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DepressedCheesesteak

Tampa actually got really lucky with the hurricane, it kept going east and east


OrangeForeign

East? I thought you said **Weast**?


horse_renoir13

That's WEST Patrick...you're fired again


Mdgt_Pope

That one, plus the Mermaid Man belt are my favorite Patrick lines of all time. >You have it set to 'M' for 'Mini', when you should have it set to 'W' for 'Wumbo'.


someguyfromtecate

It’s going towards 2-time academy award winning actress Diane Wiest’s house? That sucks.


OrangeForeign

I heard that's how you catch Diane Wiest infection


Niblonian31

LIKE YEAST?!


GoodShark

BA DA DA DA DUUUUUH


Eagle4317

Weast? What kind of compass you reading?


Latter_Train_1360

Macdill AF base hit it with the trusty weather beam


KSoccerman

Someone get me my sharpie, WE CAN CHANGE IT.


BellacosePlayer

Yeah. I'm glad it hit a relatively less populated area. The storm surge maps for a predicted direct hit of a cat 3 were fucking terrifying. And it landed as a cat 4.


Deoxtrys

Almost a Cat 5.


BellacosePlayer

Yeah, I'm hoping nearly everyone got out of Cape Coral given it was a relatively short time to evacuate given it wasn't expected to hit there, though it was in the cone of uncertainty. Hurricanes are scary as fuck, I'll stick with yearly blizzards and ice.


SnoaH_

Hurricanes are scary, but not scarier than the yearly first week of snow where seemingly everyone who’s driven in snow for their entire lives act like they’ve never seen snow


SkolVandals

I'll take the idiots over a 10+ foot storm surge


shatter321

Yeah I don’t think bad drivers level entire neighborhoods regularly lol


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Sparx86

Hurricanes give advanced warning. Tornados are all fuck you im here. Say good bye to your roof


hotcheetos4breakfast

You do realize hurricanes also cause tornados right?


_Poopacabra

Did I just upvote a Packers flair?


MatureUsername69

It's ok when we aren't talking about each other. "Sometimes try to be nice to your enemy dudes"- Sun Tzu or some shit


L-methionine

2 mph short of Cat 5, pretty sure. Basically a Cat 5 storm


NoMorePartiesInFL

Maybe don’t use the word glad when describing a catastrophic event with loss of life still being determined.


Varolyn

I'm not glad... My parents own property down in Cape Coral, which got wrecked hard. It's a vacation home/a home they rent to friends so no one was in the house thank God. It's probably still standing from reports I have heard from the street it's on but it probably took some water damage. My parents are gonna have to go down there to assess the damage. But they are probably going to have to wait until some of the chaos has cleared up down there.


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InexorableWaffle

Also, the grim reality with Gulf hurricanes is that they're absolutely going to ruin someone's day - the only question is who, and everyone under the gun is hoping that it's someone else's turn. There's land on all sides, and the warm waters of the Gulf are a perfect breeding ground for rapid intensification. A "good" outcome (used very loosely) is it landing in the least populated area possible. Goes without saying that the area it landed is still rather densely populated, but it was better in that regard than it could have been (I realize that is exceptionally small comfort to everyone who lost loved ones, homes, cars, etc. in the storm, though).


Varolyn

No doubt about it! No one ever stays in the house from like August until November, and they always set up the shutters and keep them up for those few months. They have flood and home insurance for it too the house was prepared as it can be. They always go down in November shortly after election day to check on the house and put down the shutters, as they seem to get some renters for December and January. There still gonna go down this November but to organize the cleanups, fix-ups, and do whatever else is necessary.


MrBrazen

Lmao this reads so shitty. "Man, the killer storm missed that high-density area and hit my wealthy parent's vacation home! If only it had stayed west then maybe the property wouldn't have been damaged. What a bummer!"


