Fresh off defeating the Miami Dolphins in the game forever known as the “Epic in Miami”, the Chargers went from sunny Florida to a place that may have been colder than Antartica on January 10, 1982.
The Chargers ventured into Riverfront Stadium that day to face the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game. The Bengals had defeated the Chargers by 23 points in an earlier meeting that season, but that wasn’t the biggest worry in this game. It wasn’t the Bengals defense that threatened to slow down the league’s most high-powered offense most.
It was the weather and more specifically, the bitter cold.