SEE IT: 49ers-Bears opener gets a soaker

Daniel Chaitin

September 11, 01:47 PM September 11, 01:53 PM

Stormy weather conditions blitzed the San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears as they confronted off in their initial video game of the NFL season on Sunday.

After the tarp came off, Soldier Discipline grew to become saturated ahead of the game's start off, and wild video clips posted to social media showed personnel working with squeegees to force sheets of drinking water off the industry, when players were being found slogging throughout during pre-recreation warmups.

A flash flood warning was put into influence around that place in Chicago, with inches of rain forecast to slide for the duration of the working day.

Nevertheless, the deluge did not cease the activity, which obtained underway with tricky-hitting performs throughout which crashing gamers could be seen splashing h2o.

In other soccer information, fans attending the activity involving the New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens joined alongside one another to sing the national anthem on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.