For almost a week going to the AFC Championship game, Medith Nolan was living on a lighting research plane standing at the Antarctic port. The ship, called Nosafra, was waiting for the favorable conditions of the sea before plowing into the icy waters under the southern end of South America.
It was at the end of January, and Nolan was going home after spending three months at the Paller station, a small US research base in Antarctica.
She was studying the effects of climate change on Zoplankton, and, in her spare moments, was celebrating her favorite football team, buffalo bills. He wore a bay with a bills logo on the front, and a blue puffs above when he left the net to collect zopplenkton, or increased the lack of glacier behind the station. His hat informed the fans of two other bills that he was one of them.
In some ways, she did not behave like a fans of ordinary bills, which caused pleasant chaos and destruction to celebrate the team.
Regarding a famous activity among the fans of Bills Talgates, “we will see if the mydiths begin to dive through the tables”.
But in an important way, he did.
In early November, Nolan said happily, “I get excited every year.” “But I hope it’s the year.”
Since the 1950s, the National Science Foundation has provided research projects in Antarctica. The Paller station, built in 1968, is the smallest of its three stations, which lives around 40 in the summer and around 20 in winter. It is the hottest, but it still means still below the heat of the summer and below the snow. Some people there are studying the effects of climate change on the environment. For many, the game is a way to stay connected with the outside world, even when connecting with their teams is a challenge.
Until recently, high -speed Internet access was limited, when it was available at all. A 2018 co -manual warned: “Large download and streaming media have a negative impact on everyone.”
Sports fans will then save their Internet rations during sports hours.
In 2013, Professor Ken Hallland of the University of Abbin was on the plane when Abbran won the game against his hateful rival, Alabama University, who, with the expiry of time, a Missfield goal for the touchdown 109 yards for a touchdown. He returned.
Halanich spent four hours uploading the video so he could watch the play.
He has gone to Antarctica from 2000 to eight times. In 2004, when the Oberron was one of the three unbeaten teams in hopes of a place in the National Championship game, he persuaded the station manager at Paller station to raise the flag on the ship.
“I wrote to the ESPN trying to contact them and said,” My vote from Antarctica is here, “said Halchend. “ESPN never answered.”
Darren Roberts has gone to Antarctica 13 times. He loves work, though he recognizes that it can be isolated. Roberts is not convinced that if he was not part of his wife, Megan, his research team, he would still be running. After Denver Broncos, he helps to connect with his brother, which is 13 years old.
“It’s really sweet,” said Megan Roberts. “They all really do bonds, especially on Broncos, even when we’re in these crazy remote places. It’s surprising to see. Because of what is happening to Broncos, they are in touch with their family. Lives
Darren Roberts will follow the Broncos Games through Google Graphic, which featured a little football in the digital field. Its movement is compatible with what is happening in the game.
But when Bruncos won the Super Bowl in 2016, the couple were on a research plane called Lawrence M. Gold. He was captained by a man named Ernest Steley, a fan of Dallas Cowboy.
Although the cowboys were not playing, Steley pulled the vessel near the Paller station to use the station’s internet radio broadcast. The chefs whipped the party breakfast, and Steley hosted a super bowel party.
Roberts said, “I remember it was great, like sitting in the dark on the plane was listening to a super bowl on the bridge.” “And this was really a very special and unique thing, especially at the moment.
The United States also operates a base in the South Pole, which is cold but slightly populated, and a checkpoint called McMardo Station, south of New Zealand and can help 1,500 residents.
Robbins, who is in the Sibbirds team with Roberts, has worked even more remote locations, making it difficult to follow his favorite teams. He once worked on a small island of Hawaii, with only seven people, including himself, lived. He said such experiments make Antarctica feel the “big city”.
“Like, a wet and bedroom with the chefs and the flowing water and fresh water, it feels very luxurious,” said Robbins.
The Sebrid group operates outside a small building separate from other scientists. Robbins called it a “burder hut”.
“Darren’s rumor is that we lived in a big building with the office, but everyone was really sick of smelling the penguin pope,” said Robbins.
The work was busy towards the end of their stay, which means it was not easy to follow the end of the football season. All the birds were hanging eggs, and the team had to measure their girls. Researchers tagged some birds, and removed tags from others, sometimes at night or early in the morning.
When they lost the bills in the Bronchos Playoff, they were counting the penguin colonies and measuring the giant Patal Girls.
Nolan was happy with the results of the game. The game is a relative point between Nolan and his father Jim. She is proud that her daughter works in Antarctica, and she has become accustomed to explaining Zoplankton to others.
He told people, “This food is like China.” Without Zoplankton, we would all be in trouble. “
As a graduate student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, at home, Medith is about 30 minutes away from his parents. They like to hear about his work and receive pictures of penguins through text message.
“She’s an amazing child,” said Jim.
They text permanently during sports, especially when the gym doesn’t have much pressure.
At the end of December, when Bills played New York Jets, she was putting Karl into bottles to start the experiment. Jim warned him that he should not worry, the game was a blow. Bill won, 40-14.
The Paller Base now uses the Star Link Satellite System to access high -speed Internet access. In mid -December, the satellite started pinging from the United States instead of Chile, which means YouTube was available on the TV base. Nolan can stream its bills directly.
Jim is a fan of the bills because he has grown up on New York, and Medith has inherited his condition. He remained in frustration for decades, including four consecutive disadvantages in the super bowl. His daughter, 24, has seen less than that.
Jim said, “He is a very hopeful person, maybe more than me.” “But sometimes, as a fan of bills, it can be difficult.”
Nosafra finally got clearance on Sunday evening last month, a few minutes before the AFC Championship began. Jim tracked the boat on a site called Marnet Refick.com. He doesn’t worry too much about Medith, but a spread of sea between Palmer Station and Chile may have 40 feet waves in the dragon passage.
After he was settled, Nolan fired his member and logged into YouTube TV. He sent a photo of the setup to his father-it showed Josh Allen’s head and the game score, 21-10, the chief of the chief. He saw that the bills tried to return, then lost, 32-29, just a game short from the super bowl.
Nolan said in a text message when the ship said in a text message, making its way to the traitor Drake. He added a weeping face. “But still a great weather!”
