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t and a particularly interesting trend for Mike Zimmer’s team. In short Vince Biegel Color Rush Jersey , this is a team that beats the bad ones on its schedule and loses to the good ones.Does that sound like any other NFL teams you know? Perhaps one in the same division?The difference between Minnesota’s performance against good teams and bad ones is quite impressive and almost entirely consistent. Let’s break down the results of the team’s wins and losses (and their one tie) to see how that compares with the Green Bay Packers’ results from this season.Minnesota is currently 5-4-1 on the season, but every one of their wins has come against a team that is currently under .500 in 2018. They are as follows:24-16 vs. 49ers (2-8)23-21 @ Eagles (4-6)27-17 vs. Cardinals (2-8)37-17 at Jets (3-7)24-9 vs. Lions (4-6)That’s a combined 15-35 record for the opponents that the Vikings have beaten, a miserable .300 winning percentage.Now look at the teams that have beaten Minnesota this year:27-6 vs. Bills (3-7)38-31 at Rams (10-1)30-20 vs. Saints (9-1)25-20 at Bears (7-3)That’s three division leaders in the NFC plus the Bills, who are the one obvious exception to this rule. Outside of that game, however, the Vikings lose to the good teams they play and beat the ones they should. Of course, there is the matter of that 29-29 tie with the Packers at Lambeau Field in week two. That should have been a Packers victory if not for the absurd roughing the passer call on Clay Matthews — which likely would not have been a penalty if the game were played at midseason instead. The Packers, meanwhile, have their one notable exception on the other side of the ledger: a win over the Bears on Sunday night of week one. Of course, that happened thanks to a one-legged Aaron Rodgers going full God-mode in the second half. Otherwise, the Packers have beaten the 3-7 Bills, the 2-8 49ers, and the 5-5 Dolphins (who look much worse than .500 thanks to a massive glut of injuries), with all of those games coming at home.This all suggests that if the Vikings manage to sneak into the postseason by virtue of their wins over bad teams, it will be a short one-and-done run for this squad. Since the division title is likely going to Chicago at this point, a Wild-Card game in Chicago would appear to be an unlikely stage for the Vikings to advance to the Divisional round. If they were to get to the fifth seed and play at the NFC East winner, that could be a different story though, since all bets are off in that division.What does this mean for Sunday night at U.S. Bank Stadium? Well, if you believe that the Packers are in fact a good team that has simply run into some bad luck, then this should give you faith in their ability to win at the Vikings’ new stadium for the first time. If you see a flawed, bad Packers squad that can’t execute in the clutch, then perhaps lean in the opposite direction. In case you hadn't noticed (or don't live here), it's kind of cold in Wisconsin this week.More Packers coveragePackers post-Super Bowl 2019 mock draft roundupGreen Bay Packers 2019 impending free agents primerAaron Rodgers' offseason to feature golf, not knee surgeryPhotos of the Week: 1/27/19 – 2/2/19Top Tweets: Wisconsin athletes survive 2019 polar vortexThe National Weather Service has the high in Milwaukee for Wednesday as minus-10. The. High. This doesn't count wind-chill factor Justin Vogel Jersey , which will have things feeling like minus-40 or minus-50. But really once you're talking minus-40, what's another 10 degrees?We of course wouldn't recommend anyone going outside during these bitterly frigid times. But it did get us to thinking — what's the coldest temperatures played in by Wisconsin sports teams?The Green Bay Packers played in arguably the most famous cold-weather game of all time, the 1967 NFC Championship at Lambeau Field on Dec. 31, 1967 vs. Dallas, otherwise known as "The Ice Bowl." The temperature on that day was minus-13 degrees, the record low — by a big margin — for any NFL game.In fact, according to pro-football-reference, there have been only nine games in the NFL which have been played at 0 degrees or lower (not including wind chill) since the AFL-NFL merger in 1966, and the Packers have been involved in four of them:— The Ice Bowl (a 21-17 Green Bay win, by the way, in case you've forgotten.)— Dec. 10, 1972 at Minnesota: minus-2 degrees (Packers won, 23-7)— Jan. 20, 2008 vs. the New York Giants in the NFC Championship: minus-1. (The Giants won 23-20 in overtime and Tom Coughlin's face is still beet red.)— Dec. 26, 1993 vs. Oakland: zero degrees (Packers won, 28-0).In addition, Green Bay has played two games at Chicago where the temperatures were 0.5 (Dec. 18, 1983) and 0.7 (Dec. 10, 1978). The Packers lost both of those games. Green Bay has played in four other games in which the temperature was three degrees or lower — and lost each one. The Packers are 8-11 in games played at 10 degrees or colder since 1966 (caveat: with the known available data).The Wisconsin Badgers haven't played in temperatures under 10 degrees recently. On Nov. 15, 2014, the temperature at gametime against Nebraska was 26 degrees, which was the coldest at Camp Randall Stadium in 50 years (11 degrees on Nov. 21, 1964, a win over Minnesota). By the way Justin McCray Color Rush Jersey , that Nebraska game was game Melvin Gordon rushed for a then-NCAA record 408 yards.The year previous to that, the Badgers played against Minnesota at TCF Bank Stadium with the temperature at 18 degrees, the coldest game at the time in the short history of the Gophers' home.The Badgers' men's hockey team has played in three outdoor games, but none were as chilly as that 2014 football contest.In 2016, Wisconsin played Ohio State in the Frozen Tundra Classic at Lambeau Field. Game time temp: A downright balmy 28 degrees.Four years later, the Badgers hosted the Camp Randall Classic against Michigan where it was 21 degrees. In 2013, Wisconsin was in Chicago at Soldier Field against Minnesota for the Hockey City Classic; the temperature there was also 28. Wisconsin won all three of those contests.Finally, there's the Milwaukee Brewers, who have played exactly one game below freezing (again, without wind chill) in their history, according to baseball-reference. That occurred April 5, 1994 when it was 31 degrees at County Stadium for Milwaukee's game against Oakland (there was also a 29-mile per hour wind).The Brewers have had five other games between 33-35 degrees, three of which were in Milwaukee (April 10, 1994, April 10, 2000 and April 7, 1997) plus one in both Toronto (April 16 ,1980) and Cincinnati (April 4, 2000).Of course, in 1973 a snowstorm delayed Milwaukee's home opener until April 13. Although there were still snow on the streets, County Stadium was cleared of the white stuff and the Brewers beat the Baltimore in 38-degree weather, 2-0.This year the Brewers open the 2019 season at home on March 28. Here's where we all say, "Thank goodness for the roof on Miller Park."