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It’s going to be cold in Kansas City for Sunday’s AFC championship game between the Chiefs and Patriots, and while it won’t be record-shattering cold for an NFL game, the temperature certainly will be a talking point as we approach kickoff.
The forecast calls for temperatures just below 10 degrees at kickoff (5:40 p.m. local time), with the mercury plummeting toward 5 degrees as the game wears on.
[The Lamar Hunt trophy has finally come home, and the Chiefs think that’s just the beginning]
The coldest game in league history is believed to be the Ice Bowl, the 1967 NFL championship game between the Cowboys and Packers in Green Bay that saw game-time temperatures of minus-13 degrees with a wind chill of minus-36. More recently, a January 2016 playoff game between the Seahawks and Vikings in Minneapolis (before the opening of Minnesota’s domed home field) was played in temperatures of minus-6 degrees. Per Pro Football Reference’s records, there have been 12 playoff games with kickoff temperatures of 5 degrees or less.
With Tom Brady as their quarterback, the Patriots have gone 24-4 in games with a kickoff temperature lower than 30 degrees (12-1 in the playoffs, including Sunday’s win over the Chargers when it was 26 degrees at kickoff). But nine of the 15 regular season games and 12 of the 13 playoff games were in Foxboro.
The coldest game Brady ever has played in came in the second round of the playoffs in January 2004, when it was 4 degrees with a wind chill of minus-10 at kickoff of the Patriots’ game against the Titans at Gillette Stadium. Brady completed 21 of 41 passes for 201 yards and a touchdown in New England’s 17-14 victory.
“Kam hit this tight end SO HARD, I swear I saw that TE’s soul leave Qwest Field right on that 35 yard line.”