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Have I mentioned it's cold?

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Have I mentioned it's cold?

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That alone should = automatic 1+ week concussion protocol
Only a little warmer:

GO!

4:30 PM FOX, 19F degrees
Communist Packers (9-8) > @Cowboys (12-5, -7.5)

8:00 PM NBC, 6F degrees
@Lions (12-5, -3) > Rams (10-7)

[GoCubsGo]

Have I mentioned it's cold?

https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/ ... 9372005647

That alone should = automatic 1+ week concussion protocol
Only a little warmer:

GO!

4:30 PM FOX, 19F degrees
Communist Packers (9-8) > @Cowboys (12-5, -7.5)

8:00 PM NBC, 6F degrees
@Lions (12-5, -3) > Rams (10-7)

-8° here this morning. Took the dog out, could not imagine playing a football game.

[O Really]

Temp doesn't matter much playing inside the domed Lions' stadium.

I think the Packers -Cowboys game shoulda been in Green Bay. Ice Bowl redux.

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I played a friendly frigid soccer game once in Missoula during our Snow Joke Festival. Not awful, but I didn't ever do it again.

Temp doesn't matter much playing inside the domed Lions' stadium.

Opps, except for getting there.

I think the Packers -Cowboys game shoulda been in Green Bay. Ice Bowl redux.

Green Bay, 5:00 pm: Temp 4 °F, Feels Like -13 °F, Wind 13 mph

1967 NFL Championship Game (Ice Bowl)
December 31
Cowboys @Packers (-6½), Landry vs Lombardi, Don Meredith vs game MVP Bart Starr
Announcers
Ray Scott (1st half) and Jack Buck (2nd half) (play by play), Frank Gifford (color commentator), Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier (sideline reporters, brrr)[/color]

It is still the coldest game ever played in NFL history.

... The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C); under the revised National Weather Service wind chill index implemented in 2001, the average wind chill would have been −36 °F (−38 °C).

Lambeau Field's turf-heating system malfunctioned, and when the tarpaulin was removed from the field before the game, it left moisture on the field. The field began to freeze gradually in the extreme cold, leaving an icy surface that became worse as more and more of the field fell into the shadow of the stadium. The heating system, made by General Electric, cost $80,000 and was bought from the nephew of George Halas, George S. Halas. On the sidelines before the game, some Dallas players believed that Lombardi had purposely removed power to the heating coils. The heating system would eventually be given the moniker Lombardi's Folly....

Our soccer field was frozen solid

The Wisconsin State University–La Crosse (now the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse)Marching Chiefs band was scheduled to perform the pre-game and half-time shows. However, during warm-ups in the brutal cold, the woodwind instruments froze and would not play; the mouthpieces of brass instruments got stuck to the players' lips; and seven members of the band were transported to local hospitals for hypothermia. The band's further performances were canceled for the day.... During the game, an elderly spectator in the stands died from exposure....

The officials were unable to use their whistles after the opening kick-off. As referee Norm Schachter blew his metal whistle to signal the start of play, it froze to his lips. As he attempted to free the whistle from his lips, the skin ripped off and his lips began to bleed. The conditions were so hostile that instead of forming a scab, the blood simply froze to his lip. For the rest of the game, the officials used voice commands and calls to end plays and officiate the game. Nothing was immune from the cold; at one point during the game, CBS commentator Frank Gifford remarked, "I'm going to take a bite of my coffee," as it too had frozen in the mug.

... No copy of the complete telecast is known to exist.

... After missing a potential game-tying field goal, Green Bay scored the game-winning touchdown on its subsequent drive, re-gaining the lead, 21–17, with only 13 seconds remaining....

The Drive
In their last offensive drive, the Packers took possession at their own 32-yard line with 4:50 left in regulation time. With the wind chill around −70 °F (−57 °C)[47] (or −50 °F (−46 °C) according to the revised formula) Starr led his team down the field, toward the south end zone....

The game had started off shortly after 1 p.m. CST, and it was nearing sunset....

