Sportsnet- Chiefs and Dolphins play fourth-coldest game in NFL history at minus-4 degrees
The temperature for the wild-card playoff game was minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-20 Celsius), and wind gusts up to 27 mph made for a wind chill of minus-27 degrees. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been 1 degree, set in a 1983 game against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.
The coldest game in league history remains minus-13 for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl. The wind chill that day was minus-48 degrees.
Minus 20? Sounds like a warm day in November at Commonwealth Stadium.
Love it. Someone call John Kerry
And Leonardo DiCaprio…
Three degrees “shatters the record”
Pussification is real.
But Tailer Smith was there keeping everyone warm!
-3’F was kickoff temp, air temp was -7’F before half time.
Mahomes plastic helmet cracked and a large piece fell out when the QB ran the ball lowering and his helmet into the defensive player’s. Officials let the Chiefs run another play, before they noticed the damage and made him change helmets.
Glowball warming my *ss.
I watched the Ice Bowl live on TV and bought a DVD of it. It is something else to see.
Frank Gifford, the announcer, had a famous line: “I’m going to take a bite out of my coffee.” It had frozen in the mug.
I know a man who attended the game who was from Wisconsin. He said there were some women from Dallas near him who had on normal attire and expensive fur coats. They left after 5 minutes.
After the first whistle of the game, the metal whistle froze on the referee’s lips and when he pulled it off the skin came off and he bled. He then announced that voice and hand signals were to be used from then on. Much, much more if you watch the game. The origin of the name “Frozen Tundra.”
At the 2003 Grey Cup hosted in Regina at Taylor Field plenty of people left after the first 5mins, by half time the south endzones were half empty. The only ones left seemed to be wearing snowsuits, and sitting inside sleeping bags w/ hand and feet warmers. The more people that left their seats, the more the wind blew through the open style bleachers, making it even colder. We had sideline seats and were still frozen, but it helped that the surrounding neighbors stayed in place. Wife will no longer go to a game after the middle of Sept.
Bullshit Carl We were in the end zone seats didn’t see anyone leave
Bart Starr was the QB of the Pack. The start of greatness for the cheeseheads.
I was out in this cold and closed my elk tag. It was nasty. Didn’t take long for the trapper to gut and get out ha.
You know, I’m starting to think that this carbon tax might not be as ineffective as I once did.
Look at how cold western Canada is with the full carbon tax on and look at how nice the weather is in Newfoundland today after the heating oil carbon tax exemption was applied.
It’s only -2C, quite nice for January.
We just need to tinker a bit with the carbon tax rates to get the temperature and climate perfect all across Canada.
Thank God for the Environment Ministry for controlling the weather for us.
About 40 people were killed by a snowstorm in Western New York in 2022.
Every time I see a guy without a coat or wearing plastic shoes this time of year I’m reminded of it.
GO BILLS.
One of my earliest football memories was the “Freezer Bowl” game in Cincinnati. Jan 10, 1981.
Not the coldest temperature, but I think to this day still stands as the coldest wind chill at -59 deg F
I was 10 going on 11. So cold the only warmth anywhere was to loiter by the sinks in the men’s room (gross, but was in survival mode).
If memory serves, the Chargers had played an OT game against Miami in 90 deg+ weather the week before, and when they lined up to play the Bengals O-linemen were wearing short sleeves. And they tried to kick a FG just before halftime and the groundskeeper “iced” them by opening the gate that looked SW down the river where the gale force winds were coming from (they fixed it before the kick, but it was a total shank).
Good memories. And cold ones.