WOW...
The Grey Cup could be a real cold one . Right now the weather forecast for next sunday is a low of -12 but the saturday is a low of -24 lets hope it warms up to -12 and friday has a feel like -29 wow ..
The weather would seem to be huge factor in this game since we have some players that have little or no exposure so such cold being from Southern Universities etc
I wonder what players on the Ticats are ready for this cold and which ones are not ? We might have some lineup decision based on the weather
I keep thinking they might need to play Bowman and Plesius alot as they need to stop the run and because it will be so cold and the run game will be more of a factor and both these guys know cold weather especially Bowman from days in Winnipeg..
I assume Norwood , E. Davis , Boudreau, Hobbs . Ellingson, Gable , Figueroa, Simmons , Dile , Breaux, Bartel
have very little experience in the very cold
While guys like Burris (cal ) , Fantuz (sask ), Banks ( redskins ) , Bulcke ( cal ) , T.Davis (cal ), Jamal , Lawrence ( Minnesota , Edmonton) , Isaac (cal ), Bowman ( WPG) , Congi (sask ) , Oneill (cal ) ,
Did you read this about Boudreaux...i hope he can react to the cold ok
Before he came to Hamilton, the coldest place Brandon Boudreaux had ever been was Kentucky.
Born and raised in Alabama — he played his college ball there, as well — the Ticat defensive end is just coming to grips with what awaits him in Regina, where temperatures are supposed to dip into the minus-15 range, with even colder wind chill. That's the high, by the way.
"I've heard that it's the end of the world and experiencing an ice age," Boudreaux said Monday, wearing a nice leather jacket that's likely to shatter in the cold. "I feel like there's nothing I can do to prepare me for this weather."
Head coach Kent Austin, who both played and coached in Regina, said he'll talk to his young players about how to deal with it. "One of the things, especially the skill guys that haven't played into before, they typically miss the mark on either putting on too much stuff or too little," Austin said. "What they need to do is find the happy medium early in the week."