Freezer Bowl

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1981 AFC Championship Game

Riverfront Stadium
San Diego Chargers (3) (10–6) Cincinnati Bengals (1) (12–4) 7 27 Head coach: Don Coryell Head coach: Forrest Gregg
1 2 3 4 Total SD 0 7 0 0 7 CIN 10 7 3 7 27
Date	January 10, 1982
Stadium	Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
Referee	Fred Silva
Attendance	46,302
Hall of Famers
Chargers: Don Coryell (coach), Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow Bengals: Paul Brown (owner/gm), Forrest Gregg (coach in HOF as a player), Anthony Muñoz, Ken Riley
TV in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen

In National Football League (NFL) lore, the Freezer Bowl was the 1981 AFC Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The game was played on January 10, 1982, at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, and televised by NBC, with announcers Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen. The game, won by the Bengals, 27–7, was played in the coldest temperature in NFL history in terms of wind chill. Air temperature was −9 °F (−23 °C), but the wind chill, factoring in a sustained wind of 27 miles per hour (43 km/h), was reported as −59 °F (−51 °C) under the calculation method then in use.^[1]