In general I agree but Minneapolis can make GB look like a joke when it comes to both the temps and wind chill. At some point you feel like it might be hard to convince players to play 3-5 games in that annually.
But yeah, football outdoors is the way it's suppose to be, just like baseball.
Some of us remember the 2016 playoff game at the Gophers’ stadium while US Bank Stadium was under construction (no, I wasn’t there, but I watched on TV). Temperature was -6 at kickoff with a windchill of -25. Blair Walsh missing a chip shot field goal that would have won the game didn’t make it seem any warmer (although it’s definitely par for the course Vikings-kicker-wise … ever since Gary Anderson’s perfect season ended with his missed kick vs. the Falcons in the playoffs, Vikings’ kickers have been cursed).
That said, I miss watching Vikings games on TV at the Met with Bud Grant on the sideline and clouds of everybody’s breath and bundled-up fans and opposing players trying to survive while Grant wouldn‘t let his players wear gloves or use heaters … the Vikings’ success in cold-weather games has never been the same since they moved into the Metrodome.
A game I
was at was December 2016 when the Colts thumped the Vikings to knock them out of the playoffs (and I got to see Adrian Peterson’s last carry as a Viking, which was, appropriately, a fumble). Thank goodness that game was inside … it was -17 that morning and the
high temperature was only -11. (One thing that wasn’t so fun was trying to find a place to hold my winter parka crammed into the seats of US Bank Stadium along with 65,000 other people also carrying winter gear …)