In Saturday night’s wild-card playoff game, the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins faced the fourth-coldest conditions in NFL history. The bitter wind chills, coupled with intrepid fans donning parkas, snow pants, and ski goggles, made for an intense experience at kickoff.
The temperature for the game plummeted to minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-20 Celsius), and wind gusts reached up to 27 mph, resulting in a bone-chilling wind chill of minus-27 degrees. This shattered the previous record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which was 1 degree, set in 1983 against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.
Gracie Hunt, daughter of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, celebrated Kansas City’s 26-7 wild-card victory over the Dolphins with an Instagram post, acknowledging the dedication of the Chiefs Kingdom despite the extreme cold. She expressed gratitude, stating, “Chiefs Kingdom is so special. Thank you for showing up and braving the cold this weekend. You’re the real MVPs!”
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The wild-card matchup, exclusively streamed on Peacock aside from local affiliates, set the record for the most-streamed live event in U.S. history.
While Saturday’s game marked one of the coldest in NFL history, the record for the coldest game still belongs to the 1967 NFL championship, famously known as the Ice Bowl, where the Packers defeated the Cowboys at Lambeau Field with a temperature of minus-13 degrees. The wind chill during that historic game was an astonishing minus-48 degrees.
Despite the harsh conditions, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs demonstrated resilience, handling the elements better than their opponents from South Florida, securing a 26-7 victory.
