cold is not an issue if your team is either in a close game, or winning.....if you are getting beat the cold goes right through you. In Chicago it was windy and cold, no snow...we started off behind and never made it a game....we were shivering in the onset and down right froze at the end. In Denver it was in the high teens/low twenties with snow....we were in and won going away (looking at the score you'd never know that), we never noticed the cold till we made our way to the uber lot...
I can only assume it is the same for the team, if you're in it, if you're ahead the cold is there but not bugging you. If you are behind the eight ball the cold is all you are thinking about. The temps won't matter as long as we are in the game.......and I say the same for the pack....
Gotta play BIG at the start and then find ways to end it.