Worst weather you've suffered through at a MSU football game?

[Indndawg]

Memphis (State) @ Liberty Bowl 2000

Gross. Left at half time

[Saltydog]

I would concur on the Memphis game.......Hottest I've ever been in my life........Freaking miserable....I was in Tuscaloosa in '97 and we beat Bama's ass in the rain and sleet that day.......The weather was miserable but I enjoyed every damn minute of it.......

[BrunswickDawg]

Memphis '00 - had just spent a week at the in-laws in Missouri, and was catching the game on our drive back. Me, our 1 year old, and my wife who was 5 months pregnant. That, was a dumb decision.

South Alabama game '16 is a close second. We left Orlando the Thursday night before after a HS football game - and drove smack thru a Cat 1 Hurricane. Then had to sit thru that heat and watch that shit show.

[msstatelp1]

Snow Bowl.

[Captain Falcon]

2019 USM game was atrocious, our game ops crew having maybe its worst games ever only poured gas on the fire.

[StarkVegasSteve]

@Memphis 2000
Liberty Bowl 07
@South Alabama 14
@Arky 15

[BayouDawg]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.

[Extendedcab]

MSU vs Memphis at the Liberty bowl in 86 timeframe - IIRC. The heavens, we're talking biblical proportions :o, opened up and there was literally a waterfall pouring down the stadium steps.

[StarkVegasSteve]

MSU vs Memphis at the Liberty bowl in 86 timeframe - IIRC. The heavens, we're talking biblical proportions :o, opened up and there was literally a waterfall pouring down the stadium steps.

For about 15 minutes against Auburn in 14 it was doing this exact same thing.

[Dawg_Lover]

Disclaimer: This is all considering my memory serves me correctly.

State-Ole Miss game, in Starkville, Nov. 1967. May have been Thanksgiving Day, but not sure. 🤔
Storms & torrential rain during the game, but they kept playing. And, we never left out seats. Cheerleaders were jumping around in water over 6? deep, on the track, in front of the stands. After the game, we found out there had been tornado warnings in the area. Hahaha! Good memories!

[William Tecumsah Sherman]

Arky 2000 because we lost. I remember be furious after that game

[MetEdDawg]

07 Liberty Bowl was miserable

An underrated one was I believe LSU 2005 to open the season on Thursday night. The 45-0 6 interception game. It was 90-95 degrees outside and rained on and off about 9 or 10 separate times. Humidity was horrible. I sweat through my band uniform more than any other game I can remember.

[RiverCityDawg]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.

This is the answer for me. As I recall the cold was expected, but I think the sleet was somewhat of a surprise based on the forecast because there were a lot of people like me without a poncho that we're walking out of there with numb legs and a solid sheet of ice on the tops of their jeans.

The fact we then lost in overtime was insult added to injury.

[William Tecumsah Sherman]

Another for me was 2000 egg. Sat in the rain in Oxford. We blew a big lead and lost. Have never been back and will never go back.

[SteelCurtain74]

Arkansas 2000
Troy 2001

[Lord McBuckethead]

2001, I think it may have been Troy, there was a serious tornado threat in the middle of the 3rd quarter. They emptied the stadium.

[schddog72]

Memphis (State) @ Liberty Bowl 2000

Gross. Left at half time

Tie - 9/17/83 vs. Navy in Jackson; game played in the middle of a hurricane, torrential rain and winds.
1983 Egg Bowl also in Jackson. A crappy weather day and the "Immaculate Deflection" at the end.

[DownwardDawg]

Texas. 1991
Hottest I've ever been in my life until that beautiful thunderstorm in the 4th quarter!!!

[GoDawgz]

2019 against the mustard buzzards! Surface of the sun hot..... but the walk back to the Vet School parking lot made it even worse! Soaked to my underwear..... not that anyone needed to know that! :)

[SteelCurtain74]

2001, I think it may have been Troy, there was a serious tornado threat in the middle of the 3rd quarter. They emptied the stadium.

