Speaking of cold........
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I don’t know about actual temperature but it’s hard to get much more miserable overall with the cold, wet, and wind combo (especially for only November) than the Providence versus Nazareth semifinal game in 2017.
Was at that game too. Cold, rainy and puddles on the field. Outcome sucked too.
For pure cold, don’t know exact temp, D3 national quarterfinal (2008 I believe) Wartburg at WI Whitewater. Snowstorm night before collapsed visitor bleachers and all had to be on whitewater side. Would have been first Saturday in December.
The 6A semis in 2015 when host Hinsdale South lost to Crete-Monee 40-37 in a Saturday night tilt. It snowed hard during those daytime playoff games then the temperature plunged by the 7pm kickoff. My feet in the piles of snow on the aluminum bleachers were epic cold!
Bears/Falcons game when Vick was not interested in playing that day.
Monday Night Football- Bears vs Cowboys. My beer was a slushee ( i forget the year. Wasn’t too long ago)
I had someone recently reference the Colorado-Mizzou "5th down" game to me by saying it was "a few" years ago. That person was old. (it was 28 years ago)
No idea on temperatures, but I remember the following games being very cold...
2009 Fresno state at Illinois in December. Dumb game to schedule. Even dumber that a Fresno state offensive guard caught the game winning 2pc pass in 2ot to win.
2000 JC @ Pontiac semifinal.....cold
2007 state championship games....I actually left after the JC 6a game to get warm and returned to watch the second half of 7A.
The semifinals this year were pretty cold for a high school game as well.
2009 Fresno state at Illinois in December. Dumb game to schedule. Even dumber that a Fresno state offensive guard caught the game winning 2pc pass in 2ot to win.
2000 JC @ Pontiac semifinal.....cold
2007 state championship games....I actually left after the JC 6a game to get warm and returned to watch the second half of 7A.
The semifinals this year were pretty cold for a high school game as well.
Yeah this is the one that sticks out in my mind. I don't know if the actual cold temperature and wind chill were all that impressive, but my mind will never forget how incredibly cold to the bone I was that day.
PC:
1991 ND-BYU in South Bend. It reached a low temperature of 24 degrees. This was too much for my wife, who promptly fled the stadium midway through the second quarter for the car.
Last November, I went to the ND-FSU game and endured 27-degree weather. A night game with little national significance, I warmed myself with a few swigs of a homebrew my guest described as the "Father of all Irish whiskey," poitin.
A wicked concoction.
The MC ones I have heard about that were the coldest were '87 6A semi at East St Louis, '89 5A semi vs Peoria Richwoods, '95 round 2 at Boylan. The two I was at that stand out were the '04 semi vs Prov and '13 semi at Edwardsville
1993 Illini comeback at Memorial Stadium vs. Minnesota in the snow. Johnny Johnson was awesome on that final drive.
The JC/Belvidere semi-final game in 87 was painfully cold. Especially when you are a dumb kid who thinks you are too cool to wear long sleeves under your jersey!
For LA there have been a few chilly ones: '13 semi at Stevenson, where the wind out of the north made shotgun snaps tricky, and '15 semi at Palatine, where an undefeated season was nearly derailed, stand out as the most brutal.
I also watched the Chad-Hutchinson-led 5-9 Bears lose 24-6 to the 6-8 Texans in '04. 12° at kickoff and a 21 mph wind gave it the feel of -8°. My beer froze but the guy next to me helped me defrost it with some single malt.
I also watched the Chad-Hutchinson-led 5-9 Bears lose 24-6 to the 6-8 Texans in '04. 12° at kickoff and a 21 mph wind gave it the feel of -8°. My beer froze but the guy next to me helped me defrost it with some single malt.
I remember the '92 championship in Bloomington-Normal against NN. Us sophs were called up in the PO's and the senior linemen said we could not wear sleeves. That was a cold game.
eireog:
Many thanks for the clip; I was tempted to break out in an Irish jig.
Years ago on game day, and when I refer to "years ago" I cast my mind back to the 70s, the ND band would play on the steps of the Administration building several hours before kickoff. As the crowds swelled and the spirits flowed freely, several drunken golden-agers would step through a window out onto the balcony above the steps on which the band played and performed what resembled an Irish dance. When they appeared, the band would break from the school fight song or whatever number in which they were engaged to play a few strains of Irish folk music. It barely qualified as performance art, and these people were staggeringly drunk, but it did inspire the student body and fans.
