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Q: It’s always dangerous to think about New England weather this far in advance, but, knock on wood, so far it’s supposed to be relatively warm temperatures and maybe just a little bit of rain.
BB: Do you want to go on record with that or are you just throwing that out there?
Q: I know this will be a shock, but it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been wrong on a prediction.
BB: OK. Well, we have that on record. OK.
Q: Are you a little bit more relieved, in the sense that you throw the ball so well and so effectively?
BB: We’ve gone out there and practiced in everything this year. We’ve practiced in six inches of snow, we’ve practice in all of the days that you’ve seen here. Whatever days we’re out there practicing, we’re pretty much out there in it. We haven’t been inside hardly at all - a couple of times in the last few weeks, but that was about it. Whatever it is, we’ve played in [it]. Whatever it is, the other team is going to have to play in. It’s New England. It’s January, so whatever we get, we get.
Q: I know this is going back a ways, but the Cincinnati/San Diego playoff game in 1981 when [the weather was so bad that] San Diego couldn’t play. It totally took them out of the game.
BB: Right. Well, we can go back to the ’42 Sneaker Game with the New York Giants. I mean, sure. There’s plenty of games back then. Look, in the end this game like every other game will be determined by the two teams that play it. Not the weather and not the temperature. Somebody’s going to have to go out there and block, somebody’s going to have to tackle, somebody’s going to have to run the ball, somebody’s going to have to catch it, somebody’s going to have to kick it, and the game will be decided by the players that do that better than the other ones. I don’t think it’s - Which way the wind blows doesn’t put any points up on the board for anybody. You have to go out there and earn it, you have to go out there and play well, and that’s what this game will be decided by - the team that plays the best.