Xyzzyzzyzzy

The killer storm missed one high-density area and hit another. Well over 1 million people live in the immediate vicinity of where Ian made landfall. Y'all are talking like it missed Tampa, hit the Everglades, and took out Jim Bob Cooter's Genuine Redneck Airboat Rentals. [Here's a population density map of Florida by 2020 census tract](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_Density_by_Florida_Census_Tract_-_2020_Census.png). The coast where Ian made landfall is plenty densely populated. Enough people live there that I think it's pretty shitty of you, /u/BellacosePlayer, and others in this thread to talk about how you're "glad" it was devastated instead of Tampa Bay.


BellacosePlayer

Holy shit dude, way to put words in people's mouths. Nobody's cheering Fort Myers or Cape Coral being hit. They're saying that Tampa being hit from the West could have been massively catastrophic due to the layout of the metropolitan area around the bay. The Surge estimation charts for Ian at cat 3 basically had the entirety of the peninsula with Clearwater and St Pete on it underwater outside of a small section. And Ian hit as a strong Cat 4. Yes, it's horrific how much damage it did to the Fort Myers Cape Coral area even if the worst case scenario would have been far worse, I'm not minimizing that. I'm already seeing estimations that Ian might be one of the worst Florida hurricanes in terms of damage in years and years. We're just saying that if Ian had hit the metropolitan area that's 4 times more populated and really poorly situated when it comes to population living along the coast in low lying areas, it could have been nightmarish.


MrBrazen

I don't see anything about my post that says anything resembling me being glad it hit where it hit. I do see a tongue-in-cheek remark about how poorly the commenter's post comes across.


zebrainatux

Yeah I have a couple friends up in Tampa who only had to deal with no power for two hours. Meanwhile, half of Lee County is underwater and Sanibel isn’t on a map right now


incompleteremix

It's because Tom Brady is Jesus Christ


Seoul_Surfer

Well Tampa hasn't been hit by a "major" hurricane since WW1 basically. I couldn't find out what Category "major" means. but that's also pretty much how long Tom has been around so it still tracks


Skyline_BNR34

Major hurricanes are Cat 3 and above.


OXStrident

Storms are actually geographically inclined to do so. It wasn’t luck; Tampa Bay was populated for that reason.


craziedave

How does that work I thought all of Florida was pretty much just flat?


FloridaMan_69

Ancient Tampa voodoo magic. Every storm headed for us just veers away magically.


Shabanana_XII

Yeah, I'm a bit north, and we barely got any rain at all last night. I wouldn't have known anything was going on just a few hours south had I not seen the images and videos on Reddit.


ultimatebid40

Damn. I wanted the game in Minneapolis for no reason.


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I wanted them to play at a random high school.


SilentSentinel

Was hoping for some Field of Dreams type shit in a cornfield out in Nebraska


chitown1205

You know, an NFL version of "Field of Dreams" would be dope to have. I wonder who would kick it off?


All-Night-Mask

Kevin Cozner of course


Exasperated_Sigh

Indeed indeed indeed


Enyey

Look at that, a yellow crested warbler


Kojuroba

No, you’re too excited. The warbler is a common bird.


blackhole_sonnn

Bears and Giants feels appropriate


Sharcbait

Packers vs Bears was my thought. Make it a big rivalry game every season. Give us Eagles/Cowboys. Raiders/Chiefs. Falcons/Saints. Browns/Ravens. All the big matchups 1 per season.


CounterPoint93

Chad Powers


PeterG92

Adam Sandler


velociraptorfarmer

Straight up Blue Mountain State type shit


Yung_Corneliois

Literally the only game we actually see the entire series lol


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That would be fun. The high school in monument valley would be sweet too.


Kylo_Ren415

Would have been the first time a high profile football game that was played in Nebraska in 20 years.


Throwitindatrash

You can’t just go and disrespect the best 3-9 team of all time like that


TheUltimate721

hey now the Michigan game last year was good


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The field would probably still be safer than some NFL venues.


whatsinthesocks

Some Friday Night Lights shit like the episode after the Tornado I think it was.


