Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa likely to play in frigid Kansas City without Isotoners or any gloves at all

A native of Hawaii who played his college ball at Alabama before heading to Miami, Tua Tagovailoa's football playing days have largely been under sunny skies with warm, if not sweltering, temperatures.

That is not forecasted to be the situation on Saturday.

Tagovailoa and the warm-blooded Dolphins will be facing off with the Kansas City Chiefs, reigning Super Bowl champions and inhabitants of a Missouri home that's likely to have an unwelcoming single-digit temperature at kickoff.

It'll be a frigidly new experience for the Pro Bowler.

"I think maybe 20 [degrees]?" Tagovailoa said Wednesday, via team transcript, about the coldest temperature he's ever dealt with. "Or like a little lower than 20? Nothing lower than I would say, 15. So probably in between there."

Thus, as Tagovailoa looks to earn his first NFL postseason win Saturday, he'll be dealing with elements completely novel to him. Nevertheless, Tagovailoa knows he'll have to heat up somehow, so pregame will be as important as ever from what he recalls from a high school all-star game in Seattle that was the setting for the aforementioned 15-20 degree temps.

"I think it's just a feel of how everything is, what the ball feels like, what throwing feels like, what holding the ball feels like, if there's wind, if there's not wind, you have to take all those things into consideration," he said. "But we'll go there, we'll test it out and we'll see what we have to do as far as adjusting or not."

As seen on an episode of Hard Knocks In Season: The Miami Dolphins, Tagovailoa and his QB room brethren received Isotoner gloves as a Christmas president from Dan Marino, the team's special advisor to the vice chairman, president and CEO along with being a former Isotoner pitchman and one