There was also a rescheduling in the NHL, although not for such dramatic reasons: During the Stanley Cup finals in 1988 – there was a power outage at Boston Garden during Game 4.
(I don’t know if it counts as a reschedule though, since they just moved it to the date when Game might have been)
I remember when the 2014 Superbowl was set for the remodeled Giants open-air stadium in New Jersey hoping for a massive blizzard that day. It was stupid scheduling in my opinion. The NFL deserved to have all the problems that could easily have arisen.
In 1997, Premier league club Middlesborough called off their game against Blackburn due to 23 out of their 40 man squad being too ill to play. They had 17 players available, but the nature of those squads were such that those 17 players were not really PL quality by any measure.
The problem was, teams cannot call off their games without permission from the Premier league. Middlesborough were fined and deducted 3 points. They ended the season in the relegation spots, only 2 points from safety. Had they fielded a team of kids and got a hammering they would still have been better off come the end of the season.
Tottenham Hotspur faced a similar situation in 2006, they only needed to match a rivals result to ensure a rare qualification for the champions league , but the night before 10+ first team players came down with food poisoning. They asked the league about a postponement but were told no, played the game despite visibly being off the pace, dropped points and lost their opportunity to compete in the champions league.
I’m not sure if Quartz is aware of the controversy surrounding the NFC Championship game, but I think it’s ironic that this is the example used, given that many people believe the Rams did not earn that right due to the blown call at the end of that game 
That was after a number of stoppages to try to clear the fog from the ice by having players skate around. The day was unusually warm, the inside temperature in the building was up to 80 degrees, and the old Garden was not air-conditioned. Since the score was tied, nobody felt guilty about cancelling it entirely.
This is true if they ended up losing the rearranged game with Blackburn, anyway. If they beat Blackburn, they would have had the same points but a better goal difference. Either way, they were still getting relegated unless they found another couple of points from somewhere else (or if the league had agreed to the postponement in advance and not docked them points).
they had a plan to move the game to a later date if there was a snowstorm. In fact there was snow the next day but not a lot.
also the stadium was fairly new, it was not an upgrade of the old giants stadium.
Even that would have caused all kinds of problems at least for the fans with the tickets. I still say scheduling the Super Bowl for an outside stadium in NJ in February is taking
a huge risk and a stupid decision.
Football can be played in the snow just fine. I see nothing wrong with a snowy Superbowl.