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If the Dolphins<\/a> had crushed the Bills<\/a> in Week 18, they’d be on the brink of play a wild-card sport within the balmy climate of Miami, however on account of their loss, they headed to Kansas Metropolis and are taking part in in one of many coldest video games in NFL historical past.\u00a0
The kickoff temperature on Saturday evening was minus-4 levels, which makes Chiefs-Dolphins the fourth-coldest sport to ever be performed within the NFL.\u00a0
In accordance with the league, there have solely been 5 video games ever the place the kickoff temperature was beneath zero and Chiefs-Dolphins is now certainly one of them.\u00a0
Packers<\/a> 21-17 over Dallas (Ice Bowl)
-13 levels (-48 wind chill)
Inexperienced Bay
Dec. 31, 1967
Bengals<\/a> 27-7 over Chargers<\/a> (Freezer Bowl)
-9 levels (-59 wind chill)
Cincinnati
Jan. 10, 1982
Seahawks<\/a> 10-9 over Vikings<\/a>
-6 levels (-25 wind chill)
Minnesota
Jan. 10, 2016
Dolphins at Chiefs
-4 diploma (-23 wind chill)
Kansas Metropolis
Jan. 13, 2024
The Giants 23-20 win over the Packers within the 2007 NFC Championship is the one different sport in NFL historical past the place the sport time temperature was beneath zero (It was minus-1 in that sport).
That is the coldest sport that the Dolphins have ever performed in, which is not nice information for a Miami workforce that has misplaced 10 straight video games when the kickoff temperature is 40 levels or beneath (You\u00a0can read more about that here<\/a><\/span>).
Though the Dolphins have not been capable of win in chilly climate, Chiefs coach Andy Reid will not expect their struggles to proceed on Saturday evening.\u00a0
“You’ll be able to’t financial institution on that. That is the place you get into bother,” Reid stated,\u00a0via The Associated Press<\/a>. “We’re not having a snowball battle.”
Saturday’s sport is the coldest that the\u00a0NFL<\/a>\u00a0has seen since January 2016 when the Seahawks went on the street to beat the Vikings 10-9 in wild-card playoff sport the place the temperature was minus-6 levels.
When the week began, the anticipated temperature at kickoff was projected to be about 10 levels, however that quantity dropped steadily all through the week.
With the minus-4 kickoff temperature, the Chiefs additionally set their franchise document for coldest sport ever performed. Earlier than this week, the Chiefs’ coldest sport got here all the best way again in 1983 on a day the place the the temperature was 0.5 levels at kickoff, in accordance\u00a0to Pro Football Reference<\/a>.\u00a0
To maintain each groups heat, the NFL has applied a number of new protocols for this sport: The Dolphins and Chiefs will each have tools and kit for such climate. There can be heated tools together with heated benches, heavy jackets, hand heaters and fluids to assist keep away from dehydration.
As chilly as it is going to be for the gamers, it is going to really feel even colder for the followers. Not solely is the temperature anticipated to be within the single digits all evening, however the wind chill is projected to be between -21 and -30 whereas the sport is being performed. The followers will even have further tools in place. Warming stations, hand heaters, sizzling drinks and no halftime leisure so as to encourage video games to discover a heat spot throughout that point.\u00a0
Tthe Chiefs in all probability will not thoughts that it is so chilly and that is as a result of they have a tendency to thrive within the when the in icy climate. Of their previous 10 residence video games the place the temperature was underneath 40 levels, the Chiefs have gone 9-1, together with 4-0 within the playoffs.
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