What's your worst memory ever going to a Michigan game?

2001 Ohio State

The beginning of the end (through 2019).

My first Big House game ever was the near miss against UMass in 2010. But even worse, I was at the near miss againt awful Akron in 2013.

I have told a younger friend of mine who is about 20 years old that he doesn't truly understand how much this current run means to me since he is a little too young to remember the height of the RichRod/Hoke debacle.

Well, at least the Tigers were good back then.

Appalachian State.  enough said.

2001 OSU, my first OSU game. 

Team booed off the field at end of 1st half, (down 21-0 I think) with many calling for QB change to Jermaine Gonzales. Navarre was putrid.

Comeback in second half led by Navarre who pretty much did nothing but throw to Marquise Walker, who had one of the best days a UM wide receiver ever had.

Except for the drop in the endzone (legit “drop” … hit him right on the 4), no points on drive after Epstein missed a short FG, lose by 6. 

Hearing Harbaugh's arm break while trying to recover a Jamie Morris fumble

Something like three different Badger RBs each rushing for 200 yards and each scoring two touchdowns. 

100% the stupid punt fuck game.

Tied for 2nd:

1986 Minnesota, 2017 MSU, 1984 MSU, 2001 OSU, 2007 Oregon

BWW Bowl in Tempe vs KSU. Garbage nosebleed seats. Weak effort/embarrassing loss. Jackass Tempe cops. 
 

Only time I’ve ever seen Michigan lose a football game in person, so easily the worst. 

For a home game, I was at the Horror.

For an away game, I was in Nebraska in 2012 when Denard got hurt and Russell Bellomy came in.

2018 Outback Bowl

My wife's first Michigan game. Freezing rain in Tampa. Team was dejected after the OSU loss. Key players injured. The offense played like such ass it inspired this from Brian in the game column:

Whatever

I don't know how people get mad about this shit still. I just turn off, because for the last decade Michigan football has been either a disappointment or in a brief interim period that sets you up to be disappointed. But yes many many people still get fucking furious about Michigan football for some reason.

I'm tired of talking about it. I'm tired of this cycle that always seems to be at the bottom. I'm tired of this toxic-ass fanbase screaming at stuff. I could muster some takes, I guess, but I've already said them and anyway they seem beside the point. December was nice since it lacked football. 2018, so far, is bad because it had football.

 

Crazy that wasn't even all that long ago. Ryan Hayes signed his letter of intent just months before.

This year at the CSU game. My youngest (8 yr old) wanted to sit near the end zone so he could see touchdowns better. I usually like to sit as close to the gray hairs as possible. This experience confirmed that. It was a raucous group who were over inebriated and hitting dap pens the entire time. Late arrivers even women and children were given a terrible time. People were not in the proper section and the ushers were brought in no less than three times after the people in the wrong gave expletive ladened replies to them. It was disgusting and we left before halftime.

The horror

Northwestern in RR’s first season 

Toledo

All but 2 osu games since 2005

Oregon 

I hate this thread 

I was at App State with my 1.5 y/o daughter. She didn't attend another M game until @ Rutgers last month.

Toledo 2008

NW 2010 and Purdue 1995 were wins but miserable weather

@ MSU 1995 @ OSU 1998

Toby, this type of thread is not needed. 

Vacationing in Michigan the end of August, driving back to New York, I checked the schedule, saw UM had a game, thought it'd be fun for the family, so we stayed over a day to see a game against a school called App State.

[On the other hand: same scenario a different year, took in a Tigers game when they were really bad, so easy to get cheap seats behind home plate for a game against the Yankees, saw Brandon Inge hit a walk-off homer.]

I was sitting 15 rows up on the goal line when MSU tackled Desmond in the end zone. No flag. Unbelievable.

 I also remember going to a game at Indiana in 1987. 40-50 MPH winds drove torrential rains into my face for 3 straight hours. I wore glasses. 5 minutes into the game and it was impossible to dry them off and see clearly. And it was the only time we lost to IU between ‘68 and ‘19.

Too easy: 2010 Iowa. My now wife and I had just started dating and this was the first game I took her to. Tailgated at AAGOC all morning and had an awesome time. Went into the game pretty well lubricated for a 3:30 kickoff.

Probably midway through Q1 I started getting whiffs of the most awful gas I’ve ever smelled in my entire life. I’m talking burning nostrils, tears in eyes, ruining my game flatulence. This continued on for the entirety of the game. As soon as one dissipated, the next was upon me.
Michigan did just enough in the 4th Quarter to force me to sit through the entire loss, despite it never really being competitive. I left the game miserably dehydrated, hungover, tired, and absolutely certain my sinuses had sustained irrevocable damage.  

