Jan 13, 2024; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins cheer in the cold weather during the second half of the 2024 AFC wild card game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
NFL: AFC Wild Card Round-Miami Dolphins at Kansas City Chiefs
(Kansas City, MO) – The entire US is dealing with brutal cold, and daily records are being broken. You can feel it every time you go outside.
It hurts. It even burns. And while the fans were on fire during the Kansas City Chiefs-Miami Dolphins playoff game, they were also plenty cold.
Saturday night’s Wild Card game between the Dolphins and Chiefs was the coldest in Kansas City history, as “real-feel” wind chill temperatures dipped to -30 degrees. Fans who attended were undoubtedly thrilled with the win – but now they’re paying the consequences.
According to a report from FOX4 in Kansas City, 15 people were hospitalized – and seven received treatment for hypothermia. The Kansas City Fire Department said they received 70 calls, and about half of those were due to health issues caused by the dangerous cold.
At kickoff, the temperature at the stadium was -4 degrees, with the wind chill coming in at around -30 degrees. Of course fans sitting in the cheap seats, up in the nosebleeds – those temperatures may have been even more frigid.
Chiefs fans are pretty passionate when it comes to supporting their team, but this takes things to another level.
Was it worth it? To stand in record-shattering temperatures for three hours to watch players run around on an 11 by 28.5 inch field.. While risking a life-threatening illness?
You betcha. That’s the NFL.
Luckily for the Chiefs faithful, their next game won’t be at Arrowhead Stadium. But it’s out of the refrigerator into the icebox, as up next is snowy, wet, dark, and cold Buffalo – for the Divisional round matchup against the Bills.