Yep. By the end of the game the end zone resembled a small pond. Oh yeah, we lost that game 21-9

[was21]

Don't know which one was worse..OM in Oxford in about 63 or 64...nationally televised game...Justin Canale kicked a 52 yard field goal toward the end of the game to either tie them or win it 16-13. Kentucky game at Starkville in the early 90's...both cold as witches tit

[99jc]

Memphis (State) @ Liberty Bowl 2000

Gross. Left at half time

That was no doubt #1 --------# 2 was colorado state game around 1976 at scott field rained about 6 inches during game almost caught pneumonia

[Tbonewannabe]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.
This was worse than the Snow Bowl.

[QuadrupleOption]

Memphis (State) @ Liberty Bowl 2000

Gross. Left at half time

Memphis 2000
Arkansas 2000
Liberty Bowl 1991
Egg Bowl 1992
Texas 1991

All of these were boiling hot or brutally cold. At least Texas and Memphis were wins.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Texas A&M 2012. Worst football experience of my life.
UAB 2014. I remember a lady passing out in the stands

[NCDawg]

Arkansas 2000. They were a beat up team, having been blown out by Tennessee the week before. We needed the game to win the SECW, but came in unprepared and blew it. Weather was cold and sleeting which made the loss that much worse.

[It_Could_Happen]

At Missouri 2015 hands down. I was on the 3rd row and it rained so hard at times I couldn?t see the field.

[Quaoarsking]

Arkansas 2000, but I'll give an honorable mention to the 2003 Egg Bowl, where we got stomped in a storm.

[lefty96]

Memphis 2000
Arkansas 2000


These two get my vote. I also remember losing to NLU at homecoming in the rain. Not sure if the date. I was there 93 - 97.

[Fader21]

Jackie's last egg bowl. I swear the weather man said it was going to be mid 50s at game time. So I wore just a long sleeve shirt and shorts. Poured down rain the whole game or most of it. Freezing cold. Plus we got skulled in that game. Most miserable game ever.

[SPMT]

3-2 Auburn win

[chef dixon]

At Missouri 2015 hands down. I was on the 3rd row and it rained so hard at times I couldn?t see the field.

This is the correct answer. It was fun once you accepted the monsoon.

[Dawg496]

Egg Bowl 2003. Jackie?s last game and Eli?s last egg bowl. We got destroyed in the coldest rain I can ever remember.

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Ole Miss game in 1971. Snow and wind throughout the game, way below freezing. Girlfriend got pneumonia. Top it off they beat us 0-48.

[TimberBeast]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.

That one was fun, we had rain, sleet, and snow. I remember being in the stands with the entire row to myself late in the game. Arkansas scored and some guy a few rows behind me started slamming his cowbell onto the metal bleacher. He tore the seat and his cowbell up pretty good.

[TimberBeast]

Snow Bowl.

I will likely never attend a game that fun again. We had beers under the seats in the snow, saw Smoot in the line getting beer at one point. I think he was ineligible. Our charter bus went about 35 mph back to Jackson, it seemed like it took all night to get back.

[TimberBeast]

Texas A&M 2012. Worst football experience of my life.
UAB 2014. I remember a lady passing out in the stands

I was trying to remember which UAB game that was but that has to be it, homecoming I think, hot as hell. We were up late the night before, dehydrated during the game. I wasn?t sure I was going to make it through that one. My wife and I left early, I told her to drive to the hospital and we sat in the parking lot for a little while before I realized I was probably good so we headed back to Meridian. Halfway home we realized she had left her purse or something damn important in the changing room at Campus Book Mart so we had to go back, get that, and then drive to Meridian. That was by far my worst game.

ETA: The UAB game I?m thinking about actually would be years before 2014 I think.

[TimberBeast]

Yep. By the end of the game the end zone resembled a small pond. Oh yeah, we lost that game 21-9

Yep another bad one, definitely Troy, we were in club level outside on the ramp watching people evacuate below and were like what the hell? What are we doing up here? Every tackle after they started the game back up the guys slid like 5 more feet in puddles with water shooting up everywhere.

[Todd4State]

For me and my personal live football experiences:

1. Rain- 1996 Egg Bowl. I do need to add that I was sick going into this game so that probably made it 2x as worse than it was. I was sick for about two weeks after this one. I probably had pneumonia but I was a freshman in college and 19 so therefore I was invincible.

