1981 in Tuscaloosa. I’ll never go back and even if I did my wife wouldn’t go with me. Redneck trash.
What's your worst road trip experience involving a State game?
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The Oregon game was a good trip ,but the football game was an awful *** kicking. Funny thing, was the ref threw a flag on Oregon for a penalty before kick off when that damn duck mascot jumped on a motorcycle and drove 60mph down the middle of the field with both teams on the field.
That was horrible to watch on TV, I can't imagine having to watch that in person. One of the most disappointing losses ever.
12 OM-I can still hear that damn Feed Moncrief song. My brother also almost beat the 17 out of some drunk 40 year old OM fan because his son was mouthing off and the dad was egging him on. So that was a bit of a light hearted moment.
14 Bama-Never crossed my mind riding over there we weren't winning. Absolutely deflating drive back.
16 Bama- 52-3. Enough said
17 UGA- Hell of a trip.......until kickoff.
19 Tennessee-nothing bad about the trip itself but the game was an abomination. Had we just started Shrader we win by 2 TDs. That was when EVERYONE knew the Moorhead era was on it's last legs.
14 Bama-Never crossed my mind riding over there we weren't winning. Absolutely deflating drive back.
16 Bama- 52-3. Enough said
17 UGA- Hell of a trip.......until kickoff.
19 Tennessee-nothing bad about the trip itself but the game was an abomination. Had we just started Shrader we win by 2 TDs. That was when EVERYONE knew the Moorhead era was on it's last legs.
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Mine was 2015 vs USM in Hattiesburg. I was offered a ride to the game by two of my coworkers. They pick me up at my house on the coast and we drive to Hattiesburg, go to the tailgate and proceed to have a great time. I had a 1 year old at home so my nights out were few and far between and I planned on taking full advantage of my sober ride home and night out. I got separated from my co workers as I had tickets in a different section of the game. We dominated the game and I was at the point of needing to go to bed asap. I go back to the tailgate to meet my co workers and am told they skipped the game, stayed at the tailgate, got hammered and drove back to the coast without me. Well here I am stranded with no one else around that is heading back to the coast and I am very intoxicated. I call the wife and try to explain the situation and she tells me not to worry that she will try to find me a ride. Well she did but it wound up being our preacher and his family. I barely said a word the whole ride home except to their teenage son who thought the whole situation was hilarious. I'm sure the car smelled like Makers Mark and Marlboro's when I got out. My co workers and I had an intense discussion on Monday when I saw them at work. Thankfully my preacher or his family never brought up the state I was in. I did make a significant contribution to the offering plate the next week when I made it back to church.
That USA game at Ladd Peeples in Mobile. I'm not sure they could have pulled off a more poorly planned event.
My vote. We were on the top of Boughthimasleigh, on the goal line, watching that crap. I think we had 500 plays inside the ten yard line at the end.
Can’t recall the year or even who we were playing but headed to Atlanta for SEC basketball tournament. Leave north Mississippi mid morning for a 8 pm game. Come to a standstill in Birmingham for about an hour and a half for an overturned truck. Have a blowout just the other side of Talledega at which point it’s raining sideways. Try to wait it out but at this point we’re going to be lucky to have time to check into the hotel before tipoff. Get back on the road. It’s getting dark, raining like hades, I’m soaked, and we hit Atlanta traffic. We move, we stop we move , we stop. It past tip-off, I’m wet , I’m pissed, and I need a drink so I assume that since we’re the much better team and have been playing great we’ve got this game in the bag so we’ll just skip this game and go to the next one. Get to the hotel just in time to see the final two minutes that we are leading and proceed to miss about 10 free throws and lose. Got drunk, woke up the next morning , bought a new tire, and i bring my hungover *** home.
2012 Alabama. I was at State and bought into the hype of being 7-0. A buddy of mine got tickets from his uncle, and we were the only State fans in the section. I was talking so much trash to start that game. After we missed the first field goal, a Bama fan next to me (about 60), looks at me and says, You are about to see real football young man. After every stop and score, he would look over and tip his hat.
