49ers vs. Packers - Sunday, 4:40 P.M.,
FOXFORECAST: Brutally cold temperatures, partly cloudy to mostly clear. Blustery and breezy.
Winds: Northwest 10-20 mph possible gust of 25 to 30 mph
Kickoff: -4 wind chill: -23
Half Time: -6 wind chill: -28
Second Half: -10 wind chill: -35
Burrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I worked outside on my job for 35 years and managed to learn very quickly from past mistakes as to how to dress appropriately for adapting to extremely harsh winter conditions and the only thing that saved my sorry behind was that I was constantly moving, had access to a warm vehicle occasionally and the luxury of drinking hot coffee with a meal at lunch inside a diner. Everybody stresses the importance of keeping your feet warm which is definitely a must, but would be a difficult task sitting or standing in those horrid conditions for 3 or 4 hours. I've heard that method about using cardboard or styrofoam as insulators under feet. ALL you brave Packer backers be SAFE and use wise judgement to not jeopardize your health while at the game tomorrow!
When I was younger I was damn crazy. No more. That 1990 game vs. the Lions - half of the cars in the Lambeau parking lot would not start after the game. It was AAA service mayhem in there. Frankly ... it sucked!
Yeah, the many things that "youthful" voice in our head would suggest we attempt without knowing any fear! I've never attended a Packer game at Lambeau and it is on my "bucket list," but I'm much older now to even want to consider braving those severe conditions.
But at a younger age? Hell yell, brutal weather conditions or not, when you're young you feel "invincible" and at that time in my life if I had learned that 7,000 tickets were going on sale, I would have made a phone call to a couple of Packer buddies, grabbed up every garment in the house that I thought might keep me from freezing to death, jump in a "reliable" car and drive 6 and a half hours up there to cheer on my beloved Packers......ahh, as Eric Burdon would say, "When I was young."
Plasma....as in the "TV" kind to view tomorrow's game!
