Semi-OT Bye Week Follies: Have you attended a Michigan game while injured?

Medicine has changed a lot since 1981. I'm sure the only sedative they gave you was a bottle of Jack Daniels, and the doctor probably used a pair of rusty pliers to pull them out.

I was at the game against Army this year..... I was fine when I got there..... I felt increasingly more ill as the game when on and left slightly relieved, yet nauseous.

I attended the Washington game on August 31, 2002.  It was a noon game and it was hotter than Hades.

I left the next day for neck and spine surgery at Mayo Clinic.  I was miserable and had to leave my seat on a regular basis to get out of the blazing sun and into the shade.

We won 31-29.

My worst experience was the infamous Illinois game in 1993 when we blew a late 2 touchdown lead capped off by Ricky Powers fumbling with about a minute to go which gave them the ball and time enough to score.  But I never saw the ending.

That wasnt the worst of my day though.  I had a bit of the lower intestine flue and with about 10 minutes to go in the game i had to go to the bathroom.....I mean REALLY go.  And if you're old enough to remember the urinal walls in the old stadium your old enough to remember those toilet stalls were not for the faint of heart by the 4th quarter of any game.   

So after round one in there I thought I could return to my seat and watch the end of our victory.  About five minutes later round two hit me and this time I had to basically run to the bathroom and pray there was no line cause i had a very high sense of bathroom urgency.  Fortunately I made it but I realized there was no way I could finish the game and there was definitely no way I wanted to go back into one of those stalls a third time.  So I grabbed the guys I went with and said "we gotta go NOW' and we left with about 3 minutes to go in the game and Michigan up two scores and made a run (no pun intended) for the car.  Next stop was a drug store for Amodium, Pepto Bismal and the hope I could get back to Cleveland without a major problem in the car.

I broke my foot Junior year at UM after a most competitive beer pong match, which my partner and I won! Being in a stupor, I walked to the Big House on said broken foot and made it till the end of the Notre Dame game before I had the ambulance take me to the ER because the pain and swelling in my foot was too much to bear. We also got our asses kicked by Notre Dame that year, so that did not help. Had a cast for two weeks, then a walking boot (air cast) for another two weeks. 

TL;DR - Beer pong, drunk, broke foot, walked to game, Notre Dame kicked our ass, went to ER

I have attended every home game against Indiana since 1987 with an erection lasting longer than 4 hours. I thought I was cured when my doctor prescribed JOK in 2016 - alas, I'm still afflicted. 

Broke my hand the other day...went to the Maryland game. Probably only 60% full, but of that, 80% were Michigan fans to start the game and 90% by the end. The upper decks were all Michigan and the later into the game it went, the more the Michigan fans invaded the lower bowl.

Missed most of my senior year's games after tearing my Achilles in August. Was still in a walking boot in early November for my first full tailgate and game at the Big House that year. Leg felt pretty terrible for a couple days after; also, we lost.

attending games a couple weeks after acl reconstruction back in 2001.  kind of a bitch going down about 80 rows to my 5th row seat with crutches.  don't think i could even do that now with the stupid handrail going up the middle of the isles.

Yes. Every Michigan game I have attended I have done so with a crack in my butt.

If hangovers count, then yes. Almost every game

Had mono just before senior year, and tried to do everything by the book so that I could enjoy my last welcome week (2011).  Turns out, that wasn’t enough time and I felt miserable for both the western (shortened rain game) and notre dame (UTL v1) games- probably wouldn’t have even gone to the notre dame game if it was earlier in the day.  Ended up being the only games I went to sober in college, and if that notre game game wasn’t my favorite one in college (granted the 08-12 path was pretty rough) then I don’t know what was.

If you think you’re over mono, you’re probably not

I remember riding home after the 1989 Wisconsin game (24-0 win) and getting stricken with montezuma's revenge.  Must have been somthing in the pizza at the stadium.  Luckily, we made it home just in time.  I was in the bathroom for most of that Saturday evening.

I went to the 2011 Spring Game just a couple days after getting diagnosed with pneumonia. Snowy weather and it rained at the end but I wanted to go get a glimpse of Hoke’s first team.

Also tried to go to the U-M Lacrosse Stadium opening game in February 2018 just a day after a big snowstorm. I had a 102 degree fever and was sweating through everything but girlfriend literally took my car keys and made me go to the Dr. My Dr then scolded me saying I could’ve died if I did that. 

I had all four wisdom teeth out at the same time in 2008 and I ate dinner that night.  Never took a single one of the painkillers they gave me and by the next day I was fine.  Had to be careful about avoiding dry socket but otherwise was eating normally the day after.

I went to a game a week after herniating the L4-L5 disk. I stood most of the game since sitting felt like I was getting stabbed in the back with a sharp knife. I had to drink a lot before the game to deaden the sciatica pain down my right leg!

Tore my ACL and MCL was on crutches for the 2006 season and I sit in Row 8 and never missed a game

I missed the 49-3 win over MSU ('02ish?) passed out drunk in my brother's car after hitting the booze hard on the golf course.  

Was at the 2010 game vs. u of I (the no defense game).  Hit the over in the first half, but we drove up the night before and got completely housed at an Ann Arbor bar somehow ended up in Yspsilanti at some strip club that was located behind what was like a smoke shop.  I was kind of three sheets to the wind at this point, and my friend gets kicked out of this establishment.  It was pretty early in the AM at this point, and we literally hitchhiked back to our hotel, I paid some random Yspsilanti citizen 20.00 to take us back to our hotel.  This was a noon game and when we got back to the hotel one of our college buddies was randomly at the same hotel going to the game in the morning visiting his little sister who went there.  We end up in his hotel room partying until we went to the golf course to tailgate never going to bed.  Used the game to sober up and drove back home to Chicago after.  I don't know that I was hungover but I was not myself at that game, But it was painful to watch that Rich Rod D.  

I attended the first two games this year in an arm cast.  It was hot and uncomfortable.  And so was my arm.

I went to a hockey game after spending all day on my dorm futon with the worst flu I'd ever had in my life. It was too big of a game and I couldn't think of skipping it. Trudged down to Yost with the chills and stood up all game feeling like death. Of course it went to OT.

Trudged back home to get some sleep because I was supposed to go on a field trip for a class the next morning. By this point I was so feverish that I spent all night in and out of sleep having hallucinations. Going to that game was a bad, bad idea. I was in such bad shape my mom had to come pick me up so I could spend the rest of the weekend on the floor in the fetal position.

 Fell through a suspended ceiling 8 ft to the floor. Luckily a study classroom bookshelf helped break my fall. Ended up on my knees head bleeding just a few days ago. My cousin bought tickets to the Maryland game early in the season so I drove from Maine to DC. First time in my life I took the handicap elevator and limped up the nose bleed section stairs. Boy that hurt. Good game tho!

Yep, broke my hand the night before the 2003 Michigan - OSU game!  Still went and had the time of my life!  My brother and I ran down on the field after Michigan’s glorious win in that game!

Is a hangover considered an injury?