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By: MICHAEL KLITZING - Staff Writer SAN DIEGO ---- Philip Rivers had a simple assessment after watching the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers slug it out in a snowstorm on Monday night.
"It looked pretty rough," the Chargers quarterback said after completing practice Thursday afternoon in the warm California sun.
He soon will know for sure.
According to the National Weather Service, conditions in Orchard Park, N.Y., are expected to be frigid on Sunday when the Chargers play the Buffalo Bills.
The high is forecasted at 35 degrees with a 40 percent chance of snow.
While that could be worse for upstate New York this time of year, it's also a far cry from San Diego. Rivers, an Alabama native who played his college ball at North Carolina State, has never before played a game in snow.
Chargers guard Mike Goff, a former Cincinnati Bengal and an Iowa alumnus, has a better idea of what to expect. The veteran recalls playing in one Bengals game where the temperature reached minus-27.
"I think it's more mental than anything else," Goff said. "If you want to sit there and dwell on whether you're cold or not, you're going to get beat down. That's why I think a lot of cold-weather teams like it when people from the West Coast where it's warm come out. They're like, 'These guys are going to be mentally weak. We're used to this.'
"It's important for us to be mentally strong and act like it ain't cold."
"It looked pretty rough," the Chargers quarterback said after completing practice Thursday afternoon in the warm California sun.
He soon will know for sure.
The high is forecasted at 35 degrees with a 40 percent chance of snow.
While that could be worse for upstate New York this time of year, it's also a far cry from San Diego. Rivers, an Alabama native who played his college ball at North Carolina State, has never before played a game in snow.
Chargers guard Mike Goff, a former Cincinnati Bengal and an Iowa alumnus, has a better idea of what to expect. The veteran recalls playing in one Bengals game where the temperature reached minus-27.
"I think it's more mental than anything else," Goff said. "If you want to sit there and dwell on whether you're cold or not, you're going to get beat down. That's why I think a lot of cold-weather teams like it when people from the West Coast where it's warm come out. They're like, 'These guys are going to be mentally weak. We're used to this.'
"It's important for us to be mentally strong and act like it ain't cold."
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