What's The Craziest Things You've Ever Seen In The Dome?

[DoubleDee]

We were discussing something I had seen in the Dome and made me think this could be a fun conversation. I'll start with a couple.

Northwestern in 2012: Hot as hell in the Dome. A guy comes up and sits right behind me who is clearly messed up beyond the norm. My anxiety gets me on edge as I believe this guy is gonna puke. He lays down on the bleachers. People are taking pics of him, and ushers are checking on him. He occasionally raises his fist when he hears the roar of the crowd. Then he proceeds to puke into his water bottle. Didn't lose a drop. I don't know how he did it. It was at the last second of the game and I hightailed it out of there. As the kids say today, I can't even.

In my teens, so 1980-something, we visited the rest room during a basketball game. Picture this. Cigarette in one hand, beer in the other, pants and undies at his feet, pissing into the round pedal sink. Needless to say, I did not wash my hands.

Basketball: Two women who I assumed were mother/daughter with t shirts that said "My Vagina Bleeds Orange".

As an 8 year old, witnessing the final game at Archbold would be memorable. But the scene afterward was another event altogether. Goal posts coming down. Guys breaking up pieces of railing and bleeding from it, breaking up concrete, etc. Being on the field grabbing chunks of the end zone grass. Amazing. And yes, I still have them all.

I know I'll think of something else. I'm looking forward to your crazy stories.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Eric15]

-In 2002 we went to the Sweet 16 game between Kentucky and Maryland. A few Kentucky fans near us literally started smoking cigarettes inside the Dome in their seats and were kicked out.

-A couple years ago at a basketball game, I saw a little boy come out of a stall in the men's room and walk up to the urinal trough thinking it was a sink to wash his hands in. He may or may not have been my son.

-2004 football game against Pitt a woman sitting behind me spilled an entire container of nachos and salsa all over me and didn't apologize. I spent the rest of the game fuming like I was in the front row of a Gallagher show.

-2007 basketball game vs. Nova, Jim Burr (or was it Tim Higgins?) kicks George Hicker out of the game. Very unusual. I remember the entire Dome stood up and just quietly was confused about what was happening.

 

[SmilinBob]

The fight with the Irish leprechaun and student section in hoops.

 

[Bill Orange]

We were discussing something I had seen in the Dome and made me think this could be a fun conversation. I'll start with a couple.

Northwestern in 2012: Hot as hell in the Dome. A guy comes up and sits right behind me who is clearly messed up beyond the norm. My anxiety gets me on edge as I believe this guy is gonna puke. He lays down on the bleachers. People are taking pics of him, and ushers are checking on him. He occasionally raises his fist when he hears the roar of the crowd. Then he proceeds to puke into his water bottle. Didn't lose a drop. I don't know how he did it. It was at the last second of the game and I hightailed it out of there. As the kids say today, I can't even.

In my teens, so 1980-something, we visited the rest room during a basketball game. Picture this. Cigarette in one hand, beer in the other, pants and undies at his feet, pissing into the round pedal sink. Needless to say, I did not wash my hands.

Basketball: Two women who I assumed were mother/daughter with t shirts that said "My Vagina Bleeds Orange".

As an 8 year old, witnessing the final game at Archbold would be memorable. But the scene afterward was another event altogether. Goal posts coming down. Guys breaking up pieces of railing and bleeding from it, breaking up concrete, etc. Being on the field grabbing chunks of the end zone grass. Amazing. And yes, I still have them all.

I know I'll think of something else. I'm looking forward to your crazy stories.

Re Archbold’s final game:

Post game I went on the field and grabbed a clump of sod and netting from behind the east goal post, that Tomcat and his merry men took out of the stadium and proceeded to march down Euclid with it, IIRC.

I went back up early Sunday morning to saw out the green wooden seats that were our season tickets. I took some pics from the press box and the east end zone. It was very eerie, as I was the only person there.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Not in the Dome but it involved SU.

SU at Toledo. Late in the game, a Toledo player goes down on his own and a hush falls over the stadium as the medical team attends to him. Later, it was revealed that the player had an asthma attack although the crown assumed something very serious.

As I am standing there in this dead-quiet stadium I turn around and Otto is walking behind me. He turns, gives me a wave, and then saunters into the men's room. It struck me as both bizarre and hilarious.

 

[HastingsCuse]

After Cuse pulled the upset in 1984 against Nebraska, the fans and students stormed the field. A very drunk frat boy who could barely stand, pulled it out and peed in the middle of the Dome.

 

[OrangeFreek]

I seen a kid so drunk that he jumped from the 200 level on to the concourse 100 level and landed on his shoulder and face. I’ll never forget the sound. He lived thankfully

 

[oldpinepoint]

As a kid in the late 80’s I remember going to the hoops game. The students used to hold up huge posters of naked chicks when the opposing team shot free throws. Needless to say I was quite interested in that part of the game

 

[elimunelson]

wins vs ranked opponents? too soon?

 

[javadoc]

Trevor Lawrence was at a game?

 

[OrangeTarheel]

Nothing outrageous but at a “Break the Record” basketball game against Notre Dame at the Dome maybe twenty years ago we got tickets pretty high up in the rafters. Got as much beer as we could carry and headed up the stairs. What looked like a Boy Scout troop was sitting in the row in front of us. One of the kids turns around and looks at us and says in a concerned tone - “hey mister, if you drink that you’re gonna be drunk!”

Smart kid!

