Chiefs Fans Are Getting Amputated After Attending Below Freezing Game

Was it worth it?

According to the Grossman Burn Center at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, some Chiefs fans have to be AMPUTATED because of getting frostbite in what was one of the NFL's coldest games on record when the Chiefs hosted the Miami Dolphins in last year's AFC Wild Card Game.

The hospital says 70% of those that have been treated for frostbite, including a number of fans that attended that frigid game that day, now have to face the horrific decision.

I'm sorry, but I don't care how much you care about Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce or even Taylor Swift (who was at the game as well) - I'm not going to the hospital or losing a limb over a football game, come on people! 

The Burn Center shared photos of one Chiefs fan whose fingers became frostbitten after just five minutes in the arctic cold temps. 

A number of Chiefs fans had frostbite after the AFC Wild Card Game

CHIEFS FANS GOT FROSTBITE, HYPOTHERMIA

Temperatures reached as cold as -8 degrees during the game with a wind chill of -27 at times. 

At least 15 people from Arrowhead Stadium had to be transported to the emergency room during the game because of suffering from hypothermia and frostbite as well as 50+ during the tailgate. Many others went to the hospital afterward. The NFL refused to move the game despite the National Weather Service calling it "dangerous conditions," and urging people not to attend. 

"The patients who had their frostbite injuries along with the Chiefs game, they are just getting to the point where we are starting to discuss the amputations that might be necessary," the director of the burn center told FOX Kansas City.

"People think of burns, they think of fire, they think of hot thermal injuries. But burns can happen from many different causes [including hypothermia,] Dr. Megan Garcia continued.

Yet, despite the freezing temperatures, 70,000 genius Chiefs fans still showed up to pack Arrowhead Stadium for a Wild Card Game. 

I mean listen, I understand football fans are insane and of a different breed - but to risk losing a body part over a WILD CARD GAME for a team that just won a Super Bowl the previous season is just idiotic.

I've been to my share of cold football games, and they're not enjoyable. The tailgates are the absolute worst - every sip of the beer is like your teeth getting rocked with, well, rocks. And God forbid trying to use the porta potty!

And then once you get into the actual stadium and the adrenaline wears off, you're just sitting there absolutely miserable watching a 2nd-and-17 in the third quarter having no fun at all while your buddies are all hammered, comfortably watching the game in their man cave.

Sports though, am I right?