New York Gov. Hochul says the Steelers-Bills game on Monday will not be rescheduled again, even though it is very cold outside.

New York Gov. Hochul says the Steelers-Bills game on Monday will not be rescheduled again, even though it is very cold outside.

The 2024 wild card round game between the Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers will happen on Monday, as planned, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Sunday.

Hochul said that Monday, the temperature would still be in the teens, but there would not be the strong winds and heavy snow that would put players and fans at risk.

“Good karma is playing at the bitter cold there in Buffalo, as well as that’s what we hope will happen tomorrow.” “All right, Bills,” Hochul said.

The NFL green card prize game was supposed to happen at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday, but it was moved to Saturday because of lake-effect snow and strong winds. Hochul also said that people in Buffalo’s Erie County would not be able to move.

As snow covered western New York on Saturday, it was almost impossible to see from the Bills’ Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park.

Before Monday’s game, the team even asked fans and people from the area to help shovel snow in the field for $20 an hour.

NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe reported on Sunday that the Pittsburgh Steelers have arrived in Buffalo, New York, for the delayed wild-card game against the Bills on Monday.

Mark Poloncarz, the executive director of Erie County, said on Sunday that the game on Monday would start at the new time of 4:30 p.m. ET. At a news conference on Sunday, Gov.

Kathy Hochul said Saturday and Sunday should be safer ways to get to and from the stadium on Monday, but the temperature during the contest will still be “very cold.”

According to Hochul, the weather will be very cold on Monday at game time. He said this at a news gathering on Sunday. “It will be in the teens, or the wind chill could drop as low as zero to nine degrees, which is still very cold.”

Based on what we know now, this will be without the wind, the snow, the bright light, and the dangerous traffic conditions for people going to or from the stadium.

That’s a much better situation than what we might have had today. Even though I don’t think it will be nice, the weather won’t be dangerous either.

Hochul lifted a travel ban on Sunday regarding the Northtowns area of Buffalo. The ban is still in place for the city as well as the Southtowns, which incorporates Orchard Park, N.Y., home of the Bills’ Highmark Stadium.

Because of bad weather in Western New York, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Saturday that the AFC wild-card game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Buffalo Bills will be moved to Monday at 4:30 p.m. ET. The game was supposed to happen on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. It will still be shown on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.

Hochul said on her official social media account that she had talked to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell “about the dangerous conditions within Buffalo this weekend.” He said that Western New York is in a state of emergency.

The storm is most likely to start around 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, which is when the game would end and everyone would be departing the stadium.

Hochul told a news gathering, “The storm’s center is going to hit the Southtowns, most likely Orchard Park, where 60,000 people will be traveling at that time.”

In Erie County, where the Buffalo Sabers play, there will be a movement ban “until further notice” starting Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. AccuWeather said that winds could hit almost 50 miles per hour and that it might snow seven inches or more.

Due to a lot of snow in the area, the Bills played a home game against the Cleveland Browns at Ford Field, which is home to the Detroit Lions.

Officials say that the main issue isn’t whether or not the game may be played. Going on trips would be risky for fans. Plows and police officers must be committed to responding to storms.

Buffalo’s mayor, Byron Brown, said that if the weather gets worse, the NFL could be asked to move the game again. In the past, lake-effect snow has made it hard to get to Bills games because it can fall feet deep in a short amount of time.