While plenty of people were trying to do numbers with their start of football tweet, The Preston & Steve Show Twitter account came out of left field with this:

I don’t know if these are the views of Preston or Steve or Casey Boy or Kathy Romano or some social media intern who just went rogue, but this is a rare L for the show. Unless there are global cataclysmic climate changes that affect the city of Philadelphia, The Linc or any other football stadium built after it should never come with a dome. If they would’ve built a dome we don’t get Shady galloping through a foot of snow for 217 yards:

We don’t get the 1948 Championship blizzard, where Eagles fans were able to stay for the game if they brought a shovel and helped dig out Shibe Park. Dudes were getting tackled into snow mounds. Refs were just guessing where the first down markers were. Steve Van Buren took everything but a sled dog to get to the game, then scored the only touchdown. None of that would happen with a dome:

We don’t have the “Pickle Juice Game” in Dallas. The 2004 NFC Championship when Brian Dawkins broke Alge Crumpler’s ribs in 17 degree weather. Even the Fog Bowl is legendary.

Domes suck.* Give me the elements. I went to one dome stadium ever and it was so loud that I’m pretty sure if the Eagles built one there would be a rise in busted ear drums around the Delaware Valley.


*Retractable roofs are cool.