2024 Outdoor Game at Metlife Stadium involving NJDevils/Philly Flyers

[Nubmer6]

A- I hate you for being young

B- political prisoners in third world wolrd countries have suffered less over the last thirty years than your family

C- did I mention I hate how young you are?

My favorite quote from a strange movie I watched called "The Straight Story" (great indie movie BTW):

"The worst part about being old is remembering when you were young"

 

[BringBackTheRats]

I've been to a bunch of Buffalo Bills games and our game at Yankee Stadium tops all of them on the coldness scale. I've never been to a snow game for the Bills though. For the last stadium series I went solo, froze my ass off, and my overpriced beer was freezing. I loved the experience, even with the asskicking.

I'm really curious how pricing will turn out for this though. I guess it's going to depend on how the teams are doing for initial pricing, but I feel like this is something I'm going to wait til the week of for the forecast. Either way, I'm definitely going. Tailgating at Metlife will be fun as hell, which wasn't really something you could do at Yankee Stadium.

 

[Guttersniped]

i like the idea of outdoor games but the yankee stadium game was so miserable from the cold to the delay to the outcome that i’m almost ok passing on this. will probably make a last minute decision when the weather forecast is clearer i have no idea how they’re going to fill the stadium for this

As much as I immediately associate the Meadowlands with freezing my ass off* at night, @Jack Be Quick is right that a day game in late February is very different. (I was basically ignoring the date lol.)

The Yankee Game was Jan 26. The coldest time of the year in this area is the end of January, that was a very tough set of dates for those games in 2014.

Honestly the biggest weather threat is freezing rain, which would be gross.

Here’s the weather deep dive everyone was dying for:

For comparison, the game in Yankee Stadium.

Spoiler: January 26, 2014, a day that will in infamy

Spoiler: Average Temp & precipitation

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Spoiler: Weather history via Teterboro Airport

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<edited> it rained all morning this goes on forever

* 1) I’ve only been to MetLife stadium once and the old screaming wind tunnel Giants Stadium way more. 2) I froze to death in the icy winds outside the old Meadowlands Arena a lot growing up and as an adult. No, the pretzels outside the metal walking bridge didn’t make up for the occasional borderline hypothermia.

 

[Call Me Al]

haven’t thought about the aspect of watching the devils play again at the meadowlands complex and that’s a nice experience

 

[Emperoreddy]

I went to the Leafs vs. Red Wings outdoor game way back when. Cool experience but possibly the coldest day ever though and it was miserable. Especially not being a fan of either team I didn't even care about the game.

Anyway, I'm sure it's awesome for the players lol

I don't think I've ever been as cold as I was at Yankee stadium that year.

 

[My3Sons]

I don't think I've ever been as cold as I was at Yankee stadium that year.

You obviously weren’t at Giants Stadium in December of 1989 or 1990 when the Giants played the Lions and not only was it brutally cold but the Giants ran Joe Morris about 100 times for about three yards per carry all game.

 

[Guttersniped]

You obviously weren’t at Giants Stadium in December of 1989 or 1990 when the Giants played the Lions and not only was it brutally cold but the Giants ran Joe Morris about 100 times for about three yards per carry all game.

That NFC Championship game was famously windy! Look it up! The Skins were a passing team that season, which is why they ended up with zero points.

My Dad grew up in DC, we were there to see the losers get curb-stomped in NASA’s super sonic wind tunnel.

Which is why, while carrying a Washington blanket on a trip to the ladies room, my mom and I (when I was in junior high) got ice balls thrown at us while being called hogs, which was nice. (This was half time, when the score was already 0-17, and Giants were dominating in every way.)

A nice Giants fan did eventually walk us back to our seats while apologizing for the behavior of his fellow fans.

That game can’t have been remotely been close to the coldest one, there has to be some subzero ones, but god have mercy on the souls of anyone who went to one of those in the old Giants stadium.

My point was the Meadowlands is colder and windier than Bronx because there’s no almost no people, buildings or trees anywhere near the godforsaken chemical wasteland/ landfill/ wetlands it’s built on to blunt the icy winds. And cities are warmer.

