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Weather Due to Warm Up for Giants-Pack...Into the Positive Single Digits
Weather Due to Warm Up for Giants-Pack...Into the Positive Single Digits
Honestly...remind me why on Earth one would willingly live in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Here's how we got here. I was reading an intriguing piece from the always-solid folks at Awful Announcing on how fluffy white snow on a football field seems to give fans a collective hard-on for some reason or another. Frankly, I can't lie in that I too get a bit aroused when there's enough of the white stuff...
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