2. Heat- 1997 Memphis with USM 2019 a close second. Memphis gets the nod because I lost like 10 pounds in water. I think it was all water.

3. Cold- 2015 Arkansas. I think the wind chill was way below 10. The funny part was my Dad asking me if I wore a coat and I told him "YES. It was three degrees. That's only going to do so much."

4. Dome- 2013 Oklahoma State. That game just sucked. It seemed like our guys were dropping like flies from one injury after the other. I think that was the game that the SEC basically coerced us into playing and we barely made a bowl.

[FISHDAWG]

for me it was Arkansas at Starkville 2014 as I was a little under dressed ... but we won and maintained our #1 ranking

[Tbonewannabe]

2001, I think it may have been Troy, there was a serious tornado threat in the middle of the 3rd quarter. They emptied the stadium.

Yes, everyone was under the stands and it was a constant rain. Combine that with losing to Troy and that was a miserable experience.

[Tbonewannabe]

My rankings:

1. @Memphis 2000 - I believe the temp on the field was around 120 degrees. People passing out like crazy. Water was luke warm at best. Throw in the fact that Memphis turned off the AC to our locker room so our entire team was just standing in what shade they could find.

2. Ark at home 2000 - the other end of the spectrum. It was the perfect temperature to keep the rain at a sleet instead of snow so you were drenched and steadily freezing. Refs refused to give Westerfield a dry ball to attempt a game winning field goal. Donte Walker runs into two people to keep him out of the endzone on the goal line to lose in overtime.

3. Troy at home - 2001 - constant rain that only slackened up when there was a tornado close to campus. My buddy had a dry suit that he was bragging about only to wear some shoes that were suede so his feet were soaking wet (that was the only highlight of that experience).

4. Snow Bowl - 2000. The game wasn't bad except for walking down the steps was like using roller skates. This is up there for the attempt at driving home. The car just floated on the roads and then we came to the bridge across the river and realized no cars were able to go up it. Stayed in a shitty motel after freezing for 4 hours.

5. Any game in late Aug to first week of Sept. It is always 100 degrees and people passing out like crazy.

[MoreCowbell]

UAB 2014. Shitty game and it was 110 degrees I swear. Old women were passing out, I went with my mom and we had to leave at halftime bc she was having a heat stroke

[MedDawg]

Worst MSU game was 2000 Arkansas, stayed for the whole game and looked up at the East Side construction and vowed to buy club level tickets the next season when it opened. It was cold and sleeting, would have been better if it had snowed, but the sleet made everything wet and therefore colder. Wish our defensive player who intercepted a pass didn't step out of bounds--he had the whole field open in front of him and it would have made the difference in the game. Also wish the ref didn't stand over the ball on the 1 or 2 yard line and let the halftime clock run out.

Another miserable game I went to was 1987 Penn State vs Notre Dame--the windchill was -20 degrees! My new bride and I left at halftime and watched the rest on tv.

[PMDawg]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.

I agree. I was there until the bitter end.

[Maroonthirteen]

The 2000 Memphis game......at least I was able to get some relief from the heat under the skyboxes. But that was the hottest game that I have attended. I went to the last USM game too.

The 2000 Arkansas game ....Id vote the most miserable weather. Lucky we thought to bring a blanket but it was basically frozen by the 4th quarter. My wife had enough when we went to OT. She went underneath to wait on me. I watched from the portal as best I could. I can still see the fumbled snap for the game winning kick. THen Walker come up short at the goal line. Brutal day.

[Offshore Dawg]

2000 Arkansas game, drove home 4 hours soaking with the seat heater on, had to leave the windows down from the steam inside my Jeep.
2001 Troy game, rain and tornado.

[Joebob]

I've been really lucky and never had any miserable weather at an MSU game, just some really weird weather. Was at the '99 Cotton Bowl against Texas when it was so foggy you could barely see the players. Ironically, DFW *never* has fog like that. Was also at the '83 Egg Bowl when that gust of wind blew the ball backwards on the field goal try at the end of the game ( the Immaculate Deflection). Weirdest thing I ever saw at a football game.

