Buffalo rang in December with a snow recreation.
Regular snowfall turned Highmark Stadium right into a winter wonderland for the “Sunday Night Football” matchup between the Buffalo Payments and San Francisco 49ers, creating a novel aesthetic that solely occurs sometimes in NFL video games.
With the sphere lined in white powder, NBC superimposed digital yard strains and numbers onto the sphere to assist with the visibility on its recreation broadcast.
“We’ve enhanced the lines and the numbers here to help you watch along as the snow covers the field,” play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico mentioned throughout the first quarter.
“They did come out and use blowers to clear off the five-yard marks all the way across the sidelines for visibility. It’s that kind of night.”
Initially, the numbers and contours had a clear look with none white snow beneath them.
AP Picture/Gene J. PuskarBuffalo Payments followers sit between snow lined seats as they watch gamers heat up earlier than the sport on Sunday. (AP Picture/Gene J. Puskar)
And viewers had sturdy emotions.
“Stop with the digital lines!” wrote an X consumer named Richard L. “We would like snow!!”
Added one other consumer named Michael Weinreb, “Superimposing yard-line numbers for television during a snow game should be a federal crime.”
Others steered the characteristic was a distraction.
“I love snow games, but I hate this new ‘enhanced yard lines,’” wrote a consumer named D-Boy. “Straight up going through the players.”
However some appeared intrigued by the know-how.
“How about this new tech in a snow-covered @SNFonNBC game… not only do we get the line of scrimmage and first down line… but now the yardage numbers,” wrote the consumer Ken Lovell.
By the second quarter, the published had gone again to a extra pure look.