That was completely miserable other than the game itself. We planned an Orange Beach vacation around that game - kids were young so we didn’t have to worry about school. Wasted a perfectly good beach day driving back up to Mobile for that. We took the “shuttle” they were promoting due to lack of parking. Stood in line outside a mall for an hour in the sun, had nowhere near enough buses. Just went downhill from there. No ice and no water in the concessions
The 2013 trip to watch the baseball national championship series sucked
Orange bowl. 2014
Drove from Austin to Miami solo. Did a few stops along the way. My car got stuck in the sand on the north end of Florida, out of cell range, had to walk to get to cell to get to explain where I was on a random late afternoon as tow truck driver was having dinner.
Got to Miami the night before the game, like 11 pm in bumper to bumper traffic heading nowhere. Couldn't find a hotel room. Stayed at an rv park in my car. Sucked *** enough.
Game was a waste as team had already cashed in because they blew it with bama and ole mess. Expensive tix at that for a crappy game experience in general.
Leaving game, on outskirts of Miami metro, turned right at a light at like 3 am, only to find a surprise a few weeks later that it was a "no right on red", so here's your ticket.
Drove all night, all the way, solo, only stop was gas and then emergency pee break in baytown.
Drove from Austin to Miami solo. Did a few stops along the way. My car got stuck in the sand on the north end of Florida, out of cell range, had to walk to get to cell to get to explain where I was on a random late afternoon as tow truck driver was having dinner.
Got to Miami the night before the game, like 11 pm in bumper to bumper traffic heading nowhere. Couldn't find a hotel room. Stayed at an rv park in my car. Sucked *** enough.
Game was a waste as team had already cashed in because they blew it with bama and ole mess. Expensive tix at that for a crappy game experience in general.
Leaving game, on outskirts of Miami metro, turned right at a light at like 3 am, only to find a surprise a few weeks later that it was a "no right on red", so here's your ticket.
Drove all night, all the way, solo, only stop was gas and then emergency pee break in baytown.
The Peach Bowl loss to NC State.
Who knows when. Had a hell of a rough time in Atlanta: lost bar fight, keyed car. Guy traveling with us lost his wife - not dead, just ran off with a few other dudes. Refused to stay and help him find her, cause I ain't got time of that chit. Other dudes and their wives convinced to ride back home with us. He eventually did. But that took forever.
Not sure she ever came back.
Suffered from a bad head cold the whole time.
Still losing the game SUCKED the most.
Who knows when. Had a hell of a rough time in Atlanta: lost bar fight, keyed car. Guy traveling with us lost his wife - not dead, just ran off with a few other dudes. Refused to stay and help him find her, cause I ain't got time of that chit. Other dudes and their wives convinced to ride back home with us. He eventually did. But that took forever.
Not sure she ever came back.
Suffered from a bad head cold the whole time.
Still losing the game SUCKED the most.
The "Snow Bowl" was pretty bad for conditions - heavy snow, for Shreveport, and about 25 degrees during the game. Took forever to leave the stadium after the game and get to Ruston (I think that's where we spent the night). The next day roads were still terrible until we got past Vicksburg. Then no more snow until about Cullman, but ALDOT had cleared 65 very nicely so that part of the trip was uneventful.
The absolute worse trip to Starkville was in '96 or '97. Had a Mitsubishi 3000 GT that I took really good care of. Somewhere between Hackleburg and Hamilton, AL I glimpsed a brown blur, felt and heard a thump, pulled over and stopped. A pack of dogs had chased a deer right into the front right of my car and wiped down the entire passenger side. Even at the time, it did about $4500 in damage, and to top if off we had to stay in the total dump of a motel (University Inn?) - no other place to stay. That had to be the worst trip.
And then, of course, was the Liberty Bowl (or maybe a regular season game?) in the early 2000s that was so hot, and they were selling solid frozen water bottles - well over 100 degrees in the stands. Worse for the players though since I believe the AC wasn't working in the dressing room, and it's always hotter on the field than in the stands anyway.
The absolute worse trip to Starkville was in '96 or '97. Had a Mitsubishi 3000 GT that I took really good care of. Somewhere between Hackleburg and Hamilton, AL I glimpsed a brown blur, felt and heard a thump, pulled over and stopped. A pack of dogs had chased a deer right into the front right of my car and wiped down the entire passenger side. Even at the time, it did about $4500 in damage, and to top if off we had to stay in the total dump of a motel (University Inn?) - no other place to stay. That had to be the worst trip.
