Your craziest/worst experience at a sporting event?

ND Game vs UM in South Bend.  The first RichRod game.  A very beligerent UM fan, clearly drunk off his ass, was told to shut up in no uncertain terms.  He didn't take it very well and went to slug the guy who told him to shut up.  Missed, by a mile, and absolutely crushed the guy's girlfriend right in the nose.  Needless to say he was beaten mercilessly and the ushers came and escorted him out.

"In the Big House" played right before the team runs out of the tunnel.

Acid in Michigan Stadium.

Don't do it.

My craziest experience was a soccer game in Mexico... the León - Tijuana game in the Mexican Promotion Playoffs (Liga de Ascenso) in 2011.  Basically, León was one of the biggest teams and fan bases in México but had spent ten years in the second division so their fans were absolutely desperate to get promoted back to the first division.  León had dominated the entire season and were huge favorites to move up to the first division, but if you lose in the playoffs you are still eliminated even if you were first in the regular season.  León had already lost the road leg of the 2 game series 1-0 so they needed one goal to tie the series back up (and advance since the higher seed advances in the event of a tie).  Anyway, León basically started out dominating the game, but allowed a goal against the run of play to fall behind 1-0 after maybe 15 minutes.  Then their star forward got red carded, leaving them down a man, for an idiotic and extremely violent elbow to an opponent's face right in front of the ref.  In spite of being down a man León kept dominating but hit the post a couple of times and went into the locker room down 1-0 (and down 2-0 on aggregate).  To start the second half, León hit the post again didn't score... and that's when things started to get crazy.

The ref got a cramp and stopped the game for like 10 minutes so that he could lie down on the field and stretch.  While this was happening, the already desperate and infuriated crowd started going nuts and trying to climb over the barbed wire fences surrounding the field and started throwing bottles and cups of beer and piss onto the field and at the police guarding the field and lots of people started fighting with the police.  After maybe 10 minutes on the ground the ref finally got up and signaled for play to start again... it was a goal kick for León and he blew the whistle for them to start play.  León's goalie, who was in a big hurry after the ridiculous delay, comes out and inexplicably restarts play by passing the ball straight to the other team's center forward.  The Tijuana forward pretty much walks in and scores to make it 3-0 on aggregate and shit just absolutely hit the fan.  A bunch of León's players attacked guys on the other team or pushed the ref and maybe 2 or 3 of them got ejected basically ending any chance that León had at getting back in the game.  Meanwhile, in the stands, the violence got completely out of control as the fighting between fans and police escalated quickly.  The section I was in wasn't quite as crazy as some of the other sections but there were still people trying to climb onto the field and a guy a couple people down from me was having his wife and maybe 10 year old kid look for glass bottles so he could throw them on the field or at the cops guarding the field.  Tons of people where I was were throwing glass bottles at the police and trying to break the fence between our section and the field.  In other parts of the stadium, plenty of fans started making it onto the pitch meaning that the game had to be stopped for maybe 15 more minutes and in other parts of the stadium where the violence was getting even crazier the police were letting people go through a door in the barbed wire fence surrounding the field so that they could escape the stands, cross the pitch with play stopped, and leave the stadium through the tunnel rather than having to use a normal exit where people were brawling really hard.  I also saw tons of people literally take off their León jerseys and light them on fire.  The number of people whipping glass bottles at the police or into the crowd, physically fighting withe each other or with the police (who didn't have guns - just clubs) was absolutely crazy.  My girlfriend, who is actually from León, was absolutely terrified and the scenes were pretty heartbreaking for her so once it seemed safe enough to head to an exit, after witnessing maybe 20 minutes of this mess, we left.  As things were not  much good was going to come of watching her team play 7 or 8 on 11 already losing by three goals.  Anyway, it was absolutely nuts.

