Dave Lapham remains a stone cold lock as a footnote to history. In the 59-below wind chill of Riverfront Stadium on January 10, 1982, he convinced the Bengals offensive line to put something up its sleeve before taking the field for a game that began as the AFC title game but ended as “The Freezer Bowl.”
By going with short sleeves, the only thing up their sleeves was history.
Bengals 27, Chargers 7, Sweat 0.
“It wasn’t so much psychological as it was practical to keep the defensive line from grabbing us,” says Anthony Muñoz, the Hall of Fame left tackle that played next to Lapham that day.