Some attendees of frigid Chiefs game forced into amputations following severe frostbite, Kansas City hospital says

David K. Li is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

At least 'some' football fans, who attended January's bitterly cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game, suffered extreme frostbite and eventually needed amputations, a hospital official said Thursday. The back-to-back champion Chiefs launched their 2023-24 postseason run with a 26-7 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Jan. 13 in a game that might be remembered as much for temperature readings than the final score.

Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins said he’s grateful there weren’t more transports given the conditions that frigid night. “Arrowhead Stadium holds 79,000-plus fans and considering the temperatures that day and the windchill, 10 weather-related transports was an extremely low amount,” he said Thursday. It was the fourth coldest football game in NFL history with the famed 'Ice Bowl' of Dec. 31 1967 still serving at the frozen gridiron standard.

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