About a week before the AFC championship game, Meredy Snorlan lived on a huge research ship parked in an Antarctic port. The ship called Nuosfera was waiting for a preferred sea condition before plowing it in a water -like water area under the southern end of South America.
In late January, Nolan spent three months at Permastation, a small American research base in Antarctica, and returned home.
She was studying the effects of climate change on animal plankton. And at the moment of her spare, she supported her favorite soccer team, Buffalo Bills. She was wearing a beanie with a banknote logo and a blue pouf on the front. When I rode a net and collected the net in Nets, I hiked a retreat glacier behind the station. Her hat warns the other two Bills fans that she is one of them.
In a way, she didn't behave like a typical Bills fan.
“Make sure Meredis will start diving via a table,” said Ricky Robins, who was studying seabirds, in connection with popular activities among Bills Tailgate fans. 。
But in one important way she did.
“I'm excited every year,” Nolan said well in early November. “But I hope this is the year.”
Since the 1950s, the National Science Foundation has funded the Antarctic research project. Palmer station, built in 1968, is the smallest among three stations, about 40 people in summer and about 20 in winter. It is the warmest, but it still means freezing temperature and snow, even in summer. Some of them, like Nolan, are studying the effects of climate change in the environment. For many people, sports are a way to keep linking to the outside world, even if it is a challenge to connect with the team.
Until recently, high -speed Internet access was limited when it became available. The 2018 participant manual said, “Large -scale downloads and streaming media have a negative impact on everyone else.”
Therefore, sports fans save Internet distribution during game time.
In 2013, Ken Harannie, then a professor at the University of the University, was on a boat when he won the game with Alabama University, a rival who disliked Overn.
Halanych spent 4 hours on uploading the video so that you can watch the play.
He has been to Antarctica eight times since 2000. In 2004, when Overne was one of the three undefeated teams who wanted a spot in the National Championship Game, he persuaded the station manager at Palmer's station to raise the flag of the ship. 。
“I was connected with them and wrote ESPN, saying,” This is my vote from Antarctica, “” said Haranich. “ESPN never responded.”
Darren Roberts went 13 times in Antarctica. He loves the work, but recognizes that it may be isolated. Roberts is not convinced that his wife, Megan, is not a member of his research team. Following Denver, Bronkos helps him connect with his 13 -year -old brother.
“It's really sweet,” Megan Roberts said. “They are all, especially on Bronkos, even when we are in these crazy remote areas. It's surprising to see it. I am in contact with his family.
Darren Roberts was following Bronkos games through Google Graphics, which showed small soccer in the digital field. The movement corresponded to what was happening in the game.
However, when Broncos won the Super Bowl in 2016, the couple was on a lawrence M. Gold. A man named Ernest Stell, a fan of Dallas Cowboys, was captured.
Cowboys did not play, but stells were able to get the ship closer to permer station and receive radio broadcasting using the Internet of the station. Cooks whipped a party snack, and stells held a Super Bowl Party.
“I remember listening to the super bowl on the bridge and sitting in the darkness of the ship,” Roberts said. “And it was actually very special, especially unique at the time.
The United States also operates an Antarctic base, which is much more cold but slightly populated, and can support 1,500 residents at the POST base in front of MCMURDO station in southern New Zealand. 。
Robbins in the Robertses and the Seabirds team have been working in a remote location, making it difficult to follow their favorite teams. He used to work on a small island in Hawaii, where only seven, including himself, lived. He said that such an experience would make Antarctica feel “most”.
“I feel very luxurious to have a chef, a bedroom, running water and freshwater shower,” Robins said.
Seabird Group works from a small building different from other scientists. Robins called it “Barder hut”.
“Darren's rumors were once in a large building with an office, but everyone was really tired of the smell of penguin feces,” Robins said.
The job was busy toward the end of their stay. In other words, following the end of the soccer season was not so easy. All bird eggs were hachched, and the team had to measure the chick. Researchers tagged several birds and removed the tags from other birds. Sometimes I removed the tag late at night or early in the morning.
They counted penguin colonies and measured a huge petrel chick when Bronkos lost the bill in the playoffs.
Nolan was satisfied with the result of the game. Sports is the point of the bond between Nolan and her father, gym. He is very proud of his daughter working in Antarctica, and has become accustomed to explaining animal plankton to others.
“It's like a kind of food chain,” he tells the people. “Without an animal plankton, we will be in trouble.”
At home, Meredis lives about 30 from his parents as a graduate student at the Virginia Marine Science Institute. They love to hear about her work and receive photos of penguins in text messages.
“She is a wonderful child,” said the gym.
They always send text messages during the game. Especially when the gym is not very stressed.
In late December, when the bill played New York Jets, she was putting Krill in a bottle to start the experiment. The gym sent a text message to her that she should not worry about her, the game was blown away. The bill won, 40-14.
Palmer Base uses the Starlink satellite system for high -speed Internet access. In mid -December, satellites began to ping from the United States instead of Chile. In other words, youTube TV was available at the base. Nolan was able to stream her invoice live.
Jim is a fan of Bills. He grew up in northern New York, and Meredis inherited his condition. He has been disappointed for decades, including four consecutive losses in the Super Bowl. His daughter, 24, did not see it.
“She is a very optimistic person and probably more optimistic than me,” said the gym. “But sometimes it may be difficult to be a Bills fan.”
Noosfera finally gained clearance on Sunday evening a few minutes before the start of the AFC championship game. The gym tracked the boat on a site called marinetraffic.com. He is not very worried about Meredis, but there is a 40 -foot wave in the drake passage, which is the spread of the sea between Permal Station and Chile.
After she settled down, Nolan fired the iPad and logged in to YouTube TV. She sent a picture of the setup to his father. He showed the back of Josh Allen's head and the game score 27-10. She saw the bill attempted to come back, then lost 32-29, just one game in the Super Bowl.
“It was very disappointing,” Nolan said in a text message. She added a crying face emoji. “But still a wonderful season!”
