It is currently 15 below here in wilds of Northern Wisconsin. It is not that cold in Green Bay though - there it's only 8 below. That's practically tropical. The high down there is supposed to be 3 above. The game is at 5:30 local time, so I'm guessing by the end of it, it will be back below 0 again. The fans will be too liquored up to care at that point. Tomorrow they will wake up hungover, down a few toes and happy as clams because the Packers are back in the Super Bowl.
The wind, by the way, is expected to blow at between 10 and 13 miles-per-hour. No biggie there. The really hard part - literally hard - will be the field. The good news for the players is that they will probably be too numb from the cold to notice how bad it hurts to fall. The bad news is that I doubt there will be slugs of whiskey waiting for them in the locker room at halftime the way there were back in the old Met in Minnesota (Bud Grant believed in giving his players a little shot of liquid courage before sending them back out to freeze their asses off in the name of glory some more).
This game will likely not top The Ice Bowl at any rate, when the wind chill was -48. Bart Starr and Jerry Kramer and those guys will be up in a heated booth somewhere talking about how today's players are all wussies who don't know what real cold is, and back in their day they had to clear the mastadon carcasses off the turf before they could even play and blah blah. Of course they were all whining bitches back in their day too...except Ray Nitschke. That dude was crazy.
(Note: I know buttcracks are technically warm, therefore making my "Buttcrack of Hell" line nonsensical. But I don't care. I like writing "Buttrack of Hell" and will use any excuse to do so.)
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The really hard part - l... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Peter F. | January 20, 2008 11:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The really hard part - literally hard - will be the field.
Hmmm, I wonder just how well Lambeau's heating coils will work.
Stay warm, Dan! And Go Pac!
1. Posted by Peter F. | January 20, 2008 11:56 AM |
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Posted on January 20, 2008 11:56