I wasn’t actually trying to have a suffering contest. People can have been colder then I ever was. (And maybe MetLife does a better job of keeping people warm. I’ve been to one miserable Jets game there and I only remember how it took approximately 2-3 days to park the car and get to the game.)

And I looked it up myself. See I’m not crazy (in this particular instance)! What a miserable night.

Giants Bad Weather Games

We take a look back at some the most famous bad weather games the Giants have played in during their history

www.giants.com

 

[Bleedred]

I always assumed MetLife (as well as Giants Stadium) may keep the nasty winds out better than Yankee Stadium, just due to the shape of both buildings. Both the stadiums in the Meadowlands were round and had no openings in the corners like the ball fields do in the outfields.

But I don't know much about that type of thing.

Just an assumption, which very well may make an ass out of you and me.

 

[RyGuy]

Call me optimistic. But I feel like tickets won’t be bad given the 80,000 capacity and the opponent.

As a season ticket holder, I’m curious what the Devils will charge us as well.


Fun fact. I stepped in a salty ice puddle near yankee stadium, drank a lot of rum beforehand so I didn’t even know I walked into a puddle. When I got home I realized I had the onset of frost bite on my foot LOL. What a cold long day it was. So what I am saying, don’t let that SOMETHING be frost bite.

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I had double wool socks on and about 20 hot hands warmer jammed into all of my extremital areas and still couldnt feel my feet and hands for most of that game. And I do polar bear plunges. It was brutal. I actually believe I also had onset frost bite.

 

[JrFischer54]

You're a smart guy so I won't ask if you understand what's happening with the climate, but it was well into the 40's, 50's and occasionally 60's for much of this past February.

So I wouldn't worry too much about the weather if I were a person who was so inclined to go.

That Yankee Stadium game though? Quite possibly the coldest shit I've ever done sans being at 4k ft in Vermont in February. This is coming from a guy who's been to >100 football games there.

I looked it was 24ish for yankee stadium date. Same date this year it was 45ish coming down from a high overnight in the middle 50s! The nhl would be wise to have both these games start when the sun goes down.

 

[JrFischer54]

Both games will sell out. All the teams are relatively close and the NHL holds back tickets for sponsors, most of which are HQ out of the NY area.

I agree the game will “sell out” so it doesn’t look bad. But actual in game showing up? Noway will it be packed. They really need to be cheap on these tickets but they won’t.

Being the team is the flyers Rutgers stadium makes so much more sense

Nhl will be praying for a snow storm to give cover of empties

 

[JrFischer54]

haven’t thought about the aspect of watching the devils play again at the meadowlands complex and that’s a nice experience

I always said they should do a game at continental before it’s gone. Preseason if it makes it better. So many memories

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Tailgating at Metlife will be fun as hell

I went to 4 games this year during the first round including game 6 at the toilet and witnessed enough fights, cops, and general shitbaggery to last me for a while.

There's absolutely no chance this begins or ends well with flyers fans invading the Meadowlands. Toss in tailgating and I'd rather have a lawn chair during the next Jan 6th.

I genuinely believe the NHL would benefit greatly by taking a page out of European soccer playbooks. Separate these fans at all costs.

I'm also older now. I'm not proud of any of this but when I was in my 20's I may or may not have hit a dolphins fan in the face with a bottle underneath the cattle crossing. I also may or may not have jumped a rags fan in a handicap stall at Brendan Byrne. I'm pretty sure the fighting an off duty cop at Shea thing is expunged so that's cool.

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

f*** going to these games and I fully understand why it's roughly to 30% rags fans half the time. Because it's just not worth dealing with the savagery.

 

[My3Sons]

I went to 4 games this year during the first round including game 6 at the toilet and witnessed enough fights, cops, and general shitbaggery to last me for a while.

There's absolutely no chance this begins or ends well with flyers fans invading the Meadowlands. Toss in tailgating and I'd rather have a lawn chair during the next Jan 6th.

