OT-Most miserable sporting event you have ever attended? (Weather)

NW 21 Mich 14. But, was still hoping we would score and force OT. I m almost certain RichRod would gave gone for 2.

2008 northwestern. Last home game of my senior year. I failed to dress properly and got soaked to the bone in 40 degree weather. Stayed all the way to the miserable conclusion, too

I remember sitting through the 1995 Purdue game, in the pouring rain.  5-0 final.  At least we won, but it sucked!

Northwestern '08.  Changed between rain and snow all game, so wet and cold.

For me it was 2001 UM v OSU at the Big House.  It was miserable, cold with freezing rain and was Tressel's first year of coaching OSU.  They ran the ball up the middle (go figure) like 350 times to beat us, and in the process swung the pendulum.

2013 OSU-Indiana.  Snowy, 20-26 mph winds, and and a windchill in the low teens.  It wasn't even an exciting game.

2008 vs NW at the big house. Season was a dumpster fire. The weather was freezing rain. I got in for $5 and sat at the 50 in row A.

I went with a friend who is a ND fan to South Bend for the UM-ND game in 2008. It was rainy. Michigan turned the ball over 6 times. Michigan outgained ND by over 100. Michigan had 7 more first downs than ND. Steven Threet had more passing yards than Jimmy Clausen. Charlie Weis even tore his ACL that game....

Michigan still got beat 35-17.  And then Weis joked about his injury saying "Tommy Brady doesn't have anything on me" and he actually called himself an "athlete."

UGHHHHH

It's a tie between the outdoor hockey game in 2010 up in Madison (may have been the coldest I've ever been in my life, and I couldn't even see the puck), 1996 Boston College (literal waterfall flowing underneath our seats), 2008 Northwestern (Fan Endurance winner), and for sheer heat, either 1995 Virginia or 1998 EMU (aided by the fact the concession stands ran out of water).

And I was supposed to go to the infamous 1995 Purdue game, but I was fortunately home sick with the flu. My dad, aunt, and uncle stayed the entire time, watching the proceedings from underneath a clear plastic tarp.

Trash Tornado in the MSU student section. Worst 3 1/2 hours of my life. On the flip side, I was in the student section in '07 when Henne brought us back, so il guess we're even.

My worst was an early spring Tiger game about 3 years ago.  Peralta hit a walk-off HR in the B9 to win it.

However it was a nice spring day outside when I left home and I was unprepared for the chilly windy evening after the sun went down.  I was hypothermic in late April LOL.

I do recall a late season M football game as a student forget Ohio or Iowa probably in the 89-93 years where we sat at the very top row of the stadium.  THAT was cold.  There's a lot of wind up there!

I have yet to take a blanket into the stadium nor have I ever used the thermo (hot-hands) warmer packs but I would try these as I get older and wiser.

A game against Miami that was in the 50s and such rain that it was pouring down the steps of the stadium like white-water rapids.

 

We left at halftime and drove home stripped down to our skivvies.

about as cold as can be without having the rain turn to snow.   molk got hurt early on and there went the offense.   two oldest sons were pretty game, but by about the end of the 3rd quarter i pulled the plug and we jogged back to the truck.

runner up, but more for fun, was a lions vs. vikings game around 1970 played at tiger stadium.   vikings at the time wore road white uniforms, only purple helmets.  snowing so hard you could only see their helmets. 

Indy 500 a couple years back. Temps were north of 95 and we sit right near the track with no shade. I got dehydrated and sunburnt...lucky I didn't end up in the med tent.

I sat hunkered down in a short lawn chair with an umbrella over me freezing my butt off in the cold rain because March is not spring in Chicago.

The Diehard 500 at Talladega Super Speedway on July, 30, 1989. 

The actual temperature was 106 degrees with a heat index of 115. The bleachers were metal and they were cooking people. Paramedics were literally running all over the place treating people for heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Back then you were allowed to bring your own coolers in, so my buddy and I carried in a large cooler. I put an extra shirt in the cooler before heading inside. By the time we got to our seats I was soaked in sweat and decided to put on the shirt in the cooler. The ice was already melting and it was soaked it ice cold water. I put it on and froze, but it only took a minute for it to warm up. I continued to switch shirts every fifteen minutes for the next three and a half hours, but it was a truly miserable day.

