Football game between Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins - on an icy field/GettyImages, Kara Durrette
Playoff football games in January are considered dramatic, mainly because of the weather conditions.
In some courts the temperatures are very low, the surface is smooth, which produces many unexpected events.
One of these games, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, ended in a particularly tragic way for several fans.
The meeting, which ended with the Chiefs winning on their way to a second consecutive Super Bowl win, happened on January 13, in the midst of several extremely cold days.
The temperature in the stadium in Kansas City reached minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit - or in the language you know, minus 20 degrees Celsius, with the wind effect leading the temperature to minus 33. Due to the cold, many fans were evacuated to the hospital, and now it is known the dear price that at least 12 of them will pay - amputation of limbs, from the fingers of the hands and up to the feet.
The procedures will be carried out during the next month.
The game took place under the difficult conditions because no snow had accumulated on the field, in contrast, for example, to the meeting between Buffalo and Pittsburgh which was postponed from that day due to nearly a meter of snow.
Many fans come to these games drunk, which creates the illusion of resistance to the cold, but actually exposes them to frostbite.
Exposing a limb for 30 minutes to such cold will most likely produce a burn - and the wind effect even speeds up the process.
The coldest game in history was held in 1967 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - minus 25 degrees with a wind effect leading to minus 44 degrees Celsius.
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