Coldest game your team ever played in?
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Yup. '97 2A Western Championship. It was cold but I was probably sweating as I played in that game. The fence collapsed when Marcus Tate intercepted a pass to seal the win for us (Shelby).
2016 Lincolnton vs Reidsville Regional Final was pretty damn cold and the Championship game at Wake in 02 or 03
I would definitely have to say Northeastern vs Salisbury in the 2010 state championship game, It had snowed earlier in the week in Winston Salem and was freezing, and then around halftime it started to drizzle. It didn't help that it was the last game and Northeastern was losing.
HP Andrews at Franklin in the 2006 3rd round of state playoffs that Andrews won. Franklin is in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. It was below freezing at game, something in the 20's with a stiff wind. it was AWFUL
The Lincolnton vs Cummings 1993 2A title game in Chapel Hill was a little nippy !
I was there that night. Coldest game I've ever been to. I believe Temps got to single digits that night.
I am gonna say the week before in 2002 when we played Andrews on a Sunday afternoon semifinal. Field had to be scraped of snow and ice. Stands were piled with snow. Only saving grace was that it was played in the day time. At Harnett Central in ‘96 was a cold and windy one as well, especially up high in the exposed coaches’ box.
Try 86. I was in school in 76. I wen to a Tarboro playoff game when Jesse was in school and it was the coldest I ever been. Wasn’t there a winning season with Norman Becton?
I know we had people begging in the bleachers for you to sit on their feet. On drive back to Whiteville alternator went out , drove last 10 miles with no lights to keep car running and not get stranded . I remember tv stations out of Charlotte brought their helicopter in pregame and landed on the field. Had to put the wind chill into the below zero range
You graduated in 76 but your senior year of football was considered 75. I played in 76 but graduated in May or June of 77.
That Tarboro game we fell way behind in the first half. Coach Clay Jordan gave the best halftime talk I have ever heard. We came back and almost won. Just ran out of time by about a minute.
I think I played with Norman in 76? 76 was the first winning season in West Cravens young history. Those guys from across the river really set us back. They didn't even know how points you got for a TD. Had never played the game.
Nope. Mainly power i. We were 3-7. Sounds bad, but lost 4 games within a td.
Went to that game with my uncle and brother. We were enjoying a couple of beers on the way to the game. When we parked the car I sat my half can of beer on top of the car. When we returned to go home, the beer was frozen. As well as my hands and feet. Took all the way back home to Reidsville to get any feelings in my feet.
Any game at Avery County past September. In all seriousness, 2011 Swain at Mitchell in the 3rd round. Best I can remember it was around 6 degrees at kickoff. There were more little buddy heaters there that night than in the deer woods in all of Wisconsin.
The wind was gusting up to about 35 MPH and the temp was probably below freezing... I saw something weather related that night I will never see again. Cummings quarterback Ernest Tinnin threw a desperation pass late in the game. The ball got caught in a crosswind and stalled. It was just bobbled around kind of like a ping pong ball at a bingo game or a lottery machine. The Lincolnton defender stood there a few seconds waiting for the ball to come down. Very cold night in Chapel Hill.
it was cold and that northeast wind
we had an oceanfront room at a place over at Kity Hawk that night, standing on the porch overlooking the ocean that night was close to unbearable!
NE played Fairmont that night and I was fairly new on these boards and all I had heard was how good Swo and Clinton were so I had to go see for myself.
Not my team but......
the coldest game I've ever witnessed was the Cherokee-North Duplin state championship in Raleigh a few years ago.
the coldest game I've ever witnessed was the Cherokee-North Duplin state championship in Raleigh a few years ago.
I wasn't at that game,but Strick said they brought helicopter in to dry field and ground wet,air blowing it was freezing.
I wasn’t at either but one Thomasville fan told me that the coldest was in 1989 when Thomasville played at Mt. Airy…maybe some of the Mt. Airy fans remember that
Speaking of that area...my freshman year we went to East Surry in the playoffs, 2002...got into the visiting locker room and all the benches were upside down, not a table in sight, AC was on as cold as it could be, and there was an East Surry helmet in the middle of the locker room. Pissed Tom Brown off and he made sure we were just as upset...seems like we won that game 31-6 or thereabouts.
