{"id":697929,"date":"2026-01-23T03:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697929\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:25:40","slug":"snowy-forecast-complicates-patriots-fans-travel-plans-for-afc-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697929\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy forecast complicates Patriots fans travel plans for AFC title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSunday will be a big day for New Englanders, with the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game against the Denver Broncos and a forecast that features anywhere between one and two feet of snow.For Patriots fans attending the game at Mile High Stadium, getting there isn&#8217;t the problem; it&#8217;s getting home that&#8217;s a little dicey.&#8221; could be a little rocky road on the way back, but nothing we are not used to going out west,&#8221; said Keith Hooley.The Carver resident has booked and will be boarding his flight to Denver on a trip with his friends that will feature skiing and, of course, a Patriots watch party.&#8221;We fly out midday Monday, so we get back here in time for it all to be gone. If not, we have a &#8216;Plan B&#8217; (to) stay later if we have to,&#8221; he said.Both United Airlines and Southwest Airlines have afternoon flights out to Denver from Boston on Thursday.&#8221;It is New England, so we have to expect it once in a while,&#8221; one Patriots fan said. &#8220;Bound to happen, go Pats.&#8221;Airlines are expected to be flexible amid the nationwide storm.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will be a big day for New Englanders, with the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game against the Denver Broncos and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/bitter-blast-coldest-air-of-season-to-hit-massachusetts-this-weekend\/70058388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a forecast<\/a> that features anywhere between one and two feet of snow.<\/p>\n<p>For Patriots fans attending the game at Mile High Stadium, getting there isn&#8217;t the problem; it&#8217;s getting home that&#8217;s a little dicey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It] could be a little rocky road on the way back, but nothing we are not used to going out west,&#8221; said Keith Hooley.<\/p>\n<p>The Carver resident has booked and will be boarding his flight to Denver on a trip with his friends that will feature skiing and, of course, a Patriots watch party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fly out midday Monday, so we get back here in time for it all to be gone. If not, we have a &#8216;Plan B&#8217; (to) stay later if we have to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both United Airlines and Southwest Airlines have afternoon flights out to Denver from Boston on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is New England, so we have to expect it once in a while,&#8221; one Patriots fan said. &#8220;Bound to happen, go Pats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Airlines are expected to be flexible amid the nationwide storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday will be a big day for New Englanders, with the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[423,19272,90601,101789,433,101782,231,258,28148,20136,7,101783,7502,50923,1167,249,101788,2326,2094,6,101787,208,99344,8140,85955,1098,101784,101785,31793,101786,3667,4638,9059,11351],"class_list":{"0":"post-697929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-afc-championship-game","9":"tag-afc-title-game","10":"tag-air-travel","11":"tag-big-day","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-carver","14":"tag-denver","15":"tag-denver-broncos","16":"tag-flight","17":"tag-flights","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-keith-hooley","20":"tag-massachusetts","21":"tag-mile-high-stadium","22":"tag-new-england","23":"tag-new-england-patriots","24":"tag-new-englanders","25":"tag-newengland","26":"tag-newenglandpatriots","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-patriot-fan-brace","29":"tag-patriots","30":"tag-patriots-fan","31":"tag-plan","32":"tag-skiing","33":"tag-snow","34":"tag-snowstorm","35":"tag-snowy-forecast","36":"tag-southwest-airlines","37":"tag-stormy-return-trip","38":"tag-sunday","39":"tag-thursday","40":"tag-united-airlines","41":"tag-wcvb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}