Q: What is the coldest recorded temperature for an NFL championship game or a Super Bowl game? - A.M., Raeford
A: Super Bowl, pooh.
The coldest Super Bowl ever was in 1972 and in New Orleans of all places. The temperature at kickoff was - put on your coat - 39 degrees. Oh, take off your coat - and put on your snowsuit, your hat, your scarf, your gloves and your boots, and you'll still shiver when you hear about the coldest NFL game ever. Played on New Year's Eve in 1967, it was indeed a league championship game, pitting the Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys.
If you're guessing the game wasn't played in Dallas, you're right. This one, now known as the "Ice Bowl," was at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., a few blocks from Lake Michigan. The temperature at kickoff was -13. With wind chill, it was said to have felt like -48. Brrrr.
It was so cold that one fan died from exposure. The national anthem wasn't played because the wind instruments stuck to the band members' lips. It was the same with the refs and their whistles. They had to use their voices to officiate. By the end of the game, only five of 18 TV cameras were still working and not necessarily all that well. And several players had to be treated for frostbite.
Naturally, the stadium was packed, with nearly 51,000 fans - including some who kept unplugging the extension cords that powered the Cowboys' heated benches.
It was a hard-fought game featuring future Hall of Famers on both sides - Packers coach Vince Lombardi and quarterback Bart Starr vs. Tom Landry and "Dandy" Don Meredith of the Cowboys. Green Bay pulled it out in the final minutes, winning 21-17, and providing a memory that we suspect will forever warm the hearts of Packers fans.
Q: Who is that good-looking man that plays in "Person of Interest"? And whatever happened to Priscilla Presley's son? - S.A., Godwin
A: The good looker is probably actor Jim Caviezel.
He plays the ex-CIA agent who's secretly working with a billionaire (played by the guy from "Lost") to stop violent crimes before they happen. He's 44.
As for Presley's son Navarone Garibaldi, he's ... around. We guess. There's little current info on him. Priscilla Presley told The Guardian newspaper last month that the 25-year-old doesn't like the limelight and wants to "do his own thing."
Garibaldi's father is Italian screenwriter Marco Garibaldi with whom Presley lived for more than two decades. Lisa Marie Presley, who's 44, is her only other child.
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