[ArrowDawg]

This is the answer for me. As I recall the cold was expected, but I think the sleet was somewhat of a surprise based on the forecast because there were a lot of people like me without a poncho that we're walking out of there with numb legs and a solid sheet of ice on the tops of their jeans.

The fact we then lost in overtime was insult added to injury.

Arkansas 2000 for me too. Didn't expect the precipitation, so I was totally unprepared. Just like you, the lower half of my body was numb and I even felt a little hypothermic. I went straight to my truck and got the heater going full blast, but it took me probably 30 minutes or so before I started to feel a bit more normal again.

[BayouDawg]

This is the answer for me. As I recall the cold was expected, but I think the sleet was somewhat of a surprise based on the forecast because there were a lot of people like me without a poncho that we're walking out of there with numb legs and a solid sheet of ice on the tops of their jeans.

The fact we then lost in overtime was insult added to injury.

For sure. I was 9 and that?s probably the closest Ive been to hypothermia lol

[BorneDawg]

Egg Bowl 2003. Jackie?s last game and Eli?s last egg bowl. We got destroyed in the coldest rain I can ever remember.

Yes this! I was hoping someone else replied with this. I couldn't remember the year but not only did we get skull drug by ole piss but it was some of the hardest and coldest rain I can every remember. My bones were soggy that day! about froze to death.......

[IMissJack]

Kentucky mid 90?s. Freezing and and rain. Not exactly sure of the year.

[klong-dog]

The 2000 Arkansas game. Miserably cold, windy, and with miserable results.

[preachermatt83]

Arkansas 2000. We lost in overtime in the sleet and rain.

This is the correct answer

[PGHBulldogBG]

Georgia 2005 with the outer bands of hurricane Rita. Next day a tornado came on campus and flipped UGA fan RV near vet school

[BuckyIsAB****]

Georgia 2005 with the outer bands of hurricane Rita. Next day a tornado came on campus and flipped UGA fan RV near vet school

I was there. I remember being excited it was only 24-10

[msudawg1200]

I see a lot of you had the same awful experience at the 2000 Arkansas game as I did. It was supposed to be cold, but no precipitation. Just like some of you my legs were frozen from wet jeans. My feet felt like blocks of ice from my wet socks that I took off in the car ride home. Overlooked in the loss was that George H.W Bush was at the game with Sonny Montgomery. First time I had ever seen a current or former President live in person. I remember eating nachos with jalape?os and nothing to drink to warm up at halftime.
Others:
Snow Bowl (2000)- it was cold and snowing, but I was prepared. Had major fun though.
Liberty Bowl (2007)- just miserable cold. The Liberty Bowl bottlenecked that day. We won but it was a typical boring Croom game.
Kansas State(2019)- underrated as a hot as balls game. This was the day I was pretty certain Moorhead was not the guy.
Ole Miss vs Auburn in Jackson(1990)- hottest game I've ever attended. At halftime I stood in line and got the biggest Coke they had. Drank it all before I got back to my seat with 7 minutes left in the 3rd. Also saw the hardest hit I'd ever seen in person when an Auburn player destroyed OM QB Tom Luke. Today, he would've definitely been ejected for targeting. I read where Luke had to get braces after the year because it knocked his teeth crooked.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Memphis 2000, Liberty Bowl vs AF, Tech Game the Tech and 10 year.

[Noxdog]

That was no doubt #1 --------# 2 was colorado state game around 1976 at scott field rained about 6 inches during game almost caught pneumonia

The North Texas State game. We didn't play CSU till the early to mid 80's.

I was there for that monsoon but really wasn't that bad. We won 7-6. I believe Threadgill hit Robert Chatmon for the game winner.

[lastmajordog]

Felker?s first year as coach I think. In Jackson in torrential downpour. For some reason Rocky kept insisted on running into the lake @ the 30 yard line in the south end of the field. Besides Bellards and ******* complete brain ***** against om, this was the worst, and getting drenched in a monsoon did not help feelings. On the other hand the DOGS first night game in STARKVILLE with temp lights against #4 LSU (if memory serves) was so cold, it hurt. But Bond and company put another whipping on the Tigahs.......just an incredible game.

[99jc]

The North Texas State game. We didn't play CSU till the early to mid 80's.

