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I always remember the New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick saying in that nauseatingly funny deadpan emotionless voice:

REPORTER: How much, if at all, do you start looking at potential weather forecast for Sunday and how that might affect the game plan or play calling?

BELICHICK: When you play in New England, you have to be ready for everything. I'd say based on the forecasts we've gotten so far this year, none of them have been even very close to what game conditions were. There was 100 percent chance of rain last week and the only water I saw was on the Gatorade table. You know, it is what it is. You know as well as I do, it could start one way and change during the game; we have to be ready for whatever it is with the forecast in this area two days before the game. I mean, I 'd bet a lot that they're wrong, just based on history because they re almost always wrong. An hour before the game, maybe. You might have something to work with there. I think if you start game planning for what the weather is going to be and you game plan wrong, you ve wasted a lot of time.

REPORTER: When is the latest you look at the forecast?

BELICHICK: When you walk out on the field. I mean. that's really when you know what it is. I mean, the rest of it is really just a bunch of hot air. We played down in Miami two years ago and there was a zero percent chance of rain - zero - and it rained. I'm just telling you. If I did my job the way they do theirs, I'd be here about a week.

REPORTER: You're not making any friends with meteorologists.

BELICHICK Look I'm not saying I could do it better than them. I m just saying they re wrong a lot. That's a fact. They're wrong a lot. We all make mistakes, I'm not being critical of them. I'm just saving don't think you can go based on that