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A Look Back at the Freezer Bowl

When cold weather football games get talked about, the 1967 NFL Championship game between the Starr/Vince Lombardi led Packers and the Tom Landry coached Cowboys is the holy grail, and rightly so.

However, a game that took place well over a decade later in similar conditions between two far less historically significant franchises had several unique backstories.

Factoring in wind chill, the game was played at −59 °F, the coldest temperature in NFL history. The Bengals beat the Chargers by 20 to advance to their first Super Bowl.

The NFL has uploaded the entire game to its YouTube channel.