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If you’ve ever taken a vacation to Antarctica, then you might have an idea of how cold all the fans and players were feeling in Kansas City on Saturday night.
With a kickoff temperature of minus-4 degrees, the wild-card game between the Chiefs and the Dolphins is the fourth-coldest game in NFL history. As if that temperature isn’t bad enough, there’s also the wind chill to worry about, which was at minus-24 to start the game before falling to minus-27 later in the night.
If you’ve never been in weather that cold, it’s hard to imagine just how frigid it really feels, but you can get a good idea by watching the video below. Someone at the game grabbed a bottled water and as soon as that water was exposed to the air, it started to freeze.
It is literally so cold in Kansas City that the refrigerator was keeping the water warm. In the 40-degree fridge, the water was doing just fine, but once it was exposed to the sub-zero temperatures, it almost immediately started to freeze.
If you failed chemistry in high school, that’s a process known as nucleation (Thanks to AMS Certified Meteorologist Lindsey Anderson for explaining that one).
With the water freezing instantly, it’s not easy to stay hydrated. If you’re thinking about getting a Coke, that’s not going to work either, because soda is freezing just as fast.
Andy Reid’s mustache also fell victim to the cold weather. The temperature was so low that Reid was literally growing icicles on his face.
The cold-weather also caused Patrick Mahomes’ helmet to shatter after he took a brutal hit in the third quarter.
The moral of the story here is that it’s not any fun at all to be stuck outside in sub-zero temperatures.
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-01-14 03:50:29
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