I genuinely believe the NHL would benefit greatly by taking a page out of European soccer playbooks. Separate these fans at all costs.

I'm also older now. I'm not proud of any of this but when I was in my 20's I may or may not have hit a dolphins fan in the face with a bottle underneath the cattle crossing. I also may or may not have jumped a rags fan in a handicap stall at Brendan Byrne. I'm pretty sure the fighting an off duty cop at Shea thing is expunged so that's cool.

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

f*** going to these games and I fully understand why it's roughly to 30% rags fans half the time. Because it's just not worth dealing with the savagery.

Wait, you aren’t young? Make up your mind so I can know whether to tell you to get off my lawn.

 

[Jersey Guy]

I went to 4 games this year during the first round including game 6 at the toilet and witnessed enough fights, cops, and general shitbaggery to last me for a while.

There's absolutely no chance this begins or ends well with flyers fans invading the Meadowlands. Toss in tailgating and I'd rather have a lawn chair during the next Jan 6th.

I genuinely believe the NHL would benefit greatly by taking a page out of European soccer playbooks. Separate these fans at all costs.

I'm also older now. I'm not proud of any of this but when I was in my 20's I may or may not have hit a dolphins fan in the face with a bottle underneath the cattle crossing. I also may or may not have jumped a rags fan in a handicap stall at Brendan Byrne. I'm pretty sure the fighting an off duty cop at Shea thing is expunged so that's cool.

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

f*** going to these games and I fully understand why it's roughly to 30% rags fans half the time. Because it's just not worth dealing with the savagery.

I always refer to the Rags home arena as Madison Square Garbage Dump. The Devils are playing the Bleeping Flyers at the Metlife Stadium outdoor game. But it does not matter whether its the Rags or the Bleeping Flyers since the fanbase of these 2 teams stink like a dead skunk. P.U.

 

[Guttersniped]

I went to 4 games this year during the first round including game 6 at the toilet and witnessed enough fights, cops, and general shitbaggery to last me for a while.

There's absolutely no chance this begins or ends well with flyers fans invading the Meadowlands. Toss in tailgating and I'd rather have a lawn chair during the next Jan 6th.

I genuinely believe the NHL would benefit greatly by taking a page out of European soccer playbooks. Separate these fans at all costs.

I'm also older now. I'm not proud of any of this but when I was in my 20's I may or may not have hit a dolphins fan in the face with a bottle underneath the cattle crossing. I also may or may not have jumped a rags fan in a handicap stall at Brendan Byrne. I'm pretty sure the fighting an off duty cop at Shea thing is expunged so that's cool.

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

f*** going to these games and I fully understand why it's roughly to 30% rags fans half the time. Because it's just not worth dealing with the savagery.

Are you talking about Devils games? How many fights in person (not on the internet) did you see?

Man the upper bowl must be wild because I don’t know anyone else who described the games as filled with “savagery”. (Yes, I saw the the video of the shit who sucker punched the Woo Crew guy.)

 

[BringBackTheRats]

I went to 4 games this year during the first round including game 6 at the toilet and witnessed enough fights, cops, and general shitbaggery to last me for a while.

There's absolutely no chance this begins or ends well with flyers fans invading the Meadowlands. Toss in tailgating and I'd rather have a lawn chair during the next Jan 6th.

I genuinely believe the NHL would benefit greatly by taking a page out of European soccer playbooks. Separate these fans at all costs.

I'm also older now. I'm not proud of any of this but when I was in my 20's I may or may not have hit a dolphins fan in the face with a bottle underneath the cattle crossing. I also may or may not have jumped a rags fan in a handicap stall at Brendan Byrne. I'm pretty sure the fighting an off duty cop at Shea thing is expunged so that's cool.

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

f*** going to these games and I fully understand why it's roughly to 30% rags fans half the time. Because it's just not worth dealing with the savagery.

