Minnesota: Wardrobe tips for a cold day in Gopher Nation

History is made today at TCF Bank Stadium at the Gophers-Purdue game. It's the first time since old Memorial Stadium closed 28 years ago that fans will feel as if they're out duck hunting, not in the hermetically sealed Metrodome. The predicted high temperature for today will be about 40.

We asked for it and we got it — college football in Sorel boots.

I don't know if Al Gore is still in Wisconsin, but he might want to stop by the stadium today to pitch his global warming scam to the chilly thousands.  He could point out that while carbon dioxide almost overheated Minnesota enough to prevent snow today, the lack of carbon dioxide on October 10, 1928 trapped so little heat that the high barely hit 90 degrees.

Al might point out that when the hypothermic fans return home, they can try to make it even colder outside by turning down their thermostats and not eating meat.   Al might also encourage them to support Nancy Pelosi's federal global cooling plan, which involves a great transfer of their limited wealth both to government bureaucrats and to criminals in foreign countries.