As someone who attended the '4-degree game' playoff game on a cold Saturday night at Gillette (vs. the Titans) almost exactly 20 years ago...
Ha, I had the complete opposite experience. I was well prepared and wasn't really impacted by the weather.
I was at the 2007 NFCC Giants @ Packers game which was the 3rd coldest game in NFL history . Froze my ass off even with battery powered socks but still a top-three sports experience of my life.
+1. If the buffstream link isn't working, then topstreams always is (once you get past the 2-3 popups at the start).
Same here. I dressed in full snowmobile gear (minus the helmet) and never got cold. Of course the whole place was standing the entire time. My feet did get a little cold, but walking around at halftime cured that quickly. A couple funny things:
I tailgated with a group that had an electrician - we had a tent with side covers, a generator, lights, and heat fans. We got it up to a solid 50-55 degrees in there so I remember only wearing a sweatshirt while we tailgated. I did singe my Seymour jersey sitting too close to the heat fan.
When I was in college, I attended this game. Never was so cold in my life. I had 4 or 5 layers on everything, we showed up at the start of the 2nd quarter and left late in the 3rd quarter when it was 21-3. And we lingered in the heated bathrooms as long as we could at halftime, and I was still frozen when we got home. No interest in ever attending another game like that again.
Man Hart Lee Dykes beasted that game. Too bad he was wasted because he was on that team. Also, if you asked me for a typical Marc Wilson line - it would be that exact one. Ditto Bob Perryman.
Perryman was insane at Bourne High. No one tackled him 1-on-1. Died in 2023 of dementia at age 58
56 passing attempts by the Pats!!!!
That was the most I felt sorry for any person just standing on a sideline. He looked like he could keel over and die at any point from exposure.
You could also watch The Holdovers on Peacock. $6 is cheaper than a ticket to most theaters these days.
We got three doubleheaders instead of two tripleheaders, which is what I would have preferred instead of the Monday night game.
Cheaper than a value meal at McDonalds or a large or whatever they call it at Starbucks or a couple donuts and a coffee at Dunkin.
I was pretty bundled up and decently comfortable, though I distinctly remember two things:
I don’t buy drink soda or eat donuts or get coffee at dunk
Well yes but those are worth more than this one game
If the Eagles lose in his absence, AJ Brown’s dream of playing for Belichick may yet come true.
Same here. The only time the teacher nuns let us play tackle football in the schoolyard was when it had a good cushion of snow. Loved snow games ever since.
That was a day game though. I looked at the weather and the WC could be -30 by the end of the game.
If you play in it, it's football weather.
