This a thread for Expats and Blog readers who follow NFL, NBA and MLB teams...sometimes with an Ecuador twist...
For anyone in Ecuador not paying attention to U.S. weather patterns, a snow "tormenta" blasted large portions of the latter country this past week and caused the NFL to move the New York Jets-Buffalo Bills week-12 game from metro Buffalo to Detroit. Six feet of snow fell in upstate New York.
The game, originally scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. ET, will be played at 7 p.m. ET on Monday (Nov. 24) -- bumped off the DirecTV Sunday Ticket schedule.
Entering Thanksgiving week, this sets up a bountiful upcoming harvest for Detroit-area NFL fans from now through mid-December: there will be four games played at domed Ford Field in the next 21 days -- the Jets-Buffalo game followed by three regularly scheduled home games of the Lions. Tens of thousands of free tickets were given away for the first, re-scheduled game.
There also is the oddity of four different teams playing a total of two games within 3-and-a-half days in the same NFL city: NYJ-BUF Monday night and CHI-DET on Thursday afternoon (Thanksgiving).
Longtime NFL fans know that the Lions host a Thanksgiving Day game every year -- it's been a tradition for decades.
As for Jets-Bills, the Jets have an advantage: the Buffalo team was unable to practice due to the terrible weather this past week.
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In other week-12 Detroit NFL news...
In Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Lions were embarrassed 34-9 in a game in which they failed to score a single touchdown. The AFC is being dominated by Brady, Gronk and the Patriots -- a team name an Expat can appreciate.
Coming up: can you follow your team when living in or visiting Ecuador...
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