Your craziest/worst experience at a sporting event?

Not really part of the 'sporting event' in this case but one time I was bucketing (fundraising for Mott's Hospital) outside of a Michigan hockey game with a couple of others from Dance Marathon

A drunk, fat bro came stumbling past with his friend, pretended to drop a bill of cash into the bucket, then grabbed a dollar bill and left.

What followed got ugly.

at a college football game. I wasn't drunk.

App state?

Drunk Lions fans harrass a guy in Jets jacket all game until he retaliates verbally, gets physically assaulted...when security comes about 50 people in the stands point to said Jets fan and he gets tossed.  It was embarrassing that adults could act that way, but hey I didn't speak up in his defense, so I guess I was part of the problem too.

Just got out of a taxi the morning of, spoke with an older OSU couple at S. State and Hill at a red light.

I told them that I hope their team loses.

...it was exhilarating. I am not a crazy guy D:

I've not had any bad nor experiences as a fan at a game thank goodness.

Maybe when I was at the Delaware State game and Michael Cox scored 2 TDs and Ohio lost to Purdue. That was kinda crazy.

 My best friend played OL for them back in the early 00s so I often got free tickets.  I went to a night game against oregon and Reggie Williams dad sat right behind me.  Yep he was drunk.  i stood up to cheer a few times and he didnt like the fact that i blocked his view.  we ended up in a shoving match before it got broken up.

 

I once fell 4 rows onto an old guy eating some nachos at a supersonics game.  They were slingshotting shirts into the stands.  i almost got one!  hit me in the finger tips.  Problem was i stretched too far to get one and fell.

Worst was "The Horror"
Craziest was the 1st game between the Red Wings and Avalanche the 1st regular season after The avalanche one the cup and Lemieux hit Draper from behind.

The crowd was out for blood and the game starts with McCarty fighting Lemieux off the faceoff. I just remember then shoveling his blood off the ice, the goalies fighting and the Wings winning in overtime. The energy in the crowd the whole game had hairs standing in end.

2nd Craziest was UTL I
3rd was Magglios homer in the ALCS to send us to the World Series. Detroit was alive that night.

The January 24th, 2009 Michigan vs. Michigan State hockey game, easily.

 

 

The drunk guy pushed your niece?  That's pretty gentle for an OSU fan. 

A friend of mine who was in the MMB in the late 90's told me he saw an OSU fan punch a girl clarinet player in the face at the 96 game.  And he wasn't even drunk. 

Went to the Rose Bowl vs USC (Went next year vs Texas also, more on that)

 

So I'm not gonna recap both of these Rose Bowls, but the afterwards is the big difference.

During the USC game, my father, sister and her boyfriend and I were 4 blues in a sea of red. We were getting heckled, but nothing as bad as the actual game.

Afterwords, you know after USC was crowned Rose Bowl champion, we are leaving. We're all minding our own business when 2 USC ultradouches come up behind us, taunting our shitty football team. We're like haha, yeah guys you got us. These two king broggalos try to start a fight with me and my 55 year old father! We're like what the hell leave us alone. They pump their bro fists and go bromance in their Hummers with their Miller Lites or whatever.

 

Next year, vs Texas, that heartbreaking loss. My buddy and I come back to our hotel after the game, get some booze and head to the hotel courtyard. There we see two Texas fans sitting at a table with some liquor out. My first thought is great, another Rose Bowl loss getting shoved in my face. Oh man was I wrong.

These good ole Texas boys started slinging compliments about our great football team, pouring us shots, having a grand ole time. By the end of the night we had shared all of our college stories and had basically forgotten who even won the Vince Young Bowl.

 

TL:DR - Experienced USC douchcanoes only to be saved by good ole Texas boys the next year.

 

Mine's a weird one. For the past few years, the hockey student section has sung the Canadian national anthem prior to the game in honor of the Canadians on the team. Last year, some Western grandma assumed we were being disrespectful and threatened to report us to Michigan's administration. Anyways, we got wind of it, and promptly started singing the anthem straight in her direction. Also started chanting "ugly sweater" at her, because, well, it was a god-awful sweater.

Edit: Most games involving Rico and Miami at Yost also had interesting results.

Bad, all OSU in the early 2000s. Booing the band so loud through the whole performance you can't even hear them.  Little old ladies who moon you. Little girls giving you the finger.  Bros shoving you from behind in the seats. Throwing bottles and rocks and anything not tied down at the buses as they leave town.

But of all those in 2002 when leaving with my sister in law had a drunk guy grab my coat and say he wants to shit in it and I cock back to knock him out and he flinches like a Notre Dame doing scheduling and is pulled away by his friend.  So we have to walk at the edge of the parking lot all the way around to get back to the bus.  

Crazy: 2003 OSU 100th game tailgate at Hoover and State.

Dancing in the street in traffic, ripping license plates off, lighting a guy's OSU hat on fire, kicking field goals over the stop lights. Like, lining up and kicking and having it hit the light or the cars on waiting at the light. Someone bounced a keg into the street. It was rowdy, man.

Worst:  Lehigh Lafayette game in the early 1990s.  Goalposts torn down, police with dogs, people drunk and screaming and just a whole lot of "Yikes."   Never been so afraid for my own safety in a crowd.

 

Weirdest was I guess my luckiest.  I was at a Tigers game, not really paying attention, and suddenly everyone around me is up with their arms outstretched to catch the foul ball ripping our way.  A couple people get a bit of it but don't manage to grab it, it bounces off the outstretched glove of the guy behind me, and plops down as gentle as can be right on my lap.  Easiest ball gain ever.  Since my kid was sitting next to me, they crowd just let me (him) have it.

First one occurred during the "Bronx Zoo" period of Yankee stadium (Billy Martin - late 70s). After a loss, to Baltimore I think, we were leaving the upper deck when a portible radio (size of an attache case) dropped from the sky. It had to have been chucked from above and behind me and certainly crashed into the lower level (where I have to assume that other fans were exiting). My friends (Yankee fans) just shrugged and continued on out.

Second was as the old Shea stadium for a Jets game (again, late 70s) against Cleveland Browns. The half time show was of a guy and his R/C model airplanes. I thought this was a little odd because the NFL didn't really have half-time shows (like college). This guy's last "plane" actually looked like a push lawnmower. It took about 70 yards before it took off. He did two passes up and down the field (much to everyone's delight). Then, he lost control of it and it crashed into some guy's lap who was seated in the second row around mid-field. It was pretty funny until the EMTs were called to remove the guy. I few days later we learned that he died of his injuries.

Third was at Michigan Stadium where I got a last-minute ticket to the Ohio game. Tress had the game in hand and Tate was chuking INTs all over. I sat in a sea of Ohio fans and have some verbal barbs going all day. One Ohio patsy actually threatened to spank me and which point the fans in the local vicinity got very quiet. I replied; "No thanks Bruce, I'm straight." at this point all of the UM fans laughed. The "spanker" left shortly thereafter, with his loud-mouth wife.

The fourth and last was the first OT game at Michigan Stadium versus Penn State. My Dad and I had seats on the 10 yard line about 20 rows in (near Super Fan). We had a perfect view of Chris Perry burrowing for a first down and then turn it into a touchdown, to win the game. I have never heard Micigan Stadium so loud as it was that day. Bonus was that I got to see it with my Dad (he lives in northern CA now).

Worst- kordell Stewart hail mary. Scariest- the browns playoff game against the steelers. Wore a browns jersey and was literally crowd surfed away by a crowd of drunk steeler fans.