And then, of course, was the Liberty Bowl (or maybe a regular season game?) in the early 2000s that was so hot, and they were selling solid frozen water bottles - well over 100 degrees in the stands. Worse for the players though since I believe the AC wasn't working in the dressing room, and it's always hotter on the field than in the stands anyway.
Mine was in 2011 at Little Rock. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed a fan base meet so many stereotypes. I think I counted 12 teeth between all Arkansas fans that day.
1999 at Auburn. My brother and I were crossing a four lane the night before. Car comes out of nowhere and hits us. The next day we find a good spot to park. I pull up too close to the curb, and my tire bursts. We fix that, and go to the game. Auburn kicked our *** all game. We left with 5:00 to go. Never saw the Matt Wyatt comeback. At least we won the game.
It's hard to pick one, as there are several that are each outstanding it its own way....
It would have to be one of these two -
2008 Louisiana Tech in Ruston - no further explanation needed really, but just a typical Mississippi State bed shitting. Coming off a good season in 2007 with many of the players back. I purchased my ticket from a ticket booth that looked like the storage shed in my grandparent's back yard and got probably the worst seats I have ever had anywhere - on the sideline and a good 30 to 40 yards behind the endline of the endzone.
2008 Egg Bowl - Cold, wet, and hands down our worst performance in that game since the early 70's.
The thing about the two games referenced above is that were no mitigating circumstances to ease the humuliaton.
I was at Tulane in 2003 - we turned a 28-14 lead into a 31-28 loss in the span of 5 minutes on the game clock. That Tulane team needed overtime to beat Northwestern State the week before and finished 5-7.....but a night in New Orleans for a 22 year old has a way making all of that not seem so bad.
It would have to be one of these two -
2008 Louisiana Tech in Ruston - no further explanation needed really, but just a typical Mississippi State bed shitting. Coming off a good season in 2007 with many of the players back. I purchased my ticket from a ticket booth that looked like the storage shed in my grandparent's back yard and got probably the worst seats I have ever had anywhere - on the sideline and a good 30 to 40 yards behind the endline of the endzone.
2008 Egg Bowl - Cold, wet, and hands down our worst performance in that game since the early 70's.
The thing about the two games referenced above is that were no mitigating circumstances to ease the humuliaton.
I was at Tulane in 2003 - we turned a 28-14 lead into a 31-28 loss in the span of 5 minutes on the game clock. That Tulane team needed overtime to beat Northwestern State the week before and finished 5-7.....but a night in New Orleans for a 22 year old has a way making all of that not seem so bad.
No doubt on Arkansas fans in Little Rock. I went in 07, and I swear I stepped into a time warp back to 1977. If anyone ever wants to talk shite about how backwards Mississippi is should go to an Arkansas game in Little Rock. Creepiest looking people I've ever seen as a whole.
I took the shuttle as well, saw the line back on the shuttles post game and hitch hiked back to the car with a USA family.
Went to Tuscaloosa a couple years back, the extremes of the Bama fan are large with one end being the toothless walmart fan and on the other end you have the New Jersey student transplant and both have something in common: they both think they are better than you at every facet of life beyond football even though you attend a school that is only an hour and a half away. That night I also got stranded and hitched a ride back home with some of our cheerleaders that didn't have to cheer that game.
Oregon is by far the worst Traveled way the hell out there. Had an Oregon fan tell us fant was suspended and thought they were just talking shlt. Sat in that Mickey Mouse stadium hearing them brag about how loud it was when it wouldn't crack the top ten in the SEC. It was like an undersized Libery Bowl stadium. Oh yeah, and watching Kyle York play QB.
what a gigantic waste of time and money.
what a gigantic waste of time and money.
I was at State at the time. 3 friends all fired up about going since we were ranked like 13 entering the season... so I bought us 4 tickets. Then 9-11 happened and the heartbreaking home "upset" loss to So Carolina. Friends lost enthusiasm after that and bailed on me. Convinced dad and brother to go and ate the cost of the fourth ticket. Had hotel reservation in Defuniak Springs (I think) for Friday night. Got there and they said they didn't have room even though I showed them my reservation. Fought with them and finally got a refund. Found hotel somewhere along the way. Then state got drummed as described above. Fun.
Yeah my wife and I still talk about that quite often. Honestly I was listening for the deliverance music.
Ditto. Dad and I did the same. Man how did I forget that one.... yea that's top on my list. That was so disappointing. BJCC was packed with maroon and white faithful too. That was kinda the kickstart for Butler's however many year run to relevancy.
