Was that the game he watered down the field too?

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I believe that you may be thinking of the 1982 AFC Championship game, when the Miami Dolphins groundskeepers failed to supply a tarpaulin for a field that was already soaking wet from the previous day's rainstorm.



No Excuse for Missing Tarpaulin

(By Dave Anderson)

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/24/s...tarpaulin.html






Incidentally, earlier that same season the Dolphins were the victims in "The Snowplow Game", a contest in which the Patriots (in Foxborough) had a convict that was on work furlough quickly drive onto the field with his snowplow to clear a spot for Patriots placekicker John Smith, who attempted (and made) what proved to be the game-winning field goal.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJHdopdW0o





https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-LqckfI8yg8/hqdefault.jpg



o

No, he is referring to the time that BB thought it would be a good idea to slow down our speed by making the field soggy. It was not due to forgetting any tarp, but watered intentionally so as to make the ground soft and slow.

Manning was running the hurry up offense before all the rule changes made it easier to throw throw the ball.

And as mentioned, it wasn't really rule changes. They enforced the rules as they should have.

How many of those TD's came in that Thanksgiving game against Detroit?

Great memory that was.

And none of these guys doing it right now are of the caliber of Peyton Manning, yet they are still on pace for silly "Star Wars" numbers. It's almost as if there's a fundamental part of the game that has made it easier on QBs to put up huge stats.

How many times have you seen a running back penalized for leading with his helmet this year? All that really matters is whether or not a rule is enforced.

I shouldn't have referred to it as a "rules change," but that doesn't change my point that an NFL-mandated adjustment made it easier on the passing game, which has led to this inflation.

I am not arguing that the guys now have an easier time than Manning did.

I am arguing that Manning was the innovator that made the hurry up offense, with QBs calling the plays at the line of scrimmage and managing the game from the field, the standard that the high powered offenses use today. If Manning did not start doing it in 2001 or so, then Rodgers, Brees and even Brady and all the others would not be doing it today.

You seem to think it was the rule changes/emphasis on the rules, but that was in 2004 when those came along at the urging of Polian. And the rules on roughing the passer were emphasized after 2008.

Manning was creating and running the hurry up offense as we see in the league today before both those changes.

Again Jim Kelly and the Bills did it too some in the early 90s, but no one followed their lead and made it a trend.

o



I remember that it was snowing during the game.

I don't recall Belichick having the field watered down prior to the game.

Thanks in advance if you have any info/citations about that aspect/occurrence.



o

I think this is what he meant:


https://www.courant.com/news/connect...019-story.html