Sixteen weeks after the start of the season, we still haven’t seen a big game of snow in the NFL this year, but it looks like that will change on Sunday night when the Packers welcome the Titans. Snow has started to fall in Green Bay and is not expected to stop anytime soon.
According to the latest forecast from Weather.com, it will probably snow until the start of the game and then continue to snow for most of the game, with the white material expected to fall until 10 pm Eastern time. By the time everything is said and done, Lambeau Field should be covered by seven to eighteen inches of snow.
Here’s what it looked like outside the stadium, just after 2:15 pm ET.
If you want to know what the stadium is like now, the Packers shared a video showing how things are snowing in Lambeau.
Again, snow is expected to continue to fall until 9pm CT / 10pm ET
One of the biggest advantages of the home field in the NFL is the frozen tundra from Lambeau Field and that frozen tundra will be on full display in this game. So far, the weather doesn’t seem to be bothering Ben Jones of Tennessee, who is walking in the snow barefoot.
The temperature of the game time should be around 29 degrees and then the forecast indicates that it will slowly drop over the next three hours. Considering the weather, the wind is not expected to be very terrible, with gusts that will blow between 11 and 15 mph.
The advantage of all this news for Green Bay is that Aaron Rodgers is almost unbeatable in the frozen tundra. Since the start of the 2009 season, Rodgers has been 20-2 in December in games played at Lambeau Field and 17-5 against the spread.
As for the Titans, bad weather can also be a good thing for them and that is because they have the human snow removal truck known as Derrick Henry. Henry is not only the best NFL rusher, but he averages 5.2 yards per charge in the season and, on Sunday night, he will face a Packers defense that has earned 4.5 yards per charge this year.