Kansas City Chiefs: Coldest games in Chiefs history

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Quarterback Len Dawson #16 of the Kansas City Chiefs (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) /

COLDEST GAMES IN CHIEFS HISTORY – NUMBER 3

DECEMBER 22, 1963 VS JETS (4.2°)

A few entries ago, we went back in time to the 1963 AFL season in which the Chiefs hosted a cold game against the then-Boston Patriots. One week later, they’d host the New York Jets on a day in which temperatures sat around four degrees and the windchill was minus ten.

The Jets obviously wanted no part in those freezing temperatures, as the Chiefs won 48-0 in the final regular season game of the year. That victory gave them a final record of 5-7-2 while the Jets finished the 1963 season with a 5-8-1 record.

Len Dawson had a crazy good game, at least in 1963 terms, throwing for 222 yards, four touchdowns, and an interception. Galen Hall, the Jets quarterback, struggled to do much of anything, throwing for just 96 yards and getting picked off thrice.

It’s kind of cool that on a top ten list of coldest Chiefs games ever, two of them came in the 1963 season. The methods of heating probably aren’t what they are now so you just know those guys were freezing their butts off on the sidelines trying to get warm.

This four degree game in 1963 is the third coldest in Chiefs history.

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