Some fans who attended the Chiefs vs. Dolphins playoff game were hospitalized due to the freezing temperatures, according to the Grossman Burn Medical Center. Thirty patients were treated for frostbite and twelve of them needed amputations.
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#chiefs #frostbite #nbcnwes
Talk about taking one for the team. 😅
Shoooooooot, we deal with this 7 months a year up here in Alaska, still got all my parts 😂 got down to -54 this winter
Also it’s not even football, y’all playing it with your hands 😂
It’s not worth it. Once your body starts tingling & feeling numb you should get warm before it gets worse. That’s just the 1st stage of hypothermia
Funny thing is that the game was quite literally the most boring playoff game this year 😂
Losing a digit or a limb for a silly game that you don’t gain anything out of is wild.
How come football players who were just wearing their uniforms don’t need any amputations?
Tickets- 700$, hospital bill for amputation 3700 $ watching your team win in freezing cold temperatures… priceless 😂🤣😆
Womp womp.
Fans should have dressed warm… don’t wanna hear sub zero temperatures. I work 150-700ft up all year round, no frost bite. Carhartt poly pro long johns an T-shirt and a good hoody. I don’t use hot hands or boot warmers you sweat your done. 6 hours up 3 on the ground. Every 30ft drops 5 degrees an there’s always wind above 60ft. Plenty of BS 0 degree’s days and not alot of moving around on cell towers
Someone will blame the NFL for this. However, you ppl bought the tickets or were gifted them, but regardless, chose to go. I just hope no kids had to go thru this!
Bahaha “i dont want them to play in an empty stadium” seems like her head is kind of empty of common sense. But i mean i guess we gotta say bless her heart for being so concernee for the players
😢
This sounds like tourist thinking. I imagine people who are accustomed to cold weather know how to manage in cold arenas, even in these extrme cases.
They also lost their heads.
“I don’t want them to play in a quiet stadium” She looks insane, someone get her help please.
Definitely would’ve been at home on the couch.
I can’t believe some of these people actually chose to like not go home and get frostbite just to finish watching the game at a point I feel like you do have to act like a responsible adult and no like when your own safety is being put in danger and then like whether it’s actually worth it
4 Degrees should’ve automatically made them watch it on TV at home by some heaters and fireplaces!
Are we suppose to feel sorry for them😂 tell you what, i feel JUST as bad as the glorified millionaires you paid to go and see in temperaturs YOU KNEW were gonna be like that.
One the one hand this is dumb but then on the other I wish I had something I was this enthusiastic about. Without inspiration like this life really is dull and depressing.
Paying to sit out in the cold and lose your limbs = darwinism.
Bread and circuses = sheep limbs.
Idiots
wow, it’s almost like I feel zero sympathy for any of these geniuses.
Yall can keep it. 😂❤🏖🧜♀️
I stopped going to denver games years ago. I was always watching the jumbo tron anyways. So why spend $100 on tickets and $16 for a beer, when i can watch free at home and buy a case of beer for $16
Hope it was worth it.
“Some fans who attended” are you talking 1 fan or 20…… be more specific
I think they said 12 people lost fingers or toes due to frost bite
Ignorance is not bliss
These are the same wind chill temps I had in Navy Boot camp in 2013. The weather was so bad that the previous graduating classes were stuck in Great Lakes, and all of us new recruits had to sleep in the hallways
Typical Americans.
Why would they hold a game with weather that cold???
This is why I am not a sports person
It is a different breed of people
Crazy
WOO FOOTBALL! CTESPN
Lol 😆
I’ll never understand how it’s so important for these people to watch a game, that they’re literally willing to freeze outside in the stands and risk life and limb. That can not be worth it?
Probably alcohol made some people less aware and numbed everything, cooled the skin. Always be prepared for extreme weather. It’s no joke.
Ah yes the typical no braincell scenario
I went to the game, was relatively comfortable, and came out just fine. Layered myself up really heavy and warmers over most of my body. The people who had these problems obviously didn’t prepare. I saw some people walking out of the game with light sweatshirts. I thought they were crazy
Morons.
Hilarious! Football fans have to be a lesser evolved form of human.
Some sport fans can be so dumb.
1:14 i believe that’s the guy who got amputated😮
Stuuuupid
Well they have a story to tell the grandchildren when they ask how they lost their limbs 😅
Maybe just watch on TV?
REALLY ???
people be on their knees for sports so much that they can risk it all.
Can’t teach you that, because that’s common sense
Poor decisions equals negative consequences.
that;s a hardcore fan right there lets goooooo
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around being a debout fanatic over a bunch of random guys for playing with a ball. Lol 😂
Proves that these sports can be idols to some
was it worth it. i like my fingers and toes
Gloves?
How did none of the players suffer medical conditions from the game? Some players were exposing their skin?!
That’s what happens for doing games on places with extreme climates.
Fans of chief’s of still wondering why the media used a kid as a race tool 😂
How do the players stay safe in that kind of cold?
To be fair sometimes you don’t realize how cold you are until it’s too late. If your don’t regularly go out in freezing temps you won’t know how to prepare. It was up to the stadium to have warming centers if they didn’t cancel the game due to weather.