Yea we went to Fayetteville in 2015. I really enjoyed it. Except I was in the restroom when we blocked the kick at the end. Heard all the stomping in the stands above and figured it was over and they made the kick. Walk into the stands to see State fans dancing and partying
2014 at Bama… game and atmosphere was great but I had some of the most obnoxious hammered Bama fans I’ve ever encountered all around me… parked our car on a street outside the stadium among many other cars. Didn’t see the signs saying no parking. Went back to the street after the game to see every single car gone and towed. Had to call some numbers to find where the car was. Ubered 20 minutes away at like 11pm to find it and had to wait on the guys to get to the impound for 30 minutes to get the car for us then drove back home and got back around 1. Nightmare
2023 at South Carolina. Fun game and fun atmosphere but the stadium being 2 miles from anything was weird. Ubered from our hotel downtown to the stadium and planned to do the same thing to get back but every street within a mile was blocked off for post game traffic and we couldn’t get an Uber to come down. No sidewalks leading back so we followed a massive crowd of people walking back towards downtown for nearly 2 miles on a railroad track rolling my ankle like 5 times.. getting destroyed by mosquitoes and sweating my *** off after a tough loss… the airport experience made it even worse the next morning. Flight supposed to leave at 6:30am. Got there at 5:30. Flight crew didn’t show up til 9:30 saying “hotel shuttle was broken down” as an excuse so everyone missed their connecting flights and we sat in an airport basically all day hungover and annoyed. Awful
2023 at South Carolina. Fun game and fun atmosphere but the stadium being 2 miles from anything was weird. Ubered from our hotel downtown to the stadium and planned to do the same thing to get back but every street within a mile was blocked off for post game traffic and we couldn’t get an Uber to come down. No sidewalks leading back so we followed a massive crowd of people walking back towards downtown for nearly 2 miles on a railroad track rolling my ankle like 5 times.. getting destroyed by mosquitoes and sweating my *** off after a tough loss… the airport experience made it even worse the next morning. Flight supposed to leave at 6:30am. Got there at 5:30. Flight crew didn’t show up til 9:30 saying “hotel shuttle was broken down” as an excuse so everyone missed their connecting flights and we sat in an airport basically all day hungover and annoyed. Awful
You're conflating the kickoff times for Auburn and LSU the year before....LSU was 8 but Auburn was at 6.....NONETHELESS, I also decided to drive back afterward and yall Auburn is a solid hour or more farther away than you think. I stopped on Hwy 80 in Alabama at least twice to take naps with an alarm set on my phone and maybe got home around 4 AM. That drive back from LSU after that 8 PM kickoff was about as bad and that's factoring in having to get off-campus first.
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Nothing beats the 74-0 beatdown we took from Houston in the Astrodome in 1969.
<stretching.....cracking knuckles>
I'm just gonna start listing games and comments.....
2000 LSU - 8 PM kickoff, parked on campus, drove home afterwards, don't know how I'm alive today
2001 Florida - Obligatory, we had a Florida shot glass spontanously combust pregame while pouring shots of Mickey's on the tailgate of an old Cadillac. That felt like a bad sign.
2001 Auburn - 6 PM kickoff, one row from the back of the upper deck on the corner, stupidly drove home afterwards like DS.
2002 Oregon - I'll say nothing bad about this trip. We saw Roboduck and had a great vacation.
2003 Houston - Started game down 28-0, came back(ish), started pouring rain as soon as the game was over, phone never came back on. This game is why I carry zip lock bags in my trunk.
2003 Kentucky - The Derek Abney Game. Up 17-0 to start the game, lost 42-17.
2003 Tennessee - "Now entering the game at quarterback for the Volunteers.....JIM....BOB...COOOOOTERRRRR"
2004 LSU - We played a rousing game of "How many plays will it take LSU to score THIS time", which I'm ashamed to say Double A won a round holding up a single finger. Also we walked into the stadium and immediately saw someone wearing a blue Maine t-shirt, and we all shook his hand.
2004 Vanderbilt - Spent the first quarter or so listening to this guy behind me hilariously running down the team, eventually asked him if he posted on Six Pack, and he sheepishly said "yes?". Brian Hadad, ladies and gentlemen.
