On what could potentially be a record cold Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, one of the NFL officials involved with the Deflategate investigation will lead the officiating team.
Clete Blakeman will cap his 11th season as an NFL official with a second-straight AFC Championship game, this one a 6:40 p.m. kickoff in Kansas City, where Sunday night’s low temperature is forecast to be a scant 6 degrees. Past history has a majority of New England aware the game footballs will thus be softer than normal, given the chill will contract the air and lower their internal pressure.