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lastlib

(24,902 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 02:55 PM Jan 2024

Chiefs-Dolphins game Saturday

Kickoff-time temp will be minus-2 degrees F., with wind chill at minus-35. It stands to be the coldest game the Chiefs have ever played. Ticket prices for this game are the cheapest of any playoff game this weekend (can anybody imagine why?)

Forecast for KC: Tonight's low (minus-7) will be tomorrow's high. No temp above 20 degrees forecast for the next ten days.

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Chiefs-Dolphins game Saturday (Original Post) lastlib Jan 2024 OP
I don't see how they can do it they run so fast now and crash into each other so hard. Walleye Jan 2024 #1
I really expect a LOT of injuries because of the cold..... lastlib Jan 2024 #4
There will Rebl2 Jan 2024 #11
1967 Packers vs. Cowboys lastlib Jan 2024 #13
No thank you 🥶🥶 Rebl2 Jan 2024 #14
Cold, cold, cold and cloudy with no snow Brother Buzz Jan 2024 #2
The Polar Bowl! Jilly_in_VA Jan 2024 #3
I hope so! n/t lastlib Jan 2024 #5
Miami has been decimated with injuries calguy Jan 2024 #8
I heard they signed some extra linebackers this week lastlib Jan 2024 #15
Maybe the Peacock will MOMFUDSKI Jan 2024 #6
Back in the 70's I had season tickets to the Minnesota Vikings. Barry Markson Jan 2024 #7
As long as True Dough Jan 2024 #9
I remember a similar game Jilly_in_VA Jan 2024 #10
I remember the Bengals playing the Chargers in 1983 NotASurfer Jan 2024 #12
Stinks that it's not televised. Owl Jan 2024 #16
AGreed! lastlib Jan 2024 #17

Walleye

(35,661 posts)
1. I don't see how they can do it they run so fast now and crash into each other so hard.
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 03:00 PM
Jan 2024

I guess the players will have some kind of heaters when they’re on the bench. But the fans certainly won’t. It’s been warm in Miami this week I think

lastlib

(24,902 posts)
4. I really expect a LOT of injuries because of the cold.....
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 03:09 PM
Jan 2024

...to say nothing of hypothermia among players, staff, AND spectators! The team is allowing some relaxation of what people can bring in to keep warm (but no blankets/sleeping bags with zippers! like somebody's going to beat someone else with a friggin' zipper?) Battery-powered heating clothes will be allowed, but battery size is restricted...... Cardboard will be allowed to stand on, as oposed to the cold concrete.

Rebl2

(14,677 posts)
11. There will
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 05:43 PM
Jan 2024

be warming tents in many places inside and outside stadium. Imagine they will have similar for team members on sidelines. When was the ice bowl I keep hearing about?

lastlib

(24,902 posts)
13. 1967 Packers vs. Cowboys
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:55 PM
Jan 2024

(Old) NFL championship game (pre-merger), decided who played in the second Super Bowl against the AFL team (Raiders). Temp at game time was minus-13 degrees, with wind chills later calculated at minus-55. Absolutely BRUTAL cold.

Brother Buzz

(37,795 posts)
2. Cold, cold, cold and cloudy with no snow
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 03:06 PM
Jan 2024

This California boy always enjoys at least one 'Snow Game' a year, but I can't remember a single one this season.

lastlib

(24,902 posts)
15. I heard they signed some extra linebackers this week
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 11:09 PM
Jan 2024

Whether practice squad or free agents, IDK. I guess they were really beaten up at that position.

I've camped with Scouts in weather this cold, but I can't imagine going out there with a football uniform, and throwing my body around against 250-lb linebackers running at full tilt.

 

Barry Markson

(280 posts)
7. Back in the 70's I had season tickets to the Minnesota Vikings.
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 03:27 PM
Jan 2024

Outdoors in Metropolitan Stadium.
Coldest ever was Dec 3, 1972 against Da Bears.
-2, wind chill -19 to -40.
Mn Coach Harry Peter "Bud" Grant famously didn't allow heaters on the Vikings sidelines but those of us in the stands consumed copious amounts of anti-freeze and pretty much didn't feel a thing.
Well, at least not until we got home and thawed out.

I gave up my tickets when the team moved downtown to the HHH Metrodome. It took all the fun out of the game.
No home-field advantage, no tailgating, you couldn't bring in your own booze, and NO SMOKING IN THE METRODOME!

What's a football game without Peppermint Schnapps and cigars?

Jilly_in_VA

(10,885 posts)
10. I remember a similar game
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 03:57 PM
Jan 2024

It was back in the 60s between the Packers and somebody in Milwaukee, of all places. Colder than dammit. A bunch of guys from school went, I had better sense and so did most of the other girls. They came back and within the week, most of them were sick. I don't remember who the Pack played, but they won.

NotASurfer

(2,312 posts)
12. I remember the Bengals playing the Chargers in 1983
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 05:48 PM
Jan 2024

Temp was something like ten below, windy, the Bengals linemen walked onto the field with bare arms, the Chargers stepped onto the field with a look that said they wanted to be back in San Diego & played the entire game like their goal was to get the hell off the field and back to one of the heaters on the sidelines. There was frostbite.

I suspect you'll be able to tell as soon as Miami takes the field whether their goal is to play the game to win, or suffer as little time in that kind of brutal weather as possible before getting on a plane headed somewhere warmer

lastlib

(24,902 posts)
17. AGreed!
Sat Jan 13, 2024, 03:25 PM
Jan 2024

The Defending Super Bowl Champions?? Come on, NFL! Put the stinkin' Texans on yer damnable peacock, FFS!

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