Several years ago, the band moved to Bond to perform before games. I am not sure why they moved to its new location, but I do know Bond does not have a balcony and the alcohol is not as abundant among spectators. It's too bad because up until probably 1995, few cared if a student or fan became intoxicated. It's long been a tradition among some alumni to provide free cases of beer to students in dorms in which the alum was lodged when they were enrolled. Furthermore, the ushers would let fans drink alcohol in the stadium openly, often imbibing with them.
Not anymore.
Many thanks for the clip; I was tempted to break out in an Irish jig.
Years ago on game day, and when I refer to "years ago" I cast my mind back to the 70s, the ND band would play on the steps of the Administration building several hours before kickoff. As the crowds swelled and the spirits flowed freely, several drunken golden-agers would step through a window out onto the balcony above the steps on which the band played and performed what resembled an Irish dance. When they appeared, the band would break from the school fight song or whatever number in which they were engaged to play a few strains of Irish folk music. It barely qualified as performance art, and these people were staggeringly drunk, but it did inspire the student body and fans.
Several years ago, the band moved to Bond to perform before games. I am not sure why they moved to its new location, but I do know Bond does not have a balcony and the alcohol is not as abundant among spectators. It's too bad because up until probably 1995, few cared if a student or fan became intoxicated. It's long been a tradition among some alumni to provide free cases of beer to students in dorms in which the alum was lodged when they were enrolled. Furthermore, the ushers would let fans drink alcohol in the stadium openly, often imbibing with them.
Not anymore.
I watched some of the 4Q peaking thru the vents of an outhouse on the northeast side of the field. And not a bit ashamed to admit that, was simply brutal that day.
The tradition of the band playing on the steps of the administration building in the shadow of the golden dome is one of the great traditions of college football. Followed by the march through the quad to the stadium, into the tunnel and onto the field was the pageantry that made Notre Dame home games so memorable for me. I don’t understand why they changed it.
I haven’t been to many Notre Dame games in recent years but I was at the Michigan game this year. As far as the drinking is concerned, I can assure you there was no shortage of it going on. Night games always seem to turn into drunken affairs. I enjoyed the day and the game but really prefer day games down there.
I was also there. My seat was second row from the top in the south endzone. It was miserably cold. I bugged my buddy so hard in the second half to leave that the rest of the fans around us started yelling for him to take me home.
We were also at the fog bowl against the Eagles the week before. Sat just above the Eagles family members and got pelted with things all game. The fog rolled in at halftime . We all thought it was a fire in the parking lot.
That game was in '83. My dept's VP, a Packer season ticket holder, sat a few rows behind me. He said it was the 3rd coldest game in Green Bay history.
I was at that game. To make matters worse, our furnace punked out that evening -- A Sunday, no less. $$$
I go to 5 home games a year because I have a set of 4 season tickets. I remember going down to ND in the 70s and 80s with my dad and one of his classmates would pass cups filled with schnapps to anyone who wanted it. My dad never took it but he would always pass it to the old usher who sat behind us. I have my dad's tickets now and there is a lot less booze in the stadium but they will toss you if you get caught.
1989 Indiana at Illinois. About 8 degrees at kickoff, I had prime senior year season tickets - front row east balcony about the 40 yard line (that's what happens when you hit student ticket lottery #8). There were 73,000++ the week before for the Big Ten title tilt against Michigan, about 53,000 announced for Indiana. The problem with front row balcony seats is that the wind is in your face on frigid days. The new turf (having just been replaced in October after some drunk students tried burning something into the turf earlier in the fall) showed how good the drainage system worked, as it frosted over and froze several times before halftime - the dry air kept sucking water up thru the system, and the university kept running the "reverse Zamboni" (lawnmowers with spinning cylinders on the front usually used to clear the sidewalks of snow) every time out to try and keep the field playable...41-28 Illini, 5 Jeff George TD passes, Anthony Thompson broke a rushing record that afternoon, classic Illini DT interception & return with Thompson chasing him down the field...left early in the 3rd after watching the Chief at my last Illini home game and an early score after the half.
2002 Bears v. Bucs, Memorial Stadium. I seem to remember it being much colder...Wikipedia says it was 38 at kickoff of this week 17 Sunday night game in Champaign while Soldier Field was rebuilt. maybe I remember it being much colder because Henry Burris, the third string Bear QB, was running the option worse than most high school teams...
