You can't get the game through NFL Sunday Ticket? Does that mean its only being shown in the Tennessee and Miami markets? What are you paying DirectTV for anyway, then?

Weather and humidity, yes. Fans? Not so sure. There is a lot more interesting things to do, it seems, in the South Beach area than watch football.

Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong. But whenever I see Miami at home on TV, the fans seem alot like Atlanta Brave fans.

Oh, well. I've been beaten down enough on this topic . . . http://www.sports-boards.net/forums/...ilies/wink.png

Ok, AJmyboy, apparently Im way, way off base on the Miami fan base.

Not the first time I've been wrong, nor the last.

I know Im pretty upset about it, I wanted to see the game, I cannot even get it with the ticket, what a load of crap.

It wont hit until Monday if at all.

That gives a full day of preperation.

What do you expect to happen? They going to cancell the game altogether? move it til next sunday and play a double header?

you have to do this

How is playing on Saturday playing in the face of a hurricane when the hurricane is not supposed to hit Florida until Monday. The hurricane will be two days away, so how is that sending the wrong message. I for one think it was a good idea to keep the game in Maimi. Atleast for three and a half hours they can yell scream and root for their football team, instead of get prepared for the possibility of a third hurricane hitting their state.

Sometimes you need to get away. And I think atleast for some people this football game is just the medicine they need. Hell, there have been games played in the middle of a snow storms. Those people were in more danger coming to and leaving those games than the fans that go to the Maimi game will be in. Remember the hurricane will be two days away when they play the game.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you know much about the dolphins? obviously not.

Take a look at our Home record every year.....we dont have a homefield advantage? how about 100 degree heat blasting on to you while the dolphins sit pretty because we practice in it everyday.

The NFL might have been better served to move the game to a different location, like they did with the Monday Night game that they moved from San Diego to Phoenix last season, to keep away from the threat of wildfires. But, then again, I am neither Tags, nor Wayne Huizenga, who would stand to lose the most from the game not being in Miami.

Not to mention the ticket sales, parking, concessions, etc. Let's not be naive here, the NFL is a business. The Dolphins don't want to lose all that, either.

So let me get this straight. The NFL, which really doesn't make a lot of money [sarcasm], would rather play a game in the face of a hurricane than opt for a different solution?

Yeah, lets not send wrong message here [sarcasm].

WHAT homefield advantage will the Dolphins even have if the stadium is half full? And quite, frankly, the Dolphins dont have much of a homefield advantage under normal conditions. And if it is $ that is more of a concern, well I'm going to assume that the tickets are already bought and paid for (and have been earning interest, anyways) and that the amount of $ the Dolphins would have lost, could in someway, be reimbursed by the NFL. Which in turn might even fall under the auspices of an insurance claim or something.

The NFL, which in terms of public relations lately, hasn't looked all that good in terms of being in the news with some of its players off-field legal situations. This solution, IMO, just seems a little . . . hastily thought out, that is all.

A home team doesn't wanna see that happen if they can help it. They'd lose almost all the home-team advantage.

What is the use?
 

Even with moving the game between the Titans and the Dolphins to Saturday, are there going to be 70000 people who might take a precious 5 or 6 hours of drive time, preparation time or whatever to watch a football game?

And if South Florida is in the path of Ivan, or even if it isn't for that matter, just what message exactly is the NFL trying to send?

"DON'T WORRY BOUT THAT HURRICANE THAT IS LESS THAN A DAY AWAY!!!! COME ON IN, DROP ALL THAT YOU'RE WORRYING ABOUT AND COME SEE A GAME!!!"

And seriously, who is going to show up if South Florida is projected as the track of this storm?

like they didnt discuss moving the game. duh. the NFL brass and the two teams met for almost 24 hours over this. if they had moved the game, the dolphins would not have been able to get back to south florida until midweek at best. thats why they didnt move it.