Bills vs. Cowboys: 'Snow Bowl' or 'Super Bowl'? 'Pretty Cold!' Says Jerry Jones

"Obviously that’s a great home-field advantage for the (Buffalo) Bills, especially in the winter,'' Dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones says, circling a big one on the calendar. "They’re a great football team.''

It has become an annual Dallas Cowboys NFL schedule-release tradition, certainly for the team and yes, too, for the media members who travel to road games as well.

How cold, windy, rainy and snowy is it going to be when the Cowboys travel to play within the NFC East at Philadelphia, at Washington and at New York?

But this time around? A different kind of test awaits up in Orchard Park. The 2023 regular season schedule features a number of challenges but one change so notable that Cowboys COO Stephen Jones mentions it right out of the gate when asked about the slate: Dallas Cowboys at Buffalo Bills on December 17.

"Obviously that’s a great home-field advantage for the Bills, especially in the winter,'' Jones said. "They’re a great football team.''

Indeed, the Josh Allen-led Bills are three-time defending AFC East champs. But there are other "great football teams'' on the Dallas schedule. So there is no hiding why Buffalo is the jump-out trip.

"That’s obviously more than likely going to be pretty cold," Jones said.

The year starts with back-to-back games against the rival New York Giants and Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets. In October, there are back-to-back prime-time road games taking the Cowboys all the way to California to play against the 49ers and and asking the same of them to go to SoCal to play Chargers.

The "cold-weather/late-season'' Eagles game is actually in DFW, on December 10, and they the Cowboys finish the season with three out of four games on the road: At Buffalo, Christmas Eve at Miami (no snow in the forecast), December 30 with the Lions visiting and then a Sat/Sun. January 6/7 meeting at Washington ... with weather a factor.

It will be dark and it will be cold and it will be snowy. ... and the rematch between the two teams that played twice in the Super Bowl in the 1990s (with Dallas of course winning both) might just be facing playoff implications again on this fateful coming appointment.

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