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Snow at the Fair Grounds in 2008 (Photo: Alexander Barkoff/Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots)
We don’t often get to use the “s” word in New Orleans, but it appears we will on Tuesday.
Snow and sports have intersected plenty of times in the Crescent City before.
The last time New Orleans received a snowfall of at least 2 inches was on Dec. 31, 1963.
The next day, the Sugar Bowl was played at Tulane Stadium. The Superdome was still nearly 12 years away from opening.
The game video shows the snow banks piled up around the sideline.
Alabama kicker Tim Davis, in a time where field goals weren’t a big part of the game, made four field goals as the Crimson Tide defeated the Rebels 12-7.
A day after what would be the city’s greatest snowfall of the 20th Century, the game was played in 45-degree temperatures. “The field was slick as glass,” Ole Miss’ Joe Wilkins said after the game.
(Photo: Allstate Sugar Bowl/Bryant Museum)
The teams combined for 17 fumbles, including 11 by Ole Miss. Sixty-one years later, both are still NCAA bowl game records, as are the combined nine lost fumbles and six fumbles lost by the Rebels.
The snow of Dec. 4, 2009, impacted much of south Louisiana. It also happened to be the night of the state high school football semifinals.
The Salmen-Franklinton game turned into a winter wonderland in Washington Parish. A team, ironically, nicknamed the Demons gobbled up the elements to a tune of a 60-0 victory.
At Cajun Field in Lafayette, freezing rain turned to sleet and eventually to snow by the fourth quarter as Archbishop Rummel earned its first-ever trip to the LHSAA Prep Classic with a 7-6 victory over Westgate.
On Dec. 22, 1989, half an inch of snow virtually shut down the metro area, but with two teams and three referees in town, Tulane officials went on with a men’s basketball game against Pan American (now UT Rio Grande Valley) at Fogelman Arena.
The Green Wave, in its first season back on the hardwood after a four-year, self-imposed shutdown, defeated the Broncs 85-77. The crowd was sparse, but many people showed up just to buy concession foods because virtually everything else in the area was closed down.
Fair Grounds closed on that 1989 afternoon for racing and again on Dec. 11, 2008, because of wintry conditions. There is no racing scheduled on Tuesday.
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