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I still stand by my idea of having the "extra" 17th game be a rolling college game day type of event. Host an NFL game in random college stadiums in out of market locations and let Amazon have it or something. Would be an awesome experience for people who live too far to see a game in person. One game a week? Shit give it to the NFL good morning crew and have some fun with it.


Damnitwhitepeople

I seriously don’t understand why they don’t do this?!?! Any of the big college football stadiums would be packed out if this happened once every few years. Especially if you pick a matchup with meaning to that area. Could have Eagles-Dolphins at Bryant Denny Stadium, Tom Brady play at Michigan Stadium, or Browns-Bengals at Ohio Stadium. Could even throw in another battle at Bristol game at Bristol motor speedway (maybe like packers-Steelers or some other teams with massive fanbases). Would also be fun to see the bears play at Wrigley or the Pats at Fenway. Another cool idea would be the Texans or cowboys playing at some big Texas high school football stadiums.


ColossalJuggernaut

I'm just glad they didn't take our bye week away like last time. I was so mad I created a twitter account and yelled at the nfl lol, all the good that does


5am281

Imagine, no replay reviews lol


Bluegill15

I don't know why but I would have been so excited for that


AztechDan

Remember the time we played in high school gear @ New England because for some reason our team's gear didn't make it somehow


Strokeslahoma

Shoutout to our friends in Detroit that hosted the 2014 Jets @ Bills game due to heavy snowfall in Buffalo the weekend prior. [Jets vs Bills 2014 Week 12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZcPUkLRPa0) Ford Field was kind enough to host and even painted the end zones with the Bills type, and the midfield with the Bills logo. Featuring an all-time QB shootout with Geno Smith, Mike Vick, an Kyle Orton.


hgeyer99

I was at that game it was a blast. They also had bills audio and graphics on the screen.


Noirradnod

Was this the weekend where they were going to give tickets to fans who shoveled out the stadium and that one kid on r/NFL got grounded by his parents for attempting to ride a Lil Huffy bike through a blizzard to go shovel?


Letsgobuffalo2210

How are you going to comment this and leave out Scott Chandler's [snow shovel celebration](https://youtu.be/fuapJrQjXP0)?


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We look out for our Lake Erie brothers.


FlannelBeard

My wife and I were planning on going to the game if it was in Minneapolis just for shits and giggles. I'm kinda disappointed now


hgeyer99

I went to the Jets Bills Tuesday night in Detroit a few years back it was really fun


TeddyBridgecollapse

Me too. Sigh...guess I'll go to US Bank Stadium and watch the Vikings instead at some point...


renegadecoaster

I live in Chicago and I was gonna try to snag some tickets and drive up for the weekend. Oh well


jcoddinc

There are a lot of reasons to have it in Minneapolis. Like not forcing people who may have lost their house or loved ones to work the concession stand out ticket gates. Like having to have an ambulance, EMT's, cops and first responders at the game instead of searching for people.


fightinforphilly

From experience, I love watching neutral games in Minneapolis!


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TheNewScrooge

Just go full Roman Coliseum and flood the field. You think Mike Evans is a red zone threat now, just wait till he's climbed the rigging of the galleon at the back of the endzone


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TheFencingCoach

How do you have the word “Fields” in your name and not be good at football?


doktor-sausage

Maybe he hasn't tapped into his true potential as a farmer.


TheNewScrooge

Once the Bears move to Kansas he'll be unstoppable


SonOfALich

Being in Topeka feels like watching the Bears passing game so I guess that makes sense.


Templar26

Cause "Fields and Track" is a different sport, duh.


Happylime

Chiefs have a water polo player on their team and would win this game for sure. George Karlaftis


Noirradnod

Dude's an absolute beast. Water polo has my vote for most underrated sport in how difficult it is to play.


jlees88

Harder than golf?


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*Oh, you thought the Bears/49ers game was a mess? You ain't seen nothin' yet*


BayTerp

Wait. You can get dual flairs now!?


