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As the Chicago Bears game against the Cleveland Browns kicked off at noon at Soldier Field, the temperature was 8 degrees with a wind chill of minus 10, making it one of the coldest games in the team’s history.

“I think what’s making this so memorable is: the past few Decembers, and really the past few winters, have been so mild and with so little snow that this December is sort of like a slap in the face, to put it mildly,” said Brett Borchardt, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Chicago.

But the temperature did not seem to dampen the Bears’ excitement in what has so far been a surprising winning season, a pattern they upheld Sunday with a 31-3 victory .

“We love this. This is Bear weather,” second-year q

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