Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! KC is gonna be frigid Saturday night with game time temps well below freezing and wind chills of -20/-30. A comment was made in the game thread that the stadium may be 30% empty and it prompted an incredulous response by a poster questioning if that is really a possibility. So, would you go if a pal called you with an open ticket and if so what would it take to persuade you to join the frozen few? The ticket is endzone/upper level.
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What would it take for you to go to the game? (1 Viewer)
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Wigglytuff's Gruff
Footballguy
If I already owned the appropriate clothing, I'd go for sure. If it really was unbearable you can just leave. Probably be quite a laugh though.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
If I were a Chiefs fan, I would happily attend this game, and I'd enjoy it. I have plenty of cold weather gear, and I've attended games in conditions like this before.
That's a lot of beer and a lot of brats. And they didn't have the heat warmers and such that we have today. Of course, the live experience was so far superior to the tv experience back then as well where as today we have tilted to to the tv experience being pretty fabulous.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
I'm older. I've been to a ton of sporting events in my life. Wanna know how old I am? I'm more concerned about the weather then the cost of a game. Rain? No chance. Snow? No chance. Bad weather to go with parking, traffic and lines? Nope. Pay me million dollars? All day. Ha ha
FarFromHome
Footballguy
Free tickets down front on the 50 yard line and it's gonna rain all game? Pass
Well, since I would much rather watch any game at home rather than going it would take the free ticket and $1M option for me. Now being that it is a playoff game that gives me a little more incentive to go but again, if I was interested in watching the game I would want to do that at home even it was perfect weather outside. The in game viewing experience is terrible for football. Too many TV timeouts. Too much standing around. There is just no game flow when you are there. Now the atmosphere and fan electricity and tailgating experiences sometimes can off set the terrible viewing experience and I have never been to a playoff game before so I am somewhat intrigued to experience that. But I would rather do that when it is more barrable weather hence the answer of free tickets and $1M
I am right there with you for the most part. However, I have never been to a snow game. I wouldn't mind going to a Packers-Vikings game (I am a Vikes fan) at Lambeau in the snow but only if I can guarantee the snow is nice and dry and as warm as it can be for those conditions to occur. Experiencing Lambeau in the snow would be something I would like to say I have done.
The worry is going and having it be one of those wet snow type days that is just so cold you can't do anything to make it any better. On second thought, never mind...hahaha
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
I actually prefer the colder games over the ones where I’m in direct sunlight sweating my balls off.
Agree. As long as you’re dressed appropriately it’s not that bad at all.
Dizzy
Footballguy
Just to clarify... would I HAVE TO attend the game? If not, I would take the $1,000... sell the ticket for $1... and go ice fishing.
themeistersinger
Footballguy
For a million bucks you could sit in your car in the parking lot and watch on the satellite TV you bough with your largesse.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
If the Steelers playoff game was in Pittsburgh I would pay face value to go. I was offered a ticket to go to Buffalo but I declined. Don't really feel like driving 3-4 hours, tailgate for a couple hours, sit in a freezing cold stadium and then drive another 3-4 hours to go back home.
Nope gotta sit in the seats.
Deamon
Footballguy
It was -50F last night where I live, this is nothing.
Are you part penguin?
Opposite end
I'll bring my binoculars
Grew up in Buffalo and saw a few games at old Rich Stadium in the 70's and sat in the snow and cold to watch OJ get his and the Bills lose. I know of cold and snow. Snow not much of an issue for me but especially now that I'm older that kind of brutal cold is a no go zone for me. You can dress however you want but the idea of bundling like Randy in Christmas Story to be even half comrtable is not appealing to me in the least.
Deamon
Footballguy
No haha. It's awful, this is the coldest I've ever felt it. It's currently -31F with a -51F windchill here. It gets up to 100F in the summers so it's a pretty big swing.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
Sounds horrible. I lived in Hawaii for 10 years and my favorite thing was that it was 85 degrees in the summer and 85 degrees in the winter. It's been 3 years living in the south and I still just absolutely hate the cold.
Remind me where this is so I never go there.....
