Worst College Football game day experience.
April 28th, 2015 at 11:27 AM ^
2008 Ohio State. And I didn't even go to the game. I had never been to Columbus, but I must not have been in the right part, because it looked awful. Anyway, almost got in several fights for simply refusing to remove my Michigan shirt. At a place that was a prearranged visit, with the full knowledge that me and my friends were from Michigan and were absolutely not going to start anything.
I will never understand that. They were about to play for a national title. We weren't even going to a bowl game. If the shoe were on the other foot, and they came into our place 3-8 and we were a great team, I would just chuckle to myself and silently admire their dedication.
Fandom endurance badge was the worst weather. There was a sleet/ice game in 1991 against Purdue that was almost as bad as the 5-0 game a few years later.
Appalachian State was bad becuase, like happend with Colorado, you knew we'd hear about it forever.
For a study in contrasts, we had about the best tailgating/gameday experience on the road EVER when we went to Nebraska a few years ago. Then Denard's elbow got hurt, Nebraska started running up and down the field, and we learned just how risky the DG to WR decision turned out to be.
But being at that Colorado game... I had recently graduated and was on business in Chicago. A buddy working there asked if I wanted a ride to AA Friday night. I called in a favor and got tickets -- about 25 rows up, right on the 50 yard line. Best tickets you could imagine.
When the ball was tipped and caught, the stadium just fell silent. It was eerie. And of course so, so disappointing. Just an awful athletic day.
April 28th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
My senior year in high school, my then-girlfriend of a year planned a surprise to mark the anniversary of our dating. It was a fall Saturday, and I really had no idea why I had to block off the whole day, and I was just worried that I had enough cash for a decent dinner that evening. She called around 9 to say she's picking me up, and I better have my maize and blue on...
It was October 11, 2008. We sat right behind the FG posts where U-M missed the last-second kick that would have tied the score against Toledo.
...I married her anway, less than a year ago.
"...but I'll hold that against her forever."
I have to agree with anyone who put 2008 Northwestern. Fan badge game if you stayed. Worst game ever.
3rd row, 50 yard line on Michigan side. It was the best seats I have ever had. I couldn't leave, but I sure felt like it.
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I somehow misread the ending as "frost bite on his nips". I was all. . . what!?
April 28th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
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I thought the Nebraska fans were fine. Most went out of their way to be polite. There were a few idiots, to be sure. Every fan base has them. But, yes, that game did suck.
incompetent. Making our only viable QB backup a reciever is inexcusable.
After that, when BYU (my college alma mater) lost 3-0 to arch rival Utah in a 3 hour blizzard.
After that, when Oregon took us to the woodshed the week after the Horror.
After that, the Nebraska game last year.
After that, BYU loss to ND in ND stadium last year, coldest game in South Bend in 20 years.
Come to think of it, I've been to some pretty crappy games...
I feel really, really bad for any of you that decided to go to Michigan for the Fall 2007 semester. I hope you took great joy in our win over Tebow that season, and made it to to the last three games of 2011 (Nebraska, OSU, and Va Tech Sugar Bowl). Otherwise - GUH.
I've been to two losses since graduation - the 2010 (?) Wisconsin game at home, aka GERG's fluffy beaver game. Wisconsin fans were the utter worst. Surprised I didn't get thrown in jail that weekend. Also, the first game in Lincoln, NE - where Denard got hurt and we learned Bellomy was perhaps the worst offer in the history of Michigan football. Those fans were super nice at least. Save for only a handful of them. Worst strip club in the big ten, though. Took one of them back to our hotel room and it just went south from there...
April 28th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
As far as fans go I would say Wisconsin fans were the worst. I was in school 2008-2010 and went to nearly every game.
April 28th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
This can be answered so many ways. Worst feeling, App St 2007. It felt like Michigan cheated on me for a whole damn year.
Worst overall experience, Northwestern 2008 -- I know a lot of you have mentioned this but HOLY SHIT why did I stay so long (Actually..why the hell did I even go?)?
Worst experience from opposing fans is pretty much every time I've gone to msu to watch Michigan play there, particularly in 2011 tho.
My grandfather's company had season tickets to MSU and had a prime parking spot right in front of the stadium. I was a freshman in high school and I got berated by the students lined up near our tailgate spot for hours. When Michigan lost, my father, brother, and I (All die-hard U of M) were berated, shoved, and sworn at leaving the stadium. I have hated MSU more than any other school/team ever since that moment.
that is all
The only word their fans, students, and even some alumni seemed to know was "faggot", and they used this word towards us at every turn.
