50-60mph winds tonight for playoffs

[Reffing Rev.]

Originally Posted by wisref2

This should be fun!!!! Crazy things on kick plays, no passing, throw the flag and have it blown back into your face. Be prepared for some wacky stories from Wisconsin tomorrow.

Wind might even blow a coach across the field or something.

[HLin NC]

Football....on Tuesday?????

[MNBlue]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

Football....on Tuesday?????

In MN, the first round of our section playoffs are on Tuesday and the semi-finals are on Saturday. Section finals are next week on Friday.

3 games in 10 days.

[Canned Heat]

Dark team won the toss and deferred last night. Light team chose to defend the South goal. When we tried to talk the spokesman into taking the ball, his exact words were; "I know...we'll be kicking both halves. We want to pin them with the wind." Had an almost constant 35+ wind out of the S-SW last night, the entire game.

The goal post uprights at this school are about 2" pipe and they were bent about 5 or 6 feet out of square from the wind. I can never remember working a game on a natural grass field where you had to stand over the ball to keep it from blowing away.

On a side note....the victorious team passed quite a bit, but every long pass over 25 yards in the air had absolutely no chance by either team last night.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Canned Heat

Dark team won the toss and deferred last night. Light team chose to defend the South goal. When we tried to talk the spokesman into taking the ball, his exact words were; "I know...we'll be kicking both halves. We want to pin them with the wind." Had an almost constant 35+ wind out of the S-SW last night, the entire game.

Now see, unless you're expecting the wind to shift or die down, there's no advantage to starting with the wind as there is with games where you don't change ends with the quarters.

[Robert Goodman]

One Sat. in the 1970s there was a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico that produced two 67-yard FGs (NCAA) and one 69-yarder (Abilene Christian, NAIA).

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Now see, unless you're expecting the wind to shift or die down, there's no advantage to starting with the wind as there is with games where you don't change ends with the quarters.

I don't understand why teams make such a big deal over which goal they defend. They are going to defend both of them for half the game so it shouldn't matter much.

[Rock Chalk]

Originally Posted by Cobra

I don't understand why teams make such a big deal over which goal they defend. They are going to defend both of them for half the game so it shouldn't matter much.

Easy answer. Momentum. Had a game last night where one team couldn't get the ball out of their end and because of the wind didn't punt the ball past the 35 yard line. They gave up 21 points in the quarter and none of the 3 scoring drives were longer than 35 yards. They didn't turn the ball over. They ended up losing by 21 points.

If a team can pin a team deep and score a few TD's while they have the wind at their advantage it can dictate the game.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Cobra

I don't understand why teams make such a big deal over which goal they defend. They are going to defend both of them for half the game so it shouldn't matter much.

There are more downs at the end of a half than at the end of the 1st or 3rd quarters. It makes sense to most teams to have the wind at one's back and/or be looking at the scoreboard to end a half.

[bkdow]

It was very memorable last night. I threw a sideline warning flag and my flag ended up at the base of the fence next to the bleachers about 20 yards away. The referee, Umpire and BJ kept losing their hats. We have 1 completed pass with about 7 attempted. All the punts were low line drives and the PAT's were interesting as well.

Our BJ almost got into the one deep pass play because the ball moved about 15 yards from Left to Right. Both teams were extremely competitive and very sportsmanlike. It was a fun game to do despite the weather!

[Canned Heat]

Forgot....also had a high kickoff by the home team that went about 25 yards and by the time it touched the ground, it was going backwards toward the kick-line. Receiving team backed up to block on the return and the ball ended up bouncing about 15 yards from the kick line...recovered by K.

Saw alot of crazy stuff last night.

[Rich]

Every kickoff with the wind at the kicker's back ended up going over my head (at the goal line). I saw a punt last night that started going way out of bounds and ended up being blown back to the middle of the field.

At least it didn't rain.

Weird, weird game. The visiting team got stopped 4th and goal about a foot short of the goal line. Later in the half they were driving and fumbled and the home team picked it up and went 85 yards the other way for a TD. Those 2 scores and the resulting scores the other way could've made it a very different game. It was 28-6 at the half.

The home team decided to stay in the locker room the second half and escaped by hanging on and scoring late. On a TD play we had sideline interference (5 yards) on the offense and a PF face mask on the defense. You should've heard the PA guy try to explain that one. Of course, I had to go over to the defense's sideline on that one to explain it to him.

I wore UA Cold Gear up top and on the bottom, an UA hood, and a pair of UA gloves. I looked like a walking billboard. With all that on, I was comfy. Of course, watching the highlights on TV, saw a lot of crews wearing striped coats. Could anything possibly look worse than a football official wearing a striped jacket to work a game?

[wisref2]

We had one punt caught by K 9 yards behind the LOS. But the kicker had the wind at his back!!!!! That was one play we never anticipated.

A few passes, but pretty much everything on the ground in a running clock game. So nothing spectacular - only two lost hats and it was the same guy.

I don't allow jackets - we wear black before the game but don't reverse them unless it's a downpour. I just wore three layers, no gloves, and actually worked up a bit of a sweat.

[Canned Heat]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Every kickoff with the wind at the kicker's back ended up going over my head (at the goal line). I saw a punt last night that started going way out of bounds and ended up being blown back to the middle of the field.

At least it didn't rain.

Weird, weird game. The visiting team got stopped 4th and goal about a foot short of the goal line. Later in the half they were driving and fumbled and the home team picked it up and went 85 yards the other way for a TD. Those 2 scores and the resulting scores the other way could've made it a very different game. It was 28-6 at the half.

The home team decided to stay in the locker room the second half and escaped by hanging on and scoring late. On a TD play we had sideline interference (5 yards) on the offense and a PF face mask on the defense. You should've heard the PA guy try to explain that one. Of course, I had to go over to the defense's sideline on that one to explain it to him.

I wore UA Cold Gear up top and on the bottom, an UA hood, and a pair of UA gloves. I looked like a walking billboard. With all that on, I was comfy. Of course, watching the highlights on TV, saw a lot of crews wearing striped coats. Could anything possibly look worse than a football official wearing a striped jacket to work a game?

We talked about that over a beer last night. You must've seen the Fox 6 Blitz. Did you notice a few guys had on a winter type head wrap over the ears..? Jeepers....what do they do when it actually gets cold out?
I've worn a jacket twice in all these years. Once in Port Washington when there was a 30 MPH wind coming off the lake...bringing the WC to about 20 degrees or less and a game in Hilbert...which was even colder. I had the same get-up as you, minus the head sleeve, and was actually quite comfy in Brown Deer.