From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:36:28 -0500, Steve Ewing  wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:08:45 GMT, Doug Bryce 
>wrote:
>
>>   -4F and they're playing football?    Yeckk !  .   I am surprised
>> that there wasn't much of an effect on the game.  Not even traction
>> issues on the hard ground?  Or were they playing on artificial turf?
>
>you misplaced my em dash: it was 4 degrees F abouve zero (though, of
>course, that's only an eigth degree difference in this case anyway).
>There were a lot of comparisons to previous cold games: the
"winner" was
>the Ice Bowl, at -13 degrees F.
>
>The field, as it happens, had been newly sodded (thereby losing us some of
>our home "we're used to the sloppy field" advantage), with warming
>coils/pipes under the sod.  This to make it purty for the cameras.

Ooops....sorry 'bout that .   But even +4F is pretty f***ing cold
to be playing football.  Those heaters explain a lot, though.  Thanks.

Doug

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