2005 Tulane (at Independence Stadium in Shreveport) - The only W on the list, and probably in the top two worst wins I've ever seen. Just a brutally ugly game.
2005 Florida - Notable because at the time MSU had an in-stadium transmitter for the radio broadcast, and at this point when the broadcast went to commercial we didn't get the commercials, we just got live audio of whatever was happening in the booth. I say this to say that at the end of the game when we were about to lose 35-9 and Florida was throwing and trying to score, after the game ended and the broadcast went to commercial, Jack Cristil went on a profanity-laced tear about it that lasted at least a minute. The particular quote I remember was "I've got no 17ing use for the entire 17ing state of Florida". Dr. Jack Cristil, ladies & gentlemen.
2005 Kentucky - Lost 13-7 to a 2-win Kentucky team, and the middle two quarters, Croom forgot to give the ball to Jerious Norwood. Horrendously officiated, I actually left early, which gave me the opportunity to make eye contact with Rocky D. Goode escaping in the referee van where I extended a salute for the quality of his crew's work that day.
2005 Arkansas - This game was 41-3 at halftime, and I went below War Memorial to glare at the team as they went to the locker room. You may remember Jimmy Bass, who briefly held the fundraising role that Greg Byrne later had prior to his becoming AD. I saw him standing outside the locker room, walked up, asked if he was Jimmy Bass. He said he was, I shook his hand and said "Well good luck getting people to pay more money to watch this ****."
2008 La Tech - I do not need to explain
2008 LSU - Lost my favorite cowbell entering the stadium because I got lazy with my smuggling method, then MSU got the ball back in a close game with time to drive before half and stupid Croom just ran the clock out. Lost by ten.
2008 Ole Miss - To quote Jack Cristil again, who we could see from where we were sitting: "Tyson Lee, sacked again, this time for only a loss of seven."
2011 Auburn - For those of you who haven't been to Auburn, Jordan-Hare Stadium was designed by architects such that the visiting seats surrounding the stands are in direct sunlight 24 hours a day. Chris Relf came up just short and we didn't have the energy to even walk back to the car after being dehydrated in the September heat for four hours. We just went across the street to the student center and sat at a table and stared at each other for about an hour.
2012 Alabama - Generally Alabama losses are routine and unmemorable in the details, but WE 17ING BELIEVE
2013 Gator Bowl vs Northwestern - Nobody wants to go to a Tuesday bowl game, we learned, including both teams that were playing in it. This game ruined me for bowl trips that aren't also day trips.
2014 Alabama - If there is one game to flip the result of in all of Mississippi State football history, it's this one. The single most potentially impactful road game in school history and we weren't up for it.
2017 Georgia - Fun day, but seven years later we saw the first play of this game at least three times before THAT game even started. Just three hours of waiting for it to be over.
2019 Tennessee - Brutally cold and windy and Joe Morehead farted away his one last chance to right the ship.
Arkansas fans in Little Rock are not the same as Arkansas fans in Fayetteville....the ones in Little Rock don't know how to behave at football games. 2011 might have been the one where I got stuck under the stadium at halftime because they open up gates in the concourse to let the team to and from the visiting locker room and I happened to be on the wrong side of the gate from where I needed to be. Standing there with my hands in my pockets, minding my own business, this Arkansas dad with two little boys starts going off to his kids about me and how you don't want to grow up to be a Mississippi State fan like that. I just looked at him, and he kept going and going and getting louder and louder to the point that a cop stepped in between us and made him leave. It was the strangest visiting fan interaction I've ever had. Just completely unprompted. I was so excited for us to win in 2013 because I knew I would never have to go back.
This is outstanding. I was at most of those debacles during the Croom error. You either have a brain like a steel trap, or you've done a helluva job journaling all of these trips.
Funny that’s my #1 or #2 trip
Guessing you didn’t opt for the cheap end zone seats where the beer was plentiful and cold. We were getting them served by a 12 yr old just handing us 6 packs still in the plastic stringers. This was before the SEC allowed beer sales so it had a special feel. The bar scene was also fantastic.
Keep in mind this was also right before the killer run to go to #1.
Bowl Game, 1991, in Memphis. Enjoyed the Bus Ride, hated how poorly our team was prepared,
Lost to AirForce 38 to 15 in freezing cold.
There have been others. many.
Lost to AirForce 38 to 15 in freezing cold.
There have been others. many.