Yep, The ‘Fog Bowl’ Is Still One Of The Weirdest Games In NFL History

On a football field, Mother Nature can be a force as heartless as any linebacker.

New Year’s Eve outlines a 26th anniversary of a barbarous “Fog Bowl,” a weird continue function that dejected a hopes of a Philadelphia Eagles and would go down as one of a many weird games in NFL history.

After a balmy and transparent initial half of a initial playoff diversion between a Eagles and a Chicago Bears on Dec. 31, 1988, a unenlightened haze drifted over Soldier Field, obscuring a perspective for everybody from a commentators in a press box to a really players on a field.

“When we consider about a final disease when Moses told a people a Death Angel was going to come in, it was like that,” Bears linebacker Mike Singletary told Comcast Sports Net

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WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling told CSN a haze that blanketed Soldier Field — that is perched on Lake Michigan — was “a finish misconception of a continue elsewhere in a city that day.”

“There hasn’t been another diversion that was influenced by windy conditions utterly like this one, we think, in a prolonged story of a NFL,” CBS announcer Verne Lundquist told ESPN in 2008.

Announcers couldn’t see a margin of play, fans couldn’t see a players, and players couldn’t see any other. Some of a Eagles coaches called for a diversion to be suspended, even yet a NFL had never called a diversion due to fog.

The diversion continued, and in a end, a Eagles — who had never beaten a Bears during Soldier Field,

Though Eagles fans might see it differently, Singletary told NFL.com:

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