NFL moves Browns-Bills to Detroit due to storm

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The NFL is moving The Buffalo Bills' location crippled against the Detroit Lions to Detroit connected Sunday due to the fact that of a lake-effect snowfall tempest successful the Buffalo area.

The NFL has been successful interaction with some teams based connected a forecast projecting 1 to 3 feet of snowfall falling done Saturday, with much successful the forecast connected Sunday.

The National Weather Service has issued a lake-effect tempest informing lasting done Saturday greeting for confederate Erie County, which includes the Bills' location successful Orchard Park. The tempest is projected to bring upwind gusts disconnected Lake Erie arsenic precocious arsenic 35 mph, which volition marque question conditions hazardous and pb to imaginable powerfulness outages.

The Bills had a location crippled moved due to the fact that of a snowstorm successful November 2014, erstwhile they defeated the New York Jets 38-3 successful a crippled played astatine Detroit's Ford Field. That game, primitively scheduled for Sunday, was pushed backmost to Monday to instrumentality into relationship some teams traveling.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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