5 Coldest NFL Stadiums
These are the 5 Coldest NFL Stadiums
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When the NFL season rushes into winter, football action heats up as spectating hits its coldest stadium days. Negative temperatures in Green Bay, snow in Buffalo, and chilly wind in Chicago are all part of American football’s charm. While the NFL will postpone games for lightning and flooding, the rules are devoid of any stipulations for snow or freezing temperatures. That has made for some epic football games that live on in the history books. The fans with the right apparel to brave the cold have made some epic memories too. Here are the five coldest NFL stadiums where football fans truly earn their stripes (or frostbite).
Honorable Mention: Kansas City Chiefs—Arrowhead Stadium—Kansas City, Missouri
Last season, the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins played the 4th coldest game in NFL history at Arrowhead Stadium. The wild-card playoff game was marked by temperatures reading -4°F with a wind chill of -27°F. As the Official Heated Apparel Partner of the Kansas City Chiefs, at ororo we know just how cold Kansas City can get!
5. Cleveland Browns—Huntington Bank Field—Cleveland, Ohio
While Cleveland may not always post the NFL’s coldest temperatures, its lakeside location delivers brutal wind chills and frequent snowstorms to the stadium. The recently renamed Huntington Bank Field sits on the shores of Lake Erie, where howling winds whip off the water and into the stands. Wind chills frequently plummet to below zero like conditions, even when temperatures read higher.
Although that weather sounds miserable, at least for spectators, it’s not all bad. After a recent snowy game that ended in a Browns win over the Steelers, fans credited the tough weather as a winning factor for the Browns. Hopefully those fans had some heated apparel to help them enjoy the game comfortably!
4. New England Patriots—Gillette Stadium—Foxborough, Massachusetts
The New England Patriots’ Gillette Stadium—and its predecessor, Foxboro Stadium—have seen their share of the cold football games. One of the most (in)famous is the Snow Plow Game of 1982, against the Miami Dolphins. Players slipped and slid all over the field as a blizzard raged and snow quickly accumulated on the field. Offensive plays were challenging, to say the least. In the fourth-quarter, a snow plow driver was summoned onto the field by a Patriots coach. He cleared away a patch of snow and New England’s kicker converted the 33-yard kick into a 3-0 Patriots win.
Patriots fans have plenty of extreme weather games to tell stories about. If you’re headed to a winter game at Gillette Stadium, make sure you can stick around til the end with heated gear like ororo’s Heated Fleece Hoodie.
3. Chicago Bears—Soldier Field—Chicago, Illinois
Chicago’s Soldier Field is no stranger to bone-chilling conditions. One of the ten coldest NFL games ever played was here on a day with a high of 12°F. But what makes Soldier Field truly cold is the relentless wind chill, courtesy of the aptly named Windy City. Icy gusts off Lake Michigan make the “feels-like” temperature plummet. Before you head to a football game at Soldier Field, make sure you have reinforcements like our heated poncho.
One of the strangest cold weather NFL games took place at Soldier Field. The “Fog Bowl”, a 1988 playoffs game between the Bears and the Eagles, took place in fog so thick, spectators couldn’t see much. One news outlet dubbed it the “Invisi-Bowl” and another journalist claimed “it will be remembered as the best game you never saw”.
2. Buffalo Bills—Highmark Stadium—Orchard Park, New York
Buffalo, New York is known for accumulating outlandish amounts of lake effect snow, and its Highmark Stadium is no exception to the snowfall. In 2022, a staggering 77 inches of snowfall forced the Bills to move a game to Detroit. Buffalo is by far the snowiest NFL city, with an average of 20 snow days during the regular season (the runner-up only has 9).
Bills fans have to contend with high winds from the Great Lakes, too. In a 2008 game, gusts up to 75 miles per hour blew part of the fieldhouse roof off and tilted the goalposts. Winds were so strong that the goalposts had to be fixed both before the game and again during the second quarter. It was so bad that neither team even attempted to pass for 25 minutes! Next time the forecast looks like that, wear a heated parka and heated scarf so you can actually enjoy the game.
1. Green Bay Packers—Lambeau Field—Green Bay, Wisconsin
They wear those Cheesehead hats for a reason—insulation! Luckily in Green Bay, they also have ororo as the Green Bay Packers’ Official Heated Apparel. Fans don’t need to worry about cold buns anymore with ororo’s Heated Stadium Seat. Also known as “the Frozen Tundra”, Lambeau Field is synonymous with icy conditions. Cold winds and wet weather from the Great Lakes seem to settle over this legendary stadium every season. Green Bay has hosted the most football games in subzero temps and the coldest game in NFL history, the Ice Bowl. The 1967 NFL Championship game, now known as the Ice Bowl, was played at a registered -13°F, with wind chills reaching -47°F. 50,000 fans braved the conditions to watch the Packers victory. If only they had had modern heated apparel like ororo!
