Pittsburg Weather!

[UT_Dutchman]

Just don’t tell him that Gus’s started putting French fries in sandwiches in the 1920’s.

I've been doing it since I was 8 years old and had never heard of either of those places. I do like Gus's though.

 

[Volfan1000]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles was a damn good movie.

RIP John Candy.

 

[VolArmy74]

I used to travel to Pittsburgh/Canton/Cleveland for work 3-4 times a month, year round. The heat/humidity here was always worse. Our proximity to the Gulf of Mexico assures that. The hottest month of the year in Pittsburgh is around 6-8 degrees cooler than here. The humidity across Tennessee is usually around 6-10 percent higher. It's been 27 years since Pittsburgh recorded 100 degrees. Parts of Tennessee reached 100 as late as October in 2019. So we are used to heat in football season.

This is our most legendary heat game. They talked about it on broadcasts for years to come. Terry Donahue became and announcer and always talked about them treating Smokey for heat exhaustion and ignoring his players. That game was a 12:40 kick-off, the hottest part of the day here is usually around 4pm-5pm in summer. So the game was over before the peak of the heat.

From the LA Times.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — This is no place to be playing, officiating or watching football in the middle of the afternoon on the second Saturday in September.
It is remarkable that Tennessee and UCLA performed as well as they did on a muggy day when the temperature on the artificial turf of Shields-Watkins Field at Neyland Stadium reached 112.

“I can’t remember more uncomfortable weather for a game,” UCLA Coach Terry Donahue said after the Bruins were defeated, 30-16. “The heat was a bigger factor than the crowd.

 

[BowlBrother85]

I used to travel to Pittsburgh/Canton/Cleveland for work 3-4 times a month, year round. The heat/humidity here was always worse. Our proximity to the Gulf of Mexico assures that. The hottest month of the year in Pittsburgh is around 6-8 degrees cooler than here. The humidity across Tennessee is usually around 6-10 percent higher. It's been 27 years since Pittsburgh recorded 100 degrees. Parts of Tennessee reached 100 as late as October in 2019. So we are used to heat in football season.

This is our most legendary heat game. They talked about it on broadcasts for years to come. Terry Donahue became and announcer and always talked about them treating Smokey for heat exhaustion and ignoring his players. That game was a 12:40 kick-off, the hottest part of the day here is usually around 4pm-5pm in summer. So the game was over before the peak of the heat.

From the LA Times.

From 14:14 to 14:22 = Andy Kelly and Carl Pickens coping with the heat and humidity.