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

I thought of some of my better resonses (Wisconsin, 1968 - the Ron Johnson 347 yd. performance; or a Lions game in the seventies at Tiger Stadium where the weather changed and we got sleet and freezing rain and I was totally unprepared for it, sitting in the upper deck; or the WMU thunderstorm-cancellation game.)

But yes the Appalachian State game was the worst.  It was 77 degrees, sunny, light winds.  This is what it looked like:

FWIW my response was before the Op added (weather).

My response would be the same since it was raining tears.

there were a couple of very cold games during the 70's that were rough, but nothing compares to purdue '95.  even that northwestern game in'08 doen't come close.

the 69 OSU game came close with the temps and precipitation.  thankfully the wind was relatively calm.

That was the second year that I had season tickets and it was brutal.

@ Iowa this year was second although I think 2008 or 09 NW at home was brutal but easily it was the 1995 Purdue game.

Hands down, this.  Purdue 1995 was the only game where I wanted to leave at halftime because the weather was so miserable.  I remember my buddy and I both cheering for Michigan to punch in a TD to go up by 2 scores so we could leave and head back to the bar to get warm.  Brutal day.

too.  The rain was the worst part of it.  I think most people can take the cold, but the cold and the wetness... brutal.

This gets my vote. Every time the rain turned to snow I felt a glimmer of hope. And then it was pouring on me again.

I was about to say the exact same thing. That game was, by far, the worst game I have had to sit through. It was freezing, wet, and Michigan played horribly.

Ya that game was bitter cold with it being wet and then freezing. I remember getting back to my house and the half of my roommates that left early had used up all the hot water. Sucked. That was also the game I learned there was an M on the other side of the Big House because so many fans had left by half time that you could see the M under the remaning fans.

However, I attended the Iowa game this season which was supposed to have been the coldest game in Iowa's history at Kinnick Stadium. It was miserable. We were so layered up but we could still feel the bitter cold. I don't think I felt my toes all game long. We left our seats and went up to the vacated top row because we could stand and move around to stay warm. Probably a worse game since I didn't harbor any illusions about the 2008 NW game or season; however, I still hoped we could beat Iowa and end the season 8-4. After 1st quarter, it just felt like an inevitable progression towards a lose and was kind of a microcosm of our season. The only redeeming quality is the Iowa fans are really nice and hospitable and no one said anything to us after the game.

got slapped in chest, repeatedly kneed in the back, patted on the head, and had popcorn thrown at me.  When has it ever been appropriate to put your hands on another person without their permission.  Last time at MSU, Tate's freshman year, i had someone poking his finger into my chest after the game.  I will never step foot in that hell hole again.

a HS marching band, I guess it was 1976, against South Lyon or Novi, can't recall.  Anyway it was so cold the mouth pieces would frost over as soon as we took them out of our pockets.  The only music heard that day was from the percussion section.

The 2006 Northwestern game at the big house was pretty damn cold as well.  Rainy, dark, freezing.  My toes still felt frozen through three layers of socks. 

I lasted the whole game.  When your team is 9-0, it's easier to work through the weather. 

I was going to say.  Cold and wet, hot chocolate turning to ice cocoa and popcorn just a box of mush and outside the north EZ, just a sea of mud.  You might have seen me, I was one of those Cub Scouts running around the student section helping to kick up the attendance figures.

I was going to post this exactly. It rained ice the whole time.

IIRC, we won because we deferred in the first half and Purdue took the ball  Then we decided to kick off to start the second half.  No one could move the ball.   Whoever go the kickoff to start the half was screwed and the game was played on their side of the field.  Carr won that game with that decision.