Different sports with different seasons. If football broke for mildly bad weather, there would be no football.
But let's be fair, Dean. When the rain lowers visibility and makes the football too slippery to throw or catch properly, you can always fall back on your running game. It even adds to the drama and the tension and the spontaneity, as a team is forced to adapt their tactics to the elements.
But baseball has no equivalent to the running game. The ball has to spend most of the action in the air. So a slippery wet ball just makes for a lousy game.
There was once a Chicago-Green Bay exhibition game (they call 'em "preseason" now) that ended Chicago 4, Green Bay 2. Dick Butkus was the leading scorer, with two safeties.
I remember when Seattle got the new stadium with the retractable roof, and the announcers crowed, "We'll never get rained out again!"
Sure enough, I was running the board (radio broadcast across the state) when the rain started one day, the roof was needed... and it didn't move. Rained out. (They fixed the problem— part not oiled— later.)
But let's be fair, Dean. When the rain lowers visibility and makes the football too slippery to throw or catch properly, you can always fall back on your running game. It even adds to the drama and the tension and the spontaneity, as a team is forced to adapt their tactics to the elements.
But baseball has no equivalent to the running game. The ball has to spend most of the action in the air. So a slippery wet ball just makes for a lousy game.
If the Tigers were winning this series in four straight games, you'd be crowing about Detroit to the whole world.
But that's okay. You're only human, just like the rest of us.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Sure enough, I was running the board (radio broadcast across the state) when the rain started one day, the roof was needed... and it didn't move. Rained out. (They fixed the problem— part not oiled— later.)