Week 8 Polian show (he talks about the roof)

Part 1

Polian, a member of the Competition Committee, said the issue has been discussed in recent years.
“The rule is already on the books that you can’t do it, so it would have to be a point of emphasis,” Polian said. “We didn’t get to that point simply because time precluded it. But Mike Holmgren who then a member of the committee made the point he thought it was extremely unethical to do so. We sort of left it there. It’s happened to us fairly frequently. Whether players are injured or not I can’t tell. It happened three times Sunday by my count. All three appeared to be cramps. I don’t know what the motivation was. You’ll have to draw your own conclusions.

“Clearly, at least in my view, the proscription against it – the feeling that it was not tactically OK to do – is not quite as strong in the league as it used to be and that’s sad.

Part 2

Part 3

*The effects of wind in Lucas Oil Stadium: “When the roof is open and the window is open, there is a wind tunnel effect that is really, really deleterious to us. With our kicking game and our passing game, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense to do both. In the summertime, that’s a different story. When the weather is nice and the humidity is high and you really don’t have any of those kids of issues. But when you have fronts coming through as you did Sunday, or when you’re in fall and winter and there is a fair amount of wind, the wind currents because of the roof and open window really create a terrible hardship for both passing and kicking.”

*The effects of the sun Sunday in Lucas Oil Stadium with the roof open: “It does cause some problems. First of all, we had never played a game with the roof open in the daytime in standard time. All of the games we played with the roof open have been in Eastern Daylight Time. Of course, the sun is a lot different in standard time than it is in daylight time. As a result, we didn’t know where the sun would be. We found out Sunday that it’s vastly different from what our experience previously had been. You might very well in future games if the window were open elect to defend the goal so that’s not an issue early in the game. It abated by the second half, so you’d worry about the first and second quarters. We learned a lesson from that.”

That’s our point.  The conditions in LOS are not ‘normal’ wind/sun conditions.  They are funky due to the construction of the building.  Keep the lid on.