Good thing the Super Bowl stadium has a roof

Farmers Field frontman Tim Leiweke could be trusted implicitly on one point this week: It was snowing in Dallas. …

“When we woke up this morning,” nose tackle B.J. Raji of the Green Bay Packers told reporters at the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl, “I thought I was in Green Bay again.” …

FOR THE RECORD:
Super Bowls: In the Feb. 3 Sports section, Jerry Crowe’s “Text messages from press row” column said Southern California last staged a Super Bowl in 1993. The correct year is 2003, when San Diego played host to the game for the third time. —

At a low temperature of 17 degrees, it was colder Tuesday in Dallas than it was in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh, not to mention Vancouver, Canada, and Oslo, Norway. …

The latter two have hosted the Winter Olympics. …

Meanwhile, temperatures climbed into the 60s in Southern California, which last staged a Super Bowl in 1993. …

Southern California hosted the best- and least-attended Super Bowls, a crowd of 103,985 watching Terry Bradshaw and the Pittsburgh Steelers top the Los Angeles Rams in 1980 at the Rose Bowl and 61,946 witnessing the Packers’ victory over the Kansas City Chiefs at the Coliseum in 1967. …

Before Paul Pierce and the Boston Celtics squashed the Lakers on Sunday, Celtics Coach Doc Rivers said, “We’re not playing with any speed. We’re not playing with any force.” …

Problem solved against the Lakers. …

Kobe Bryant, signaling he’d welcome a Natalie Portman-like transformation in teammate Pau Gasol: “He’s very white swan. I need him to be more black swan.” …

Only one of the NBA’s top 10 all-time scoring leaders has logged time with the Celtics: Shaquille O’Neal. …

Five played for the Lakers: O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Wilt Chamberlain and Bryant. …

Wednesday night’s game at Staples Center featured not only the shoo-in rookie of the year in Blake Griffin but also an MVP front-runner in Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls. …

Of the Washington Wizards on the road this season, it can truthfully be said, everybody beats the Wiz. …

Linebacker Scott Fujita of the Cleveland Browns picks the Packers to win Sunday, the former Oxnard Rio Mesa High star tells the Sporting News, “because Aaron Rodgers went to Cal, and Berkeley is the center of the universe.” …

Fujita, as you probably guessed, also went to Cal. …

A win Sunday would give Rodgers the same number of Super Bowl victories as his predecessor, Brett Favre. …

Ben Roethlisberger’s predecessor in Pittsburgh was former UCLA quarterback Tommy Maddox, who was 13-13-1 as the Steelers’ starter in 2002 and 2003. …

In 2004, Big Ben’s rookie year, the Steelers were 15-1. …

Mark Sanchez, listed at 6 to 5, is favored over No. 2 pick Matt Cassel (at 3-1) to become the first former USC quarterback to start in a Super Bowl, according to BetUS.com. …

Other odds: Carson Palmer 5-1, John David Booty and Matt Barkley 8-1, Matt Leinart 10-1 and Mitch Mustain 20-1. …

Regarding a sailing champion’s inclusion on GQ’s list of the 25 coolest athletes of all time, reader Kirk Norenberg of Redondo Beach e-mails to suggest, “The most athletic thing Ted Turner ever did was the Tomahawk Chop.” …

E-mails reader Craig Lesly of Chino Hills, “I suspect it took more athleticism … to be married to Jane Fonda.” …

Vernon Wells and the Angels will play an old-fashioned, regularly scheduled doubleheader July 16 at Oakland, a day before the A’s host MC Hammer bobblehead day. …

The Angels haven’t played a regularly scheduled home doubleheader since 1978, the Dodgers since 1987. …

Seventy-five years ago this week, five players were voted charter members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, listed here in order of the voting results: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson. …

Manny Ramirez, after new Tampa Bay Rays teammate Johnny Damon said he’d like to play in all 162 games this season: “Let’s do this: You play 100 and I’ll play 62.” …

Presumably, he was kidding. …

In Malibu on Saturday, during a heartfelt tribute to Gary Colson from old pals and ex-players, Jerry West called the former Pepperdine coach one of his closest friends. …

Colson, opening a blazer to reveal the initials “H.M.D.” stitched in the lining, said West had provided so much of his wardrobe, “I’m thinking of starting my own line: Hand Me Down.”

jerome.crowe@latimes.com