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If you read the back of your ticket, it says postponed or rescheduled events will not be refunded if you can't make it. Of course, that doesn't mean they can't decide to do a refund, discount, or whatever, to keep goodwill with the fans. I certainly would if I was the team. But not getting a refund is at least a possibility to be aware of.
Tomorrow they'll announce the game is being postponed at least until Monday.On Sunday, if Houston is o.k., the Ravens will fly in and play Monday night.
Me neither, but if you remember when the Browns rejoined the league in 1999 until 2002 when the Texans joined, there were three years where there was at least one team on a bye week each week of the season due to the uneven number of teams. So, week 2 has been done before. Like other posters have said, I bet it gets moved like the Chargers game was for the fires. (ETA: Or what was posted just above about the game moved to Monday as a possibility.)CrossEyed said:
8:30 EST.
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Just announced locally on the news8:30 EST7:30 CST for those of us in HoustonWe should have a good idea on Saturday PM whether the game will be played Monday. It will depend on power outages and flooding.
Sounds like a good solution. Hope Houston (and other affected areas) get through this with minimal damage. Been a loooooong time since I was in a hurricane and never one like this, but family in Florida and the south tell me it's about as crappy as I recall it to be.Best wishes to all affected.
Direct TV is not showing it?
Regional stations in Hou and Balt ( your local station on direct tv ) will show it. but just heard on a radio show that they announced it wouldn't be shown on the sunday ticket so anyone outside the local Bal/Hou area won't be seeing it. I know the Miami game a few years ago that was played on a saturday because of a hurricane wasn't shown ( to sunday ticket subscribers ) either.
Reliant Stadium has a retractable roof.
The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
Link??
No Link. Texans called and said it would be on local CBS and on ESPN2.Edit to add: Below is email to season ticket holders:
This is the correct answer.It even came up once when a game was moved to Friday night (KC/MIA IIRC).Weather will not be an issue. Flooding, wind damage and power outages across a broad region may be however.Personally, I think it is iffy on Monday even though Ike has enountered wind sheer and is now projected to be cat 2-3 at landfall.Cantore just said it will likely be the most wind damage in HOU since 1983 (Alica I think). Not that anyone knows for sure.playsccr said:
You could download the Miami game and watch on your computer, condensed to show from snap to the end of each play only. Wish I could do that with every game.Just throwing that out there.This is the correct answer.It even came up once when a game was moved to Friday night (KC/MIA IIRC).
BTW, the '83 storm was cat3 Alicia. At the time I lived north of Houston, 85 miles from the coast. The local airport observed sustained winds of 98 mph.Frankly, like you, I think Monday is iffy as well. The Texas-Arkansas game was rescheduled due to transportation, infrastructure, evacuee issues more than game weather issues, and Austin is 180 miles from the coast. My crew and I have also been out at the airport most of the day receiving medevac'd patients from the Houston and coastal areas, and we expect a (npi) deluge of them and other evacuees all night tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday. If these people are returning to Houston on Sunday and Monday, damaged or not, the traffic will likely be horrendous, making it very difficult at best to get to the game. At any rate, it's gonna be a crazy weekend. I don't foresee much sleep tonight.
I agree. NFL/Texans seems pretty clueless as to the potential seriousness of the storm. If they wanted to play this weekend they should have moved it out of the region. I expect hurricane force winds for 4-6 hours after landfall and up to a foot of rain in greater HOU. Nasty storm surge with this one due to its very large size though I dont know if that affects HOU very much. Would not care to be on Galveston Island for this one.
These are my thoughs as well. Eeven if there isn't a ton of damage or flooding out by the stadium, Houston still needs a good number of police and public safety people to be able to handle a large NFL crowd. Unless there's only minimal problems my guess is that these folks will have more pressing issues than making sure a football games goes off.I am trying to figure out what to do in the event the game doesn't happen. As commish it's a difficult situation to try and figure out how to handle an unexpected week 2 bye for 2 NFL teams and is compounded by the fact that we may not know about a Monday game until after Sunday games have started - any decision I make could be viewed as me trying to give my team an advantage. Anyone have thoughts on dealing with a worst case scenario - a late breaking week 2 bye for Houston and Baltimore?
I emailed my league letting them know that just such a scenario is possible and that they need to take that into accounts when making lineup decisions this week. If it gets canceled and you had Ray Rice in, sucks to be you, but you know it was coming.
Pretty much what I'm gonna do. Seems reasonable enough.
Yeah, that's basically what the commish of our league did.
I believe the hurricane is supposed to make landfall late tonight (early Saturday morning), and they should know by Sunday morning what type of damage they are looking at around the Houston area. If the game is rescheduled again, it could be announced before the games even start on Sunday afternoon.
I'm not convinced. The folks making these decisions seem to be overly optimistic at this point IMHO. It would not surprise me then that these same people wouldn't realize they had a problem until after the start of games on Sunday.
I posted a message in the leagues I commish saying that owners could start Texans/Ravens and if the game is not played this week, they could submit replacement players. The replacements must be chosen beforehand and emailed to me.
It is showing on my roster as ppd, also. I expect they'll just leave it like that until there is a firm date.
Stay safe there GB. This is not looking good for the area in general and hopefully the city and the league does the right thing if the damages are as bad as they appear to be. The early surge is looking quite nasty. A thank you and your crew for the efforts.
Same thing I just did.jeter23 said:
That's what I'm doing in the CHUG leagues.jeter23 said:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/foot...y.ap/index.html
Hey, thanks...it's what they pay me good money for, and we enjoy it!pacman_fl said:
If the game is not on Sunday DTV will not show it. It may be picked up by another channel (espn2), I am not sure of the legal side of it. I just hope I can see the real Monday night game Dallas/Philly cause I live in Maryland and I know the local channels in Baltimore will play the game Raven game. Dallas fan very worried I may get screwed.I really do not see this game being able to be played in a city that is evacuated and getting ready for a huge Hurricane. I doubt they play this game this weekend at all. I am thinking a bye week for the Raven and Houston.