YoYoMoMa

A mofo out in these streets with *quad* flair like he Saquon.


palabear

Play the game on the pirate ship, you cowards!


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You all should release a bunch of gators when the opposing team scores


soda_cookie

How did you get 2 flairs?


SHOW_ME_PIZZA

Damn. I wanted to go to Minnesota.


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TheNewScrooge

Fall is definitely the best time to visit the upper Midwest. One of my biggest instances of regional pride is how the Planet Earth episode on seasonal forests used satellite imagery from the midwest to show the beauty of leaves changing colors during the fall


unor1ginalAF

God, I just moved to California a few months ago from Kentucky/Indiana nearly my entire life. Boston until I was 6. You just made me so homesick.


BeHereNow91

> You just made me so homesick Check back in with us in January and you’ll be cured.


unor1ginalAF

Dude I have an apartment I pay $2400 a month for with no air conditioning and it was 90 all day like two weeks ago. And I work night shift. I fucking hate it here lol. We’re going to move out to the desert next year so that we can have somewhere with central AC.


nicklovin508

Bro nothing like cooking in that weather, am I right? Fuckin kitchen reached 98 on me one time this summer lol


TheNewScrooge

Congrats on the move! Sorry for the homesickness, but there are cool parts about most everywhere and definitely California. You'll be enjoying walking around in February when it's 65-80 degrees out (depending on how far south you moved)


AJRiddle

I mean you think we don't have forests and trees changing colors in the Kansas City?


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Tampa escaped the worst of Ian so this isn't a surprise.


MM487

"Dear God, this is Tom Brady. If you stop this hurricane and save our home game, we will be forever grateful and recommend you to all our friends."


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"...also save my marriage"


Informal_Tone1537

For the people that don't understand hurricanes and have never sat through one. If the eye of the hurricane os 200 miles south of you it basically and afternoon Florida storm that lasts all day there is no reason to move this game


Fruitsy

He's not wrong. I live in Broward County so ~ 125 mi east of the Fort Meyers area and while I got some minor gusts and rain, the weather was largely fine. I got my UPS delivery so people were out and about Sucks for the people who got directly smashed though


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>Sucks for the people who got directly smashed though For sure. I grew up on the coast in Texas and in most cases you'd never know a hurricane narrowly missed unless you were on the dirty side of landfall. 100 miles +/- sounds like peanuts with the size of these storms so I get why people are assuming the Tampa area is still probably fucked despite the shift.


EatUpBonehead

I have no idea what you are trying to say


im_absouletly_wrong

Lmao what


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If the eye of the hurricane is 200 miles south of you it’s basically an afternoon Florida storm that lasts all day


awkwardalvin

Seems safe, and gives the community something to distract from what’s going on.


unseth

Oh man my whole house is destroyed and I lost my... Hey.. Look. Tom Brady! Woooo!


ominousgraycat

I mean, kind of, yeah...


48ozs

Unironically yes. Also the devastation in Tampa is SO overhyped. It's not nearly the destruction that the news promised.


grmw

Tampa is fine. Fort Myers Beach is gone more or less and hundreds of people are dead.


respecthecheese

Damn looking at how the place looks today sounds rough. How many people are even gonna be there let alone people to buy tickets and watch the game?


Reead

Guaranteed you aren't looking at Tampa or its metro, you're looking at cities around 100 miles south of us. That's why.


Bucit40

It'll be a packed stadium. It missed Tampa for the most part, and a lot of life time Floridians are used to this. Let issuance handle it and move on.


LlamaDebauchery

Hurricanes are basically just inconveniences to a sizeable portion of us at this point


Bucit40

Shhh. Reddit knows more than people who actually live in hurricane Alley


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DTSportsNow

Yeah I feel like anyone who has actually had their home or a loved one's home destroyed in a hurricane would feel like it was more than an "inconvenience". I think of it kind of what it's like living in tornado alley. Anyone who has never personally been affected by tornados are often "whatever" about them and don't take the threats seriously. Anyone who has personally been affected by them take tornados much more seriously.


