Sometimes, before playing in a big game, a cold shower is in order to get hyped. But ‘cold’ in water terms is like 50 degrees—and we all know you just crank it back to hot afterwards. But these Wild Card players are out there in ‘feels like’ six and nine degree weather, stunting all kinds of pain tolerance. Maybe just to prove how tough they are? Seemingly so.
Ryan Shazier kind of started things up in Pittsburgh’s 17 degree weather with his best JR Smith impression, above.
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Which must have worked well, because he later went on to do this:
Then, Odell Beckham Jr. didn’t want to squander an opportunity to get some attention, so he went for a stroll in Wisconsin sans shirt.
And then the rest of the Giants somehow concocted their own shirtless uniform for their warmups.
I mean, we went through millennia of evolution and invention to make sure our asses didn’t freeze in this type of weather. But whatever. Go for it, m’dudes.
