The NCAA Division II National Championship (Northwest Missouri State beat North Alabama, 29-3) was in Kansas City for the second straight year, which put it in the middle of some brutal weather this time around.
The D2 football national championship was the snow bowl of the year
A Kansas City ice storm meant treacherous conditions for North Alabama and Northwest Missouri State.
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The wind chill was minus-7 degrees!
This looks pretty and fun:
The scene before the game:
The close-up:
And the general forecast:
As the game went on, the notion of properly spotting the ball became difficult to imagine. That’s because you sometimes couldn’t see yard markers.
Here was one of the game’s most critical plays and the one that basically — UMMMM — iced it for Northwest:
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Northwest Missouri State is in the midst of the longest winning streak at any level of NCAA football. North Alabama is in the process of moving up to Division I FCS. So this is about as quality a matchup as you can get. Add in some extremely football weather, and you’ve got something.
At times like these, I turn to the wisdom of Michael Irvin.
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