Was freezing the whole time.
Probably not a good idea to tick off one of the greatest coaches in North Carolina history
That’s my pick too. Though that Robbinsville game is in contention.
1969 playoff game at Sylva, Murphy vs Hendersonville. Refs had an impossible job because of so much snow. No attempt to try to clear any lines.
So many people in the stands, didn't notice the cold. Lol
1981 up at Silva Webster in the snow
2014 at Reagan with that wind coming down from the mt's down that valley
2014 at Reagan with that wind coming down from the mt's down that valley
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I was there that night. We had to get there three hours before kick-off just to get a seat. Temperatures were approaching single digits that night. So we were there for a long time freezing. The one good thing Forest Hills won the title.
As a player:
We had a JV game vs Starmount in 2007 down there. It rained a good 1.5-2 inches (maybe more,) and it was stuck between 35-38 all night. It felt a lot worse once the wind started blowing, all of that combined made it ugly. We couldn't go inside at halftime due to a MRSA outbreak they had going around, so we had to stay on the field with no coats. Only warmth we had was putting our hands in our pants for a minute or two. To make it worse we lost because our best players cleats broke on his right foot and he slipped and they scored with not much time left.
We played West Stokes a couple years later and it was below freezing by gametime and I had a hole in my cleat and my right foot went numb due to it. But I'd rate that JV game worse due to the wetness. Both were awful.
Fan:
I've never really experienced anything like those 2. We played Carver in 2019 when at game time it was below freezing but we whipped up and got the game early so we didn't have to stay outside that long.
We just about had to play Franklin in the first round in 2014. We ended up missing it by a hair to Wilkes Central who got destroyed that night by them so luck was on our side. We got a win by forfeit from HP Andrews 2-3 days after the brackets came out; if it had happened earlier we woulda had that spot. I'm so glad we didn't because it was around 5 degrees that night with a windchill below 0 it woulda been awful. The ride itself is super long then that temperature, no thanks. I was legitly sick with an awful sinus infection then and I cringe to wonder how much worse off I woulda been. Probably pneumonia-ville.
We had a JV game vs Starmount in 2007 down there. It rained a good 1.5-2 inches (maybe more,) and it was stuck between 35-38 all night. It felt a lot worse once the wind started blowing, all of that combined made it ugly. We couldn't go inside at halftime due to a MRSA outbreak they had going around, so we had to stay on the field with no coats. Only warmth we had was putting our hands in our pants for a minute or two. To make it worse we lost because our best players cleats broke on his right foot and he slipped and they scored with not much time left.
We played West Stokes a couple years later and it was below freezing by gametime and I had a hole in my cleat and my right foot went numb due to it. But I'd rate that JV game worse due to the wetness. Both were awful.
Fan:
I've never really experienced anything like those 2. We played Carver in 2019 when at game time it was below freezing but we whipped up and got the game early so we didn't have to stay outside that long.
We just about had to play Franklin in the first round in 2014. We ended up missing it by a hair to Wilkes Central who got destroyed that night by them so luck was on our side. We got a win by forfeit from HP Andrews 2-3 days after the brackets came out; if it had happened earlier we woulda had that spot. I'm so glad we didn't because it was around 5 degrees that night with a windchill below 0 it woulda been awful. The ride itself is super long then that temperature, no thanks. I was legitly sick with an awful sinus infection then and I cringe to wonder how much worse off I woulda been. Probably pneumonia-ville.
Coldest high school game that I ever played in was @ Forbush, 2005 playoffs. The previously mentioned 2006 game vs Shelby @ Pisgah was def up there too!
Richmond vs Independence in 2003 (wide left) at Memorial Stadium was cold, but Richmond at West Charlotte in 2008 was hella cold. I remember a bottle of water being water at the beginning of the game, but frozen solid by the end.