The volunteer greeters of this enthusiastic Super Bowl city welcome visitors at the airport with a smile, and that feels pleasant, and inviting and, yes, warm. Then you go outside.
And it’s two below.
And the wind-swept “feels like” temperature is minus-22.
And on the shuttle ride from the airport to a hotel, I tell the driver how this is a nice change for someone from South Florida before he responds, “Yeah for an hour, maybe.” Then he recalls the good old days when the Minnesota Vikings played outdoors and, “we wore beaver coats and brought a flask of whiskey to the game to keep warm.