Record for the coldest game in NFL history still belongs to the Packers – Cowboys “Ice Bowl” Contest of 1967.
The Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins played the fourth-coldest game in NFL history on Saturday night, with bitter wind chills that made it feel even colder at kickoff and intrepid fans bundled up in parkas, snow pants and ski goggles.
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.
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs handled the elements better than the visitors from South Florida, beating the Dolphins 26-7.
“It was cold, I’m not going to lie. It was cold,” Kansas City’s quarterback said. “At the end of the day, you have to be mentally tough enough that if something doesn’t work, I’m going to come back and keep firing.”
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Nevertheless, pretty freakin’ cold out there over a wide area. While most games probably are going on under domes these days, (like my ..ahem.. Detroit Lions, who beat LA last night, see below) a few stadiums still force teams, and fans, to brave the elements.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (KDKA) — It’s gameday in New York as the Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills are set to face off in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs after the game was pushed back a day due to extreme weather.
Sunday’s game was moved to Monday as a massive lake effect snow storm pounded the Buffalo region, dumping multiple feet of snow throughout the area.
On Saturday night, the Kansas City Chiefs entertained the Miami Dolphins at open-air Arrowhead Stadium, where local temp was -4° F at game time.
UPDATE:
Yahoo:
If you live in Buffalo and can shovel snow, the Buffalo Bills need your help.
The blizzard that forced the NFL to postpone the playoff game between the Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers is over, but the snow it dumped on the area is still blanketing Highmark Stadium. The Bills, who had already been paying locals to shovel snow overnight, put out another call for shovelers Monday morning.
The pay is $20 an hour, and a shovel will be provided if you don’t have one. The Bills will also provide complimentary breakfast. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Bills fans, whether they’re shoveling or looking like doofuses while slipping down a snow slide.
As a public service message, a reminder for football fans that climate change may be making arctic outbreaks more common.
I saw a Bills/Pats game at Rich Stadium in ’77 (I think). Third row bench seats @ 50 yard line, couldn’t see the other bench, couldn’t see the other side of the field. I’ve been boycotting football for seven years for (!) so don’t have much more than anecdote, but it does seem like they used to be tougher
Sadly, the weather that delayed D-Day filled the marshlands in France with water, resulting in the drowning deaths of hundreds (if not thousands) of laden paratroopers who weren’t shot down.