{"id":523549,"date":"2026-01-17T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523549\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:26:13","slug":"matthew-stafford-must-vanquish-ugly-history-in-blistering-chicago-cold-to-keep-rams-season-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523549\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford must vanquish ugly history in blistering Chicago cold to keep Rams&#8217; season alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 It has been called Soldier Field for a century, but when Matthew Stafford and the Rams are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sports\/sean-mcvays-response-to-chicagos-freezing-temps-for-rams-bears-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greeted by howling, bundled-up Bears fans<\/a> \u2014 emboldened by a wind and a chill fully capable of an icy Arctic ambush 60 minutes from the NFC Championship game \u2014 they will be forced to confront a diabolical night that will turn the place into Coldier Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be any Ice Bowl or Freezer Bowl, but this will be a veritable football igloo that will demand that Stafford, in no uncertain terms, be Ram-tough and the cold-blooded, weather-proof quarterback who would embrace the possibility of a shootout with Caleb Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They call Joe Burrow \u201cJoe Brrrr\u201d because of the bling he wears.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Stafford isn\u2019t known for his bling. A second ring is his thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 It has been called Soldier Field for a century, but when Matthew Stafford and the Rams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,531,5386,1818,9006,56082,1232,61590,232831,62,2632,2225],"class_list":["post-523549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-serby-says","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115912322896740579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}