Here's an article from the Green Bay Press Gazette. Check out the forecast for the game at the very end. Sounds a lot like last year's game in Chicago:

Weather men

Whether he realized it or not, Bears coach Lovie Smith tweaked McCarthy in a conference call with Wisconsin reporters when asked whether the Bears would practice outdoors this week.

Of course we are, Smith said. Were going outside today. Were scraping the snow off, and thats how you play it. You play in the snow, you practice in it, right?

Not according to McCarthy, who repeatedly had to defend his refusal to practice outdoors last December and January. McCarthy has said this season hed like to practice outdoors once a week, but that hasnt happened because the frozen turf on Clarke Hinkle Field is considered a safety hazard.

Last Dec. 23 at Soldier Field, the game-time temperature was 16 degrees, with 22 mph winds later gusting to 40 mph creating a wind chill of minus-2 and helped unravel the Packers in a 35-7 Bears rout.

I hear we may even break that this week, Smith said of the weather, so were pretty pumped up about that.

As of Thursday night, a forecast on www.weather.com called for a high temperature of 12 degrees and winds reaching 16 mph on Monday in Chicago.

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Bears are going to be out for blood this week after the last game against the Pack.

On a different note, heard on the radio that the Packers were the only team not to double team Plaxico Burress on defense. Does anybody know why that is?

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All I know is that we did more than the score in that last game. The Chicago Bears play-by-play guys said it best. "We did not out-physical the Green Bay Packers once, not one single play in that football game."

Now, we have some injuries, and lord knows we didn't have a very good month, but I can't see what is so dramatically different this time around. I say the Green Bay Packers have plenty of firepower to put a real nice ass whipping on da Bearce once again. And just because I friggin' feel like it, I'm going to put the sign we erected in Lambeau next to the hole that got punched into the visiting team locker room wall. We may have taken it down for obvious reasons, but that doesn't negate the joy it wrought.




A little bit of touch-up work on our offensive and defensive lines this off-season...we can put the sign back up mid-season next year I figure...

Hopefully just in time for da bearce to come callin' to Lambeau. In the meantime, we are going to show Lovie duvy what happens when you start calling your single objective is to whip the Pack when WE don't have anything else to play for. Prepare to be RE-CRUSHED BEARS! It's that karma ju-ju Polargrizz keeps peddling.

I read this article earlier too, and it noted that we are practicing INDOORS!
I don't understand why this is! We are a cold weather team, preparing for a bitter cold game on Monday Night and still McCarthy refuses to go outside and practice, what a joke!

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The Bears practice outside because they have a heated practice field, the Packers don't. You want to tell me what the advantages are of practicing on a frozen field that's hard as a rock?

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This is why we are losing the mystic of Lambeau field, are teams are soft and don't like the cold. That used to be used as intimidation but how can you intimidate anyone when our team is huddled around the heaters.

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When Lombardi was coach the Packers didn't have an indoor practice facility.
Where the hell do you think his taems practiced.

I can understand why McCarthy does not want to take his guys outside on a frozen field. What exactly would they get accomplished other than risking getting a bunch of guys hurt?

The question is why in the world is the practice field not heated? That's what makes absolutely no sense to me.

I don't necessarily think practicing in 20 below weather with 40 mph winds is going to get you very far but I think there would be some merit for 30 minutes of work a couple of times before actually playing in that crap.

I would think you could get an idea of what footwork can be used and what doesn't work which has to be the biggest issue because with that weather the games going to be won or lost on the LOS.

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I understand your point, but to answer your question, weather acclimation, we don't have that Lambeau mystique anymore, practicing indoors has made our team a bunch of softies. Football is meant to be played outside, and when your playing outside in the cold, it just makes sense to practice outside in the cold. I remember a certain team practicing outdoors for a real big game last year, while we stayed indoors, I believe that team beat us on our home turf too, in January, in Green Bay. That should never happen.

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+1 right there i was on that idea up there but you put it in alot better words plus people won't bash you like they do me lol :thumbright:

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