Posted on 03/08/2024 7:42:02 PM PST by Enterprise
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday.
Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as “injuries evolve.”
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“The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 Celsius), and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 27 degrees F (minus 33 C). That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been 1 degree F (minus 17 C), set in a 1983 game against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.”
In this case, quite literally, I hate to say.
Winter is always a surprise to some people.
they’re gonna sue... right???
Um, didn’t three guys literally die from exposure (due to alcohol/drug use) also?
Wow.
With global warming, this sort of thing shouldn’t be a problem.
I remember using my battery-powered socks for cold sports events. They had two large size D batteries on each sock. There was a copper wire all the way down to the toes. They were originally for snow skiing. They worked really well. Your feet were not necessarily ‘warm’ but the toes did not lose circulation.
I would have thought they’ll know better in Kansas City. But again, this is the Tik Tok Generation. No one goes out anymore.
I don’t remember amputations happening during the “Ice Bowl” with the Cowboys and Packers back in 1967 when it got a lot colder. Lambeau Field was about −15 °F with an average wind chill around −48
Temperatures at the Chiefs- Dolphin s game were minus 4 degrees F during kickoff with a minus 27 F wind chill.
People are either softer, dumber or both.
I could not believe how unprepared and miserable many of the nitwits at that game were.
“Some fans at frigid Chiefs playoff game underwent amputations”
Now those are REAL FANS - good for them!
I had a pair like that. Had to pull one of the batteries out every so often or it felt like my toes were roasting!
I guess people will have a lot to talk about at parties — “how I lost my toe at the game.”
If you can’t afford the upper-crust Arm & Leg seats, there are always the cheaper Finger & Toe seats.
I lived Minnesota growing up Duluth. Most games at the old met were subzero, as many of the old football games in Green Bay, Chicago and other venues.
It is football, and I can tell you, I remember going to High School Hockey games where the temperature was well below freezing, and when I and my friends could not stand, we left. To this day I cannot understand how my friends who played Hockey could put up with the cold. Remember, like High School football games, hockey games were also played on Friday nights outside when it is awlays the coldest.
You want to go to a game in cold weather, well come prepared. I have little sympathy for those who are too stupid to leave a game if it gets too cold.
“Everyone knows that tickets to major sports events can cost you an arm and a leg.”
Probably not the case, but even a toe or a finger is on the high side.
I use my battery socks here at home on really cold days. They use LiPO batteries these days. I’m not impressed, though. I was looking for nice gentle uniform heat all around my feet and ankle, but it’s more spotty and localized. I think mine were mainly made for hunting.
Too drunk to notice their digits freezing?
Last pro football game I attended, I think I was the only person in the stands who wasn’t smashed. (Denver Donkeys with my brother-in-law, sometime in the ‘90s.)
I wonder if it’s the half naked, painted, fat slobs who’s obviously imbibed too many adult beverages.
The cameras always focus on these idiots, encouraging more to act stupidity.
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