Dr. Megan Garcia, Medical Director of the Grossman Burn Center at Research Medical in Kansas City, Missouri, recently stated that 70% of patients who have been referred to her center for frostbite now need amputations. Many of these patients attended the Kansas City Chiefs playoff game against the Miami Dolphins at Arrowhead Stadium on January 13, 2024. The Athletic explains:
That contest began with a temperature of minus-4 at kickoff and a windchill that dipped to minus-27, making it one of the four coldest games in NFL history.
Frostbite occurs when skin freezes, thus limiting blood flow to the tissues in that area. While mild frostbite, often referred to as frostnip, does not cause permanent damage, severe frostbite can lead to permanent damage and almost always requires amputation.
Jesus. Not gonna lie that game should have been canceled. You cannot safely have a football game in an open-air stadium when it's -4F out and windy. this is literally just the most predictable thing in the world. Even if you were sitting there in your heated jacket and big gloves and geared up to the hilt, sitting stationary in those temps is gonna get cold as fuck over the course of a game. especially since sitting in a chair compresses the insulation of your jacket/snow pants/etc
That game should’ve been so very cancelled and whoever’s responsibility it was to make that decision should be held personally liable.
g stationary in those temps is gonna get cold as fuck over the course of a game. especially since sitting in a chair compresses the insulation of your jacket/snow pants/etc
Lol NFL will never be held liable considering their view towards CTE.
For fellow non-US readers, that's an initial temp of -20C lowering to -32C in non-stupid units. Jesus.
sports fans being very
normalas always. do they just never cancel a game? do football teams follow the same creed as the postal service??They should have 100% canceled it but of course all mighty capitalism god must be sated.
"[Soviets in the siege of Leningrad] being very normal as always. do they just never [surrender] a [city]? do [red army] follow the same creed as the postal service??"
-German High Command
Oh, am I now also suppose to feel bad for all the Red Army
soldiersheroes who died on the Long March? This is what a W looks like. These fans are the vanguard of Comrade Taylor's People's Republic of Missouri. Don't believe me? What are KC's team colors??
maybe the handegg fans should've brought a box of handwarmers
