Have You Ever Regretted Leaving A Game Early?

My dad and I were so close to leaving that game with about 8 minutes left. We told ourselves that if it got any worse we would book it out of there to beat traffic, but then Braylon took over the game and the rest was history. I still think this game was better than UTL, mainly because it was so exciting that one player could dominate the DB's like Braylon did. I will never forget the faces of the sparty fans after that game.

Funny, I had a similar experience. I was at that game with my now wife who I had just started dating at the time. I remember it being pretty warm during the day and the temperature just plummeted the minute the sun went down and neither of us were really dressed for it. She was cold and wanted to leave in the third quarter. I gave her my sweatshirt and told her she could go home but I was staying. I ended up freezing my nuts off in a t-shirt but man was I happy I stayed.

The stadium was mostly empty by the end of the fourth quarter for that game.  I think it was a combination of the 17-point deficit and a sharp drop in temperature when the sun went down.

I'm glad I never left a game early, especially that one.

I was seconds away from walking out of the UTL game.  ND was driving and I told my buddy, "If the Irish score here, I'm gone", two plays later Rees got sacked, fumbled the ball, and the rest is history.

It's ok to admit you made a mistake.

If we expect the players to compete for 60 minutes ( or longer), then you stay until the end. "It's like when your dog gets lost. You don't go out and look for an hour and give up. You get your ass out there, and you find that fucking dog."

I left that one too.  It was really cold and windy and I was hungover as hell.  M was up 3 touchdowns and had pretty much dominated the whole game.  Plus there was still the let down from the week prior when Plaxico went crazy in EL that had taken the luster off the season at that point.  Left at halftime and actually was paying more attention to the Northwestern/OSU (maybe it was Minnesota not NW) game IIRC because NW was on the verge of upsetting them. 

Same here, but I didn't wanna go. I was only 11 and with my dad. He sometimes wanted to leave early when it looked like someone was pulling away and I had to complain about it to keep us there. At halftime, he wanted to go and I gave in.

I wouldn't say that experience changed me because I never wanted to leave early anyway, but it may have made me more resolute. Don't think I've ever left early any other time, except maybe with a few minutes left in the 4th with Michigan up 30 or whatever on some MAC team. I'd actually be more likely to leave when Michigan is up than when losing. I didn't leave the 2007 game against Oregon or Ohio or 2002 against Iowa (was sprinkling too, never seen the stadium so empty). God, those were awful though lol. I know Iowa was the worst home loss ever at that point, which I think wasn't topped until 2007 against Oregon. But the 2007 Ohio game was the most depressing I've ever been to.

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I regret leaving, but I still understand why I left and stand by it.  That first half was as brutal as it comes and I needed a beer regardless of what was yet to come.

My buddy was getting honored at half-time that Wisconsin game for being in the Olympics.  As a result his family got 2nd row 40yd line tickets.   They took off early and gave me their ticket stubs as they were walking out (I was up a ways behind them) and I watched the end of the game next to John Beilein, who at the time no one really knew who he was except me!  ha.   

And by the way - this past game (NW vs. UofM) our entire suite emptied out and there were only me and 2 other guys in it to watch the end of the game.  We were jumping around like little kids!  haha

I come for the experience and to support the team.  Why would I leave early?

I was 17 and that was my first game at the Big House. The Navy SEALS could not have uprooted me from my seat that day.

I think the game just went soooo long, and it was dark out by the end that the temperature just dropped drastically when the sun went down. Because I remember being cold at the end of the game too.

I was at that Colts-Patriots game where Belichick went for it on fourth down late in the game. Everyone bailed a few minutes before that, but they came back and won that one.

 5 minutes into the third quarter as well.  I am not proud to admit that I walked out of the Gator Bowl, because I NEVER thought I would ever walk out of a Michigan Football game, and never will again, however I do not have any regrets about leaving that debacle.  I just could not take the RR buffoonery any longer, and apparently, neither could about 10,000 of my closest Maize and Blue wearing brothers and sisters that were walking down the exit ramps with me.

I will also say that my determination to stay in my seat until the clock reads 0:00 to see Michigan come from behind for improbable wins has suited me well over the years.

Took a buddy to his first ever Michigan game in 2005 against Penn State and watched Super Mario score the winning TD right in front of us.  Last year at UTL, my girlfriend wanted to leave as she had been to 3 games prior to that one, all losses, and she felt she was cursed when ND scored with 0:30 remaining...  I told her we HAD to stay because you never know what is going to happen in 30 seconds and I cited the Penn State game. (I was trying to convince myself that a miracle could happen just as much I was trying to convince her)  "28 seconds" later, Roundtree caught the winning TD, again, right in front of us.

LOVE Michigan Football.  GO BLUE!!!