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a lot of rams influencers/pundits are getting really defensive about the weather factor. i don’t understand why. it’s a factor. the rams play in la which has really mild weather. bears players play in these conditions. it’s an advantage. hopefully, the rams can overcome it.
It hasn’t been as cold as it’s going to be on Sunday, so it’s going to be colder than the Bears are used to. And when it comes to that, Stafford has played in more cold weather games than Caleb Williams has. Williams is from SoCal as well, remember. And most of the football season, the Bears are playing in temperatures above freezing. It was 60 degrees in Chicago last Thursday, and 52 degrees the day before yesterday. I think they have a slight advantage in this respect, but Stafford, the RBs (Notre Dame and Michigan), and Davante Adams have all played in cold weather before. I think it will affect skill players more than the other guys, but I don’t think anybody ever “gets used to” 16 degrees. That’s effing cold.
It’s supposed to be 36 degrees in Chicago tomorrow, and drops to 18 degrees on Saturday. I’m guessing the Rams will be there by then. So this is a fairly sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, and the Bears won’t be any more used to it that the Rams are. Not significantly, anyway.
Stafford has played in more cold weather games than Caleb Williams has.
In the past, Stafford did.
But you acclimate fairly quickly. And when you do, your old acclimation goes away. You are basically re-set.
I am originally from Manitoba. I moved from the cold midwest to California, and then to Chicago, and then back to California, and then to Louisiana, and then to Maine.
Your old, years in the past experience with cold has nothing to do with how your body responds to it now. More than once, I moved from cold to warm to cold. When I moved from a warm zone to a cold zone, having been in a cold zone years before had no effect at all–when I was acclimated to a warm zone, having to move to a cold zone meant I had to acclimate all over again to the cold. There was no advantage to having lived in it before.
In Chicago, it’s the wind. The off-the-lake Chicago cold wind means it’s always colder than what the temperature is supposed to be according to the thermometer. You know, wind chill, except wind chill on steroids. There were days in Chicago where walking in a cold winter wind from the subway (or the EL, actually) to the building where I worked meant having to pause in the lobby and wipe the ice out of my beard (moisture from breathing).
Being in that cold wind for a while and having gotten relatively used to it is an advantage. So that’s a Bears advantage.
How much of one? I don;t know, really. But it will be a factor, I just can’t guess how much of a factor.
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Okay, but what ya’ll are skipping over is that it hasn’t been very cold in Chicago yet. Nobody in Chicago has had to knock ice crystals out of their beards since sometime in early 2025. So they’re maybe acclimatized to some highs in the 40s – which is cooler than the 60s or 70s, whatever it is in LA right now – but the first “frozen beard” day is this coming Saturday.
They aren’t acclimated either.
it’s gonna be fuuuuuuuuun…
but only if the rams win…
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