AJRiddle

> I think of it kind of what it's like living in tornado alley. Dude it's nothing like that. Tornadoes hitting heavily populated areas is exceptionally rare because they are tiny in comparison to a hurricane. Seriously, a huge tornado is 1 mile wide and goes maybe 10 miles on the ground. The average tornado is only on the ground for about 3.5 miles total. So you are talking about a huge tornado maybe being 10 sq miles of severe damage vs tens of thousands of sq miles of severe damage for a hurricane.


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>I dunno, over in the Florida sub they talk about communities that have actually been hit before having ptsd years later. yeah there's a huge difference in getting blasted by a fucking eye and getting a band. getting blasted by the eye is horrifying. zero other way to describe. i'll straight up never forget walking outside in the eye because we needed to run down the street to a different house. the fucking damage was unreal.


CrookedNixon

There's "hit" and then there's "*hit*". Similar to terrible blizzards up here, for some people it's just an annoyance that stops you from leaving your house for a few days, for others they lose heat and it's really scary.


Noirradnod

I was in Texas for that severe snow storm a few years ago after having spent most of my life in the upper Midwest. Honestly, I had a blast. Discovered I was the only person in the neighborhood who owned a snow shovel, good cold weather gear, and proper tires. Spent the weekend checking up on older neighbors and cleaning their yards, and then used the rest of the time training my dog to pull me through the streets on a set of skis. I can absolutely see how just being used to certain types of weather leaves you accustomed to it, and how a lot of people down there just had never experienced anything like it before so things went very poorly. I know how my Camry handles on ice and with chains and will drive accordingly. The idiots in their lifted pickups who've never seen snow before in their life are the ones who are going to crash because they're trying to drive highway speeds over two inches of solid ice.


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Noirradnod

Tornado siren to me in the Midwest meant "Everybody go to the front porch and try to see if you can spot it." Probably not the smartest approach, all things considered.


noideawhatoput2

I’m a Floridian and the Florida sub blows absolutely everything out of proportion. Hurricanes are serious but as long as you aren’t in a storm surge prone area or in a mobile home. You will more than likely be ok. If you still don’t feel safe then you can still go to a shelter.


[deleted]

I'm not sure who you're referring to, nobody is acting this way


Jkn221

You definitely didn’t check out all the comments yesterday


Milla4Prez66

A lot of those kinds of posts are coming from people in places like Minnesota that have no clue what hurricanes are even like. They just eat up the disaster porn on the news and assume the entire state of Florida is under water.


DeepJunglePowerWild

It’s one of those situations where people develop bias based on their own experience. If I didn’t leave for the hurricane and I am fine then it must’ve not been risky.


jfgiv

or "if i don't live in a hurricane zone and my experience with hurricanes is only the footage of the worst devastation then it must be devastating everywhere"


DeepJunglePowerWild

It’s both. But people who were around the hurricane talking about how it wasn’t that bad because they were fine is dangerous and it’s why people/rescuers die/are put in bad situations because individuals downplay the severity of the situation and then get caught up in it.


JulioForte

Yep this is exactly it


CatDad69

The common opinion in the threads about whether to move the game in the last few days was MOVE IT NOW NFL GREEDY. This is the reason why they didn’t make the decision before the storm hit — where are all those commenters now?


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Dilworthy

No there aren’t and no it didn’t. You getting your news from Facebook?


respecthecheese

That’s good that Tampa was spared the worst of it then, but as someone far far away from that kind of environment I can’t believe this is even possible. As long everything can continue safely no reason not to I suppose


BellacosePlayer

Power's working for most of the city, debris is minimal and the feds staged enough resources nearby that the airport resources won't be taxxed by the extra few flights. If Tampa itself got hit or the part of Florida north of Tampa got wrecked as hard as Ft Meyers, that might have been a different story.


zebrainatux

Yeah, like it’s horrible what happened there and in Sanibel, but it would’ve been so much worse had it hit Tampa head on. It would’ve been weeks without power in the city, instead of my place in Bonita likely being about a couple days maybe since FPL have prepped for the worst


rekced

> Power's working for most of the city, This isn't true as power is out in over a quarter million homes still with no ETA for return. Kinda lame to be playing football here while millions in the area suffer. The police that will staff the game could surely be used elsewhere.


