ARLINGTON, Texas — Runways too snowy to receive airliners packed with football fans. Sidewalks too icy for cowboy boots. Temperatures too cold to distinguish Dallas from Pittsburgh or Green Bay, Wis.
Just two days before the Super Bowl, a fresh blast of snow and ice canceled hundreds of flights, transformed highways into ribbons of white and caused dangerous sheets of ice to fall from Cowboys Stadium, sending at least six people to the hospital.
The six people hurt Friday were private contractors who had been hired by the NFL to prepare the stadium for the game. One man was hit in the head, another in the shoulder. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening.
Most stadium entrances were closed as a precaution. Officials raised the temperature inside the stadium in an attempt to melt any remaining ice.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area received as much as 5 inches of snow overnight. A rain-snow mix was possible Sunday for Arlington, home of the $1.3 billion stadium where the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers are to play.
Forecasters expected game day to reach a high around 40 degrees, which would probably not be warm enough to melt all the snow and ice. The Associated Press
