The "lasting legacy" of the Chiefs wild card win over the Dolphins on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium "will be the temperature," which was minus 4 degrees at kickoff -- with a 27-under wind chill. It was the "fourth-coldest game in NFL history," played on a night when K.C. dipped to "near-record low with gusty northerly winds reaching 30mph." The Chiefs "didn’t look at all that different," though the Dolphins “might’ve been stunned by weather 70 degrees colder than back home” ( K.C. STAR, 1/14 ). It was "wind gusts, whipping through at more than 25 mph and driving chill to a bone-rattling minus-27 degrees," that made the weather "truly miserable for just about everyone." It was so cold that Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ’ helmet "shattered on a hit" and coach Andy Reid ’s "mustache froze on the sidelines" ( AP, 1/14 ).
Dolphins-Chiefs played amid near-record low temp
