Weather Due to Warm Up for Giants-Pack...Into the Positive Single Digits

Honestly...remind me why on Earth one would willingly live in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Here's how we got here. I was reading an intriguing piece from the always-solid folks at Awful Announcing on how fluffy white snow on a football field seems to give fans a collective hard-on for some reason or another. Frankly, I can't lie in that I too get a bit aroused when there's enough of the white stuff on the field to necessitate shovels for identification of the yardlines and hashmarks. It might as well be viewers' crack. I can't take my eyes off it...it's mesmerizing...even the cover of SI this week...so...beautiful...

Where were we? Oh yes, the snow and Lambeau and the strange and wonderful allure and mystique of it all. Anyway, we were about to write about that and all the reasons we think we love snow games and decided to take a gander at the updated weather forecast for this Sunday in Green Bay. And then we spied the above...and then we fell down. Holy f-in shit! Are you for real? It gets this cold in the mainland United States? Are you sure this isn't Antarctica?

I'd heard plenty of talk about just how cold it would be come Sunday night, but for some reason it didn't register. Or more likely I mistakenly assumed that this was some sort of freakish abberation. But, apparently, Sunday should be the highlight of the weekend for local cheeseheads. Yes, today and tomorrow offer the joys of highs that fail to reach zero degrees. Sunday will be balmy by comparison. I'm not sure why this is striking me so profoundly today.

We tip our hats to you, Green Bay Packers faithful. And if anybody shows up on Sunday in cheese bras, they should be put in a straightjacket...for warmth and for their personal safety and that of others. Eli...uhhh...how do we say this? You might want to pack more than the gloves and that little hand warmer thing that goes around your waist. They say he doesn't like the cold...we're thinking arctic temperatures could be problematic.

For those watching from the comfort of a couch or a bar stool, let it snow. It makes for fine viewing.