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Dolphins are warm-blooded mammals that are able to maintain their body temperature a at a constant rate, even when swimming in frigid waters, thanks to a thick layer of blubber under their skin and high rates of metabolism. Miami Dolphins don’t fare quite so well.
The Dolphins are coming to Pittsburgh on Monday to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football, and the early onset of winter in Pittsburgh could provide as much resistance for the Miami natives as the Black and Gold defense.
The high temperature for Monday is forecast to be only 21 degrees. By the time the 8:30 p.m. kickoff rolls around, it’ll be a lot closer to the low of 14 degrees.
Even though it doesn’t phase their namesakes, those temps have been devastating for the Miami Dolphins recently. In games with a game-time temperature of under 40 degrees, Dolphins starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa — who hails from Hawaii in addition his current home on South Beach — has never won a game.
According to a recent article in the Palm Beach Post, with Tagovailoa starting, the Dolphins are 0-5 when the game-time temp is 40 degrees are colder, and it’s going to be nowhere near 40 on Monday night.
To give some reference as to how out-of-touch Miami weather is with Pittsburgh this time of the year, the article centering around Tagovailoa’s lack of success in cold weather games includes his record during games played at 55 degrees or colder.
It hasn’t been 55 degrees in Pittsburgh in almost a month, and it won’t be again for quite some time. If it was 55 on Monday night, there would be Steelers fans attending the game in shorts and t-shirts.
Tagovailoa dismissed concerns about battling the cold weather as well as the Steelers.
“It’s football, bro,” he said. “That’s what it is. We gotta go play them in Pittsburgh, whether it’s negative-20, whether it’s 20 degrees, we’ve gotta go play football.”
While Tagovailoa has struggled in the cold, the Dolphins have at least one recent cold-weather victory in Pittsburgh, winning a 2013 game where snow covered the playing surface at Heinz Field.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Tua Tagovailoa Dismisses Dolphins Cold-Weather Woes: ‘It’s Football, Bro’
