The best time you had at a Mountaineer game?

[VaultHunter]

It was November 14 2003 and all wee I was looking forward to WVU vs #16 Pitt. Pitt had Larry Fitzgerald and was a very good football team. I was so pumped and wanted to go but I didn't have tickets. I decided that week I was going to drive up and buy tickets when I got there. Friday at work drug on forever but finally it was almost over then disaster. My boss tells me " we are working Saturday and its mandatory " I was sick but I started calculating in my head how I could pull it off.

I told my girlfriend (future wife) to take my car and pick me up from work with my WVU gear in the car. She picks me up in Culloden WV and I bust *** to Morgantown doing 85 the whole way. Time was against me to make it before kickoff and I didn't even have tickets! I pull off the Star City exit an hour before kickoff and see a guy with a sign " I need tickets " I pull up and say "you got 2?" He says yep and there killer seast to man. I pay 200 bucks for 2 tickets my girlfriend looks at me like I'm crazy but I am so she thinks nothing of it.

We go inside the stadium and find our seats. I notice there are alot of Pitt fans around us and I'm thinking to myself this outta be good. Little did I know the guy sold me visitors tickets because this was across the field from the student section. I was not used to that and me and my girlfriend were two WVU specks in the Pitt visitors section. Pitt went up and Fitzgerald had two TD catches in the first half and they were completely giving us the business.

I told my girl (influenced by a bottle of jager) were gonna win this game. I also stood up and announced it to the entire Pitt section lets just say evey single one of them heard me and were not happy with me. Needless to say WVU did come back and rolled Pitt 52-31. We were basically the only people left in that section. John Pennington caught a beautiful pass right in front of us to tie the game up right before halftime. It was a great time in Morgantown.

I have been to over 30 WVU games and this one ranks right up there with 1993 Miami only because of our seats.

Hope to have another great memory Saturday against Texas.

Let's Go Mountaineers!

 

[Mtman 69]

Pitt/Wvu many moons ago......Eric Crabtree from Pitt and Garrett Ford went wild in a shootout WVU victory.....

 

[jlaudiomaster]

Great story and memorable game. I was in the student section at that time. Most memorable for me would be between the UL game and VT when they came in ranked and went home spanked. It was the loudest stadium atmosphere I've ever experienced, when the refs flagged the sound system and I never heard it. To this day I'm not sure that it wasn't just crowd noise. I've been to Auburn, Miss St, East Carolina, South Florida, Bama game in Atlanta, and a few Clemson games. No stadium was ever louder than that night at Mountaineer field.

 

[MikeRafone]

Two come to mind;

1988. Watching Paterno cuss and shove a State Trooper while a camera was in his face on his way off the field after having his *** handed to him.

What was better was arriving back out west and having my friends/ coworkers ask, "Is that what Paterno is really like?", and being able to answer, "Yep". That little blurb of JoePa ran for nearly a week out there.

The other was at the Pitt game in '79 when someone I knew tackled the evil Pitt Panther. I can't reveal much as the fella is a respected member of his community these days, but he managed to make his escape from the police in the alleys of Sunnyside and re-enter the game. He should have been given a game ball for that performance.

 

[Euell]

Old Mountaineer Field: 1969 vs. Maryland-Watching Danny Wilfong, who I watched play at Parsons High School when I was in elementary school, play against the Terps in the rain. WVU won 31-7.
New Mountaineer Field: A big second-half comeback against Doug Flutie led BC. Followed the next week by beating Penn State for the first time in forever.

 

[MikeRafone]

Euell, one of the funniest things I ever saw happened at that B.C. game. There was a couple who sat in front and to the side of my then wife and I that year. They had a daughter in the band. Every home game at halftime his wife would say "Let's go" after the band played and that was that.

As the season went along you could see it was eating at the guy. At the B.C. game he broke. His wife pulls the "Let's go" business, and he shoots back with a growling, "You go! I paid for the tickets, I'm watching the game!" She was stunned. Then she stormed off. People in the immediate area were cheering and patting the guy on the back, it was great.

The rest of the season the wife stayed in the car to wait for the daughter, the husband brought one of his buddies to the games. The husband became the most popular guy in our section.

 

[Ft. MyEERS]

The time I threw a garbage can and hit Randy Shannon.

 

[Chris from WV]

1988 Penn State game . . . I was in high school and took the trip in my dad's employer's RV. We parked in the Blue Lot late Friday evening and hosted a couple of high volume clients for most of the weekend. I was able to go given that one client cancelled at the last minute. The plot thickened because there was a fall dance at my high school that same weekend.

So . . . given this premier opportunity days before the dance, I had to make a decision. Knowing that at that late of a date, her prospects would be quite slim. After thinking long and hard, I informed my date that I wouldn't be able to make it - I still feel somewhat guilty. Presumably, to this day she probably would still not speak to me . . . but I enjoyed an Old Gold & Blue weekend with my dad and witnessed one of the best games in Mountaineer history.

