Worst College Football game day experience.
Oh my god, this is just too perfect.
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April 28th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
I don't think his description does justice to the level of douche-baggery of the Maryland fans.
April 28th, 2015 at 11:13 AM ^
Dakich was falling all over himself regarding the Maryland game experience. He said the rest of the Big Ten was going to have to "up its game" to compare with Maryland fans. i remember thinking that the atmosphere seemed propped up and kind of lame, and that the Maryland fans looked like they had nothing on Breslin, IU Assembly Hall, et. al.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
This post is fascinating.
That was exactly the time I was there for grad school- didn't even bother going to the games, but then the grad experience is entirely different from undergrad, especially coming from UM. Tulane recently finished building Yulman stadium, a 30,000 seat outdoor facility on campus.
April 28th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
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You must not have walked up Main to get to the stadium any time between 2008 and 2011 then. I would have found you and let you have it. It was my pre-game ritual. That and about 20 beers and winging the football across Main to any kid who wanted a perfectly thrown pass.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^
We had a whole house full of guys out on the porch. We never had an issue. I just liked to make fun of people to be honest. All in good fun of course.
please.
The "perfectly thrown pass" bit really elevates the work from a simple comment to art.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:32 AM ^
It was intentional. Although I really could throw a pretty decent ball back in the day in my e-pinion.
I'll bet you were the frattest frat brah ever, brah
April 28th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
Never joined a frat. Not my style. I was a chuck T, tight jeans, long hair sort of guy. Not a pink polo, khaki short, perry docksiders sort of guy.
Appalachian State.
My heart fell into my stomach when that kick was blocked.
Worst game day for sure. The Buckeyes came in and beat us, Navarre played awful, Tressel won the game he predicted they would win, and the Ohio St. fans were their usual selves. Just a miserable day all the way around.
The season was pushed back a week due to 9/11 so this game was the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Out-of-state students obviously had no way of knowing this would be the case before showing up on campus that fall, and a good 30-40% of the student section was filled with Buckeye fans. The Gonzales safety at the end of the first half made it clear that it just wasn't our day.
Man I wish they would move The Game to a week that is friendly to all students. Obviously not as big of a deal for OSU. To me, not being able to easily attend the biggest home game of your collegiate life is disenfranchising for people who attend Michigan from afar and want to spend Thanksgiving with their families. (A 2-day trip is nonsensical for a lot of people.) At this point, I think the solution is to push it back another week after Thanksgiving.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
The 1995 Purdue game played in a sleet storm with the rain and snow hitting you sideways due to 50 mph winds was the most miserable I have ever been (in a physical sense). As I recall, the players were having a ball slipping and sliding around. Michigan won 5-0 on a FG and a safety and Purdue had only five first downs.
This was the worst game of my life, weatherwise. I was a student at the time and I remember the cold rain just before kickoff and walking down the railroad tracks....then just about as the game started it turned into sideways ice pellets. This was also the game where we inexplicably decided to hand the ball to Will Carr at the 1. Non-hilarity ensued.
The only nice thing about it was being able to watch the second half of the game from midfield because everyone had left. How or why I stayed for the entire game, I'll never know.
That's correct - I was living in Chicago at the time and went to PU for the game. That was a cold one too. Michigan got way to cute in that game and lost one they never should have lost.
...and I didn't go to West Lafayette for that one. It was a long time ago. Everything runs together.
I do remember wondering how in the heck Purdue had the chance to win in the final minute, though.
I am still amazed that I stayed the whole time and didn't end up getting some degree of illness or injury from exposure. That was during the worst of a late fall cold snap, in a stretch of days where it was markedly cooler than it should have been for the middle of November. Like others, I ended up with great seats because virtually the entire place left.
Speaking of shitty weather, I was at the 1996 game against BC (was it 1996?) and as I recall, that was essentially a mockup of what football would look like if played during monsoon season. It was gusty too, so we had stretches of horizontal rain.
That one was fun. I remember the band coming off the field and then hearing thunder. Then, as the rain came down in sheets, I remember being glad for once that I was standing on the seats as the stairs below me turned into waterfalls.
The effect after the storm was pretty cool though with the floating marshmallow pond in the student section corner of the end zone.
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This sounds worse than Northwestern 2008
Weather was freezing and rained the whole time. And we lost. Miserable.
Another miserable experience was a Michigan-MSU game at the Big House. Some awful Michigan State girl sat behind us and literally screamed at the back of our heads the entire game. The worst profanity I've heard from anyone ever at sporting event.
We lost that game too.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:09 AM ^
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April 28th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
You stay to the end? I did. College kids are dumb. That was awful.
Walking out after the game a few drunk students and ND fans tried to harass M fans leaving the game. Lots of foul language and taunting. It didn't end well for one of the drunk Irish fans as a police officer caught him bumping some UM Students and they cuffed him on the spot. Then buried his face in the ground as he tried to fight back with police. I actually enjoyed that part.
2008 Northwestern. 40 and rain. Tailgate sucked, game was even worse.
April 28th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
it was also sleeting by the second half. Just awful.
Second place: A tie between EL trips in 09, 11, 13
April 28th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
High 30s and raining the whole time, plus we got pasted.
I actually ended up having a lot of fun and the Spartan fans around me were nice, but... eh. Not ideal.
I was married to a Spartan (ugh, fixed that error later), and went to EL for a lot of games. Of course I wore my Michigan gear and was treated about as you'd expect. Viscious, hateful bag of losers up there including, I later realized, my wife. Walking out of that courtroom after taking a 110# dump sure felt great though!
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I had to take my Michigan sticker off of my car to stop moron townies from kicking it/spitting on it. The stadium experience was just as bad, and I was sitting in an alumni section. I expect degenerate behavior from students, and even understand it, but not from 35 year old adults (or whatever they are in East Lansing - certainly not adults). When Tate threw the tying touchdown pass as time expired, I politely stood up and clapped and got punch in the back by a woman. When I confronted her, she told me it was "because I am a douchebag Michigan fan." Security laughed. On the way home was the usual fraternity bros throwing bottles and middle fingers at us. I have never driven faster back to AA and haven't been back since, or will ever go again.
April 28th, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^
is that magical feeling you get when you get back in your car and realize you are going back to ann arbor
April 28th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
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Had to be the Northwestern game maybe 6-8 years ago in the Big House. It was 35 degrees and rained buckets, so we were soaked to the bone and our ponchos and gear did little to mitigate the conditions. Water was coming down in amazing amounts, and we were close enough to the top that the water would periodically come in a big stream from the press box onto us. In the third quarter, my friend and I resorted to jumping up and down to keep our feet from freezing and we made it all the way to the end of the game. It was so bad, it turned into a challenge for he and I to get through it. Even though to this day we still talk about how horrible that was, it was kind of a cool bonding moment, and one that I'll never forget.