how do athletes play in 0° with skin showing?

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Watching the Dolphins/Chiefs game and some of those players had bare arms… how do they not get frostbite or lose feeling in limbs?

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Yeah it seems insane, but more reasonable when you recognize they aren’t showing skin for all 3 hours of the game. On the field, their hearts are pumping warm blood at a crazy speed. They aren’t on the field for more than 20ish minutes at a time. Also, the field is heated with pipes under the surface, so that also slightly helps being on the field. Off the field they have heated benches, heat lamps, and insanely efficient coats that only billion dollar companies could provide for their employees.

With all that being said, I couldn’t imagine the pain they experience when tackling/being tackled/catching a pass lol

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