Worst BG football memory?

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:50 am

Flipper wrote:October 8, 1983. A doyt Perry record crowd of 33,527 watches the Falcons lose to Toledo 6-3. I remember McCLure throwing a pick in the end zone. As good a QB as Brian was, he didn't lead the team to an offensive TD against the Rockettes until 1985. That 1985 game was his only win against those bastages following losses in 1982, 83 and 84.

Same here for me Flipper. That game was played entirely in the rain and we had two Toledo student wenches in front of us that we kept throwing rain soaked newspaper at when they cheered.

Funny...we forgot to complain how the field conditions cost us that game...I guess we must be above that

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:56 am

Fat punter is, of course, near the top of the list.

However, I was at the Miami game in Oxford when they ended their Nation's Longest Losing Streak against us (must have been '89). The band made that trip as the road trip that season and it was a miserable scene. Their crowd rushed the field, tore down the goalposts (in fact, I think one of the goalposts almost took out a chunk of the Falcon Marching Band). It was so humiliating.

What made it worse, was the season before, I was a student at Miami. I knew some of their football team... it was just a really ugly day.

Remember that Mark??

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:58 am

ab1994 wrote:Fat punter. I wanted to run down out of the stands and tackle that bastard myself. It was like that game put a hex on the entire program.

Sadly, as slow as he was, you likely could have run down from the stands, caught up with him, and still stopped him before anybody noticed what was going on.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:21 pm

The Buffalo loss in 2000 was my absolute worst....worse than attending the 51-17 drubbing at UT in 2000.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:13 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote: Remember that Mark??

Dude read the post that started this.

At one point I was facing away from the field (after the flipping and kiss blowing of my friend) I saw the (my) left side of the band start to bend down. It was the wave in reverse. I looked to my left only to see a HUGE white metal posting coming straight for my head.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:42 pm

Worst "first-person" memories ...

Trying to interview the players after Denny Stolz ripped their hearts out.

Which led to watching the team start strong, then collapse during the 1985 California Bowl.

Watching BG lose to Temple at Franklin Field. The only thing more depressing than the stadium was BG's effort.

Being on the field when Washington torched the Falcons in 1986. I think the score was 48-0, but it was 10 times worse than that.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:28 pm

I was in UB Stadium in 2000 when Buffalo got its first ever Division I-A win against the Falcons.

I think that was worse than the Fat Punter game.

I watched JoePa get his 300th against us... 48-3, I think. That game sucked. But it wasn't quite as bad.

FormerFreddie · Post by **FormerFreddie** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:30 pm

In no particular order:

1. Fat Punter. The whole thing looked like it was in slow motion. Best sign of the day was from CMU:

Bowl
Game
Seems
Unlikely

2. Being in attendance for the Buffalo loss in 2000. I spraypainted "Blackney Must Go" in orange on my then-dirt back yard when I got home.

3. 11-10-1990. Being on the field as Freddie and watching the team leave the field, knowing it was the end of the Moe Agony era.

4. 9-25-1993: Watching Navy beat the Falcons. I think we had four players suspended for "violating team rules."

5. 9-12-1987: My first Falcon game ever and we lose to Youngstown?!

6. 9-4-1999: Drive all the way to Pittsburgh (that's where I met the Freak, BTW. Tailgated next to him...) to see us outplay and outgain Pitt, but lose by 20?!

7. 11-22-2000: Losing to Toledo 51-17. I don't know if I've ever been so cold at a football game.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:02 pm

Another miserable loss was the one to winless WMU in 1996 when BG lost in OT, 16-13. I think WMU came into the game 0-9. Ugh.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:20 pm

Rightupinthere wrote:Dude read the post that started this.

LOL...yeah...that's what I get for actually WORKING at work!

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:27 pm

However, the lowest of the low came in the 2nd half when the BG cheerleaders decided to start cheering for the other team. THAT was an all time low and absolutely my worst memory as a Falcon fan. Watching BG's cheerleaders begin cheering for Michigan far outweighs any losses that we suffered on the field in my time as a fan.

W ..... T ...... F!!!!

I've never heard this before.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:28 pm

Getting whipped 58-0 to Kansas State in 1997 wasn't one of BG's brightest moments either.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:50 pm

1987alum wrote:
However, the lowest of the low came in the 2nd half when the BG cheerleaders decided to start cheering for the other team. THAT was an all time low and absolutely my worst memory as a Falcon fan. Watching BG's cheerleaders begin cheering for Michigan far outweighs any losses that we suffered on the field in my time as a fan.

W ..... T ...... F!!!!

I've never heard this before.

Oh, it happened. There was quite an uproar in the BG News as well. The cheerleaders said they were being hospitable and doing one cheer for the opponent or something like that. What I know is that BG cheerleaders in Orange and Brown were standing on the brick wall of the $h!tHouse and leading UM fans in a cheer. It certainly seemed longer than just one cheer too!

I tried to look on the BG News site to get the Archives, but they don't have anything from September 2000 archived

I'm hoping McMetz can hook me up with an old archive, so I can post a link or something here.

It was a dark day.

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:20 pm

I know that I'm a "bit" older than most of the guys on this forum, but without a doubt, the ALL TIME WORST GAME I've ever seen BG play was against W.Va. in 1988....We fumbled the opening kickoff, WVA scored on their first play...we went 2 and out, (threw an int. that was returned for a TD) and all this took place in the 1st 2 minutes of gametime... Then it went DOWNHILL from there... final was 62-14 or thereabouts, but it wasn't nearly that close... top this off with a bunch of WV "hillbillies", already drunk riding us from the moment we hit campus and you see what I mean. That was, incidentally, the year that WV finished in top 5 in US, so they were good, but we were Gawdawful!!!
I saw the fat punter game, but the MAC game that hurts the most was against OU in 1968. We had a 13 point lead with about 5 min. to go in the game...OU scored to make it a 6 pt. game with less than a minute to go, recovered the onside kick, and their QB, who later became their head coach for a time, but I can't recall his name, broke loose and scored on a scramble...xp was good and we lost 28-27... everyone in the place just sat in silence, except of course the OU people and players...

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:56 pm

61...I think the OU QB you're referring to was....Cleve Bryant.

Worst BG football memory?

Fat Punter...or ending Miami's losing streak

Re: Fat Punter...or ending Miami's losing streak

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Worst Game EVER?