From: Steve Ewing 

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.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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