Will Weather Be a Factor?

Mike Menges
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If you were playing, would you go sleeveless or put on the cold weather gear?

With the Cats traveling to Salt Lake City this weekend, the weather looks to be below 40 degrees with a chance of rain or snow. Will this be a factor? We Debate. You decide.

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7 months ago

http://arizona.247sports.com/Article/University-of-arizona-wildcats-football-university-of-utah-utes-101775
With the Cats traveling to Salt Lake City this weekend, the weather looks to be below 40 degrees with a chance of rain or snow. Will this be a factor? We Debate. You decide.
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7 months ago

Small chance of wet weather during the game, but I've come to not trust the Weather Channel's forecasts too closely. Bottom line either way, if Arizona runs the ball with success, this game is theirs. Maybe a little wetness puts Lotulelei on his heels a bit?
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7 months ago

Having played high school football in upstate New York and now have lived at 7,000 ft. for more than 30 years, I find this whole topic hilarious. Cold? What do you mean cold? It's probably going to be over 40 most of the game. This is low humidity country. 40 isn't cold in low humidity. Don't be a bunch of wusses! S=@#%! the ground isn't even going to be frozen!
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7 months ago

The column is great entertainment, but you softies from SoCal really do need to get off the beach every so often and drive up into the mountains.
This isn't the frozen tundra of the "ice bowl" in Green Bay in '66 or blustery Soldier's Field in Chitown or Buffalo in a snowstorm.
Cats will be fine, weather=No Factor.
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Okay, okay. Maybe not our best discussion. . . And probably not as cold as upstate New York. . . But definitely colder than Tucson.
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Ha ha, actually it was good. In a funny sort of way.
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7 months ago

This is what cold looks like... So lets bring it on... 40 is down right balmy...

This post was edited by Pin High on 11/16/2012 at 9:47 PM
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tonight my house is 69 degrees... I am freezing my ass off!!!
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On a more serious note I thought I'd relate a story to all you guys freezing at 69 degrees. A coworker at the plant once said it best for all of us up here in the mountains. "When I retire I'm going to load my snow blower onto the back of my truck and drive south until someone asks, "What in the hell is that thing?" "Then I'm going to stop and stay for a while.
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Sorry gang, but anytime you're blowing smoke out of your face mask it's cold. We're not talking about sitting in your den with the heater on and a blanket over you're lap. We're talking about trying to grip a football with swollen knuckles. Ever take a hit to the body in the cold? It's a different kind of hurt. I can guarantee you any aches and pains will be amplified tonight.
Anyway, have fun watching the game from the comfort of your sofa as our guys "weather" the weather on the field.
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Weather Update hour and half before kickoff:
52 degrees with 26 mph winds and gusts up to 35 mph.
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Gary Randazzo said...
We're talking about trying to grip a football with swollen knuckles.

I always thought cold reduced swelling.
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bpwildcat said...
I always thought cold reduced swelling.

Muscle swelling, but not the type of bone bruises these guys live with from week to week.
Update on weather, 48 degrees and fortunately the wind has died down to about 13 mph.
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7 months ago

Well, it's raining. I guess Mike and I weren't wasting our time with this article after all. Funny how that works...hmmm.
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It really wasn't that bad. Where I came from they would have called it beautiful football weather. Yeah the rain was a bitch. But it never rained very hard and didn't last that long. It got pretty cold by part way into the forth quarter, but I suspect that there were guys on our team that had never before played in better weather for football.
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