{"id":361713,"date":"2025-12-21T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361713\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:02:10","slug":"packers-sideline-heaters-malfunction-during-first-half-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361713\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers\u2019 sideline heaters malfunction during first half in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Green Bay Packers running back Emanuel Wilson runs with the ball while dodging a tackle.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/USATSI_27861925-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Emanuel Wilson and the Packers were playing for the NFC North lead Saturday. Mike Dinovo \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>By The Athletic Staff<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20, 2025Updated 10:36 pm EST<\/p>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers were without sideline heaters during at least part of the first half of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nfl\/game\/chicago-bears-vs-green-bay-packers\/cH3NYs7Z6WMVxBnV\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frigid NFC North showdown with the Chicago Bears<\/a> on Saturday night at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<p>The heaters, as well as the offensive line\u2019s heated bench, were inoperable for the visiting Packers, while the ones for the Bears were, Fox\u2019s Erin Andrews reported during the second quarter. Green Bay\u2019s heaters resumed working by the third quarter, a team spokesman told The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures hovered around freezing with first place in the division on the line. The game-time temperature was 35 degrees, with a 15-mile-per-hour wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emanuel Wilson and the Packers were playing for the NFC North lead Saturday. Mike Dinovo \/ Imagn Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[8850,1804,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-361713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-green-bay-packers","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}