As Week 14 of the 2023 NFL regular season draws to a close. miami dolphins They held a 27-13 lead. tennessee titans There are less than four minutes left in regulation. If the Dolphins had won that game, their record for the year would have been 10-3, three games behind the Dolphins. buffalo bills in the AFC East. Even if the rest of the season played out the same way, that win was enough for the Dolphins to finally clinch the division, making a loss to the Bills in the final game of the season moot for Miami. It would have been.
That would have also given the Dolphins a home playoff game.
Instead, Miami blew that lead, becoming the first team since 2017 to break a 14-point lead with less than three minutes left.of The previous 582 team was in such a situation He kept winning. The Dolphins became the first team to lose in that period.
Now they face a trip to Arrowhead Stadium, and if that's not bad enough, the Dolphins are about to become a part of more NFL history.
type of weather.
Forecasters are expecting frigid conditions in Kansas City on Saturday. Current forecasts call for a daytime high of just 12 degrees on Saturday, but the game is scheduled to kick off just after 7pm local time, well after sunset, so by the time the game starts, temperatures will be 12 degrees. It's going to be a digit. .
The current forecast is for Saturday night's low temperature to be -3 degrees Celsius. Add in the expected wind chill and it will feel even colder in Arrowhead this weekend.
As such, this game could be one of the coldest in NFL playoff history. The coldest game in the NFL remains the “Ice Bowl.” 1967 NFL Championship Game Between green bay packers And that dallas cowboys. The temperature for this game was -13 degrees Celsius, and the wind chill was -48 degrees Celsius.
What is the next coldest game in NFL playoff history? San Diego vs. AFC Championship game charger And that cincinnati bengals During the 1981-1982 season, this became known as the “Freezer Bowl”. That afternoon, the temperature in Cincinnati reached -9 degrees. -59 wind chill. These situations helped calm the Chargers' offense, which was the best in the league that year.
The NFC wild card game was then played. minnesota vikings And that seattle seahawks During the 2015-2016 season. That season, the Vikings played their home games outdoors at TCF Bank Stadium, as U.S. Bank Stadium was still under construction. The temperature at the match reached -6 degrees, -25 degrees cold.
The fourth coldest NFL playoff game in history was also played at Lambeau Field, and it was the NFC Championship game between the Packers and the Packers. new york giants During the 2007-2008 season. Tom Coughlin's face turned red as the wind chill was -24C and the temperature was -4C.
The fifth-coldest game in NFL playoff history, and currently being surpassed by the Chiefs vs. Dolphins, takes us back to the 1994 divisional round game between the Los Angeles Raiders and Bills. The temperature recorded was 0 degrees and the windchill was -32 degrees. Buffalo would win that game and advance to Super Bowl XXVIII, where they would lose to the Cowboys.
If the predictions come true and Saturday night's game ends up in negative territory, it will join these games as one of the coldest in NFL history.
Here's why this is even more bad news for the Dolphins.according to stat head, the Dolphins have lost their past 10 games when temperatures were below 40 degrees. That includes last year's loss to the Bills in the wild-card round, when the temperature in Buffalo was 27 degrees that day.
The last time Miami won a game in temperatures below 40 degrees was on Christmas Eve 2016, when they beat the Bills 38-35 in overtime in Buffalo. Tua Tagovailoa was a senior in high school. Mike McDaniel was an offensive assistant under Dan Quinn with the Atlanta Falcons. What was the temperature in Buffalo that day? 38 degrees.
That could make the situation facing the Dolphins easier on Saturday night.
