For fans willing to brave potentially historically low temperatures, Saturday night's wild-card round game between the Chiefs and Dolphins at Arrowhead Stadium will be of great value.
Tickets for this game were only $33 on StubHub Saturday morning.
Some of the best seats were selling in the $100 range, much lower than usual for playoff games, especially those against the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs.
temperature Temperatures are expected to drop to -10 degrees. The cold is between -23 degrees and -30 degrees.
Winds of 14 to 18 mph are expected, with gusts of up to 49 mph possible.
The temperatures could bring the game closer to the 1967 Ice Bowl between the Packers and Cowboys in Green Bay, which suffered minus 13 degrees and wind chills of minus 48 degrees.
The National Weather Service defines the weather asdangerously cold”, there is a risk of frostbite and hypothermia.
This will be the coldest game the Dolphins have ever played.
If they had defeated the Bills in Week 18, the Dolphins would have hosted a playoff game at Sunny Miami.
Instead, they will be forced to travel to Kansas City and face life-threatening cold conditions.
“If you're going to play a playoff game that's not your home, it's probably going to be cold,” Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel said earlier this week. “It's going to be the same for both teams. For us and for the guys in the locker room, I know they're not going to use that as an excuse.”
The Chiefs have struggled in the second half of the year, losing five of their last 10 games and are far from the reigning champions.
But they always seem to improve in the biggest games.
“We've been playing a lot of big games, short rest games, night games, and that experience will be helpful,” Mahomes said recently. “A lot of guys on this team have been able to do that, so it's going to be a little bit of a small step up going into the playoffs because we've had games like this. We're going to rely on our experience. , we can be the best team.”
