The photographs and videos of Simpson wearing dark gloves at cold weather football games have circulated for months, but the prosecution did not try to introduce them into evidence.
Withholding Smiley's voice is one of many intriguing games that the film plays in the course of a Cold War mystery about spies playing sinister games of treason and personal betrayal.
Brewster, who grew up during the Vince Lombardi era of the Packers in the Milwaukee area, keeps an "NFL Weather Hall of Fame" on his private Web site, a list of games played in severe cold and other bizarre weather conditions.
Delayed spring weather may be part of the cause for the Mets dipping attendance figures, except for the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox are playing home games in front of over-capacity crowds in cities that are not immune to the cold.
Also, the unseasonably cold and rainy weather in the Phoenix area forced all but one of the six first round Pool D games to be played under the retractable roof at Chase Field.