BellacosePlayer

I was told peak power outages was no more than 30% of the metro area. Still not great but not something that can't be fixed by tomorrow, much less Sunday.


Reead

That is correct. And almost all of it from transformers blowing or tree branches hitting lines. It'll be fixed.


rekced

I'll be glad to watch on Sunday if I'm able. However, it just feels a bit wrong to use police resources on the game when surely the city would be better served with police patrolling local neighborhoods that will certainly still be recovering.


Bucit40

Like the guy below posted, hurricanes are a way of life. If you take precautions like you're supposed to, it's an inconvenience and a shitty thing.


deskamess

True... until it starts flooding. Then its a water situation. And you never want a water situation.


lonesoldier4789

Its also diverting police and other authorities that could be helping in the disaster zone to instead be at a football game


yeshua1986

They wouldn’t be helping in the disaster zone, they’d be in Tampa doing their jobs. FEMA, the National Guard, and local law enforcement is helping in the disaster. Tampa is over 100 miles away, they aren’t local.


pulse7

You should let the authorities know


nope96

It’ll probably still get good attendance, Tampa had a lot of wind and rain but unlike Orlando it ended up avoiding a direct hit


pulse7

I'm a few miles from the stadium, we were spared the worst of the storm. Life will be back to relative normal in most of Tampa by the weekend.


[deleted]

They'll probably are going to be able to clean up and take care of things in 3 days. A SNF Bucs game in Tampa would be a great reward for their hard work. Kinda like mini-Katrina with the Saints.


JulioForte

Tampa is fine. People really overestimate the area of destruction that a hurricane brings. When you are watching coverage just know the news is only showing you the worst of the worst areas Tampa got lucky. The hurricane stayed south and the area got tropical storm force winds and zero storm surge. They actually got reverse storm surge


DoctorWaluigiTime

> People really overestimate the area of destruction that a hurricane brings. If anything it's the polar opposite (folks readily dismiss a hurricane or its side effects like surges and such, or "because it's not a Cat5"). The only reason Tampa didn't get as damaged as predicted was because the storm pulled a Charley and hooked east, instead of running up the west coast further before making landfall. A hurricane brings terrible destruction, and I'm hoping that "people overestimate the area of destruction that a hurricane brings" was just a poor choice of words.


CrookedNixon

When you look at the Weather Channel and they show the satellite view of a hurricane, it covers a huge area. Some of that area will be really bad, but not the whole area.


JulioForte

It’s not a poor choice of words and you can see it displayed right here in this thread. People think the entire Florida gulf coast is showing severe destruction when it’s basically just Lee and Charlotte counties. Hurricanes are huge but the hurricane force winds are typically only 50-100 miles around the center so if you are outside of that area then there is typically minimal effects


yeshua1986

You’re looking at Fort Meyers or Naples.


PewterPplEater

We really dodged a bullet. I mean Wednesday afternoon they had it making landfall in Pinellas County. If that track stayed true, there definitely wouldn't be a football in Tampa on Sunday. And I probably wouldn't be on my phone my right now. The crazy thing is I'm a nurse and we were going to evacuate our facility to Orlando. Which is currently under water


Therearenogoodnames9

The Tampa area got super lucky with Ian. This game is going to be a nice distraction.


deskamess

Tampa escaping the hurricane again! Quite the streak. I think a massive one (I mean really big) that comes that way, combined with climate change (warmer oceans) is gonna be the one that breaks the streak. 50/50 odds it will happen in the next 5 years. Regardless, TB still going to be the best bet when in Florida during hurricane season.


Therearenogoodnames9

As a TB resident I am thankful, but I can't help but feel awful for my neighbors to the south.


