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Originally Posted by ForeverRoyalKC
Bluenoser, a couple of points in your argument falls flat. Extreme cold is one thing. White out blinding conditions, flooding and 70MPH winds are another!
PLUS...the NFL itself has moved game days, times and locations because of hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, SNOW.
On December 26, 2010, a Sunday Night Football game between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia was postponed to Tuesday, December 28, due to a severe snowstorm. It was the first Tuesday NFL game in 64 years.
In 2014, a severe snowstorm that hit the Buffalo area forced a New York Jets-Buffalo Bills game, originally scheduled for November 23, to be moved to Detroit's Ford Field on November 24.
Soooooo, Beli-nut couldn't have rescheduled practice?! If the "Patriot Way" is so important, then he could've had the players wait a day before they took their break.
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Lol - if you can't accept the responsibility that comes with your job, don't take the job. It is NOT asking anything out of the ordinary for an employee to be somewhere at a certain time. The onus is on the employee to make the necessary arrangements to ensure he will be there on time - such as arriving before the storm starts.
He wasn't asking them to go and play in it either, he was asking them to be somewhere on time. And he wasn't asking them to drive through it, he was asking them to be somewhere on time.
This isn't specific to football - it's specific to life. Get out in the world and into a career and see if the company doesn't place certain expectations on you, including being responsible and using common sense. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know his work schedule and look at the forecast to see if there's going to be a conflict and if some "planning and preparation" should be done ahead of time.
It's only the most important part of their job year about to start. I guess one of the reasons the Patriots have won so many SB's is because they plan and prepare, and they make results happen instead of excuses.
Like I say - he did not ask anyone to go out in that storm - they are all grown adults capable of planning and preparation.