Hurricane Matthew Kills 3, Can't Stop Football Game

Hurricane Matthew killed at least three people when it hit North Carolina on Saturday, the Weather Channel reports. And according to the Chicago Tribune, multiple flood warnings were issued for Raleigh, which was expecting 7 inches of rain. But that didn't stop NC State from hosting its scheduled football game against Notre Dame at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh amid 20mph winds and an "endless torrential downpour," USA Today reports. The game was a "slopfest" played on a "100-yard slip and slide." Offense was basically an impossibility. At halftime, when the game was delayed due to lightning, NC State held a 3-0 lead, and its lone field goal was "celebrated like a game winner." "This is not so much a football game as a spectacle, a curiosity," the Tribune sums up. See video examples of the slopfest here and here. (More Hurricane Matthew stories.)