I was there for that monsoon but really wasn't that bad. We won 7-6. I believe Threadgill hit Robert Chatmon for the game winner.

ALL I REMEMBER WAS THE OPPOSING TEAM HAD BRIGHT GREEN JERSEYS. it rained on me the whole game all my maroon clothes faded on me i was maroon for about a week.

[TimberBeast]

Man I love brutal weather for a game, it changes everything instantly. I hate domes. The Snowbowl was perfection, Arkansas in 2000 is the runner up but close. I could be remembering wrong but it seems like the Todd Jordan 15 or so tries game in Oxford was about 10 damn degrees.

[Maroonthirteen]

10 tries game in Oxford was 92. Plump was the QB.

Just taking up for Todd here.

Yes it was freezing cold.

[Tbonewannabe]

I see a lot of you had the same awful experience at the 2000 Arkansas game as I did. It was supposed to be cold, but no precipitation. Just like some of you my legs were frozen from wet jeans. My feet felt like blocks of ice from my wet socks that I took off in the car ride home. Overlooked in the loss was that George H.W Bush was at the game with Sonny Montgomery. First time I had ever seen a current or former President live in person. I remember eating nachos with jalape?os and nothing to drink to warm up at halftime.
Others:
Snow Bowl (2000)- it was cold and snowing, but I was prepared. Had major fun though.
Liberty Bowl (2007)- just miserable cold. The Liberty Bowl bottlenecked that day. We won but it was a typical boring Croom game.
Kansas State(2019)- underrated as a hot as balls game. This was the day I was pretty certain Moorhead was not the guy.
Ole Miss vs Auburn in Jackson(1990)- hottest game I've ever attended. At halftime I stood in line and got the biggest Coke they had. Drank it all before I got back to my seat with 7 minutes left in the 3rd. Also saw the hardest hit I'd ever seen in person when an Auburn player destroyed OM QB Tom Luke. Today, he would've definitely been ejected for targeting. I read where Luke had to get braces after the year because it knocked his teeth crooked.

I honestly forgot about this game (maybe my brain is trying to erase Croom). Might be the coldest game I have ever been to as far as just temperature. The bottleneck sucked, I think we didn't get to our seats until the end of the 1st quarter and we were in line for the game like 2 hours before kickoff.

[FISHDAWG]

I honestly forgot about this game (maybe my brain is trying to erase Croom). Might be the coldest game I have ever been to as far as just temperature. The bottleneck sucked, I think we didn't get to our seats until the end of the 1st quarter and we were in line for the game like 2 hours before kickoff.

De Ja Vue .... I will NEVER go back to that stadium again because of that game ... It was my first and last experience with the Liberty Bowl

[Tbonewannabe]

De Ja Vue .... I will NEVER go back to that stadium again because of that game ... It was my first and last experience with the Liberty Bowl

I can't remember a bigger cluster 17 than trying to get into the 3 gates they had open on that side (or however many but it wasn't all the way open). Combine the weather and getting into the stadium with how obnoxious the UCF fans were and that was one of the worst wins I have ever sat through. Thank God for Carroll just basically calling his own plays which shows how dumb Croom/McCorvey were.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I can't remember a bigger cluster 17 than trying to get into the 3 gates they had open on that side (or however many but it wasn't all the way open). Combine the weather and getting into the stadium with how obnoxious the UCF fans were and that was one of the worst wins I have ever sat through. Thank God for Carroll just basically calling his own plays which shows how dumb Croom/McCorvey were.

You must've missed out on the unmitigated disaster that was the gate situation at the 19 egg bowl. There's a picture of it next to cluster 17 in the dictionary.

[IMissJack]

The North Texas State game. We didn't play CSU till the early to mid 80's.

I was there for that monsoon but really wasn't that bad. We won 7-6. I believe Threadgill hit Robert Chatmon for the game winner.

Yep, it was North Texas. I was there as a 7 year old.

[Tripp McNeely]

Snow Bowl v A&M?not even close

[tcdog70]

Disclaimer: This is all considering my memory serves me correctly.

