Patriots control the weather

[BigPharma]

I might have been mistaken but I thought I was watching a football game last night and not the new box office smash hit Geostorm.

Julio Jones: 'Crazy' That Patriots Shot Off Fireworks Despite Foggy Conditions

"“It didn’t affect me, but it’s crazy though, like, they score and they shoot fireworks off and then it sits high, kind of in the stadium,” receiver Julio Jones said. “So it’s kind of hard, like, if you do get behind, like how can you throw deep balls and things like that, because it’s foggy?”"

He followed it up:
“I mean, it didn’t affect us at all though,” Jones said. “They were just the better team tonight.”

 

[bormio]

The new fog machine worked well last night - wait till you see the new snow machine.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

The "I mean it didn't affect us at all though and they were the better team" thing had me actually laughing out loud. It's like when a person lets everything air out angrily at you, gets it all off their chest about how much of a POS you are and then follows it up with "Nah just kidding lol"

 

[maineman209]

Well, the localized atmospheric conditions that often keep the smoke from a controlled burn pile hovering near the ground as a blanket of haze are the same conditions that often keep water-vapor fog hovering near the ground. Smoke from fireworks, musket fire, etc. would have combined with the fog and made it just that much thicker and more reflective.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

Can bill bring the fog machine on the road? Would be nice.

 

[Wordsmyth]

We're onto condensation.

 

[Franchise12]

Another reason why most dome teams are punanny.

 

[Koma]

Fog occurs naturally? You rubes will fall for anything. Next you're going to tell me that temperature changes affect PSI.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

 

[Kontradiction]

 

[JMC00]

"Pats clearly trying to convince people they didn't cheat again"

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Weather control, check! Radio wave disruption, check! Physical gas laws suspended, check! Hidden cameras placed in deviously conspicuously plain view to secretly record their every move, check!

Oh it's all coming together fiendishly well...

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Weather control, check! Radio wave disruption, check! Physical gas laws suspended, check! Hidden cameras placed in deviously conspicuously and plain view to secretly record their every move, check!

Oh it's all coming together fiendishly well...

Nice picture of Arthur Blank.

 

[oldrover]

Can bill bring the fog machine on the road? Would be nice.

I think it was a one shot deal, based on this Craiglist ad:

 

[patchick]

Well, the localized atmospheric conditions that often keep the smoke from a controlled burn pile hovering near the ground as a blanket of haze are the same conditions that often keep water-vapor fog hovering near the ground. Smoke from fireworks, musket fire, etc. would have combined with the fog and made it just that much thicker and more reflective.

Yep. Obviously, this wasn't any conspiracy against the Falcons. (I mean, even if the fog DID hurt the downfield passing game, the Patriots average longer receptions than Atlanta and the Falcons supposedly have the better running game! Why would the Pats want to fog the field?) But I'm sure all the firework smoke didn't help matters.

I rather liked the effect on the broadcast. There was a kind of you-are-there immediacy to the camera angles.

 

[RIpats88]

Ernie adams weather machine won them the game!

 

[neuronet]

For the longest time I kept thinking it was all due to fireworks. I was like "What the F how many fireworks are they lighting off in this place? Wait why is it getting worse what did they light off fireworks for now?" Then Al Michaels mentioned fog and I was like "I'm an idiot."

 

[GoBlue]

I wonder where Belechick hid the fog machine so the refs didn't see it..

 

[PatsDeb]

Weather control, check! Radio wave disruption, check! Physical gas laws suspended, check! Hidden cameras placed in deviously conspicuously plain view to secretly record their every move, check!

Oh it's all coming together fiendishly well...

You forgot the headphones fed directly into Scott Zolak's mike! Show ponies and unicorns, baby!

 

[PatsDeb]

I wonder where Belechick hid the fog machine so the refs didn't see it..

In the box where Atlanta's play caller was supposed to be. He was absent.