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Yankee fans brave cold, hope team stays hot

Quick ReadThe wind chill will make temperatures for Friday night's ALCS Game 1 feel like the upper-20s.

The wind chill will make temperatures for Friday

Photo credit: Getty Images | The wind chill will make temperatures for Friday night's ALCS Game 1 between Derek Jeter's Yankees and the Angels feel like the upper-20s. (Oct. 15, 2009)

Dressed in multiple layers of clothes and extra socks, and fortified by warm food, Yankee fans interviewed before Friday's game hoped a miserable rainy night would prove triumphant with a playoff victory.

As temperatures hovered at a bone-chilling 40 degrees - 15- to 20-mph wind gusts made it feel like the upper 20s - fans said the weather at Yankee Stadium didn't matter. As long as the Yankees...

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