-25 below windchills this morning....

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Welcome Eagle and Patriot fans

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How's the crowd this year?  Are they seeing the numbers they expected or is this year going to be a flop in the eyes of the league and it's sponsors? 

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@JimmyinSD said:
How's the crowd this year?  Are they seeing the numbers they expected or is this year going to be a flop in the eyes of the league and it's sponsors? 

I just read tix prices are higher this year...So go figure. 

The weeks events (including the outdoor ones) look really well attended from the local news vantage point. 

Some reports are saying 80/20 Eagles fans. Probably wont look that way in the stadium though. 

Dirty Harry, The Vikings and Kevin Hart paid a visit to a family with a kid who's a big Viking fan and battling cancer. They re-did his room in Vikings stuff and his mom's family room got a make over too. They payed him a visit too. Pieces like that are probably not going to be reported on nationally.

I'm sure this weather (vs 35 or 40) is going to be spoken about quite a bit in the national press. 

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I think people have been spoiled for too many years here. The winters have been warm in general for the last 20 minus a few. And I live 4 hours north of the banana belt that is MPLS/saint paul.

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I didn't go outside till noon so the advisory had passed. It has been a decent winter so far. Not so much cold or snow. It was good for the farmers that we got some though. That poor, shivering, scared groundhog saw his shadow so 6 more weeks of winter. 

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Sunday's Super Bowl is expected to be the coldest ever
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Bloomington, Minnesota (CNN)Typically, the Super Bowl is situated in a warm weather locale.Not this year. Not even close.
Super Bowl LII, which is Sunday in Minneapolis, is projected to be the coldest Super Bowl of all time. 
There's no snow in the game day forecast, but the predicted high is in the single digits -- that's Fahrenheit, not Celsius -- with a low below zero. Factor in the wind chill, and it likely will feel below zero the whole day. 
And it's expected to be 3 degrees at kickoff, which is at 5:30 p.m. CT (6:30 p.m. ET) in Minneapolis.
Fans should get a reprieve from the cold, of course, if they have tickets to the game. US Bank Stadium, home of the Minnesota Vikings, has a fixed roof. 
"Despite the cold, there will be plenty of warm entries to get you into the game," Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's senior vice president of events, said this week.
The coldest Super Bowl to date was held near Detroit. It was 13 degrees at kickoff for Super Bowl XVI in 1982 at the Silverdome, which also was an indoor venue. 
The National Weather Service office in Minneapolis issued a special weather statement this week, warning of bitterly cold wind chills for those outside this weekend for Super Bowl festivities.
The wind chill in Minneapolis is expected to dip 10 to 25 below zero from Saturday night through game time Sunday night, with 1 to 2 inches of snow expected Saturday.
However, that forecast doesn't appear to bother the NFL.
"I'm often asked what makes Super Bowl LII in Minnesota unique, and the conversation often turns to the cold and to the weather," O'Reilly said. "But my real answer is it's the people. The people of Minnesota, the incredible volunteers who have come together -- record numbers of volunteers."
More than 10,000 people have volunteered to help during Super Bowl week, according to the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee.
"It's the people and the energy and the warmth here in the 'Bold North' that is really coming through," O'Reilly said.
While Minnesotans may be radiating warmth, it's probably safe to say that ice sculptures will remain intact at Super Bowl Live, a 10-day, outdoor fan festival.

Conversely, it was much warmer Sunday at the Pro Bowl in Orlando. Though the high was in the mid-70s, it wasn't exactly ideal. Camping World Stadium has no roof, and it was pouring rain.The previous two Super Bowl hosts were considerably warmer (Houston for Super Bowl LI and Santa Clara, California, for Super Bowl 50). The next four cities to host Super Bowls will be Atlanta, Miami, Tampa and Los Angeles.
Even if this Sunday's Super Bowl were held outdoors, it still wouldn't be the coldest NFL game of all time. Based on kickoff times, the coldest game in league history was the iconic "Ice Bowl" at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was 13 degrees below zero (wind chill minus 48) when the Green Bay Packers hosted the Dallas Cowboys on December 31, 1967.
Other arctic-like games in NFL history include the San Diego Chargers at the Cincinnati Bengals on January 10, 1982, when the temperature was minus 9 degrees, with a wind chill of 59 below; and January 10, 2016, when the Seattle Seahawks played the Vikings outdoors, with a temperature of minus 6 degrees and a wind chill of 25 below zero.Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, was the first Super Bowl played in an outdoor cold-weather stadium. The NFL got lucky that season: It was 49 degrees at kickoff.
This will be the first Super Bowl in Minnesota since Super Bowl XXVI, when the Washington Redskins defeated the Buffalo Bills 37-24 on January 26, 1992, at the Metrodome.

CNN's Gene Norman and Haley Brink contributed to this report.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/sport/sup...index.html

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There won't be another Superbowl in Minneapolis for a long.....LONG....time. The franchise got their thank you for building the stadium, but its nuts to have them in northern sites in the winter. 

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Personally I think as long as the site isn't a bust in terms of attendance and it's a decent indoor facility in the north,  there is no reason not to keep it moving around to spread the nfl wealth among as many of its cities as it can.

I mean what really there were more weather issues with the one in Dallas a few years ago than what they had in minny this year.

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At least the cold kept the Philly celebrators in Minnesota from wrecking anything

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50's and some 60's in Atl, GA this time of year. Not exactly Miami, but that's a hell of a lot warmer than the cold snap we had hit this past weekend. 

Yah, probably the last SB in MN for a long while. But I am proud of our city, the feed-back is positive from visitors (sans the cold), it looked beautiful on the overhead shots (as did UBS at night), it embraced the cold and made it the centerpiece of the advertising. 

Nice job Mpls...Insert clap emoji here.