Patrick Mahomes’ helmet shatters during frigid Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his helmet shattered on successful from Miami Dolphins security DeShon Elliott throughout Saturday evening’s frigid AFC wild-card playoff recreation. The Chiefs nonetheless received 26-7.

With a game-time temperature of minus-4 levels Fahrenheit, the sport was the fourth-coldest in NFL historical past, and it was unclear whether or not the temperature made the shell of Mahomes’ helmet extra brittle than traditional. Regardless, the reigning league MVP was left with a fist-sized chunk of plastic lacking from simply above his left eye after the conflict of helmets on a 13-yard scramble deep in Dolphins territory.

Not often do helmets fail in such a way. However then once more, not often is it beneath zero at kickoff of a soccer recreation.

Mahomes ran two extra performs earlier than officers made him get a backup helmet from the sideline. He threw one other incomplete move and Kansas Metropolis kicked a area objective on fourth right down to take a 19-7 lead, and Mahomes spent the following Miami possession fidgeting with the alternative helmet on the sideline in an effort to make it comfy.

It was wind gusts, whipping by at greater than 25 mph and driving the wind chill to a bone-rattling minus-27 levels, that made the climate actually depressing for almost everybody.

That included pop star Taylor Swift, who as soon as once more turned as much as see her boyfriend, Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce.

She not less than acquired to observe from an enclosed suite. Most followers huddled exterior in parkas, ski goggles and snow pants, and gamers huddled round heaters on the sidelines as in the event that they have been an oasis within the chilly. The Nationwide Climate Service issued a warning for what it known as “dangerously chilly” climate that had blanketed the Midwest.

The icy winter climate has blanketed a lot of the U.S. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned of a “harmful storm” as she introduced that the Buffalo Payments-Pittsburgh Steelers NFL playoff recreation was postponed from Sunday to Monday. Residents of the county that features Buffalo have been instructed to remain off the roads beginning at 9 p.m. Saturday, with the forecast calling for 1 to 2 ft or extra of snow and winds gusting as excessive as 65 mph.    

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