Just got to thinking with the Bombers/Als weather delay about the old days. For those of the older generation were games delayed because of lightning back in the day? I remember being at Empire stadium around 61 or 62 and prior to the game a lightening storm hit. We were undercover and I can remember a friend of my dads remark if the lightening hit that beam the roof would come down on us. That was a sobering thought!! Whether the game was delayed or the storm was over before the start I can’t remember. I do remember other games where we could see some lightening happening in the distance over the North Shore mountains but I remember there was no stoppage on those games.
Also, for the Vancouver folks correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t there a time in the city that a sporting event couldn’t carry on past “x” time? I seem to remember when there was a rain delay with Mountie baseball when the game resumed they were hurrying to get the regulation innings in before the curfew?
“Curfews were common in the early days of night games or when Sunday baseball was still considered somewhat controversial, but rarely come into play in the 21st century.”
I remember the Roller Coaster at the PNE being hit by lightning at a Lions game. Not sure of the date but pretty sure it was In Augest. We were in the Quarterback Club so late 50s, early 60’s.
But back then they really cared not if people woulda got killed.
Been to a few gdmes in Regina where lightning was strinking close enough you could feel the electricity … And by that I do not mean electrifying play on the field.
Then a few decades later they realized the cost of lawsuits and the bad publicity that would result from fans getting killed
by lightning and tornados
I remember hearing about that one. Wasn’t at that game.
Some really interesting information here. I’m 48 and I always remember lightning rules.
We had a game at my high school (I’m the scoreboard operator) a few years ago that kept getting delayed in the 3rd or 4th quarter. Every time we got near the 30 minute mark, they’d spot another flash.
It was the last game of the regular season and since there were playoff implications, they ended up playing the rest the next day.
Totally unrelated, but on the make up game I accidentally shattered a pane of glass in the press box.
We were at a lightning/rain game in Hamilton a few years ago maybe 2019? They ordered everyone out of the stands and onto the concourses, with a full stadium you couldn’t move we were packed in like sardines for about an hour or more.
I remember that . I was there somewhere in that crowd pic you took .
Oh yes, now I recognize you.
I’m the guy in the gorilla suit . 
Yes that must have been the game, it was pre-2020 but couldn’t remember when
I remember another one after this one though in either 2017 or 18 . I can’t remember which year it was exactly but I do remember that the game was against the Argos .
The one I posted was also against the Argos.
There’s only one reasonable conclusion: the Argos cause poor weather.
Like a big darkened Double Blue cloud hanging over our heads . 