I've been to so many rivalry games with no issues for both hockey and football that none of this shit concerns because it's almost always not a random act. I've never in my life gone around looking for trouble at a sporting event.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Wait, you aren’t young? Make up your mind so I can know whether to tell you to get off my lawn.

41, lol.

So the only reason I'd be on your lawn is if you invited me to a bbq.

Having been 5 in '87 precluded me from being at that cold ass game @Guttersniped was talking about.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

I've been to so many rivalry games with no issues for both hockey and football that none of this shit concerns because it's almost always not a random act. I've never in my life gone around looking for trouble at a sporting event.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.1

I've been called worse by better people.

Not once can I recall me starting trouble at the 1k+ number of concerts and and sporting events I've attended, but I've finished it. I'm guessing you've been to a fraction of that amount. When people put hands on those that matter to you you stand up unless you're physically incapable (child, tiny guy without a weapon, female, etc). Game 6 at the toilet? I just ignored the human garbage sitting in front of me because he wasn't physically threatening me, and let security deal with him.

But in every situation I was referring to it's called standing up for people that matter when you're capable of doing so. Aka the right thing to do.

It made me sick watching a Devils employee getting sucker punched in our own house with a grip of our fans just spectating. f***ing cowards.

I'm no tough guy for the record, but if you don't know how to I recommend everyone should at least attempt to learn self-defense. Matter of fact I'd say if someone is a grown ass man who's experienced what I have and never been in a physical confrontation they're probably bitch made.

I earned most of my scars through virtue and I'd bet not one person - friend or foe - would besmirch me in regards to the discussion at hand.

Perhaps you should consider either leading a more interesting life or exiting discussions in which you know absolutely nothing about. Mr. I've been to sooooo many rivalry games yet you've never seen violence at giants eagles or Jets pats games. Right.

I could get into Yankees/Red Sox but idgf about either and am sure you and others would be contrarian just for the sake of it and/or ignorant anyway.

 

[My3Sons]

I've been called worse by better people.

Not once can I recall me starting trouble at the 1k+ number of concerts and and sporting events I've attended, but I've finished it. I'm guessing you've been to a fraction of that amount. When people put hands on those that matter to you you stand up unless you're physically incapable (child, tiny guy without a weapon, female, etc). Game 6 at the toilet? I just ignored the human garbage sitting in front of me because he wasn't physically threatening me, and let security deal with him.

But in every situation I was referring to it's called standing up for people that matter when you're capable of doing so. Aka the right thing to do.

It made me sick watching a Devils employee getting sucker punched in our own house with a grip of our fans just spectating. f***ing cowards.

I'm no tough guy for the record, but if you don't know how to I recommend everyone should at least attempt to learn self-defense. Matter of fact I'd say if you're a grown ass man who's been where I have and have never been in a physical confrontation you're probably bitch made.

My wife was a DA for a number of years in Brooklyn. You are very lucky you weren’t killed at some point if you’ve engaged in multiple fights with strangers.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

My wife was a DA for a number of years in Brooklyn. You are very lucky you weren’t killed at some point if you’ve engaged in multiple fights with strangers.

I concur.

Especially considering that most of my career was spent in NYC nightlife.

Then again, like I said, learn a few things and don't roll with people who don't have your back was mantra when I was younger.

I walk away from words, no matter what's being said these days. Once hands are involved all bets are off. This is pretty standard stuff.

And don't you live in Texas? Where everyone is strapped?

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Are you talking about Devils games? How many fights in person (not on the internet) did you see?

Man the upper bowl must be wild because I don’t know anyone else who described the games as filled with “savagery”. (Yes, I saw the the video of the shit who sucker punched the Woo Crew guy.)

Lower bowl season ticket holder for 5 years ty very much. Sans game 7 (100's) I haven't sat upstairs in probably over a decade actually.

Though a classist jab isn't a good look and I know you know better.

Hundreds of games over roughly 30 years. You're aware you can see them from your seat in other sections and plenty occur in the concourse, outside, and in the bathrooms right? So yes, I've witnessed it and also know a few people who have been either escorted out, to other sections, or cuffed.

