'Coldest Cowboys Home Game Ever'? Dallas vs. Packers Playoff (But Indoors Here at AT&T Stadium)
ARLINGTON - This isn't Kansas City. This isn't Buffalo. But this is cold - outside of AT&T Stadium here in Arlington, where the game-time temperature for Arlington is projected to be 23 degrees, which would make it one of the coldest home games in Dallas Cowboys history.
Ah, but inside AT&T Stadium? The doors and the roof will of course be closed and it will be a cozy 72 degrees. Hot cocoa (and whatever) will be guzzled. And the Cowboys will play host to the Green Bay Packers in an NFC Wild Card Game on Sunday afternoon untroubled by any inclement weather.
It will be a far cry from the coldest weather for a Cowboys home game: On Christmas Eve 1989 temperatures never got above 10 degrees in DFW. At Texas Stadium - "outdoors" with the famed hole in the roof - the Cowboys finished a miserable 1-15 season with a loss to the Packers.
Come to think of it, the Packers were also involved in another DFW weather episode during the ice storm that plagued Super Bowl XLV.
Thankfully, today's Cowboys and the Packers will be playing indoors.
There is no morning snow or ice, so people traveling to AT&T Stadium should be in good shape there. But the forecast for North Texas beginning this afternoon suggests there will be a "Winter Weather Advisory'' with "a mix of freezing rain and sleet Sunday night into Monday morning ... hazardous road conditions are possible,'' per one weather report.
In Kansas City, where the Chiefs on Saturday night beat Miami, it was 25-below counting the wind chill - enough to cause Patrick Mahomes' helmet to crack.
In Buffalo, they've moved the game against the Steelers back to Monday (and may move it again) because citizens are literally not to leave their homes due to the blizzard.
In DFW? Safe driving. Hot cocoa. And an indoor stadium.
