OT - Green Bay playoff game could be coldest in NFL history
They don’t call it the frozen tundra for nothing. Sunday’s NFC wild card game at Lambeau Field will likely go down as one of the three coldest days in NFL history, with temperatures expected to dip below freezing by kickoff and wind chills that could hit -25 or colder during the daylight hours. Once the sun sets, the temperatures will drop even more and by Monday morning, the mercury is expected to drop to 20 below...
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/green-bay-packers-forecast-coldest-playoff-game-san-francisco-49ers/
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:52 PM ^
That's just dangerous. Some drunken idiot is going to play tough guy and rip his shirt off with paint on his chest and then lose both arms to frostbite.
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:56 PM ^
Raising the IQ of humanity's gene pool...
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^
Except chances are good he will have already procreated
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:02 PM ^
that would have fallen off, too....
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:53 PM ^
I will be watching this game live...........from my 70* couch and home.
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
Love the picture of the frozen beer,lol!
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
I would rather stay home. It's not even fun when it's that cold.
January 4th, 2014 at 8:33 AM ^
and many season ticket holders did not opt for tickets to this game. Kind of hard to believe a playoff game in Green Bay not being a sell out, but this winter has been absolutely brutal.
January 3rd, 2014 at 5:15 PM ^
Man, I work for a utility and pretty much all field work except for emergency stuff and the most pressing jobs stop around those sorts of wind chills. That's dangerous stuff. I will watch, but between bouts of shoveling and then from the comfort of my family room. When I worked in the field, I would cancel all meetings if I knew it was going to be like that.
January 3rd, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
Go Pack! I live in milwaukee and was scared I would have to drive to Illinois or Madison for the game (due to blackout). I was offered half off tickets, but said no. Just not worth it.
January 3rd, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
Fire Al Gore!!
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^
Game shouldn't be played until it warms up, it's to dangerous. A 12-4 team shouldn't even be a 5th seed anyways.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:07 PM ^
Has gotten worse each day...
Hopefully no one is seriously hurt.
That said, I heard about this a few days ago and took the time to do a little wiki reading on the Ice Bowl, I highly suggest you all read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game
There was also a "freezer bowl" that had the lowest wind chill ever recorded.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:08 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
Sold out. No blackout.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
It's getting worse here each day, too. Monday night the low is supposed to be -13 to -19 on Monday night here.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:56 PM ^
was cold. i thought it was the coldest game up to that point; even colder than the cha,pionship game in green bay back in the '60s.
i agree, that umich -- pudue game just sucked. i left the car and it was snowing. when i was crossing the golf course to the game, it started to sleet.; the rain started when i got to the gate. the wind was from the WNW at a blustery 25mph with gust up to 50mph. the field was still grass/mud at that time, and i remember mercury hayes boy surfing in the puddle along the sidelines near the northeast corner of the stadium.
-- and there is no way that there were even close to 100k there that day; maybe 60k.
January 4th, 2014 at 9:40 AM ^
And agree that no way there was 100,000 people in the stadium. It looked nearly half-empty, that is, if you could look up. I remember the freezing rain blowing into my face almost horizontally forcing me to look at my feet most of the time. Being cold sucks but being wet & cold is even worse. But a friend & I did manage to brave it out until the end.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:46 PM ^
I remember back in the early 90s when temps fell to -20F w/ windchills even colder.
I had to walk ~50 yards from my car in the outdoor parking lot to get into my workplace. I was so ready for it to be effin cold, that it really wasn't that bad.
Later that day, I had to walk about ~200 yards from my car to get into my night school building. The last ~150 yards were just brutal, no matter what my mindset.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
I agree they should delay it. No reason to get people hurt.
January 3rd, 2014 at 9:28 PM ^
Just think - this is the game that would be nice and toasty inside Ford Field had the Lions given enough of a shit to win a division that was handed to them with a big bow on it.
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
...and they would proceed to get rolled by SF.
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:02 PM ^
It is insane to me that they are going to have people sit in the open with negative-30 degree-like temperatures for 3+ hours. I get that football is tough and all that, but is GB and the NFL going to pay for hospitalizations of these people?
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:02 PM ^
Buncha pansies here. Dress for it & they will be fine. Pack fans are a tough crew
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:04 PM ^
They heat the field from underneath so that tundra will never freeze--in theory.
January 3rd, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
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January 4th, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
with no problem. The key is to avoid any exposed skin. If one of the teams figured out how to do that effectively, they'd have a huge advantage.