It's a beautiful day for football

As much as we media members will try to force the snow storyline down your throats today, don't be fooled -- the conditions aren't that terrible. It's football, and it's a beautiful day for football.

Yes, it's cold and it's snowing. But the field actually looks great right now; it was tarp-covered until two hours before the game, and it was freshly plowed about half an hour before the game. Snow gradually is covering it again, but at this point, it looks really good. Winds also are only about 10 miles per hour, which isn't enough to affect all that much.

The ground still will be slick; wide receivers on both sides will have trouble getting too quick of a release off the line of scrimmage, and it'll be tough to hold onto the ball. But both teams have plenty more to deal with than just the elements.