 

[Bulldog04]

Was it the Florida state game a few years back when it was 300 degrees in dome? I remember wearing a grey t shirt and what a mistake that was. It was like I took a swim.

The craziest thing for sure though is them trying to replace the plastic containers for nachos grande. They went with the box and “container of cheese” and that was catastrophic. Been going to Dome for 30 years. That sent me

 

[hoopsupstate]

Re Archbold’s final game:

Post game I went on the field and grabbed a clump of sod and netting from behind the east goal post, that Tomcat and his merry men took out of the stadium and proceeded to march down Euclid with it, IIRC.

I went back up early Sunday morning to saw out the green wooden seats that were our season tickets. I took some pics from the press box and the east end zone. It was very eerie, as I was the only person there.

I still have a orange piece of wood from somewhere in the stadium.

 

[Millhouse]

We were discussing something I had seen in the Dome and made me think this could be a fun conversation. I'll start with a couple.

Northwestern in 2012: Hot as hell in the Dome. A guy comes up and sits right behind me who is clearly messed up beyond the norm. My anxiety gets me on edge as I believe this guy is gonna puke. He lays down on the bleachers. People are taking pics of him, and ushers are checking on him. He occasionally raises his fist when he hears the roar of the crowd. Then he proceeds to puke into his water bottle. Didn't lose a drop. I don't know how he did it. It was at the last second of the game and I hightailed it out of there. As the kids say today, I can't even.

In my teens, so 1980-something, we visited the rest room during a basketball game. Picture this. Cigarette in one hand, beer in the other, pants and undies at his feet, pissing into the round pedal sink. Needless to say, I did not wash my hands.

Basketball: Two women who I assumed were mother/daughter with t shirts that said "My Vagina Bleeds Orange".

As an 8 year old, witnessing the final game at Archbold would be memorable. But the scene afterward was another event altogether. Goal posts coming down. Guys breaking up pieces of railing and bleeding from it, breaking up concrete, etc. Being on the field grabbing chunks of the end zone grass. Amazing. And yes, I still have them all.

I know I'll think of something else. I'm looking forward to your crazy stories.

I brought a friend from high school to the game where the ref died. His wife was yelling at him on the phone wondering why he was whispering and he's trying to explain the ref just dropped dead that's why

Anyway, we grew up in wny and he'd only been to Bills games. Not only was he completely accustomed to people pissing in the hand washing circular trough, he was so accustomed to it that he didn't know it was for hand washing until he went to the dome

 

[OrangeXtreme]

I still have a orange piece of wood from somewhere in the stadium.

I still have splinters in my ass.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

I brought a friend from high school to the game where the ref died. His wife was yelling at him on the phone wondering why he was whispering and he's trying to explain the ref just stopped dead that's why

Anyway, we grew up in wny and he'd only been to Bills games. Not only was he completely accustomed to people pissing in the hand washing circular trough, he was so accustomed to it that he didn't know it was for hand washing until he went to the dome

Are you talking about the ref who had a heart attack when we played East Carolina in 2001?

 

[DoubleDee]

-In 2002 we went to the Sweet 16 game between Kentucky and Maryland. A few Kentucky fans near us literally started smoking cigarettes inside the Dome in their seats and were kicked out.

-A couple years ago at a basketball game, I saw a little boy come out of a stall in the men's room and walk up to the urinal trough thinking it was a sink to wash his hands in. He may or may not have been my son.

-2004 football game against Pitt a woman sitting behind me spilled an entire container of nachos and salsa all over me and didn't apologize. I spent the rest of the game fuming like I was in the front row of a Gallagher show.

-2007 basketball game vs. Nova, Jim Burr (or was it Tim Higgins?) kicks George Hicker out of the game. Very unusual. I remember the entire Dome stood up and just quietly was confused about what was happening.

I was at that Hicker game. It was nuts. He was pissed.

In that same end of the court, I remember GMac going off the court and causing someone to spill their beer on themselves. Gerry grabbed a towel from the bench and took it to them.

 

[upperdeck]

Are you talking about the ref who had a heart attack when we played East Carolina in 2001?

the SU - BC game at Cornell during the Dome build didnt that Ref die?

 

[OburgOrange]

Are you talking about the ref who had a heart attack when we played East Carolina in 2001?

I was there. I never heard the dome so quiet. You could literally hear a pin drop. I believe the ref actually died, but was rescutated on the field.

 

[JRHEETER]

I know!!! Crazy to see Sbarro pizza in the dome!!

 

[OburgOrange]

I know!!! Crazy to see Sbarro pizza in the dome!!

Now I’m hungry

 

[buffalorange]

Beer (aka: Dome Foam) used to be served in large paper cups with a saran wrap-like cover. At one game a person in front of me had such a cup and in peeling off the cover the cup tipped and its entire contents landed on the back of the person in front of him. I was quite surprised at how calm the beer-soaked fan was.

 

[OburgOrange]

Beer (aka: Dome Foam) used to be served in large paper cups with a saran wrap-like cover. At one game a person in front of me had such a cup and in peeling off the cover the cup tipped and its entire contents landed on the back of the person in front of him. I was quite surprised at how calm the beer-soaked fan was.

The vendors used to come around and sell them too. Never had to get out of your seat. We used to buy the whole tray from them . Seemed like a good idea at the time. (It wasn’t)

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Back when I was a fat elementary school kid I was picked to represent my school at the fun run in the Dome and I demolished everyone else in my heat. It was pretty shocking, but at one time, this lardo had wheels.