The weather will be practically balmy Sunday night when the Green Bay Packers host the Detroit Lions with a berth in the NFC playoffs on the line. The Packers-Lions weather report calls for temperatures in the 20s with no chance of snow on Sunday Night Football, ending NFL Week 18 and the regular season.
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Packers-Lions Weather Report
Per the Weather Channel, the Packers-Lions weather report has a low temperature of 22 with winds of 5-10 mph and a 6 percent chance of snow. The game time temperature is actually closer to the average high for Green Bay in January (25) and more than double the average low temperature (10).
“It really doesn’t matter, but I do think the environment at Lambeau Field at night time is unlike any other place,” Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur said this week. “Hopefully, our fans show up and show out for us and support us. Don’t sell your tickets to Lions fans, please.”
Green Bay (8-8) will qualify for the NFC playoffs with a win, regardless of any results earlier in the day. Detroit (8-8) needs the Seattle Seahawks to lose at home to the Los Angeles Rams to turn Sunday Night into a win-and-in contest. Seahawks-Rams starts at 3:25 p.m. CT.
“There’s going to be a lot more questions, a lot more coverage, we’re going to be sitting in the hotel all day waiting for that Sunday Night game,” Detroit quarterback Jared Goff told the Lions website. “That’s the difference. I think once you get there, the game day, it’s really the same, you have to treat it the same.”
The Packers defeated the Rams 24-12 two weeks ago at Lambeau in 15 degree temperatures. That gave quarterback Aaron Rodgers a 29-8 record in regular-season games under 32 degrees.
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Green Bay is a 4.5-point favorite at most sportsbooks, using our OddsShopper tool, with the total as high as 49.5 points. The Packers had a 4 percent chance to make the playoffs going into NFL Week 14 (according to FiveThirtyEight) but have since won four in a row to give themselves a 61 percent chance entering this week.
“We always had hope. We always believed in each other,” Green Bay running back Aaron Jones told the Packers website. “We knew we would get it going. It was a little later than we expected. We dug ourselves in a little hole and we were playing to get out of it and make it to the dance.”
