Buffalo Bells lovers are difficult, especially in the Antarctica

For almost a week before the AFC Championship game, Meridith Nolan was living in a huge research ship parked in a port in Antarctica. The ship, called NoosFera, was waiting for the favorable sea conditions before it plowed in the ice water below the southern end of South America.

It was in late January, and Nolan was heading home after spending three months at Palm Palm, a small American research base in Antarctica.

She was studying the effects of climate change on animal plankton, and in her reserve moments, she was chanting for her favorite football team, Boufalo Bells. She was wearing a small hat with the Bills logo in the front and a blue bus at the top when she went out on a boat to collect animal plankton into the net, or lifted the ice lifting behind the station. Her hat alerted the fans of my draft law that she was one of them.

In some respects, you did not act like a typical Bills fans, causing joy and destruction to celebrate the team.

“We’ll see whether Merridith begins to dive through the tables,” said Ricky Robbins, who was studying marine birds. Popular activity Among the fans of the Pope.

But in an important way, I did.

“Every year I feel enthusiastic,” Nolan said in early November. “But I hope this is the year.”

Since the fifties of the last century, the National Science Foundation has funded research projects in Antarctica. Palmer station, built in 1968, is its three smallest stations, with about 40 people in summer and about 20 in the winter. It is also the warmer, but this still means temperatures and snow that are less than freezing, even in the summer. Some of, like Nolan, study the effects of climate change on the environment. For many, sport is a way to stay related to the outside world, even when communicating with their teams is a challenge.

Until recently, high -speed internet access was limited, when it was absolutely available. Participants Guardian Carry Month: “Large downloads and broadcasts have a negative impact on anyone else.”

Sports fans, then, save their internet shares for the game times.

In 2013, Ken Halnesish, who was then a professor at the University of Oborn, was on a ship when Oporn won a match against its hatred rival, Alabama University, by returning a field goal of 109 yard at the end of time.

Halanych spent four hours downloading a video so that he could see the play.

He went to Antarctica eight times since 2000.

“Espn wrote in an attempt to communicate with them and say:” Here is my vote from Antarctica, “said Halanish.” Espn has never responded. “

Darren Roberts went to Antarctica 13 times. He loves to work, although he realizes that he can be isolated. Roberts is not sure that he will continue if his wife Megan is not part of the research team. After Denver Bronco helps him communicate with his 13 -year -old brother.

“It’s really great,” said Megan Roberts. “They are all really linking, especially on Broncos, even when we are in these crazy remote places. It is amazing to see. He is in contact with his family because of what is going on with Broncos.”

Darren Roberts was following Broncos games by drawing Google, which showed little football in a digital field. Its movements are compatible with what was happening in the game.

But when Broncos won in Super Bowl in 2016, the couple was on a research ship called The Laurence M. GIULD. He was arrested by a man named Ernest Stelie, a fans of Dallas Copules.

Although cowboy did not play, Stelie pulled the ship near the Palm station so that it could use the Internet to capture radio broadcast. The chefs assembled snacks, and settled a SUPER Bowl party.

Roberts said: “I remember it was great, like sitting in the dark on the ship listening to Super Bowl on the bridge,” Roberts said. “It was actually very special and a kind of unique things, especially at the time.

The United States also runs a base in the Antarctic, which is cooler but more populated, and a site called MCMURDO, southern New Zealand and can support 1500 population.

Robins, who works on the Seabirds team with Robertses, worked in more remote languages, making it difficult for him to follow his favorite teams. He was once working on a small island in Hawaii, where only seven people lived on it, including himself. He said that the experiences of such a polar continent feels “almost a large city.”

“For example, it looks like a kitchen with chefs, bedroom, running water and bathing in fresh water, it is a very luxurious feeling,” said Robbins.

The group of marine birds works from a small building separate from other scientists. Robbins called it “Burder”.

Robbins said: “Darren’s rumor is that we are used to be in the large building with an office, but everyone is tired of the scent of the penguin tube.”

The work became more preoccupied at the end of their stay, which means that it was not easy to follow the end of the football season. All bird eggs were hatching, and the team had to measure their chicks. The researchers put some birds, removed the signs of others, and sometimes late at night or early in the morning.

They were out of penguins and measuring giant chicks when Bronco lost bills in the qualifiers.

Nolan was happy with the result of that game. Sports is the correlation point between Nolan and her father Jim. He is unusually proud that his daughter is working in Antarctica, and he used to explain the animal plankton of others.

“It is a kind of below the food chain,” he says to people. “Without animal plankton, we will all be in trouble.”

At home, Meridith lives about 30 minutes from her parents, as a student student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences. They like to hear her work and receive pocket pictures via a text message.

Jim said, “She is a wonderful child,” Jim said.

They are constantly stacking during games, especially when Jim is not very tense.

In late December, when Bills played the New York Jets, she was putting Krill in bottles to start an experiment. Jim wrote to her that she should not worry, the game was an explosion. The bills won 40-14.

Palmer Base is now using Starlink Satellite to access high -speed internet. In mid -December, satellites began to overcome the United States instead of Chile, which means that YouTube TV was available on the base. Nollan can flow directly.

Jim is a fan of billing because he grew up in New York State, and Merridith inherited the case from him. He lived during decades of disappointment, including four consecutive losses in Super Bowl. His daughter, 24, has seen less.

“She is a very optimistic person, and perhaps more optimistic about me,” said Jim. “But sometimes, being a fan of billing, it may be difficult.”

Finally, NoosFera got a sailing permit on Sunday evening, minutes before the start of the AFC Championship match. Jim is followed by the boat on a site called Marinetraffic.com. It is not worried about Merridhyth too much, but the Drake Corridor, a corridor from the sea between the Palm Palm and Chilean station, can contain 40 feet.

After settling, Nolan released the iPad and log in to YouTube TV. She sent a picture to prepare to her father-she showed the back of Josh Allen and the result of the game, 27-10, presidents. I watched while the bills tried to return, then lost, 32-29, just only one game of Super Bowl.

“It was a problem,” Nolan said in a text message while the ship was heading towards the Drake corridor, which was likely to be left. Expressive symbols added from the crying face. “But it is still a great season!”