Looks forward to Buffalo weather.

The weather for Orchard Park, N.Y., home of the Bills, for Sunday is getting colder.

As Joe was typing this here article last night, the forecast for Sunday’s Bucs-Bills game was 39 degrees with a 24 percent chance of rain. That’s down from 42 earlier in the week.

Once upon a time, anything under 50 was a death knell for the Bucs. In recent years, that has become a wives’ tale. Joe remembers vividly in Green Bay a couple of years ago with the temperature in the low-40s and raining, the Bucs stomped the Packers in their home crib.

What Joe thought was cool was, before the game, almost every Bucs player was huddled on the heated benches buried in big coats, except for six players who stood on the sideline away from the heated benches without any coat or outerwear, ready to take the field. It was the Bucs’ starting offensive line and Baker Mayfield.

Two of those linemen are still with the Bucs. Tackles Tristan Wirfs and Luke Goedeke were ready to rock that day and were right at home in the cold as they are from Iowa and Wisconsin, respectively.

Told of the weather forecast for Sunday, both Wirfs and Goedeke beamed and both can’t wait for kickoff.

“That’s phenomenal,” Goedeke said of 30s in the Buffalo forecast. “I saw that and I was like, ‘Music to my ears.’

“I cannot ask for nicer weather to play a game.”

Wirfs confessed that he’s grown a little soft now, living in Florida for six years. But he too said playing in cold weather is a lot better than just sitting in the weather, dealing with the cold.

“I will say, 37 degrees in the morning kind of crushed me,” Wirfs said. “I’ve been down here six years now, and I’m like, ‘That’s cold.’ Softened up a little bit… that’s cold as [crap].

“Playing in it is different, because you’re moving around. [So], just waking up wearing slides out of the house and I was like, ‘My piggies are cold.'”

Joe remembers being in the Bucs locker room after that win over the Packers and Joe mentioned to Wirfs that he didn’t appear the least bit cold in the raw, December weather of northeastern Wisconsin.

Wirfs laughed and then hollered, “We’re cornfeds, baby!”

Joe hopes he’s able to reach back to his Iowa cornfed roots to play strong ball in the cold.