The piercing Pittsburgh cold cut through three layers of heavy clothing like they were a damp T-shirt, leaving one feeling as if thumb tacks were being pressed into exposed skin.
Steelers fans wore black-and-gold jerseys atop deer hunter's insulated camos. Ben Roethlisberger wore sweatpants so baggy they might have concealed a kerosene heater.
Yes, it was cold. Seventeen degrees at game time. Yet the Steelers' Big Three of Ben Roethlisberger, Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown lit the Dolphins defense on fire in a 30-12 blowout victory. The trio combined for four touchdowns and almost 500 yards of offense on the day.