Dolphins offensive lineman Terron Armstead has opened the team’s historically frigid trip to Kansas City last season by saying, “cold is not the word I would use to describe it.”
On January 13, the Dolphins faced the Chiefs in the fourth coldest game in NFL history, with the temperature at Arrowhead Stadium dropping to -4 degrees.
However, it was actually -27 that day and it felt cold, Armstead said TMZ that it felt more like ‘negative 99.’
The 32-year-old said the game – which saw several fans suffer frostbite – was ‘bad’.
“I’m from Illinois, so I’ve worked in snow and played in snow,” he said. “This was a historic day, in the wrong sense.”
Terron Armstead blocks Chiefs defenseman George Karlaftis during the game
Armstead said the match, played in -4 degrees, was “historically the wrong way.”
Isiah Pacheco, Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes try to stay warm before the game
Still, Armstead noted in the interview that he didn’t wear sleeves during the match.
He emerged from the game unscathed, although the Dolphins were comfortably defeated by the eventual Super Bowl champions 26–7.
Days after the game, the Kansas City Fire Department announced that 15 people who attended the game had been transported to local hospitals.
Three of those people were treated for frostbite and seven for hypothermia.
Research Medical Center later even confirmed that some of the game’s participants had to undergo amputations.