Current:Home > InvestPatrick Mahomes' helmet shatters during frigid Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game-Angel Dreamer Wealth Society D1 Reviews & Insights
Patrick Mahomes' helmet shatters during frigid Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game
View Date:2024-12-23 23:56:06
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his helmet shattered on a hit from Miami Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott during Saturday night's frigid AFC wild-card playoff game. The Chiefs still won 26-7.
With a game-time temperature of minus-4 degrees Fahrenheit, the game was the fourth-coldest in NFL history, and it was unclear whether the temperature made the shell of Mahomes' helmet more brittle than usual. Regardless, the reigning league MVP was left with a fist-sized chunk of plastic missing from just above his left eye after the clash of helmets on a 13-yard scramble deep in Dolphins territory.
Rarely do helmets fail in such a manner. But then again, rarely is it below zero at kickoff of a football game.
Mahomes ran two more plays before officials made him get a backup helmet from the sideline. He threw another incomplete pass and Kansas City kicked a field goal on fourth down to take a 19-7 lead, and Mahomes spent the ensuing Miami possession fiddling with the replacement helmet on the sideline in an effort to make it comfortable.
It was wind gusts, whipping through at more than 25 mph and driving the wind chill to a bone-rattling minus-27 degrees, that made the weather truly miserable for just about everyone.
That included pop star Taylor Swift, who once again turned up to see her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
She at least got to watch from an enclosed suite. Most fans huddled outside in parkas, ski goggles and snow pants, and players huddled around heaters on the sidelines as if they were an oasis in the cold. The National Weather Service issued a warning for what it called "dangerously cold" weather that had blanketed the Midwest.
The icy winter weather has blanketed much of the U.S. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned of a "dangerous storm" as she announced that the Buffalo Bills-Pittsburgh Steelers NFL playoff game was postponed from Sunday to Monday. Residents of the county that includes Buffalo were told to stay off the roads starting at 9 p.m. Saturday, with the forecast calling for 1 to 2 feet or more of snow and winds gusting as high as 65 mph.
- In:
- Storm
- Cold Front
- Miami Dolphins
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Taylor Swift
- Patrick Mahomes
- Snow Storm
veryGood! (1)
Related
- DWTS’ Sasha Farber and Jenn Tran Prove They're Closer Than Ever Amid Romance Rumors
- Russia will only resume nuclear tests if the US does it first, a top Russian diplomat says
- Horoscopes Today, October 9, 2023
- 4 Britons who were detained in Afghanistan are released by the Taliban
- Why was Jalen Ramsey traded? Dolphins CB facing former team on 'Monday Night Football'
- Starbucks releases PSL varsity jackets, tattoos and Spotify playlist for 20th anniversary
- Biden says 14 Americans killed by Hamas in Israel, U.S. citizens among hostages: Sheer evil
- Birkenstock prices its initial public offering of stock valuing the sandal maker at $8.64 billion
- Ben Foster files to divorce Laura Prepon after 6 years, according to reports
- CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil describes roller coaster weekend with 2 kids, ex-wife in war-torn Israel
Ranking
- Olivia Culpo Celebrates Christian McCaffrey's NFL Comeback Alongside Mother-in-Law
- The Voice Coaches Deliver Their Own Epic Real Housewife Taglines
- 'Aggressive' mama bear, cub euthanized after sow charges at 2 young boys in Colorado
- Search for nonverbal, missing 3-year-old boy in Michigan enters day 2 in Michigan
- 'Devastation is absolutely heartbreaking' from Southern California wildfire
- Khloe Kardashian Proves Babies Tatum and True Thompson Are Growing Up Fast in Sweet Sibling Photo
- Nebraska voters will decide at the ballot box whether public money can go to private school tuition
- Will Hurd suspends presidential campaign, endorses Nikki Haley
Recommendation
-
Conviction and 7-year sentence for Alex Murdaugh’s banker overturned in appeal of juror’s dismissal
-
Former Dodgers, Padres star Steve Garvey enters US Senate race in California
-
NSYNC is back on the Billboard Hot 100 with their first new song in two decades
-
Black man was not a threat to Tacoma police charged in his restraint death, eyewitness says at trial
-
Nicky Hilton Shares Her Christmas Plans With Paris, the Secret To Perfect Skin & More Holiday Gift Picks
-
Former Haitian senator pleads guilty in US court to charges related to Haiti president’s killing
-
Seager still going deep in Texas, helps send Rangers to ALCS with sweep of 101-win Orioles
-
'Messi Meets America': Release date, trailer, what to know about Apple TV+ docuseries