"Colder........
That's the first word of the National Weather Service forecast for Sunday in Minneapolis. More specifically: a high of 1, a low of minus-7. The wind chill is expected to be about 25 below at dawn and still 15-20 below at the noon local kick. Each gust will feel like an ice dagger.

Colder. That's the phrase because it's just arriving. It was 32 and sunny on Wednesday, which also can be called "early May" in Minnesota.

So here comes the kind of winter blast the area is famous for, just as the Minnesota Vikings will host the Seattle Seahawks in a playoff game out in the elements of TCF Bank Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota.......The wind affects things more," Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said Wednesday. "The cold is the cold. The ball is going to be harder, a little more slippery."
Players may not prefer it, but in terms of football history, "colder" comes right on time.


This will be the first Vikings home playoff game held outdoors since Dec. 26, 1976 (the regular season was shorter then, thus the playoffs earlier). Minnesota was long famous for games in the bitter cold – Carl Eller and Alan Page, mauling someone in the chill of old Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington."

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