I’m sorry what?! It’s called gloves and hand warmers. I can get snow gloves for $8 and hand warmers for 2 for $1
WE. WATCH YOUR NEWS. , WE ALSO CHOSE TO WATCH K .C . CHIEFS. ON T.V. WE REALLY LIKE YOUR SHOW AND THE CHIEFS PLAYOFF GAME. WE HAVE COMMON SENSE, AND WE DID NOT WANT TO FREEZE TO DEATH. IT WAS JUST NOT WORTH IT. WE LIVE IN KANSAS CITY, AND, LIKE WE FELT NEVER COMPELLED TO GO DOWN TO THE STADIUM, WHICH IS LESS THAN A COUPLE OF MILES FROM US TO BE FRIGID DEATH COLD, EVEN AT A DISCOUNT BECAUSE THE TICKETS WERE AT A REAL GOOD DISCOUNT. IT REALLY COUNTS ON YOUR PRIORITIES IT’S LIKE WOW ONLY OUR CHURCH COULD’VE HAD ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE BLEACHERS. LISTEN LEARN. ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND HOW TO BE SAVED THAT WOULD’VE BEEN AWESOME. EVEN THE CHURCH IS HEATED THERE’S RESTROOMS. A LOT OF CHURCHES AREN’T EVEN PACKED ANYMORE. ?…. IT DEFINITELY DESCRIBES THE TIMES WERE LIVING IN. AND YES, AS BELIEVERS WE BELIEVE THAT WE’RE LIVING IN THE END TIMES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK SOON WE JUST DON’T KNOW WHEN.
Why…Just why??
Now that’s dedication
Absolute idjits. Amputations over a stoopid ball game. No sympathy from me.
In chicago when its winter winter we get wind chills of -50 you would not survive here.
They crazy I’m staying home 😂
The company hosting the game should have some sort of responsibility for providing warmth to their audience. Like when you take business class on an airplane, sometimes you’re “entitled” to two free drinks a seat. Or first class’ “care package”. These people should’ve been given a sort of care package so them going in and facing -4F (freezing starts at 32F) environment wouldn’t be so literally and physically detrimental. I really wonder how much these seats were, please somebody if you have insight, put it below. No matter of the cost of tickets, there should be a mandatory dress code enforced and if not followed then redirected to a shop or something, like a beach does!
Ngl, outdoor sports games outta be rescheduled for temperatures like these…
In Canada I survive winters colder then that without losing limbs or digits when winter hunting… what were they using for mittens socks 😮
Some people had their shirts off! I wonder if this isn’t the first time things have gone wrong for them. For the several handfuls of people who got frostbite had to have been 60K+ plus that were fine. Yeah, probably copious amounts of alcohol/substances and showing off they can handle the cold was involved.
Why is this news story coming out so late?
Ridiculous that they even let the game happen. At least should have switched to an indoor venue or made special arrangement to travel to nearest stadium not in an Arctic circle weather pattern if they wanted fans to attend. Did they even have any heating stations setup where people could get warm? Even just a readily available array of the heat lamps restaurants use with outdoor seating?
Attorneys will get involved: money will change hands. And if the democrats take control of the Congress, there might even be investigations and legislation. Mark my words.
-27F? tis but a mild chill compared to Canada…. LOL!
dumb dumb dumb
That’s dumb. You’re in cold territory. Bundle up.
I call this a win, now they can see how stupid they are 😂
If you do this to yourself to watch a game then your life expectancy is probably quite low to begin with. Imagine how people who lost digits to actually being stranded in frigid conditions feel upon hearing about this.
It’s a stupid game
Is this not idiocracy😂
ummm… why would anyone do something like that?
can’t fix stupid
So you lost some of your rent/mortgage money and a finger/leg…tsk tsk for a game! Couldn’t be me
Class action lawsuit against the NFL for not rescheduling the game is coming.
Selection Naturraall
Technically, excision/removal of fingers or toes is known as a disarticulation
I live in warm Oahu Hawaii so temps even at 66 degrees feels cold to me. I experienced a pro baseball game in Hiroshima Japan in 2014 where the temps were just above freezing. I had thermal leggings on, I had a heavy coat with vest and long sleeve shirt under the coat. It felt colder than freezing. My brother who had lived in Japan several years also said it was really cold. I had a couple of beers but I it didn’t have enough alcohol to make me feel warm or tipsy. I asked for hot coffee which helped a little. My brother’s team started off strong with a home run by a form University Player from Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors. But ultimately they fell flat and got routed by the visiting team. We didn’t stay for the final couple innings, it was just too freaking cold.
I was waiting at the Shinkansen platform to get back to Fukuyama and I started shivering uncontrollably. Never experienced anything like it. Fortunately for me I was able to buy a hot bottle of green tea from a vending machine at the platform. Once we were in the train it was so warm.
I can’t even imagine what being in that KC playoff game was like. NFL players are more physical fit and they are burning a lot of calories when playing which helps with cold temps. The bench area has those heat machines and they have the heavy coats. Inside their pads they are wearing very warm clothing.
Imagine losing a limb for a football game.
She really said players have to be there.🤦🏽♀️ Players are running around, not standing or sitting in place. I am curious how many of these patients had no alcohol, but it’s crazy to think this happened. I’m surprised nobody has launched a lawsuit lol.
Loosing your limbs watching your idols this pain is nothing compared to eternal 🔥 damnation…repent now!
Natural selection
Did the players take a knee to protest how they have been discriminated against while the fans froze?
Stupidity…
For someone who has lived all my life in tropical climate, that would be instant death for me.
sports fans, pfffft
the stupidity of humanity NEVER ceases to amaze me
They should play these games to Canada (not Toronto tho. Those guys don’t know what real winter is 😂). I often had to walk to work in that weather because the bus would be a no show. Thank God I can afford a car now.
Two teams play a game and losers watch from the stands.
America worshiping our true gods lol