Weather Effects in Football

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Does anyone here have some insight or data into how weather affects a football game? I'm specifically curious about soggy conditions and rain versus dry conditions.

Obviously, there's a ton of "conventional wisdom" out there, but it seems like the conventional wisdom is wrong a little more often than it's right.

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fwiw, Belichick was just talking about this on the radio. he said on balance a sloppy field helps the passing game b/c it's so hard to get a pass rush. the downside is the ball handling is harder

he mentioned that in the Snow Bowl game, which was played in a complete blizzard, they were in shotgun for much of the time.

I looked, and Brady was 32/52 for 312 yards, which were very big #'s for that year. attempts, completions, and yards were all Brady's 2nd highest of the year.

with so few grass fields actually left, it seems like this is less of a factor now