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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

While true, Cassel played in the AFC East last year. Foxboro is as bad if not worse than the Meadowlands. Also, Fitzgerald didn't seem to have a problem--he sucked, but his passes didn't seem to be affected by the conditions.

Giants Stadium, is considered one of the worst places to play once the swirling wind kicks up and changes everything. Phil Simms' lifetime completion percentage there is 56%. GOOGLE "Giants Stadium + swirling wind," and much of the talk from NFL quarterbacks was about wind.

My favorite quote came from Harry Carson:

The committee of captains for the Redskins and Giants captain Harry Carson stood at midfield in a swirling wind before the start of the NFC Championship Game on January 11th, 1987. Referee Pat Haggerty tossed the coin, the Redskins called tails, Carson chose to have the wind at his back, and the game was over.

Source: The New York Times

''It wasn't like a normal windy day, where you just have constant wind,'' O'Hara said. ''It would kind of stop, and then come out of nowhere. You look up at the goal posts, you could see them kind of waving around. And they almost looked like they were going to come down at some points.''

It was not the type of victory that would cause fans to stream the field and tear down the posts. But it was the kind in which the wind threatened to do it for them.

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One of the posts was loosened and twisted by the wind before the game, and even after it was secured tightly, it swayed to the rhythm of the swirling gusts. Outside the stadium during the game between the Giants and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, body-bending breezes of more than 40 miles an hour were reported. Inside the stadium was like the inside of a vacuum canister.

The winds, coming from the west outside the stadium, wreaked havoc on any airborne football.

"And once we shut down the running game, we realized that they weren't really going to be able to do much,'' said Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, one of the few to decipher the true direction of the wind.

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-- "I've played there five or six times and each time it's been different," said Chiefs quarterback Trent Green, who is 1-1 as a starter in Giants Stadium.
"We played there last November with St. Louis (a 38-24 Rams victory) and it was about 55 degrees with no wind," Trent Green said. "I've played there in early December (with Washington) when we missed a 27- yard field goal short because the wind was so strong. I've seen it mess with punt returners and kick returners. I've seen guys be completely underneath (a kick) and at the last second, it bounces off them.

"It can change the game plan, and that's determined in pre-game warmups. You sometimes have to adjust during the game. You get on the headset and say it's a little more windy here or the wind is swirling more there."

Source: The New York Times

The Panthers had a chance to win the game in regulation but the swirling wind at Giants Stadium pushed John Kasey's 50-yard field-goal attempt wide left, ...

Quarterback Dave Brown remembers a December 1995 game against Washington when the windchill hit-10° and the winds were swirling around Giants Stadium. "I walked by the Redskins' quarterback, Heath Shuler, in the warmups," Brown recalls, "and he was having a terrible time.

He turned to me and said, 'How the hell do you play in this place?' "

"Just luck, I guess," Brown replied.

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Cognizant of the fact that passing the ball may not be feasible in such harsh winds, the Giants sought to pound their feature back Rodney Hampton and did he ever respond. Hampton broke free on the Giants first possession of the second half for a 51-yard touchdown run.

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