The Jaguars are about to step into a different reality than they have ever known.A half hour before their plane approaches the smallest airport any of them have ever seen they will look out their window at the vast inland sea that is Lake Michigan. It will be belching steam as the cold air rides over the still riled and unfrozen water. If they could look closely enough they would see that it actually snows up and out of the lake as the steam condenses and freezes.They will be momentarily exposed to the air as they enter their ground transportation. They will tell themselves that the 30 seconds they just spent in the cold wasn't so bad, but some of the southern guys on the team will already be wondering about their ability to cope. They will drive over roads named for Lombardi and Holmgren. They will see roadsigns for places that can't really exist, like Ashwaubenon, Waupaca, and Kewaunee. While doing so they will notice, playing football happily outside, the great grandsons of lumberjacks, miners, and fishermen who routinely troll the waters that took the Edmin Fitzgerald to it's grave. They will be wearing jerseys with legendary names on them like Starr, Nitschke, Adderly, Caffee, Davis, Wood, Jordan, Gregg. About then it will occur to them they are out of their element and they will wonder if, living and working among these people, the Packer Players have absorbed some of the hearty tendancies of these people.They will roll past the Fox River, obscured by an ice fog, to a hotel far less ritzy than they are accustomed to. They may choose to go out to a bar or restaurant. If they do they will be stepping into establishments owned and operated by former superbowl and world champions, or they will see memorabilia from those teams.When they return to their hotel their coaches will try to discourage them from turning on the T.V.s because if they do they will hear windchill figures that will cause them to think and to doubt, and they might even see clips from the Ice Bowl.The morning of the game they will pass through the cold on the way to their team bus. The linings of their noses will feeze, their breath will form icicles on their beards, and they will travel to a green monster rising from a sea of tailgating maniacs. They will enter Lambeau field for the first time and as they do they will start to hear echos from the past. They will try to ignore the echos, but too many times, as children, they heard John Facenda narrate the recap of the Ice Bowl. against their very will they will start to be drawn into the dream and nightmare of a game on the "Frozen Tundra".Time will come for pregame warmups. The team will split on whether tis better to make a foolish show of bravado and to go out to warm up in short sleeves, or whether they should put on every stich of clothing they own. Either way the team is split.They will go out to warm up, and at first the temperature won't seem so bad. They will actually be heartened, until they try to punt the ball which will only go half as far as they anticipate, or they try to catch a pass that slides through their hands as if the ball has been greased. They will be getting their first hint of problems to come and they will return to the locker room wondering if they have the right gloves, clothes, and cleats. Some of the players will look to the Packer players for guidelines, but they will wonder if the Packer players are playing head games with them.When they come back out for player introductions they will be shocked to notice that in the hour they have been inside the temperature has dipped ten degrees with the sun sliding low. They will wonder if it will get colder. It will.As they game starts they will find that half of them have the wrong shoes, cleats, and gloves. They will learn this as drives stall and kicks travel 19 yards. Why will the drives stall, because the Packers will have eight and nine guys in the box knowing Jacksonville will be unable to pass.The Packers offense won't be great, but the greatest cold weather Q.B., playing in conditions he got used to last week will put some points on the board and the Packers will go into halftime with a lead (even if they don't Jacksonville will remember last week's comeback and the legend of favre's 4th qtr. heroics).Coming out for the second half the Jags will be smacked in the face. Could it really be that with the sun now down it just got much colder? The Packer offense will be pedestrian by most standards, but extraordinarily efficient under the circumstances. The Jags will feel their physical strength and their wills collapsing. They will have the built in excuse of the weather, and, like those before them they will take it.