The Kansas City area has seen record-high temperatures over the past week, making way for brutal practices for the Chiefs.
Luckily, those scorching-hot practices, which will be in the 100s all week this week, help the team actually prepare for upcoming hot games at the end of preseason and in early September to start the regular season.
“These next couple of days I think are probably going to take care of that,” coach Andy Reid said about preparing for upcoming hot games. “I think it cools down just a little bit, I think you’re looking at 89 (degrees) or something like that. It’ll be warm, we’ll just keep our rotation going.
“We’re going to have that (heat) in Jacksonville and possibly our night game against the Lions, but Jacksonville is a noon game, so we got to be ready for a hot one there too.”
An unfortunate side effect of playing outdoors in the Midwest is that the Chiefs see both sides of extreme weather throughout the year. Luckily, the extreme heat doesn’t last too long – after that Week 2 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars that Reid mentioned, it’ll be smooth sailing in terms of playing in blazing temps.
Then, it’ll be no time before the cold games arrive, and then possibly snow games – those Green Bay and New England games in December are tracking to be really chilly. Luckily, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes considers himself a “snow-game guy.”