User blog comment:Wingman1/Ware Shoals (1983: Doomsday)/ and some fact-finding./@comment-32656-20120707043225/@comment-32656-20120708065916

No harm, no foul.

Jerry Butler was playing for the Buffalo Bills at the time - and they played in Buffalo only a few hours before DD started. He and his teammates would likely have been at home - and incinerated.