The temperature dropped overnight from 70 degrees on Sunday afternoon to the high 40's this morning, with a 20 mile-per-hour wind.
"He was going against the best pass rush in football and a 30 mile-per-hour wind."
In Central Park, a 20 mile-per-hour wind made the 17-degree temperature feel like minus 15 degrees.
"So you can have 30 mile-per-hour winds that can suddenly accelerate, but we really don't have a way to measure them."
After the game, Tartabull said a better jump might have helped him and acknowledged that the 22 mile-per-hour wind gave him trouble.
So, it didn't take 175 mile-per-hour winds - their lives already were catastrophic.
"It's a forest fire with a 100 mile-per-hour wind behind it."
"Even in the weakest tornado, there are 100 mile-per-hour winds," he said.
A 23 mile-per-hour wind dropped temperatures to 10 below zero and kept many fans away.
It is considered a record as a heptathlon event only because of a 5.07 mile-per-hour wind.