No. 362 - Tuesday Night Football

This evening the Philadelphia Eagles are playing the Minnesota Vikings. The game was moved to tonight after the Sunday scheduled game was postponed after a blizzard was expected in the Philadelphia area. It is the first Tuesday night NFL game since 1946.

I learned that the 1946 game was played on Tuesday for the same reason -- bad weather. The New York Giants and Boston Yanks were set to open their 1946 regular season on Monday, September 30 at Braves Field in Boston, but a torrential downpour forced the teams to move the game to Tuesday.

In that game, the Giants beat the Yanks 17-0.