Ravens Coach Makes Head-Scratching Comment on Facing Bills

The Baltimore Ravens could be in for a surprise when they hit the field to face the Buffalo Bills this Sunday — a cold one.

The forecast for this weekend’s divisional-round playoff game is frigid, with temperatures in the low teens with snow and a wind chill that could reach single-digits. While the Bills have played a handful of games in freezing conditions, the Ravens are not as experienced in the cold and may have the wrong idea of what to expect in Buffalo.

Speaking to reporters this week, Ravens special teams coordinator Chris Horton incorrectly guessed that the Bills may have had a special advantage to playing in the cold.

Ravens Coach Hoping for Warmed Field

When asked about the difficulties of playing in the cold and wet conditions in Buffalo, Horton said the team would need to decide closer to gameday just how they approach the field. He then asserted that the field surface in Buffalo is heated. It is not.

“We really don’t know, we don’t know what the field conditions are going to be like,” Horton said. “I know Buffalo — I think the field will be heated. So it might not be as frozen as what’s outside right now.”

Horton was not totally off base in his guess about the field in Buffalo, just a couple of years too early. The Bills are in the midst of building a new stadium in a parking lot near the existing Highmark Stadium, one that will include strategic heating on the roof to melt snow, in the seating and also on the natural grass surface.

 

 

 

 

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