Snow way

The long-awaited, not-really-anticipated Vikings-Eagles game finally will be played tonight at Lincoln Financial Field. The game was postponed from Sunday because of forecasted heavy snow. The decision to move the game has been met with some criticism.

Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell went off on a bit of a rant on a Philly radio station on Monday.

“My biggest beef is that this is part of what’s happened in this country,” Rendell said on the air. “I think we’ve become wussies.”

Normally, I don’t approve of politics and sports intermingling, but in this case, Governor Ed is absolutely right. Postponing football because of snow is ridiculous. Snow has provided NFL fans with some pretty memorable moments and games (Ice Bowl, Tuck Rule, Leon Lett bungling a blocked kick at the Cowboys’ old stadium).

Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe had a good point, too, when he said there’s no way snow would postpone a game in the Midwest. Imagine if the Packers or Bears did this. They’d be the laughingstock of the league.

Although perhaps the Bears should have tried to postpone their game against the Patriots a couple weeks ago.