A Buffalo Payments fan didn’t wish to wait till Monday to unfold some cheer forward of his staff’s wild-card playoff recreation towards the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The fan was seen in a video at Highmark Stadium taking a break from shoveling the snow, taking his shirt off and sliding down the chute he was purported to be placing the snow in. The person’s fellow snow shovelers laughed as everybody went again to work.
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A doubtlessly harmful snowstorm that hit the Buffalo area on Saturday led the NFL to push again the Payments wild-card playoff recreation towards the Pittsburgh Steelers from Sunday to Monday. (AP Picture/ Jeffrey T. Barnes)
The Payments-Steelers recreation was set for Sunday afternoon, however it was pushed again to Monday due to the harmful snowy climate that got here via the realm. Payments followers had been requested to flock to Highmark Stadium to assist shovel the snow whereas being compensated about $20 per hour.
The storm was projected to dump 1 to three ft of snow over the weekend. Most of Erie County, New York, was beneath a journey ban till Monday morning. Steelers gamers arrived in New York on Sunday and began their prep work for the playoff recreation.
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Staff take away snow from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, Sunday Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Picture/ Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Eric Wooden, a former Payments middle, recalled to The Related Press his first time experiencing a harmful lake-effect storm in Buffalo. The storm occurred in November 2014.
Wooden was among the many Payments gamers caught within the Buffalo space and wanted to be transported to the staff’s facility by snowmobile earlier than being bused to the airport for Detroit as their recreation towards the New York Jets was moved to a impartial location.
“The whiteout circumstances are like nothing I had ever skilled,” Wooden informed the AP. “Till you expertise this snow and perceive its impact, it’s arduous to understand what can really occur in such a brief period of time, and sometimes with out discover.”
A shirtless Buffalo Payments fan delights his fellow snow-shovelers. (@mcalex112/WEATHER TRAKER /TMX)
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Buffalo’s recreation shall be performed at Highmark Stadium on Monday night.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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