The Buffalo Bills began utilizing Dragon Seats’ climate-controlled sideline benches during its game Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers after finalizing a multi-year deal heading into the colder portion of the NFL season.
Dragon Seats’ hybrid technology can both heat and cool a sideline bench, depending on weather conditions. The company’s agreement with the Bills includes sideline support technicians and an option to deploy accompanying sideline heaters that are safer than the traditional “torpedo’’ heaters used during frigid football games.
The Bills are among roughly 20 NFL teams that partner with Cleveland-based Dragon Seats, including the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and warm-weather Miami Dolphins — who use the company’s cooling technology. Dragon Seats also serves teams in the NHL and NCAA college football.
The benches in Buffalo are intended to warm up a player’s entire body with "heated foot decks" that emit a funnel of hot air upwards and "Hot Hats" that can keep the interior of a player’s helmet warm. The Bills, as a courtesy, are also providing six Dragon Seats to teams on the opposing sideline at Highmark Stadium, meaning the Packers also had access to the hybrid technology on Sunday night.
