BAD NEWS IN MISSOURI THIS MONDAY! UNFORTUNATELY IT HAPPENED

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Chiefs wide receiver Hollywood Brown acknowledges the fans at training camp at Missouri Western State University on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Joseph. TAMMY LJUNGBLAD [email protected] The good news for the Chiefs on their first offensive snap of the 2024 preseason: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw a frozen rope for a first down. The bad news was much worse on Saturday night. New receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown was driven to the field and landed on his shoulder on the 11-yard catch at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. Mahomes back pic.twitter.com/4thOZ1ynyh — Billy M (@BillyM_91) August 10, 2024 Kansas City Chiefs first play. We’re back. Mahomes one series – TD in the works. Easy work. #ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/xRqnXn4MN9 — Cooper McCoy (@CooperMcCoyRE) August 10, 2024 Brown left the field after the hit and went to the locker room, according to the television broadcast. The Chiefs said Brown was questionable to return because of a shoulder injury. Brown did not return. The Chiefs signed Brown to a one-year contract during the offseason after he played for two seasons for the Arizona Cardinals. He played his first three seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. After the game, which the Jaguars won 26-13, Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Brown has “sternoclavicular joint dislocation,” per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He added: “Brown’s availability for the start of the regular season is in question.” Brown went to a hospital. Chris HC Andy Reid said WR Hollywood Brown has been hospitalized due to a sternoclavicular joint dislocation. Brown’s availability for the start of the regular season is in question. pic.twitter.com/d66A2zNvTT — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 11, 2024 Former Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill had that same injury during a 2019 game in … Jacksonville. After that game, current Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder said in a statement that a sternoclavicular joint injury “is where your clavicle comes into your sternum. Those can be injured coming out the front, up top or in the back. If it goes posteriorly or back, it becomes a medical issue for us so that we worry that there’s more problems.” Hill missed four games with the injury in 2019. The National Library of Medicine described the injury as a “complete rupture of all the sternoclavicular and costoclavicular ligaments. This occurs from a single, well-defined trauma most commonly a motor vehicle accident or collision sport such as rugby or American football.”

The Kansas City Chiefs will play at home against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night in what are likely to be “dangerously cold temperatures,” but your sympathies should probably be directed toward the visiting team.

A wind-chill warning will be in effect across the region from Friday night through Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The wind chill will be 15 to 35 degrees below zero on Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings, the service predicted, and temperatures will be “well below zero.”

The Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has typically played well in bad weather, and the Dolphins have been practicing most of the week in South Florida, though Kansas City coach Andy Reid told reporters earlier this week: “You can’t bank on that. That’s where you get into trouble. We’re not having a snowball fight.”

The highest temperature in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon will be 5 degrees, according to the forecast, though that could change before kickoff at 8 p.m. Eastern time. At least the Dolphins hope so.

The cold temperatures come as teams begin competing in the wild-card round of the N.F.L. playoffs. The Buffalo Bills will play at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the game, which had been set for Sunday afternoon, has been moved to Monday at 4:30 p.m. because of what Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said on Saturday were “dangerous conditions.” Forecasters said up to two feet of snow could fall in the area, a challenge even for football fans in Buffalo who are accustomed to games played under almost any weather conditions.

In 2022, the Bills clinched a playoff berth against the Dolphins in a snowstorm on a 27-degree day while shirtless Buffalo fans waged snowball fights. A month earlier, however, the Bills had been forced to move a home game against the Cleveland Browns to Ford Field in Detroit because their stadium was snowed under.

It remains to be seen whether conditions for the wild-card games on Saturday and Monday will surpass some of the harshest ever faced: the 1948 championship game in Philadelphia when there was so much snow that yard markers were hard to make out. For trivia fans: The Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals, 7-0, in that game to win their first championship.

In 1970, during the N.F.L. championship game in Minnesota, Walter Johnson, the Browns defensive tackle, lost feeling in one hand as he played in 8-degree weather. Players have a number of ways to combat the cold, including hand muffs with warmers and heated insoles.