I went with my three best friends from undergrad here - one of whom is gay. It was a tough weekend, even without the 46-17 loss.
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I agree with you.
When I was in the Michigan Marching Band, we had a femaie band member get punched (hard) in the face by a drunk fan.
The only reason I would ever go back to Columbus would be if one of my kids went to OSU. And if they did, they would be doing it to spite me, so things would be frosty enough that I wouldn't plan on going back to get them after I dropped them off.
I've been to a number of other teams' stadiums and MSU is downright pleasurable compared to the s#!^hole that is the snakepit and Ohio Stadium.
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I went to the 2010 game at Ohio State, and the fans were ... nice. Almost made me more angry than being treated like garbage. They pitied us. I wasn't being obnoxious or anything, so that probably played into part of it, but I was expecting much worse. Maybe got sworn at once. It was weird.
The game was in early Novemeber; I think it may have been in 2005. Anyway, It was cold, rainy, and there was maybe 15 other people there. I rememebr eating some form of emulsified- meat-in-sauce-sandwich, and thanking God for it because it kept me warm.
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Last year's Minnesota game was the worst for me. Empty stadium, no energy, couldn't hear the band because of Special K, etc. And the game was horrendous. It was the first game I had been to in 3 years, too. I was hoping for at least a fun experience, even though I expected the game to be awful. NOPE. I had great seats, too. Just a depressing game.
But the only reason I can't personally consider this one is that the weather was absolutely spectacular.
I've been at some awful weather games (Northwestern 06, 08, Ohio State 07), and I still consider the Minnesota game worse.
I think it's because there was clearly no hope to win the Minnesota game. And then concussion game happened. I can't imagine how I'd feel about this game if the weather was terrible.
I ended up going to Michigan State-Notre Dame (AKA The Battle Of Who Could Care Less) in East Lansing in 2006. The game was pretty awful. Not only did I not care who won (I was nominally cheering for Staee to avoid getting my ass beat and to placate my grandpa) but the weather was crummy. Right as the second half started the rain started to blow horizontally and gust, and even being under the overhang we got soaked. We left with about 10 minutes to go in the fourth and missed a dramatic comeback... again, who cared. I just wanted to get some hot food.
In terms of worse Michigan games I'd say 2013 vs State was pretty bad. I was surrounded by doofuses as usual at a State game, but the heckling just didn't let up.
Not only was our performance downright terrible to watch, this had to be one of the worst games to sit through, weather wise. My girlfriend asked me multiple times in the 2nd half if we could leave the game and me being the stubborn Michigan fan that I am said no. Looking back, I think we should have left early. We were both soaking wet and freezing. My girlfriend could not feel her legs when we got up to leave.
On a high note, the best game I saw in person was the 2007 game at MSU. What a great comeback victory and it was music to my ears to hear all of the silent and pissed off MSU fans!
2001 Ohio State and Michigan:
The only time I ever felt unsafe at a Michigan Football game. When the sweatervest made good on his promise all the Bucknuts went.... well nuts.
I went right to my car and went home. I did not even try to tailgate after.
Worst experience ever at the Big House for me.
I went to Spartan Stadium once
losing an away game tends to be a pretty crappy experience, particularly when dealing with fans. The MMB went to Purdue in 1979, and UM lost that game (couldn't score from the goal line with time running out), and that game just sucked with the purdue "fans" really going after us as we marched away form the stadium. I had the great fortune of being in the MMB and seeing UM beat the buckeyes in Columbus 1978 and 1980, and the fans were actually nice to us as we were leaving their stadium.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
We won an ugly game in a freezing rain storm, blowing the cold and wet sideways across the stadium -- right into the faces of me and my complaining father (this was his first/last Michigan game).
Like a child, he spent the entire first half asking how long we had to "ensure" this, and finally -- when his thermos of coffee started to become cold, I gave up and told him he would never understand what it means to be a Michigan fan.
We still talk about that game all these years later. He's a good dude. Just a big p*ssy when it comes to cold weather. Also, separately, he never took me fishing when I was a kid. So there's that.
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April 28th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
I'm in the MMB and we are marching back to the busses after being beat by Purdue. Some very drunk Purdue fan runs up and tries to grab the maize and blue plume off the top of a band member's hat. If you don't know, the hat is secured to your head with a shoe string under your chin. Purdue jerk nearly gives the band member a neck injury and both go to the ground in a heap. Several of us ran over and sat on the drunk Purdue jerk until somebody flagged down a police man.
I’ll be fine if I never set foot in West Lafayette again.