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Trip across frozen tundra for NFL game worth it all

Blake Clay, left, Wyatt Block, center, and Nathan Olmes, right, attended the fourth-coldest NFL game in history in Kansas City last winter. Courtesy photo
If you listen to the weekly SD Sports Scene podcast, you will more than likely hear me complain about the weather almost once a show. But what if I told you that I voluntarily drove 8 hours to go to the fourth coldest game in NFL history? Here is a recount of that experience: It’s NFL Playoff football, and the playoff bracket just got released. I just got back to Aberdeen from spending Winter break back home in California and had been in Aberdeen for less than a week. It’s Friday night and I remember looking on Instagram and seeing a post about $40 game tickets to the Chiefs-Dolphins game in Kansas City because of the record cold temperatures. I showed it to my roommate Wyatt Block and said half jokingly “What if we went?” To which he gave me a look and said “I’m down if you’re down,” so we looked into it a little more. I filled in our other two roommates Clayton Randall II and Nathan Olmes. Nathan was in from the get go, but unfortunately, Clayton wasn’t

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