the best seats I ever had for a football game but single digits in Soldier Field on the lake? Hell no.  My coworker sent me a picture of his beer that was slushy.  Never felt more validated in a decision.

NFL/CFB is easily my least favorite in person viewing experience of any major sport and really only is appealing with decent weather.  If not warm, the kind of nice fall day with a light jacket, not a parka and hand warmers

[GB Warrior]

I mentioned before that I turned down very goods seats for the Bears-Cowboys TNF game back in 2019. Probably would have been the best seats I ever had for a football game but single digits in Soldier Field on the lake? Hell no.  My coworker sent me a picture of his beer that was slushy.  Never felt more validated in a decision.

NFL/CFB is easily my least favorite in person viewing experience of any major sport and really only is appealing with decent weather.  If not warm, the kind of nice fall day with a light jacket, not a parka and hand warmers

Watching football live is a blah experience. The vibes can be elite, but that's it.

[CreightonWarrior]

Is it going to be as cold as that chiefs game some years back where fans lost fingers from frost bite?

[JWags85]

Watching football live is a blah experience. The vibes can be elite, but that's it.

Yep.  HS football is fun live cause of the energy but also cause the small size of crowd/stadium mean you can see basically everything.  Smaller college stadiums are similar. The stadium at Miami (OH) was/is around 23,000 with no end zone stands, so sight lines again were great. 

But when you get to a large college or NFL stadium? Unless you're at the 50 yard line halfway up, at least half the game (in a game of feet/inches) is all a guess or confusion what happened in the moment.  I had 10th row seats on the 10 yard line at Soldier Field one time.  I spent the vast majority of the game with my back to the field trying to look at one end zone screen or peering 125 yards away at the far end zone screen.  It frankly stunk.  Hell, the guy behind us had the game streaming on his phone to have a better idea of the action.   Add rough weather to that? Sheesh 

[JWags85]

"Matthew Stafford played for 12 years in the NFC North, weather won't be an issue for him"

Also..."Matthew Stafford will be wearing a scuba suit"

https://x.com/staceydales/status/2012628549409120581?s=46

[Dish]

I'm not jumping the gun on this, but if the Bears host the Niners next Sunday night, holy hell that weather forecast.

(This is more a weather commentary than football prediction).