Word: weather
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps if the weather is bad enough to interfere with fans’ vision, it could become possible to confuse the two teams’ similar three-man rushing attacks...
...it’s a crummy day, it’s going to be a low-scoring game,” Murphy said. “Because both defenses are good, and if by weather or other ways, teams are forced to play one handed, you become predictable...
...Weather conditions can obviously change the game, but it’s not a disadvantage,” he said. “Both teams are forced to run. Both teams have to deal with the same adversity...
...three backs,” Murphy said. “So it doesn’t matter who’s in there, they can all carry the football. At least two of them have breakaway type of speed so there’s no question that if the weather gets bad, we’re going to have to keep those guys under wraps...
...deter a fringe element from testing some dubious designs of their own. Perhaps the most famous of these is the strange 1982 voyage of Larry Walters, known in the press as Lawn Chair Larry. On July 2, Walters, a truck driver from Long Beach, Calif., attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair, and with a bottle of soda, a CB radio and a BB gun, lifted off in the makeshift craft, dubbed Inspiration I. Airline pilots were stunned to see Walters float outside their windows, as the chair made it as high...