Shamefully, yes, I would do it again the same way . . . sorry Stacy.

 

[steeleer]

Wow. Nobody mentions Miami 1993. Last night I was thinking about that day if it were played out in present day.

There would have probably been a dozen or so Youtube videos that would have had 1,000,000 hits just from the post game alone.

Largest crowd ever for a home game.

Loudest game I've ever been a part of. White noise would best describe what happened after Walker scored that last TD.

Walking downtown was like something from Apocalypse Now. Helicopters everywhere, smoke coming from every direction. Fires everywhere you could see, but at the same time you felt completely safe. It was just pure out of control elation. No anger. People just running up to other people screaming in joy and hugging complete strangers.

My only downer is that me and about a dozen other people had the cross bar from the current TT end of the stadium. The po-po made us give it up. I heard the police chief and others had it cut up and kept for themselves. Bastards. I would love to get a piece of one of those posts for old times sake.

 

[hangovEER]

Used to love going to the away games with Pitt, back in the early-mid 80's when the tide turned and we started kicking their *** on a regular basis. There's just something about beating a team in their own stadium that makes games fun to go to. Don't get me wrong, I love Mountaineer Field, but do love winning on the road (when I'm there in person).

 

[WVURumm32]

The 93 Miami game was mine. I was playing junior high basketball and had practice that morning. My dad showed up to pick me up and coach told him it would be 10 more minutes we still had to run lines and dad got a kick out of watching that. I am not sure if that Miami game or the 89 Pitt game was the loudest game I remember going too. Those are the only 2 games I attended where the goal posts were visibly shaking from the crowd noise. I was at the 2003 VT and really don't think the noise was close to those 2. I was not at the 84 BC and Penn St games but from what I have heard from people that were both of those were extremely loud.

 

[steeleer]

A distant 2nd was UL 2005. The game was a classic. By then though I was an adult though. Nothing compares to being a student when one of those games goes down. At that age, there is no thought of long term consequences. I'm glad I survived those years in one piece.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals]

2003 upset of #3 Virginia Tech, the highest-ranked team WVU has ever beaten, for a special reason:
It was the last game I watched in Mountaineer Field with my wife, Monnie Turkette Olesky of Cinderella, West Virginia (adjacent to Williamson).
We talked about the game till 3 a.m. in our Waynesburg, PA motel.
She died Feb. 4, 2004. RIP, Monnie. About 30K in MAC donations in her name so far.

 

[Euell]

Euell, one of the funniest things I ever saw happened at that B.C. game. There was a couple who sat in front and to the side of my then wife and I that year. They had a daughter in the band. Every home game at halftime his wife would say "Let's go" after the band played and that was that.

As the season went along you could see it was eating at the guy. At the B.C. game he broke. His wife pulls the "Let's go" business, and he shoots back with a growling, "You go! I paid for the tickets, I'm watching the game!" She was stunned. Then she stormed off. People in the immediate area were cheering and patting the guy on the back, it was great.

The rest of the season the wife stayed in the car to wait for the daughter, the husband brought one of his buddies to the games. The husband became the most popular guy in our section.

Mike, that is TOOOO funny!

 

[Samuel S]

Eh, VT was a 5 loss team in 2003 and we had beat them many times before and it was an early season game in a so-so season. We were just the first to expose the Hokies that year. I wouldn't even have that in my top 10.

I do agree the younger you are, the bigger thrill it is. Of games I attended, in chronological order.

1975 Pitt
1981 Peach Bowl over UF.
1984 BC
1984 PSU
1988 PSU
1988 Cuse (capping the undefeated season with a victory lap was pretty moving)
1993 Miami
2000 Music City over Miss. (Nehlen's last game)
2005 UL
2005 Sugar over UGA
2007 Fiesta over OU

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

Hard to say.

I've had a lot of good times. Some I don't even remember.

November 20, 1993 me and another 70,221 (announced 70,222 & I believe that was under reported for Fire Marshall reasons) packed like a sardine can is hard to beat. Just the best atmosphere and this was Miami was good. And then like 6 days later WVU beat BC in a come from behind that was unreal. Studstill went Clint Lomgley. Crazy week.

I don't need to bring up the next game vs Darth Visor

 

[VaultHunter]

93 Miami I was 13. My dad instilled a hatred for Miami in me that still lingers to this day. The Pitt game was the most fun just because it was Pitt and sitting in the Pitt section.

The Miami game is special because being 13 I loved WVU but that game was a life changing experience for me.

Two things from 93 Miami that I will always remember.
1. We played BC the next game and BC upset #1 Notre Dame that night they kept announcing the BC ND score over the PA and the entire place was cheering for BC. Two guys sitting next to us were Notre Dame fans but came to watch WVU vs Miami because it was one of the biggest games of the year. It was the first time they had been to a Mountaineers game. I kinda felt bad every time the stadium erupted when they announced the score.