It was gorgeous during the day, and then the sun went down and the swirling winds took over. None of us was dressed for 40 degrees, not to mention the wind chill ... We bought Giants apparel to stay warm along with half the stadium. One of the OF dropped a popup when it did a corkscrew due to the wind. Then the game went into extra innings ... We barely made it through all 12. Never before had I been grateful for a crowded, shoulder-to-shoulder-packed, standing-room-only train.

The Justin Fargas game 1998 at Northwestern.  It still haunts me and I am afraid to buy tickets to football games in advance of a weather forecast because of it.

2006 Northwestern almost convinced me never to come back

Played somewhere in New Jersey in April. Weather was cold at the start, and within minutes, there was a freak snowstorm, so the game was played in the same conditions as this game:

There was rain, sleet, snow, and hail at some point during the game, and all I had was a windbreaker because it was actually not too bad when I left.

Spent halftime in the bathroow huddled around a heater with everyone who didn't leave. There were maybe 20,000 left by the end of the game, and I stayed because the game was close, but of course the team didn't come back, given it was 2008, nor did they have the decency to let Northwestern pull away and let me leave.

Oh, and literally the first 4-5 buses at CC Little showed up out of service. There were literally about 100-150 people, maybe even more all desperately trying to huddle under the tiny shelter (this was before the fancy ones there are now) and the numbers kept going up because some idiot decided not to make sure all the buses heading to North Campus weren't taking a break at the same time.

The truely awful thing is, I initially forgot my ticket and had to go back for it. My roommate hadn't left because he decided he didn't want to deal with it. Should have taken that as a sign, but hey, at least I can say I'm loyal. (But seriously, they should have given everybody their money back who stayed for the whole thing as a sign of gratitude)

fandom endurance 2008 Northwestern game, enough said

As a bunch of people above, the 1995 Purdue 5-0, freezling, sleety horrible game.  As I recall, it was parent's weekend, so nobody showed up due to the weather.  I shouldn't have went, but I had a man crush on Mike Alstott and wanted to see him play.  Instead I got to watch the punters, sloppy fields, and my fingers freeze.

There's a difference between the actual, empirical conditions and our subjective level of misery, isn't there? '95 Purdue gets a lot of mention, and isn't it at least in part because the game was aesthetically a disaster?
'99 Illinois was cold and rainy, but not particularly worse than many other games--but I hated it in part because it was a dreadful game. Even before the collapse I was just waiting for Michigan to build enough of a lead so I could do. Just awful.
Empirically, the worst weather I ever experienced at a game was at a D2 playoff game between UMD and Northwest Missouri State here in Duluth. D2 folks call it the ice bowl, and in darkness, 6 degree temps (and falling) and brutal 20 mph winds, it's a good name for it.
Pretty tough game. Low-scoring obviously. Fans were absolutely bananas, especially when UMD took a late lead (17-14 I think?) on a 4th down 30-yard QB scramble TD.
It was bitterly cold, but it was an exciting cold and everyone there knew it. Honestly I felt worse at the Illinois game.

Some weird combination of ice and rain (even though it had to be 15 degrees and windy as hell).

Either the 2009 game vs Penn State or the 2011 game again msu aka ''trash tornado game''. 

All it did was rain the whole game against PSU and we couldn't move the ball for shit. Lost 35-10. It was a cold rain as well. Temps were probably in the low 40s. 

I was in the upper deck in Spartan Stadium in 2011. Just so you know, you feel ALL the wind up there. 

Bears vs Bengals 1995, game was on December 10 in Cincinnati and it was bitterly cold that day. It was gametime temp of 8 degrees with a wind chill factor of -9. Needless to say there was a constant line in the only heated place, the restrrom.

Had great seats that day though, front row of the endzone by the visitors entrance. Couldn't ask for better seats. We ended up leaving just a little early as we were so cold we couldn't take it anymore.

BTW, my beloved Bears lost that day 16-10.

A meaningless end of reg season Bears vs Bucs game at SF 20+ years ago. -6 degrees F.

In terms of what happened on the field? UM vs FSU in the early 90's, easy