A reavealing picture from the Anchorage Daily News:

Alaska’s first Arctic football team is undefeated, and nothing short of a late-season meltdown will stop the Barrow Whalers from hosting a top-of-the-world playoff game — not finger-numbing temperatures, not hungry polar bears, not high gas prices.

Polar bears are cute and cuddly in the Coke-commercial cartoons and in the utopian imaginings of the Rosie O’Donnells of the world, but if you were coming back from the Barrow Whalers’ concession stand right now, you’d want to have a high-caliber weapon handy.