Did you not notice the police presence in the arena during the first round? I believe you said you went to games.

And Brendan Byrne? Forget about it. That jumping in the stall I referred to earlier was well earned. Don't urinate on people.

I was also in the restroom when the stabbing occurred at that Jets game in Giants Stadium.

Do you sit under a blanket in the box seats when you attend games? A bitch almost threw a drink at me during game 1 in the concourse with no dialogue between myself or anyone else just because she was so f***ed up and angry that she couldn't see that I was wearing a Devils hat.

Matter of fact, I'll probably never forget as long as I live security rushing by me during game 1 with one of them yelling "another fight, f***, another fight! Get someone!" Section 16 btw, since that apparently matters to you. It ended with Newark PD mobbing a rags fan in the concourse.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Point being, I don't want to be around people that act the way I did when I was 21. And what I saw during this postseason was grown men well into their 40's behaving in that manner along with the standard young shit heads.

I mean, one of our own hype men who is employed by the Devils got knocked out by a rags fan. Another Devils fan choked unconscious by a rags fan. Both at the rock. That's just a taste of what you can find on YouTube and sadly comparable to what what I experienced in person.

That woo crew member wasn't knocked out and the Devils fan who got choked out smacked the rangers fans beer out of his hand first and was looking for a fight and got what he wanted.

For a different experience everyone near me was absolutely fine and I was surprised by it, no fights, barely any banter but I also had mainly Devils fans near me.

Flyers fans have been tame for like a decade now. Even with tailgating it's not gonna be bad for a regular season game.

 

[Guttersniped]

Lower bowl season ticket holder for 5 years ty very much. Sans game 7 (100's) I haven't sat upstairs in probably over a decade actually.

Though a classist jab isn't a good look and I know you know better.

Hundreds of games over roughly 30 years. You're aware you can see them from your seat in other sections and plenty occur in the concourse, outside, and in the bathrooms right? So yes, I've witnessed it and also know a few people who have been either escorted out, to other sections, or cuffed.

Did you not notice the police presence in the arena during the first round? I believe you said you went to games.

And Brendan Byrne? Forget about it. That jumping in the stall I referred to earlier was well earned. Don't urinate on people.

I was also in the restroom when the stabbing occurred at that Jets game in Giants Stadium.

Do you sit under a blanket in the box seats when you attend games? A bitch almost threw a drink at me during game 1 in the concourse with no dialogue between myself or anyone else just because she was so f***ed up and angry that she couldn't see that I was wearing a Devils hat.

Matter of fact, I'll probably never forget as long as I live security rushing by me during game 1 with one of them yelling "another fight, f***, another fight! Get someone!" Section 16 btw, since that apparently matters to you. It ended with Newark PD mobbing a rags fan in the concourse.

Ok dude, if you found my reference to the upper bowl “classist” then I guess you don’t know enough people with a sense of humor that make fun of the stuffed shirt vibe that’s more prevalent in the lower bowl.

My family have been season ticket holders since 1982. I’ve been to hundreds of Devils games in both Arenas too.

I simply asked a question. No I didn’t see the fight in section 16.

I don’t find the vibe that bad/apocalyptic and I took the PATH train back to NYC with Rangers fans after every game.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Ok dude, if you found my reference to the upper bowl “classist” then I guess you don’t know enough people with a sense of humor that make fun of the stuffed shirt vibe that’s more prevalent in the lower bowl.

My family have been season ticket holders since 1982. I’ve been to hundreds of Devils games in both Arenas too.

I simply asked a question. No I didn’t see the fight in section 16.

I don’t find the vibe that bad/apocalyptic and I took the PATH train back to NYC with Rangers fans after every game.

Tons of "stuffed shirts" in the lower bowl at the rock. #rolleyes

You addressed next to none of my points but I do agree that the path ride back is generally fine. NJT going in the opposite direction? Not so much.

I relayed my anecdotal experiences, that's all. If you or anyone else have managed to avoid the trash then good for you. Seriously.

It's just not my lived experience.