State-Ole Miss game, in Starkville, Nov. 1967. May have been Thanksgiving Day, but not sure. 🤔
Storms & torrential rain during the game, but they kept playing. And, we never left out seats. Cheerleaders were jumping around in water over 6? deep, on the track, in front of the stands. After the game, we found out there had been tornado warnings in the area. Hahaha! Good memories!

i was there

[Choctaw Dawg]

You must've missed out on the unmitigated disaster that was the gate situation at the 19 egg bowl. There's a picture of it next to cluster 17 in the dictionary.

It will be just as bad this year, considering its pretty hard to get people to work on Thanksgiving doing work like that.

[HereComesTheSpiral]

2016 and 2017 Arkansas

[TimberBeast]

10 tries game in Oxford was 92. Plump was the QB.

Just taking up for Todd here.

Yes it was freezing cold.

Thank you for correcting me, I was 15 or 16. Me and a friend drove up from Meridian for that one, I remember how bad my toes were freezing during the game. On the way home we stopped to get gas and something with the pump was frozen so it took like 15 or 20 minutes to pump enough gas for us to get back. That one was miserable all the way around.

[KentuckyDawg13]

Air Force crushed us and it was FREEZING...

[basedog]

10 tries game in Oxford was 92. Plump was the QB.

Just taking up for Todd here.

Yes it was freezing cold.

If you recall, can't remember the receiver who came from Pitt, caught a pass and was breaking away for a sure score only to have the DB dive and put maybe a finger on his heel to make him stumble and fall! Yes it was a miserable loss but the BearSharks were a decent team and Joe Lee was at his peak as a DC for them.

[Tbonewannabe]

You must've missed out on the unmitigated disaster that was the gate situation at the 19 egg bowl. There's a picture of it next to cluster 17 in the dictionary.

I was in that shit also but it could have felt worse since the Liberty Bowl had a wind chill of like -20 degrees. I think we probably stood in line maybe a little longer at the Liberty Bowl but both were ridiculous. At least at MSU, we should have just opened the damn gates up and just let people sit wherever and deal with people in the wrong seats after the fact. That was a royal 17 up by Cohen.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I was in that shit also but it could have felt worse since the Liberty Bowl had a wind chill of like -20 degrees. I think we probably stood in line maybe a little longer at the Liberty Bowl but both were ridiculous. At least at MSU, we should have just opened the damn gates up and just let people sit wherever and deal with people in the wrong seats after the fact. That was a royal 17 up by Cohen.

It was a royal 17 up no doubt. They just weren't prepared for people they were paying minimum wage to just not show up on Thanksgiving....which is exactly what happened. You need to over hire for a situation like that and we under hired.

[Tbonewannabe]

It was a royal 17 up no doubt. They just weren't prepared for people they were paying minimum wage to just not show up on Thanksgiving....which is exactly what happened. You need to over hire for a situation like that and we under hired.

When we finally got up to the gate they were just waving people through. I guess at some point someone realized there wasn't a way to make people walk through metal detectors and do all that crap and get people in before halftime.

[StarkVegasSteve]

When we finally got up to the gate they were just waving people through. I guess at some point someone realized there wasn't a way to make people walk through metal detectors and do all that crap and get people in before halftime.

We were actually lucky. A buddy text us at like 5:30 and said you may want to go ahead and get in line now because it's pretty bad. I think we sat in line around 45-1 hour. It just seemed like it wasn't even moving.

[msudawg1200]

If you recall, can't remember the receiver who came from Pitt, caught a pass and was breaking away for a sure score only to have the DB dive and put maybe a finger on his heel to make him stumble and fall! Yes it was a miserable loss but the BearSharks were a decent team and Joe Lee was at his peak as a DC for them.

Olanda Truitt

[dawgoneyall]

Hottest memphis 2000...people dehydrated and hat heat strokes that day and the air conditioner mysteriously malfunctioned in the MSU's dressing room. Imagine that???? Low class is low class..

Coldest- Liberty Bowl vs Air Force or Ark Fayetteville 2015??

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Hottest - '91 vs Texas....miserably hot to start the game. Then we got some relief with a rain shower. Then it got Amazon Jungle hot and humid.

