Rams-Panthers game includes threat of thunderstorms

The calendar says January. The weather forecast in Charlotte screams September.

Depending on which unreliable weather forecasting app you rely on (and they all sort of suck these days), there's a threat of thunderstorms for Saturday's Rams-Panthers wild-card contest. Which opens the door to the possibility of a delay, before or during the game.

And that could create potential chaos for the NFL.

Rams-Panthers is due to begin at 4:30 p.m. ET, on Fox. Packers-Bears streams on Prime Video at 8:00 p.m. ET. If lightning delays the early game, the NFL says it can slide the late-game kickoff by 10 minutes.

So there's a chance of two playoff games going on at once, depending on whether and to what extent Rams-Panthers is delayed by Mother Nature. Which could prompt some to utter a different phrase that begins with "muther."

Especially in Chicago and Milwaukee, where the Packers-Bears game is due to be televised on the Fox affiliate that will be broadcasting Rams-Panthers.