Aside from that story, the other two crazy ones I have are somewhat similar.  I was at a city baseball championship in Guanajuato, Mexico, where I live, where the crowd got really out of control and people started whipping glass bottles at each other and brawling in the stands.  That was crazy since I knew a lot of the people on the field and in the stands... luckily I was watching the game from the dugout so I was out of harm's way but a number of people were somewhat seriously hurt and a few people got arrested.  Once the violence started the players and I all went out on the field to watch and to help bystanders climb onto the field to escape the violence.  I saw a guy in the stands right in front of my try to attack a policeman with a beer bottle and get clubbed in the head.  My friend's cousin got nailed in the head by a guy's belt buckle and needed 12 stitches on his head.

The other craziest experience was being at the USA - Mexico soccer game in Chicago for the Gold Cup final in 2007.  There were maybe 5,000 Americans and 60,000 Mexicans at Soldier Field and we were in an all Mexican section (aside from my group of 7 friends - we were all supporting the US).  The US won 2-1 and as the game ended tons of Mexicans threw beer and coins at us... and a Mexican fan whipped a beer bottle at our car and then kicked a giant dent in our door later as we were leaving the stadium.  Truthfully, most of the Mexican fans there were really nice to us and even as stuff was being thrown at us the Mexicans near us were apologizing and saying that we aren't all like that, but it was a crazy experience.  

Well my story is...  In high school, I was on a first date with a very attractive girl from my Spanish class.  We went to a Ft. Wayne Komets hockey game (classy  I know).  I got us rink side tickets and before the first period I was telling her to always watch the puck since she had never been to a hockey game.

Can you guess what happened?

Yep, near the end of the first period a puck ricocheted off the top of the class (so it wasn't full  speed) and hit my date just above her knee.  Of course, she wasn't paying attention when it happened.  She slugs me in the ribs.  She thought I had hit her on her thigh?!? For what reason on earth would I do that to someone I was hoping to sleep with later that night?  

Anyway, i showed her the puck at her feet and she apologized.  She ended up with a grapefruit size bruise - green and black, and had decent limp going for the next week.

I should have taken all the signs from that night to run away fast, but I wasn't thinking with the right head.  Don't ask me how prom ended later that year.

/coolstorybro

Apologies for the Length*.

Nebraska @ Michigan 2011.  I was sitting on the edge of the student section.  A Michigan fan in his mid to late 20's kept dropping the N bomb.  Tackle that fucking "N", rip that "Ns" head off, Smash that "N", Kill that "N".  I felt like I was at a KKK rally.  I am not the most PC guy nor am I very sensitive to this stuff (I am not black nor am I from a race deals with this a lot) but this was just over the top. He was throwing it out like a replacement for fucker or son of a bitch.  Needless to say, I was quite embarrassed being that he was a Michigan fan and there were a bunch of nice Nebraska folk around us.  

Finally I snapped, turned around and told the dude if he said "N" one more time I would smash his face in. Guy was like, chill bro. Here's where it gets weird. 20 minutes later I see the guy at halftime high fiving and hugging a bunch of his buddies, who were black. So either this guy is so NOT racist that the "N" word is like any other curse to him, or he is like the white guy from the Chris Rock standup that waits for the black friends to go home so he can yell racial obscenities.

I went to Ohio State, so that was the first and only game I decided to use my student ticket for.

The walk up to the game was a disgusting display.  I couldn't go 10 yards without something being thrown at me, or someone getting in my face to tell me to go fuck myself.

Had to sit in an entire section of students with my Michigan gear on, luckily my friends are awesome and they all had my back at the game.

I have never heard anything louder in my life then kickoff at that game, and I also cant even describe how quiet it was when Michigan went down and scored on the 1st possession.

I was smart enough to leave the game early, I knew win or lose, it would have been an awful experience walking out of that game with the whole crowd.

I drove up to Cleveland that night so I could watch the Browns lose to the Steelers on the final drive of the game.  Worst sports weekend of my life.

