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12-16-2005, 03:21 PM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
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Any thoughts on a Dome team being outside in December? [/ QUOTE ] Yes. This is the one factor I'm a little bit uneasy about. Its not so much being a dome team as it is being a southern team. I think the weather DID affect the Falcons in the NFC Championship last year -- not so much the cold, but the win. However, Vick & Co. did perform fine in Green Bay a few years back in the playoffs. I think the Falcons will have learned from their experience in Philly last year, but the real reason weather doesn't change my opinion is because the 2005 Bears are NOT the 2004 Eagles -- not even close. Remember, nothing is a lock. Like all my other picks, all I am saying is that I believe there is good value here. 
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12-16-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
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Slight hijack, but what do you set the over/under on the ESPN crew mentioning how cold it is in Chicago at night? [/ QUOTE ] I just want to see them covered in blankets again like they were last week in Green Bay... maybe Theismann's lips will fall off.
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12-16-2005, 03:49 PM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
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[ QUOTE ] Slight hijack, but what do you set the over/under on the ESPN crew mentioning how cold it is in Chicago at night? [/ QUOTE ] I just want to see them covered in blankets again like they were last week in Green Bay... maybe Theismann's lips will fall off. [/ QUOTE ] I was hoping Maguire developed frostbite and gangrene within the course of those 3 hours.
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12-18-2005, 05:55 AM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
NY Times article on warm weather and/or dome teams playing in cold weather away games: Link.
[ QUOTE ] Since 1998 and through Week 14, there have been 262 games in which a team that plays in a warmer climate or indoors has gone on the road to play a cold-weather team outdoors after Oct. 31. In those games, including the playoffs, the cold-weather home teams won 67 percent of the time (174-87-1). That is significantly better than the standard N.F.L. home-field advantage, in which home teams win about 58 percent of the time. . . This issue is even more severe for the six teams that play their home games indoors: Indianapolis, Detroit, Minnesota, St. Louis, New Orleans and Atlanta. Since 2000, dome teams are 15-41 when the temperature at the start of the game is 50 degrees or lower, and 2-13 when the temperature is freezing or below. [/ QUOTE ] Just another reason I like the Bears -3, and the main reason I shouldn't have bet on Tampa this week.
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12-18-2005, 06:55 AM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
Varlos,
I researched that article. Atlanta is 1-2 where it's below freezing and 2-4 when it's below 50.
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12-16-2005, 03:35 PM
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Re: Falcons @ Bears: Opportunity Knocks
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Slight hijack, but what do you set the over/under on the ESPN crew mentioning how cold it is in Chicago at night? [/ QUOTE ] 476. About the same as the over/under on the times they say "Warrick Dunn is a great person". As much as I'm looking forward to watching the game, I also am cringing at having to listen to their hyperbole.
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