Dozens of fans treated for hypothermia and frostbite at frigid Chiefs-Dolphins game in Kansas City

The NFL decided to postpone the Buffalo Bills-Pittsburgh Steelers game due to a massive snowstorm. However, the league felt comfortable moving forward with the Kansas City Chiefs-Miami Dolphins game in frigid weather as planned. Now, there are reports that many fans attending had medical issues due to the cold.

Temperatures dropped to -30 degrees with wind-chill for the game, making it one of the coldest games in NFL history. Fans felt that impact, with dozens who were treated for conditions like hypothermia and frostbite, brought on by the weather.

Kansas City first responders received 69 calls to Arrowhead Stadium during the game, including 15 people who needed to be transported to the hospital. Among those transported people, seven had hypothermia and three had frostbite. A spokesperson from the Kansas City Fire Department noted that about half of those calls to the stadium were due to hypothermia.

Notably, the reports don’t include those who went to KU Health System’s first aid station within Arrowhead Stadium itself. So, it’s likely even more people needed some kind of medical attention.

Frostbite can lead to skin turning black and peeling. In other words, it means the skin is dying from the cold. That is likely what fans who needed to be transported to the hospital were suffering from. However, hypothermia is also a major issue, with the internal body temperature of someone who has it dropping below 98 degrees, and it can potentially be deadly.

Images coming out of Kansas City were shocking to many people. That included Chiefs head coach Andy Reid pacing the sidelines with icicles forming on his frozen mustache, the frozen luxury box Taylor Swift watched the game from, and the field being frozen in place.

Wild water bottle video from Kansas City shows freezing weather

Shortly before the Kansas City-Miami game started, a video from the stadium went viral. In it, someone pulls a water bottle out from a fridge at an open-air concessions stand only for the water to nearly immediately freeze.

You can watch the wild video showing just how cold it was in Kansas City, here:

A little chilly at Arrowhead tonight pic.twitter.com/FMw7DLBXqF

— Mr. Brendan Marquart (@FloNoFro) January 13, 2024

Obviously, it was shocking to realize how cold it was in Kansas City by watching the video. After all, you can put a bottle of water in the freezer, walk away for five minutes, and come back to a less frozen bottle than that. It was so shocking, in fact, that some fans even thought it was fake.

It gets even crazier when you consider the fact that the refrigerator was actually the thing keeping the bottle of water warm.