Vikings-Seahawks Wild Card Game Could be Coldest in NFL History

Tarkenton was asked to predict Sunday’s game.

“It should be a major, major event”.

Weather will have no adverse effect on the first matchup of Wild Card Weekend between the Kansas City Chiefs (11-5) and Houston Texans (9-7) at 4:35 p.m. EST Saturday, as the game will be played in the sheltered confines of Houston’s NRG Stadium, a facility that has a retractable roof. Barr is really their leader in the linebacking core, so youre going to miss guys like those guys. The “intensity level” of the playoffs will be a topic of discussion for a Vikings’ roster that has just seven active players who have played in more than one postseason game. They were completely dominated in the game, but that was a month ago. The defense and special teams have been strengths for most of the year.

The Vikings defense, while it didn’t rank better than No. 17 against the run and No. 12 versus the pass, still let up a mere 18.9 points a contest and they were especially effective on third down, finishing fifth in the league on the critical down.

The Vikings are an ascending young team under head coach Mike Zimmer. Newton struggles against the Seattle defence every time they meet but during their last game against Seattle, Newton was able to add up 269 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions for the win. I remember my parents teaching me how to calculate ERA in the Dairy Queen in Poulsbo when I was in kindergarten. And you’d have to deal with that too.

It’s part of team lore that Grant forbid his players to wear gloves or long underwear during games in the Minnesota winter.

“The weather in the morning may be a little soggy for tailgaters”, Feerick said. I see it as an advantage for us, with us being used to it. Whatever the temperature is, we just have to go out there and execute the best we can. And when you’re playing in weather that is well below freezing, sometimes you can throw the stat sheet right out the igloo. We’ll take the hard one. Some, especially linemen, play with bare arms, no matter the temperature.

And Foreman said it was from those fans the Vikings of those years drew inspiration.

“And I think we had some hangover from it, just like, look at the history of teams coming out of the Super Bowl, how well are they doing the next year”, Carroll also said. We kind of mocked the other team. “They’ve continued to maximize the talent that we have”.

Forecasts have the game-time temperature at or near zero degrees, which would make it one of the coldest games in National Football League history.

Grant’s Vikings made the Super Bowl four times from 1969 to 1976, but they never won it either. I mean, this is a spectacular run. Everyone on this team seems to have the same goal in mind.

The Cardinals already know a lot about Seattle, a division foe, and the Vikings, who they beat on December 10. They were 16 in points scored. “They just go out there and do their jobs”.

The Seahawks undoubtedly will say it makes no difference to them: The field is still 100 yards, it’s the same for the other guys, yadda yadda bleepin’ yada. “I’m serious. You know, I think that what happens, by living up there and playing up there and practicing outside and [playing at] old Metropolitan Stadium outside, by the time game time came, you’re so focused on the game and what you’re going to do and the excitement of it, I did not remember being cold”.

Here is the way it works: The coach tells the players the cold won’t be a factor.