Not at a sporting event per se, but one fine evening in my undergrad days UVA was playing a night game, so we might have been drinking all day at the house before the game.  One of our roommates (who we'll call "Sam") might have been drinking a hell of a lot more than the rest of us and we probably should've left him at the house but whatever. 

On the way to the stadium we pass a frat house where frat guys are doing frat things on the lawn, and "Sam" decides he wants the couch that's sitting on the lawn.  We were planning on sitting on the grass hill at the stadium and he decided it would be much better to sit on a couch than stand all game or sit on the grass.   That people were sitting on it just then, didn't really bother him.  "Sam" goes up and starts to try and carry the couch off and demands we come and help him.  It was a green couch and he was insisting it would be perfect because "it'll match the grass!"  The frat guys occupying the couch took it all for a joke, lucky for us, and by the time they realized "Sam" was dead serious about dragging their couch all the way to the game (and kicking them off it) the rest of us had come up to pull him away, so they didn't get mad.  "Sam" however spent the first half pissed off because he was convinced we had cost him a comfy couch to sit on.

My brother could tell this story best because I don't remember much of it.

We went to an away game (@ NW) with a bunch of his friends. His exact words were; "These are my fiance's friends' husbands who go to an away game every year so don't get too wasted and mess this up for me. NO SHOTS." I was like, totally cool man.

We pull into the tailgate area and who was right next to us? A girl who was a friend of mine in undergrad. What are the odds? And what are the odds that she starts feeding me shots? The next thing I know I am acting as a "bartender" of sorts at the tailgate going shot for shot with whomever was willing. I was wearing this super old vintage MICHIGAN  v-neck sweater with nothing underneath and kept asking people if they wanted some pepperoni with the salad (what I was calling my chest hair for some reason) and then showing them my nipple. This didn't stop until we had taken a bus to the stadium (which I literally remember zero of).

When we got to the game I was standing on the bleachers in the endzone section, wobbling with a dip in and my brother told me later that I was spitting on the back of an old woman sitting in front of me. On purpose or not - I don't remember.

My brother still goes to an away game with his wife's friends' husbands and I was never invited again.

That was the night game when Denard nearly intercepted us into a loss.

Craziest/Best game I ever been to - UTL I

My incident happens at a Bears Lions game at Soldier field I think it was 2000 or 2001, the bears spanked us that day like 27-3. It was cold, rainy and awful out. anyways prior to the game i locked my car keys in my car. Luckily there were some homeless people in the area, and they broke into my car  for me, and I gave them some beers. I was also pretty high at the time also from herbal pleasures. Anyways during the game, The Lions were getting smoked ( whats new), and the bears fans giving me crap cuz im repping the Lions, so at halftime, i saw a lions fan and his son at the bathroom. A Bears fan comes up to a Lions fan, says something derogatory to his kid, couldn't have been older than 5, and the lions fan and the bears fan start going at it in the bathroom. anyways i get back to my seat, and im stuill drunk and high of the weed. And this bears fan has a stick witha stuffed lion attached to a noose on it, and the guy is dressed like Santa, comes up to me and says poor liosn fan, starts patting my head, i got pissed, and snatched the Lion from the guy, the guy wanted his Lion back, I told him to take it from me if he wanted it that bad. I still have the Lion to this day

Anyways, after the whipping the Lions took, i'm walking back to my car ( located by the planetarium), and i bought a Lions pennant for 4 bucks. As im walking, a bears fan slaps it out my hand, and it goes into the mud. i'm pissed, Than somehow this bears fan runs behind me and pushes me in the back, and than does it again, i told him if he does it again, I will F him up, so boom, he does it again, i didn't do anything, once again he pushes me in the back, and BOOOOOOOOOOOOM, I turn around and clocked him straight in his nose, next thing, i feel blood just splattering all over my lions hoody and my face,, and dude has his hand over his face saying" My Nose, My Nose .. After that i just ran and hauled ass back to my car, and got the hell out of their, i did stop at Portillos for italian beef, and than went back to Milwaukee

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