Worst College Football game day experience.

Submitted by Lakeyale13 on
Quite easy for me. I went with a buddy of mine (Texas A & M grad) to last years Aggies vs South Carolina Gamecocks game in Columbia, SC. Never been treated more rudely by fans in all my life. Had to park a mile away from the stadium and you walk a main drag that leads directly to the field. He got me an A & M shirt to wear and I can't tell you how many cars upon seeing us flipped us off and yelled every imaginable obscenity. Even two police officers, in a less than welcoming tone, said "You boys sure are in the wrong place wearing those shirts." This "welcoming spirit" continued into the stands and walking back to the car after A & M destroyed them. I expect some of that kind of behavior at any venue, but it was an easy 70-30 split of people who were full of douche baggery over those that were kind and welcoming. So what is your worst experience and at what venue?

ST3

April 28th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^

Weather-related:

Heat: @UCLA, 2000, 110 degrees at halftime. 100s of people were taken to the hospital with heat exhaustion

Rain: @Indiana, mid-1980's, driving rain storm the entire game with 50 MPH winds pushing rain into our faces the whole game. Couldn't see a thing.

Rain/sleet/snow/cold: vMinnesota, 1988, the only time I left a game at halftime due to weather conditions. It was brutal.

Opponent-related:

I visited the shoe four times.

pinkfloyd2000

April 28th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^

...BOTH the 2006 and 2008 home games vs. NW were miserable, in terms of weather. I was at both of them. But, I think the '08 game was quite a bit worse.

I have a Michigan promo poster from the 2006 season, framed with all of the home ticket stubs, a gift from my wife. She was secretly collecting all of my stubs when I returned from games. All of the stubs look pretty good, but the NW stub, while in decent shape, is the only one with very visible "trauma." I guess it's a minor miracle that it surived at all.

So, yeah. Those two games were bad, but in 2006, at least we WON that game. We...didn't win in 2008, which made the bad weather seem much, much worse.

As far as other awful gameday experiences, I gotta nominate the home games vs OSU in 2007 and 2009. These just weren't any fun. At all. IIRC, the weather for the '07 game sucked, too.

DealerCamel

April 28th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^

They were dating at the time, my dad a lifelong Michigan fan and my mom an OSU student, and they sat in the middle of the Buckeye student section surrounded by all my mom's sorority sisters.

At some point Michigan made a good play and the student section went quiet, except for my dad, who let out an accidental yelp of joy and then looked nervously around him as everyone started staring daggers his way.

My mom yelled out to everyone around them, "HEY! This guy's a Michigan fan!" and my poor dad just got PELTED with all manner of shit.  Can't imagine that was fun for him.

Thirty years of wedded bliss later...

lilpenny1316

April 28th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^

Picking any experience up there is low-hanging fruit.  I got lost in EL the night before the game and had only two hours of sleep before I walked over to Munn to tailgate.  All I did was see Michigan fans get pelted by beer bottles and thrown into bales of hay.  The afternoon concluded at a friend of a friends house that was full of high Sparties.  

In an epic conclusion, the house dog barfed up beer that he had been drinking from a plastic red cup.

EDIT: Almost forgot.  I didn't even get into the Stadium because the tix we were going to buy from scalpers were not together and we didn't want any friends getting stuck by themselves in the MSU student section.

Michigan4Harbaugh

April 28th, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^

From listening to some of these stories, I have absolutely no desire to ever attend a Michigan Football game anywhere other than Michigan Stadium or a bowl game.

notetoself

April 28th, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^

vaguely raining, not enough to make you leave. unseasonably cold. losing the whole game, but not enough that it was out of reach until the end when you realize "that was an ass-kicking. how did that happen?" L 9-34.

BlueinOK

April 28th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^

I went to the Kansas/Central Michigan football game in the fall. It was the worst because KU fans acted like they were going to lose the whole game. I'm wearing all maroon and it was hard to make fun of any fans because they just didn't care. They just kept talking about basketball and how good Cliff Alexander was going to be. haha. 

Sommy

April 28th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^

App state 2007. I never went to a game during undergrad because of other weekend obligations. I finally got a chance to go after i graduated. My first game was app state. Made me never want to go to a game again.

My second game I went to was Toledo the following year. I went with the same friend whom I'd gone to the app state game. When they lined up to kick the field goal at the end of the game, we both looked at each other with that "are you fucking kidding me, this again?" look.

I wish I were joking.

GoBlueTom

April 28th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^

2009 in East Lansing me and a few friends went up to East Lansing and being heckled all day sworn at you know the typical stuff. However, things got bad when your girlfriend at the time went to use the restroom(probably should have went with her) but when she came back and a huge cut on her cheek some chick blind sided her. She got heckled about how MSU is gonna punch us like they did her and I got into shoving match and almost went to blows. Michigan made the comeback and I was so hoping they would've won in OT. It was worst coming out. 

jsquigg

April 28th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^

Never been to an away game, so last year's Utah game was easily the worst experience between terrible coaching, fan somberness, terrible RAWK music being blasted more than too loud and getting drenched, it was a pretty terrible day.

25dodgebros

April 28th, 2015 at 4:04 PM ^

Worst road experience - 1992 at the Horseshoe.  Buckeye "fans" urinating on us from the top of the bleachers as we walked below them headed to our seats.  Unsatifsfying tie.   Runners up at Sparty in 1993 and 1995.  Both bitterly cold losses.  In 1993 8 year old Michigan fan with gear sitting next to us  pushed around!!  by Sparty fans while walking to the restroom. Leaves stadium crying after ushers would not help him find his way back to his seat.    1995 - drunk MSU fans pelting us with garbage as we walked to the car after losing with quite a bit of assistance from the zebras.   I will never go to either campus again for anything. Period.   

Worst Michigan Stadium experience - 2008 v Northwestern.  Sleet/rain in first half turns to snow in second half.  Snow was actually better because you didn't get as wet.  As close to hypothermia as I want to get.  The football was just as bad as the weather.  Runner up- UM v Maryland 2014.   As pathetic a performance by a UM team as ever there was.  Very cold and windy and Michigan was completely incompetent at every phase of  football.   After that game, I knew there was nothing Hoke could do to save his job.  

ElBictors

April 28th, 2015 at 4:24 PM ^

...it was a freaking 13-13 tie but you would have thought the bucks won given the fan behavior.  From just childish verbal taunting all the way to getting jumped on High Street ...I think of that game and memory any time someone whines about Taylor Lewan dealing with buckeye hecklers on South U with a megaphone.

One buddy of mine did take a big, fat dump on the front steps of a sorority that night and we managed to steal beer from a house party, but from that point forward I have had little if any respect for those fans.

And when the games are in A2 ...the home fans are incredibly tolerant and polite.

different worlds, the two fanbases.

MaizeandBlueBleeder

April 28th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^

2007 Appy State game. I had to endure the players celebration in the corner of the Endzone at the end of the game with my wife. We sat there for half an hour after the game in total shock before being able to stand up.