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I remember watching old Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Bud Grant roam the sidelines of the old Metropolitan Stadium.

He didn’t allow the Vikings players to have heaters.

Being able to play well in the Minnesota cold was part of the home-field advantage back then.

I recently felt poorly using car seat heaters in our vehicle for two days in a row.

I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt to work out, and it was only thirty degrees Fahrenheit.

I had a light jacket on along with a ski cap.

This entire scenario would appear to be about creature comforts.

What are creature comforts?

They are things that make you feel warm and fuzzy.

When my butt started to feel the first waves of warmth from the car’s passenger seat, I realized why I had not tried car seat heaters all these years.

Sure, I used to accidentally turn it on in the summer as a fool would.

Burning your behind should be avoided at all costs.

However, this was a couple of weeks before winter.

It was no accident that I turned on the seat heater this time.

The lower right side of my painful old back let out a groan of relief once the first waves of heat hit it.

All of this forced me to admit I kind of now liked the seat heater.

What would Bud have thought?

Everyone who came to the stadium to play the Vikings was probably soft.

However, schnapps and brandy were never enough for the Vikings faithful to experience the glory of Super Bowl victory. The Vikes have gone to the big game four times and always came up short.

Comes a time

As you get older, life becomes less remarkable.

Notice I said less, not unremarkable.

I make these clarifications for the wants to be proofreaders out there.

As an old editor of mine said, “The occasional typographical errors in our stories are there by design.”

That came from an old guy who just stopped caring about the small stuff.

Sure, he wanted as clean a newspaper as possible that was as free of grammatical and spelling errors as much as possible.

He was smart enough to know that mistakes cannot consistently be eliminated, no matter how hard we try.

If you are a subject matter expert in any given field, what critics say tends to fly off your back like a duck; or some reasonable facsimile thereof.

Let’s not forget Santa Claus

I think Bud Grant likes Santa Claus.

There are several character traits they both share.

Santa goes out worldwide every December 24th and braves all kinds of harsh weather. But, unfortunately, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a heater in his sleigh.

Santa usually dresses for the cold.

But he has to endure deliveries in his sleigh in the tropics, too. Moreover, his sleigh is not enclosed, so he can’t use air conditioning.

So, he goes worldwide and somehow manages to get the job done.

Heat or cold, it’s all in how you view things.

If it’s cold outside, and you don’t have a remote start, get in the car, fire it up, and turn on the car seat heater.

Then go outside and scrape the ice off the windshield.

Bud would like that.