With Temperatures Hitting -11 Degrees, Seahawks Players Break Out Shorts During Warmups

For the mental edge...or something.

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It's going to be cold enough to harden a polar bear's nipples during today's Vikings-Seahawks noon kickoff in Minneapolis, but that isn't stopping a number of Seattle players from trying to impress tools nationwide by warming up in sleeveless shirts and shorts, even with temperatures dropping as low as -11 degrees:

Seahawks warming up in shorts at -11 degrees
Live reports from #SEAvsMIN @KING5Seattle Morning News is on pic.twitter.com/4ctjg6NVov

— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) January 10, 2016

Sleeveless. Shorts. Seahawks have arrived. @NFLonFOX pic.twitter.com/A80OXv3qlG

— Peter Schrager (@PSchrags) January 10, 2016

The #Vikings #Gjallarhorn is shattered from the cold temps before today's #SEAvsMIN game. pic.twitter.com/0MceMuekPl

— KARE 11 (@kare11) January 10, 2016

Of course this type of poorly thought out display is about as predictable as a Vontaze Burfict blow-up. But it's still always entertaining to see. The tundra-esque conditions are a lot to handle, even for Minnesota, as evidenced by the fact that the Vikings' horn thing shattered:

SMH, sometimes looking tough is more important than common sense, we guess.

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