This happens here in New York City with happy regularity the Super Bowl Giants last winter, the world-champ Yankees in 2009, and not long before that, a fat run of titles in the Joe Torre heyday.
I'm one of the latter set: The notion of entering a store on Black Friday is about as appealing to me as a dentist appointment in the dead of winter, but I'm quite happy to pick off some good online deals.
Among the posters on offer at Christie's will be "Winter in Davos" (1914) by Burkhard Mangold, depicting happy couples dancing on skates at the Swiss resort's rink.
But at this point, people in the Rockies and Midwest would have been happy if it felt like spring when the season officially began -- on Wednesday -- as winter won't go quietly.