2002 Bears v. Bucs, Memorial Stadium. I seem to remember it being much colder...Wikipedia says it was 38 at kickoff of this week 17 Sunday night game in Champaign while Soldier Field was rebuilt. maybe I remember it being much colder because Henry Burris, the third string Bear QB, was running the option worse than most high school teams...
I was there also. It was so cold that we had to put our Beers on the grill to keep from freezing!
2005 Bears vs Packers soldier field 26 degrees with wind chill of 2 below. Froze my *** off. Saving grace was Bears won 19-7 because of our defense. Brett Farve through 4 interceptions and ended the game with 317 yards 44% qb rating 0 TDs. One of the few times we beat Farve home or away.
The fans were going nuts and it started snowing in the 2nd half. It was like a wind tunnel in the stadium.
I don’t ever remember being colder for such a long period of time but we stayed to the end.
Much further back than the above, in 1980-1982 Reavis made it to the 6A finals, at least 2 of which were held at Ryan Field on the NU campus. Led by Head Coach Denny Wierzal and a staff including Lou Prato, the Rams finally took the championship (over New Trier) in '82 after two runners-up finishes (to Gordon Tech and Brother Rice). One of those years I remember major cold in Evanston enhanced by piles of snow still mounded on all the concrete surfaces.
Sorry but you are very incorrect on your weather stats. I remembered it being windy that day but not so cold temperature-wise. So, I had to check to be sure. According to pro football reference, my memory is right. At kickoff, which was 3:00, the temperature was 20 degrees, the relative humidity was 72% and the wind was blowing at 29 mph which made the wind chill a cold 2 degrees. That is probably what you remember. That game isn't even in the top 10 coldest Bears games at Soldier Field.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/spor...rs-coldest-games-soldier-field-htmlstory.html
Not being a season ticket holder for the Bears I remembered two games I went to that were cold. So, I looked it up and included the link here.
The first one I went to is tied for 4th coldest against Green Bay on 12/17/1989. It was 10 degrees at kickoff. The Packers won 40-28 and I remember Majkowski having a good day. The Bears were awful and turned the ball over several times and got booed big time.
It was cold and the wind chill was -7. But I wasn't uncomfortable. We stayed to the end.
The other was against Tampa Bay on 12/23/1990 and the temp was 11 at kickoff. That game was cold too because the wind chill was -3. But again I was fine and we left when it ended.
For some reason, the cold really doesn't bother me. I was out in this stuff this morning at 6:15 giving a buddy a jump. He knew I get up at 4:45 in the morning and I would be working at home today. He also knows I am good in the cold which is probably why he called me. LOL. It only took about 5 or 10 minutes because he had the hood up and I was able to drive beside it in his driveway. We talked for a minute and he said, "man you would be good in Alaska." He hates the cold.
After that, I came back home for about 45 minutes, then went out again to pick up the Sun Times and went to Panera for a cup of coffee and read the paper. Stay warm, my friends!
Not being a season ticket holder for the Bears I remembered two games I went to that were cold. So, I looked it up and included the link here.
The first one I went to is tied for 4th coldest against Green Bay on 12/17/1989. It was 10 degrees at kickoff. The Packers won 40-28 and I remember Majkowski having a good day. The Bears were awful and turned the ball over several times and got booed big time.
It was cold and the wind chill was -7. But I wasn't uncomfortable. We stayed to the end.
The other was against Tampa Bay on 12/23/1990 and the temp was 11 at kickoff. That game was cold too because the wind chill was -3. But again I was fine and we left when it ended.
For some reason, the cold really doesn't bother me. I was out in this stuff this morning at 6:15 giving a buddy a jump. He knew I get up at 4:45 in the morning and I would be working at home today. He also knows I am good in the cold which is probably why he called me. LOL. It only took about 5 or 10 minutes because he had the hood up and I was able to drive beside it in his driveway. We talked for a minute and he said, "man you would be good in Alaska." He hates the cold.
After that, I came back home for about 45 minutes, then went out again to pick up the Sun Times and went to Panera for a cup of coffee and read the paper. Stay warm, my friends!
Personally, I'd rather sit at a cold game than to sit in the rain all game or a game when it's hot. That sucks. Been to a few early season Chiefs games when it was pretty hot and I dealt with it.