2. We were parked in the Blue Lot and got there at 9am. That place was a madhouse. After the game nobody could go anywhere because of crowd/traffic and we were in our car waiting. A van was in front of us and a truck cut him off I remember the guy throwing his sandwich at the van and it landed smack on the windshield. Plop mayo tomatoes ect all over the guys windshield. They are just about to fight and somebody shouted " How can you guys be fighting, we won!"

Never will forget that sandwich smacking that van's windshield. Good times.

That was the most electric crowd I had ever been a part of and when Walker broke that TD run at the end that place went crazy. So thankful I got to be a part of that. Still gives me chills talking about it.

 

[VaultHunter]

No way 2003 VT was louder than 93 Miami. Not saying that VT game wasn't a great atmoshpher or anything like that at all.

But that 93 Miami game was 10,000 more people than 2003 VT and every single fan was on edge to cheer WVU and boo Miami.

Lol it would take 3 Marshall games just to equal that 1 crowd in 93. Maybe 4

 

[Htgn. Eer]

1993 Miami.

Aisles were full. Grass beside the student section was full.

Robert Walker scored right in front of us.

 

[NCNEER]

1984 BC & PSU not a single game but those were electric

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

The things I'll remember about the game was:
-the hit Tim Brown #56 made on an interception which today would be considered a crime,
-the temperature mainly due to having to get in the student section at 1:00 to get a good seat for a 3:30 kickoff. About froze by 7 pm at games end.
-the fact there were no aisles anywhere in the stadium it was jam packed
(my roommate didn't come through the gate til like 3 pm and they had taken out the turn styles, so an accurate count was lost)
-And how quickly the goal post came down after the game was over. I've never seen them come down that quick anywhere.

I got a piece out of it, somewhere. I don't know why still cause it's still just a white piece of 4" Pipe.

 

[steeleer]

The things I'll remember about the game was:
-the hit Tim Brown #56 made on an interception which today would be considered a crime,
-the temperature mainly due to having to get in the student section at 1:00 to get a good seat for a 3:30 kickoff. About froze by 7 pm at games end.
-the fact there were no aisles anywhere in the stadium it was jam packed
(my roommate didn't come through the gate til like 3 pm and they had taken out the turn styles, so an accurate count was lost)
-And how quickly the goal post came down after the game was over. I've never seen them come down that quick anywhere.

I got a piece out of it, somewhere. I don't know why still cause it's still just a white piece of 4" Pipe.

I'd give it a good home.

 

[torontoeers]

Relative newcomer but...Baylor last year was amazing, especially the White one handed grab in the endzone...also, Nov 27 2009...Bitancurt, to exact revenge on sPitt...that was electric on a cold blustery night...

 

[Htgn. Eer]

The things I'll remember about the game was:
-the hit Tim Brown #56 made on an interception which today would be considered a crime,
-the temperature mainly due to having to get in the student section at 1:00 to get a good seat for a 3:30 kickoff. About froze by 7 pm at games end.
-the fact there were no aisles anywhere in the stadium it was jam packed
(my roommate didn't come through the gate til like 3 pm and they had taken out the turn styles, so an accurate count was lost)
-And how quickly the goal post came down after the game was over. I've never seen them come down that quick anywhere.

I got a piece out of it, somewhere. I don't know why still cause it's still just a white piece of 4" Pipe.

 

[Htgn. Eer]

The things I'll remember about the game was:
-the hit Tim Brown #56 made on an interception which today would be considered a crime,
-the temperature mainly due to having to get in the student section at 1:00 to get a good seat for a 3:30 kickoff. About froze by 7 pm at games end.
-the fact there were no aisles anywhere in the stadium it was jam packed
(my roommate didn't come through the gate til like 3 pm and they had taken out the turn styles, so an accurate count was lost)
-And how quickly the goal post came down after the game was over. I've never seen them come down that quick anywhere.

I got a piece out of it, somewhere. I don't know why still cause it's still just a white piece of 4" Pipe.

The Tim Brown hit was one of the most violent I have ever seen. If I remember correctly, he lifted a wide receiver completely off his feet and planted him on his back.

I know there had to be at least 75,000 there regardless of the official count.

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

That hit was textbook "how to jack someone up". That miami WR was about as helpful as "The Rock" was standing on the sidelines after that hit. Yeah he never played a down either.

When Robert Walker scored, the eruption was unreal. I had Forestry 140 with him. He was a pretty nice guy. That was a week from 22 years ago. Man where did that time go?

I agree on the attendance cause the turnstiles were removed on the student section entrance long before kickoff and when the student section was jammed full already. I have friends who were sitting on the press box side who told me that side was just about as crowded. Double seating in seats.

That game was the biggest home game EVER and WVU delivered. Long before gold rushes or striping the stadium or any of that creative marketing stuff, there was a game where everybody knew to be there, raise hell, make some noise, and burn a few things afterwards. Oh and take the goal posts because it was the last home game so they wouldn't be needed for game use.