In the end, the decision to push back the Pittsburgh Steelers-Buffalo Bills Wild Card game isn’t much of a surprise. With a forecast looking increasingly worse with each update, the flexibility to push the game back 24 hours, and the interest in public safety, it’s almost shocking the NFL didn’t decide earlier than Saturday at noon.
From a third-party view, the decision is logical and not unprecedented. The NFL has moved games due to extreme weather before. Often, Pittsburgh’s been involved in them be it the 2016-2017 Divisional Game against Kansas City or the 2004 hurricane-impacted game against Miami, though those contests were moved to later in the day instead of the next one entirely.