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
I went to the Bills/Patriots playoff game a few years ago, which had a kickoff temperature of 7 degrees with a -15 degree wind chill. It was enough to make you cover everything except your eyes, and I had multiple beers, both at the tailgate and the game itself, freeze before you could finish drinking them. I'd go to this game if it was free or very cheap tickets. I wouldn't pay face value or anything over that, though.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I wouldn't go for free. Pay me $1k and I'd go.
I played hockey in Roseau, MN when the air temp was -42. Sure it was indoors but they had the ceiling flaps open to keep the ice cold. So it was about -20 inside.
If there's no wind it's manageable. Any wind though... Oof.
I played hockey in Roseau, MN when the air temp was -42. Sure it was indoors but they had the ceiling flaps open to keep the ice cold. So it was about -20 inside.
If there's no wind it's manageable. Any wind though... Oof.
Snoopy
Footballguy
That sounds like North Dakota weather.
Deamon
Footballguy
Haha it's rare it's this cold. Just up in Calgary, near Banff.
You get a couple days a year like this and a couple 100 degree days but for the most part the climate is no different than Montana or Wisconsin.
That was going to be my guess.....
Snoopy
Footballguy
The weather already has.This is one of those “if we’re properly equipped, make a memory” opportunities.
Just don’t lose a digit.
looking forward to watching this on
ChiefD
Footballguy
I definitely associate 100 degree temps with Canada.
abrunn1133
Footballguy
You guys are soft. i was a the Vikings-Seahawks game in 2016 where Blair effing Walsh missed a 27 yard FG to win the game. The wind chill was -25, but it really wasn't that bad. It definitely felt colder after the loss.
gucci little piggy
Footballguy
I think I'd go for free tickets. It's a double-edged sword... On one hand, I'd get to be in the same stadium as TSwift. On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to watch her on TV if I went. The weather is a non-factor.
massraider
Footballguy
Weather games are awesome. Especially snow. That Buffalo cold looks not great.
KC, 6 degrees, 16 mph winds? No problem.
You have 50,000 Kansas City- sized people around you, keeping you warm. Inside that stadium is much, much warmer than standing outside.
Everything is easier when you sit on your couch, geez. You can watch videos of people skiing from your couch. Are they all miserable?
KC, 6 degrees, 16 mph winds? No problem.
You have 50,000 Kansas City- sized people around you, keeping you warm. Inside that stadium is much, much warmer than standing outside.
Everything is easier when you sit on your couch, geez. You can watch videos of people skiing from your couch. Are they all miserable?
Deamon
Footballguy
it happens.
Interesting stat that most people don't believe.... 60% of Canadians actually live further SOUTH than Seattle.
There's also a part of Canada that is as far south as California.
bostonfred
Footballguy
I've been to a couple Patriots games and one game in Buffalo like this. It's pretty miserable. I would still probably do it again if someone asked but I wouldn't seek it out
ChiefD
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
One compromise is going to the pregame festivities and then going home to watch the actual game.
massraider
Footballguy
Deamon
Footballguy
I dunno....
Big bellies full of BBQ, arms flailing in semi-racist motions... those fans might be sweating in there.
titusbramble
Footballguy
There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
Which is why I prefer being in cold weather as opposed to hot. Eventually you have no more clothes to take off (and nobody wants to see me like that) in hot weather......although it may have perks depending on the company you are with..
fightingillini
Footballguy
This.
When I was in high school, my dad had Bears season tickets through work, and he took me to the Bears Giants playoff game in 1985 (year the Bears won the Super Bowl), the game Landetta whiffed the punt. It was about 5 degrees with -20 wind chill. It was awesome. Place was electric. You just have to dress appropriately. Takes some time to use the restroom, but that's it.
OTOH, when I lived in CLT, I have been to a Carolina Panthers game in early September when it was 95 degrees and very humid. It sucked. I sweated my a$$ off for 3 1/2 hours. I don't sweat the much from working out. Couldn't imagine the players playing in that kind of humidity.
Give me the cold over the hot for a football game as well.
I'll echo the age sentiment. Went to many bad weather Bills games including coldest ever - 1994 playoff game vs. Raiders with temp of 0 and wind chill of -32. Drank slushy Labatts in parking lot but I was in my 20s. Now in my 50s I'd only accept a box ticket and even that I'd have to think about considering the potential for 1-2 ft of snow in Buffalo this weekend.
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