Coldest - '91 Egg Bowl....set at the top on the east side, wind gusting at times and me without a jacket (just dumb). By far not the coldest game STATE has ever played in but it was the coldest game I've ever been to. 1200 mentioned Luke getting hit by Auburn the year before.....We knocked Luke out COLD in this one. Can't recall who laid the lumber for us......any of y'all remember?

[Indndawg]

and its not on YT to my knowledge, but I've still got a paper clipping of Luke laid out

[starkvegasdawg]

Haven't read all the replies but for me it was the AL game where it was in the 20's and the wind was howling. Same game where the parachutist lost lift about 30' high and fell. It was then I realized a human being could bounce.

[BrunswickDawg]

Haven't read all the replies but for me it was the AL game where it was in the 20's and the wind was howling. Same game where the parachutist lost lift about 30' high and fell. It was then I realized a human being could bounce.

That was the '96 game I believe. I don't remember it being that cold that night. That dude did bounce though. One of the damndest things I've ever seen.

[Bothrops]

Apparently the Liberty bowl stadium is the hottest and coldest place many of our fans have experienced. I can concur on the cold. I've been to a couple of bowl games where you needed wool socks on once in the shade.

[BayouDawg]

Apparently the Liberty bowl stadium is the hottest and coldest place many of our fans have experienced. I can concur on the cold. I've been to a couple of bowl games where you needed wool socks on once in the shade.

I remember in 2007 at the liberty bowl parade that wind off the river made it feel at least 10 degrees colder.

[FISHDAWG]

Haven't read all the replies but for me it was the AL game where it was in the 20's and the wind was howling. Same game where the parachutist lost lift about 30' high and fell. It was then I realized a human being could bounce.

it happens ... same thing happened to me on my last jump and I had to tell the doctor that I fell on the stairs ... I don't remember the bounce - just the numbness

[Maroonthirteen]

That was the '96 game I believe. I don't remember it being that cold that night. That dude did bounce though. One of the damndest things I've ever seen.

Yes. 1996 Bama game.

What I recall.......That guy looked like he would sail over the field and out the stadium or into the MClub building. He was yanking those cords like crazy to get turned north. Then his chute folded...... What a weird weird night that was all around.

[FISHDAWG]

Yes. 1996 Bama game.

What I recall.......That guy looked like he would sail over the field and out the stadium or into the MClub building. He was yanking those cords like crazy to get turned north. Then his chute folded...... What a weird weird night that was all around.

you just don't jump when it's very windy ... pulling hard meant he was trying to steer back into the wind and if you pull hard enough to go horizontal the chute will dive or even worse you can collapse the canopy - no big deal at 2000 ft but by 30' above ground it's a different story and you should be where you are already supposed to be ... if the guy couldn't hit a football field then he doesn't have enough experience or it's to windy to jump in the first place. Or sometimes due to wind currents or shear it just happens

[basedog]

you just don't jump when it's very windy ... pulling hard meant he was trying to steer back into the wind and if you pull hard enough to go horizontal the chute will dive or even worse you can collapse the canopy - no big deal at 2000 ft but by 30' above ground it's a different story and you should be where you are already supposed to be ... if the guy couldn't hit a football field then he doesn't have enough experience or it's to windy to jump in the first place. Or sometimes due to wind currents or shear it just happens

Right before the crash and burn landing, the other jumper barely cleared the north end zone scoreboard. If he hadn't lifting his legs up he crashes into the scoreboard! Crazy night, as Lsu kicked our tails!

I wasn't at the Liberty Bowl game in 1963, but I remember watching it on TV and from what I've heard was the coldest football game Msu ever played.

[Maroonthirteen]

Well my memory is foggy on it... I was sitting in the stadium. Anyway, I remember it being really windy. Rumor was two others landed at the amphitheater. Here it is....


https://youtu.be/MMup0JXRX8c

[FISHDAWG]

Wow ... looks like the wind was from behind as he was trying to turn... in the drop zone there is always a wind sock to give indication of wind direction but in a stadium it swirls ... if there were other divers that had trouble also then it sounds like it was just too windy ... last crash I had the wind was blowing but not too bad... sometimes it just goes wrong. The last two jumps I made I saw the same guy cut away twice in a row and the odds on that happening are unreal