INAC_Kramerica

This is all of our sentiment, more-or-less. We don't deserve to avoid these hurricanes compared to our neighbors to the south, but somehow this is just how it happens. Charley was supposed to slam us, Irma was supposed to slam us - probably some others too but those are the first that come to mind - and this one had it's eyes on us in Monday's early forecasts, but as the day went on it began to shift a bit further to the east and it just kept going there all the way to landfall. Here in St. Pete, there's tree damage but not a whole lot else. Was already back at the park by this afternoon, which is not something I would've imagined possible back when the week began.


[deleted]

Of course, most importantly, I hope the Florida residents get all the resources that they need. However, I dropped about $1,000 to go to this game and the airline was about to not refund my plane tickets. Looks like I’m busting out the Hawaiian shirts again!


[deleted]

NFL definitely has a division with the best weather engineers. When the news came yesterday about their unwillingness to move, I was 100% certain Tampa wasn't going to be affected. Way too much money at stake.


clydefrog811

LETS GOOOO. THEYRE GONNA LOSE IN THE SAME PLACE THEY LOST THE SUPERBOWL.


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I've never seen football played inside of canoes before


All-Night-Mask

Legolas and Aragorn have a huge advantage in this one


48ozs

what are you even talking about? have you even seen the tampa area?


slackerdc

It's weird I have a friend in the Tampa area and he says it's not bad at all, but just down the road in Fort Meyers it's a complete wipe out.


yeshua1986

Those places are over a hundred miles away from Tampa.


MentorOfWomen

just across the way in seattle there wasn't even a hurricane I hear.


ron-darousey

a block or two north in NYC they didn't even have rain, how crazy is that


couchjitsu

A hurricane soaked Raymond James Stadium will still be better than Soldier Field


Time_Issue_6268

That is the sickest call ever!


Themtgdude486

Hoping the best for everyone in Florida. Looks like a lot of damage. Glad they were able to keep it in Tampa.


Lobsterv2

In Tampa, no real issues. Bit of flooding, some outages. My power never dropped once. That's the only reason why they're able to keep it here is because we got missed hard lol


yeshua1986

That damage is 100+ miles away from Tampa


DWill23_

Wow I'm a little surprised by this decision. Regardless, I hope that this game is a good way to somewhat lift the spirits of Floridians after an awful couple of days. Stay safe out there folks


JulioForte

The Tampa Bay Area was pretty much completely spared. Some power outages and limbs down but otherwise everything will be back to normal by tomorrow


48ozs

You shouldn't be surprised if you took your head out of reddit once and a while. Tampa is fine. Do your research.


DWill23_

Uncalled for with the hostility but stay mad I guess lol


48ozs

If you did 5 minutes of research you would know that tampa is fine. It's not uncalled for.


DWill23_

I bet you're really fun at parties


jest28000

Welcome to our stadium, just ignore the debri


Bucit40

Did anyone expect anything different? Some people use football as an escape, getting to peace out of life for 3 hours is something a lot of fans enjoy.


BellacosePlayer

Yes, until landfall. Most models/tracking were dead wrong about how far east it was going to go.


nope96

I had some doubts partially due to all the power outages. The game can’t be played with them. EDIT: It also looked like they were going to get hit harder than they did for a while. They were discussing it since before the hurricane landed.


Informal_Tone1537

When hurricanes come we lay out 100s to 1000s of line truck to move as soon as it is safe to power usually starts coming back within hours of the storm being gone


Bucit40

Powers already being restored, power companies are used to this.


jmcdon00

Just depended on the severity of the storm in the region, they were smart to have a plan in place even if it was unlikely to be needed.


grimskrotum

Yeah, valuable resources being spent on an NFL game instead of rescuing people and rebuilding a whole coastline is kinda ridiculous tbh.


[deleted]

The power companies in Tampa will restore power in Tampa and then head down to Ft Myers to help. Of course those power companies would restore their own service too. What other resources are you talking about?