Five years later my wife admitted that it was her that ruined the 2010 game. 

Tough to decide between Rickey Foggie and Donovan McNabb....

The Trouble With The Snap Game. Never felt good the entire fourth quarter and all M had to do was get one stinking first down to seal it. 

Then whomever ran special teams decided to put two gunners, while Sparty had no one back, rushed all 11, including runner over the long snapper.

In hindsight, they should have kept the offense on the field for the 4th down play to keep Sparty honest, then pooch kicked with ole Dr. Jake. 

The stadium was eerily quiet for a good 15 minutes. Stunned silence. The walk back to the car with my friends was even quieter except for a line uttered we shall never forget: "I feel like I've been jail-sexed by angry woodpeckers"

There had to have been at least five fights on the way back to the car as well, drunk Michigan fans fighting drunk Sparty fans. 

Taking my wife to her first um vs osu game. Tate forcier fumbling the ball everywhere. Weirdly we were in that game for a while. The stadium was HALF red. While thing was a fucking embarrassment.

Also, Donovan McNabb taking our will to live and putting out the blueprint to beat us for the next 25 years.

Lastly, went to Colorado state this year. It was so so hot, took forever to get in the stadium. My back was exhausted by halftime and we bailed. Couldn't find a cab and walked all the way to the hotel. I was wiped. Realized how old I've gotten. More of an "introspective" worst.

1975 losing to michigan at the big house, big.  oldest brother playing on the losing team.  he played well, but it was peak 'big 2, little 8' time period.  muy sad. 

The permanent stamping of my personal BPONE comes from two games and a weird fandom coincidence attending them:

1. 1989 1v2 ND (to hell with them) at M.  A miserable slog of a game on a cold rainy day in Ann Arbor. Raghib Ismail has already returned the second half opening kick off for a TD. UM has lost its starting quarterback, but Elvis puts together a drive to pull us within one score. As UM kicks off, I hear a drunken voice behind me bellow out "he can't do it again", then after a pause and a weird gulping sound as the kick settles into Ismail's hands "can he?".  

2. 1994 7v4 Colorado at M.  A thrilling game in which our beloved Wolverines played a spectacular third quarter to seemingly take over the game. A series of mishaps however, lead to Colorado having one final shot. Just prior to the snap of that final play, I hear a drunken voice behind me bellow out "he can't even throw it that far," a pause, as Kordell Stewart takes the snap and rolls, "can he?".  

Before the damn play ended, I just knew...

Ugh.  

The first two games I attend were terrible disappointments. 

The first game I saw Harbaugh break his arm against MSU in a loss.

The next game I attended Michigan was 9-0, ranked #1, and lost to  Minnesota on a last second FG. 

The first two games I attend were terrible disappointments. 

The first game I saw Harbaugh broke his arm against MSU in a loss.

The next game I attended Michigan was 9-0, ranked #1, and lost to  Minnesota on a last second FG. 

The Horror was the only game I got to attend that season. So… that. 
 

Or maybe the 2014 Utah game where Hoke’s Michigan really looked terrible and the game was delayed by 2.5 hours by torrential rain, then finished late at night with essential no Michigan fans (I saw the end in a hotel bar. Game was obviously over before that. Only game I ever left early). 

Prior to The Horror, I had purchased tickets to the Oregon game the following week, of course thinking I’d be seeing a top 5 Michigan team facing off against a strong non-conference opponent. 

What I didn’t know is that I had actually purchased the tickets from an Oregon fan, so I was surrounded by their fans. Fortunately, they were actually pretty nice and educated me on the correct way to see Oregon. 

Overall it was still a miserable experience following the previous game. Little did we know at the time just what that would portend as far as the next decade plus if Michigan football. 

Seeing Tripp Wellborne get hurt in 1990 v.s. Minnesota, and sitting through the entire sleet game in 1995 v.s. Purdue. 

2005 Minnesota homecoming.

Just a sad performance.

I was a season ticket holder from 2001 until 2019. So…yeah. You know what “biggies” are contained in that particular timeframe. 

Colorato-Michigan, 1994.  Standing on my seat behind the south goal posts after Mike Westbrook's catch, looking for a flag, or anything for that matter, that would mean the apparent outcome would be reversed.  I felt like it was a combo gut and dong punch.

The O’Korn rain game for me and very nearly the Army game in 2019