1982 American football championship
1981 AFC Championship Game![Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Riverfront_Stadium_in_Cincinnati%2C_Ohio.jpg/300px-Riverfront_Stadium_in_Cincinnati%2C_Ohio.jpg) Riverfront Stadium |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Total |
SD |
0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
7 |
CIN |
10 | 7 | 3 | 7 |
27 |
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Date | January 10, 1982 |
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Stadium | Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio |
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Referee | Fred Silva |
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Attendance | 46,302 |
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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 |
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Network | NBC |
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Announcers | Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen |
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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]