Comments on: The Fog Bowl: 20 Years Ago Today

By: alan

alan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:13:06 +0000

I was leaving my grandfather’s house in Skokie around 9:30 that morning on a cross country trip from Long Island to Davis, California. The sky was sunny and blue, which was good since the heater in my 1968 Olds 98 wasn’t working. Somewhere on Interstate 80 near the exit to Moline, I ran into a thick, endless wall of fog.
It was a surreal experience, like driving in a glass of milk with floating rime-like snow flakes. Shortly after entering the fog, I heard the sportscasters on the radio talk about a thick fog rolling into Soldiers Field and blocking their view. After about an hour, I was west of the fog, but the skies were cloudy for the rest of the day in Iowa, thus ruining my only source of heat in the car.
The remainder of my trip to California was cold compared to my pre-fog drive.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:11:38 +0000

I remember watching that game with my cousins … or rather listening to it on TV. A big wood framed console TV. No plasma or HD technology could have helped that day’s broadcast.

By: Jesse Lopez

Jesse Lopez — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:02:03 +0000

I actually have that game on DVD. You can hardly see anything, the fog was so thick. It was included on NFL.com’s top 10 weather games of all time.

By: Roy Taylor

Roy Taylor — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:37:00 +0000

My grandfather (deceased 1990), bless his angry heart, was sitting in his chair in that room with the radio tuned to the Blackhawks game on WBBM. I’ll never forget that, I wasn’t on good enough terms with him to ask him to turn it down so we could watch the game. We were probably more concerned about that night’s New Year’s party than the game. This was one of 2 games in the 1980′s I didn’t go to-literally. My Father had friends in from out of state and wanted to take them to go “see” a game, so I gave up my ticket. Then you and I and Mikey and your brother went to the NFC Championship a week later and froze our asses off to see that horrendous game.

By: Febster

Febster — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:56:14 +0000

I remember being at your house that day for the game. We tried watching it, but of course there was nothing to see. What did we do to try to follow the game? Or did we?