Chiefs Fan's Beer Freezes in Bitter Cold at Arrowhead Stadium

A fan at Saturday's Kansas City Chiefs game against the Miami Dolphins saw one of his posts go viral after he shared a photo of his beer freezing in its can.

With bitterly cold temperatures enveloping the U.S. and winter storms hitting large portions of the country, thousands of fans braved the subzero temperatures to pile into Kansas City, Missouri's Arrowhead Stadium for the NFL matchup. The kickoff temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NBC, with a windchill of minus 26 degrees.

Winter storm warnings are in place for parts of 17 states, and "dangerously" cold temperatures are set to continue across much of the U.S., with heavy snow expected for the Southeast and Great Lakes region.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued alerts for Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, the Virginias and Wyoming.

Hard freeze warnings are also in place for southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana, as temperatures as low as 9 degrees F are expected to cause a frost that will kill crops and potentially damage outdoor plumbing.

Wind chill advisories cover a huge swath of the central U.S. from Montana to Michigan to the Texas Panhandle. The cold wind gusts raise the threat of frostbite on exposed skin.

But venturing out into the extreme cold proved to be worthwhile for Chiefs fans, who saw their team beat the Dolphins 26-7 on Saturday in the first AFC playoff round.

Showing just how cold conditions were during the game, one football fan shared a photo of a Michelob Ultra can, the contents of which had partially bubbled over before freezing solid.

Posting the image on X (formerly Twitter), @SpencerMay16 quipped in the caption: "Cool wasn't thirsty anyway #chiefs."

The post quickly went viral and has garnered more than 7 million views.

It also caught the attention of Michelob Ultra's verified X account, which responded to the sports fan: "Have you never had a beer slushy before?"

CBS Sports broadcaster Ross Tucker took to X to share the "good news" that he was in "one of only radio booths where windows don't open," adding, "Bad news: The window keeps freezing over."

While other game attendees shared photos of their frozen mustaches, one posted a snapshot of Taylor Swift watching from the warm confines of a suite. The image showed the pop star looking through an ice-covered window as she cheered on her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

"This looks like it's from the trailer for an upcoming Taylor Swift rom-com (aside: who says no?)" the fan captioned the photo. "Just the perfect shot."

Swift has been a fixture at Chiefs games ever since she and Kelce went public with their romance in September. NFL broadcasts often focus on her presence—much to the exasperation of some football fans.

"I'm just there to support Travis," Swift recently told Time magazine. "I have no awareness of if I'm being shown too much and p****** off a few dads, Brads, and Chads."

Speaking about the cameras often panning her way, Swift said: "I don't know how they know what suite I'm in. There's a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don't know where it is, and you have no idea when [the] camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don't know if I'm being shown 17 times or once."

She added: "Football is awesome, it turns out. I've been missing out my whole life."

Meanwhile, sports fans planning to attend outdoor games can expect the chilly temperatures to linger. This past Friday, the National Weather Service (NWS) predicted the arrival of an Arctic blast over the weekend, which it later said would persist until at least Tuesday.

In its latest forecast, the NWS said "brutally cold" temperatures were expected to continue through Tuesday before another Arctic blast arrives later in the week from Canada, "which could lead to more of the same dangerous cold weather across the Midwest and Deep South by the end of the work week."

At the same time, the NWS said the "frigid air mass" was also facilitating the continued effects of hazardous winter weather, following several storms last week that carpeted many contiguous states with at least an inch of snowfall.

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain will fall across the South before moving into the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic—including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York—from Monday into Tuesday.