Post by on_the_edge on Mar 8, 2024 20:06:49 GMT -5
I am not talking about ticket prices which of course are outrageous. I mean losing body parts to amputation if the game is too cold. That is happening to some fans who went to a Chiefs playoff game. While it seems most were just a finger or a toe I am thinking at least one might have been more.
Some Chiefs fans needed amputations
Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations, a Missouri hospital said Friday.
Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that some of the 12 people who had to undergo amputations after the cold snap had been at the game. The amputations involved mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as "injuries evolve."
The University of Kansas hospital said it also treated frostbite victims after the game but didn't report any amputations.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been 1 degree Fahrenheit, set in a 1983 game against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.
The wild-card game was played the same day the Buffalo Bills were supposed to host the Pittsburgh Steelers, but that game was pushed back a day because a snowstorm in New York made traveling to the game too dangerous.
The game in Kansas City went on as scheduled because the frigid weather didn't present similar problems getting to Arrowhead Stadium.
Some Chiefs fans needed amputations
Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations, a Missouri hospital said Friday.
Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that some of the 12 people who had to undergo amputations after the cold snap had been at the game. The amputations involved mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as "injuries evolve."
The University of Kansas hospital said it also treated frostbite victims after the game but didn't report any amputations.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been 1 degree Fahrenheit, set in a 1983 game against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.
The wild-card game was played the same day the Buffalo Bills were supposed to host the Pittsburgh Steelers, but that game was pushed back a day because a snowstorm in New York made traveling to the game too dangerous.
The game in Kansas City went on as scheduled because the frigid weather didn't present similar problems getting to Arrowhead Stadium.