It’s very, very, very, very, very cold for the Wild Card matchup between the Packers and the 49ers.
It is extremely cold in Green Bay
Even Packers fans aren’t tailgating.
Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports
HOW COLD IS IT?
So cold that even Wisconsinites -- who would brave hail, sleet, snow, and zombie outbreak for booze -- aren’t drinking heavily four hours before the game.
Thought I'd show up 4 hours before game time and ask people why they would tailgate in these conditions. What I saw: pic.twitter.com/2AGfZRrTPu
— Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) January 5, 2014 Surely, the Packers fans will show up. They'll drink. They'll fill -- or come close to filling -- Lambeau Field, even though it's damn near Arctic. But even this level of drinking indifference is a surprise.
UPDATE:
Tailgating update at 11:40 CT... pic.twitter.com/oSr1sw400x
— Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) January 5, 2014 So cold that the “grass” is not even remotely that anymore:
View from the @RingCentral broadcast booth at Lambeau Field. Absolutely no green on the field. @KNBR @1077TheBone pic.twitter.com/IhS6AJG7Zc
— Mike Hohler (@MikeHohler77) January 5, 2014 A closer look at the "grass" at Lambeau Field @sportslarryknbr @KNBR @1077TheBone pic.twitter.com/BaQcFdRjF8
— Mike Hohler (@MikeHohler77) January 5, 2014 Just millions of blanched corpse-blades. AND YET:
A few 49ers going through early warmups at Lambeau Field. And yes those are shorts. pic.twitter.com/PPetjQC9Eo
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) January 5, 2014 
(Jeff Hanisch, USA TODAY Sports)
PUT SOME DAMN PANTS/SHIRTS ON.
So cold that ski/pimp garb is a perfectly reasonable outfit to be wearing:
... although, based on their peers’ behavior, those guys might very well be pantsless.
So cold that you have to grill your beer to make it merely cold instead of frozen solid:
(Benny Sieu, USA TODAY Sports)
VERY COLD.
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