"Here are the Packers, third down, inches to go, to paydirt. 17–14, Cowboys out in front, Packers trying for the go-ahead score. Starr begins the count. Takes the snap...He's got the quarterback sneak and he's in for the touchdown and the Packers are out in front! 20–17! And 13 seconds showing on the clock and the Green Bay Packers are going to be...World Champions, NFL Champions, for the third straight year!" – Ted Moore, Packers radio announcer

... Since the playoff era began in 1933, the 1967 Packers are the only team to win a third consecutive NFL title. (The 1931 Packers won a third consecutive, but without a postseason.)

... Packers linebacker Ray Nitschke developed frostbite in his feet, causing his toenails to fall off and his toes to turn purple. Bart Starr had frostbite on his fingers and several Packer players were suffering from flu-like symptoms. Cowboys George Andrie, Willie Townes, and Dick Daniels also suffered frostbite from the game.

... Green Bay went on to finish the postseason by easily defeating the American Football League (AFL) champion Oakland Raiders, 33–14, in the second AFL–NFL World Championship Game.

Statistical comparison is as poor offensively as you would guess.

... This would be the last year the NFL championship game was considered more important than the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, for in the following year Joe Namath and the New York Jets staged an upset victory over the Baltimore Colts that would bring the AFL to full legitimacy and validate the merger of the two leagues that had been agreed upon in 1966 and would be consummated in 1970....

On the NFL Network's countdown program, NFL Top 10, the Ice Bowl has been named the top or near the top of several lists such as:

Top 10 Bad Weather Games– #1
Top 10 Games with a Name– #2
Top 10 Gutsy Calls– #1 (Bart Starr's sneak)
Top 10 Clutch drives– #4 ...

Future Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees involved in the game

Lots, but not Don Meredith

[GoCubsGo]

The wheels have fallen off.

Who's the next coach of the Cowboys?

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The wheels have fallen off.

Who's the next coach of the Cowboys?

[GoCubsGo]

The wheels have fallen off.

Who's the next coach of the Cowboys?

Won't be their defensive coordinator.

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ETTD.

The wheels have fallen off.

Who's the next coach of the Cowboys?

Won't be their defensive coordinator.

It's a beautiful day.

J. Love 16-21, 272 YDS, 3 TD
A. Jones 21 CAR, 118 YDS, 3 TD


The cold weather was GB's 23rd man

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Congrats Lions!




Finally an exciting football game!

BTW, Mike Tirico is such an improvement over Al Michaels.

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Congrats Lions!

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Finally an exciting football game!

BTW, Mike Tirico is such an improvement over Al Michaels.

Phew, nice forced punt and clock-killing drive. 1st Playoff win in 32 years, plus another home game coming! People were crying in the stands.

Great day, I'm 2-2.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Go football:
4:30 PM CBS, 17F degrees
Steelers (10-7) vs @Bills (11-6, -10)

Go:
8:15 PM ESPN/ABC/ESPN+, 68F degrees
Eagles (11-6, -3) > @Buccaneers (9-8)

Y'all?

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Go Bills!

Go Bucs!

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Have fun out there!

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Have fun out there!
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Those poor kids. Buffalo supposedly had volunteers clearing snow. "They were paid $20 per hour." Maybe not clearing so much in Steelers' sections

Or not,

[O Really]

Some years ago in Buffalo city council: hey our Bills are a good team and they deserve a good stadium. Let's build a great beautiful stadium the lines os which you've never seen. Let's build it in open air so the players don't have to breathe conditioned air. And we'll have real turf like with natural conditions. We don't need no stinking covered stadium. It's Buffalo - we're used to a little cold.

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Thought I read that they were lined up but had to be canceled due to a stay at home order.

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Josh Allen has some skills.

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Thought I read that they were lined up but had to be canceled due to a stay at home order.

There were a few citizen-shovelers featured on TV news last night, but you may be correct for most They'd need a huge crew in order to keep the sideline seats from being buried many feet deep.

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Go Bills! ...

Congrats. GO @Bills (-2.5 early) > KC!!!