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

[OrangeMon]

I still remember sitting on the opposite side, watching the melee including streams of beer flying from the stands toward the Temple players.

I have a cousin that played for Temple prior to that time. We still argue about who was at fault.

He's retired as a football coach in Pennsylvania. He must have gotten over it because when he was still coaching, he sent us a pretty good player from his high school (Cory Bowen).

We were sitting in the 200 level section just above the tunnel. It was where the University employees used to sit (mother worked in the football department). Had a perfect view of the late hit and the ensuing melee. Wild scene.

 

[javadoc]

Michelle Munn - the dome was so quiet and in shock. All you could hear was the poor girl crying. Thankfully she recovered from a fractured skull. It was frightening how hard she hit the court.

How The Syracuse Cheerleader Who Made Major Fall Is Doing Today

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I was there. As I recall the squad stopped doing pyramid formations after that.

 

[DoubleDee]

I was there. As I recall the squad stopped doing pyramid formations after that.

Yeah that was the beginning of the end. Cheerleaders at Syracuse do virtually nothing these days.

 

[OburgOrange]

Yeah that was the beginning of the end. Cheerleaders at Syracuse do virtually nothing these days.

I focus on the dance team

 

[MGP]

I can't remember what game it was, it think it was against Temple back in the late '80s or '90s. But I had never seen players from an opposing football team jump into the stands and start fighting with the home fans. They were swinging helmets! If I remember right, there was a late hit out of bounds on a Syracuse player. The opposing player was ejected, then flipped off the Dome folks while walking to his sideline. The the SU fans behind the visitor's bench started throwing stuff at them, then the fights started between the players and fans. The field was cleared while the Dome when crazy. Pretty wild. When they resumed the game after 15-30 minutes, SU was given two 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalties. Never forget it.

Totally remember that! Temple - early 80's

 

[MGP]

Michelle Munn - the dome was so quiet and in shock. All you could hear was the poor girl crying. Thankfully she recovered from a fractured skull. It was frightening how hard she hit the court.

How The Syracuse Cheerleader Who Made Major Fall Is Doing Today

Former Syracuse cheerleader Michelle Munn flipped from the top of the pyramid but no one was there to catch her. Here's how she's doing now.

981thehawk.com

I was at that game as well. It may even have been vs. G-Town...

 

[Chip]

1999 BC football game. The scoreboard in the end zone used to be flat and you could set your beer on it if you were in the front row. Guy in our section did just that. Went to grab it and he knocked the whole thing over onto the 2nd deck below. Security came up, was yelling at everyone in the row as his friends were trying to protect him. Security guy said we have a camera on you and will be watching it the rest of the game. It was crazy.



(that guy was me. I felt absolutely terrible about it)

 

[VTAaron]

Craziest thing? Welcome to Walmart style.... I will leave you with the thought as it has happened to me.

 

[djorange1989]

I once saw someone eat a Dome Dog and NOT get e-coli!! I kid you not!

 

[justgold315]

I don't remember the exact year, but when I was a student circa 20 years ago I remember a female cheerleader falling from quite high up during a basketball game. She was taken off with a broken leg and a neck brace during the middle of a game while the game continued to go in the background.

I remember that too. She was tossed up, the catchers completely missed, and she landed on the concrete

 

[ChrisCourt]

I recall a time where a 'guy' was so drunkered, that I watched him run from his seat in the 215 section, straight to the bathroom to ralphhhhh and proceeded to toss his cookies into the hand wash station. All to go back to the seat, and somewhat recompose himself and finish watching the game.

And what a game it was. SU won, can't recall who we played. but this was back in 2018, and the 'guy' had SEVERAL Busch Lattes prior to the game.

I may or may not be, that 'guy'

 

[VTAaron]

I once saw someone eat a Dome Dog and NOT get e-coli!! I kid you not!

I don't think I EVER got e-coli from a dome dog... but then I was the one serving them back in the 90's when the booths were served by independent orgs... and the setup was way better... and they had pizza hut. We boiled them then.... and they were definitely not Hofmann's and I would question if they were today still (skinless etc)

 

[VTAaron]

I recall a time where a 'guy' was so drunkered, that I watched him run from his seat in the 215 section, straight to the bathroom to ralphhhhh and proceeded to toss his cookies into the hand wash station. All to go back to the seat, and somewhat recompose himself and finish watching the game.

And what a game it was. SU won, can't recall who we played. but this was back in 2018, and the 'guy' had SEVERAL Busch Lattes prior to the game.

I may or may not be, that 'guy'

Is it someone we know?

 

[Cusefan0307]

Yes he lived after being revived. Buffalo Bills - Syracuse connection .

He revived a ref in the Dome, passing on a lesson to the Syracuse trainer who saved Damar Hamlin

Brent Axe writes of a life-saving act at the Carrier Dome that helped educate the Buffalo Bills trainer who saved Damar Hamlin.

www.syracuse.com

There was also a guy who had a heart attack pre tip off of an early season basketball game 5 or 6 years ago. I remember the game being delayed while medical staff did CPR on him. On the way out he waved to the crowd and got a big ovation. There's probably not a better place in the area to have a heart attack if you are going to have one with the medical staff and equipment being on site while being just across the street from the hospitals.

 

[ChrisCourt]

Is it someone we know?

See ya Saturday at 7:30 LOL

 

[310Pigpen]

Watched this game face plant against the back of the benches in 2021 against Clemson. Don’t think he felt it until the next morning.

 

[Stevenson]

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 see you’ve met my family.

 

[orangezen]

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.

My dad and I where at the last Archie game and first dome game

 

[Millhouse]

1999 BC football game. The scoreboard in the end zone used to be flat and you could set your beer on it if you were in the front row. Guy in our section did just that. Went to grab it and he knocked the whole thing over onto the 2nd deck below. Security came up, was yelling at everyone in the row as his friends were trying to protect him. Security guy said we have a camera on you and will be watching it the rest of the game. It was crazy.



(that guy was me. I felt absolutely terrible about it)

Don't lean over the railing to look dont lean over the railing to look

Ten drunk guys lean over the railing to look

No chance I wasn't going to see the aftermath. If it got you banned for life, well, whatever, I had to look

 

[Millhouse]

There was also a guy who had a heart attack pre tip off of an early season basketball game 5 or 6 years ago. I remember the game being delayed while medical staff did CPR on him. On the way out he waved to the crowd and got a big ovation. There's probably not a better place in the area to have a heart attack if you are going to have one with the medical staff and equipment being on site while being just across the street from the hospitals.

You know the worst place to have a heart attack?

During a game of charades (or maybe during a game of fake heart attack)

One of Demitri Martin's best jokes

 

[Millhouse]

1999 BC football game. The scoreboard in the end zone used to be flat and you could set your beer on it if you were in the front row. Guy in our section did just that. Went to grab it and he knocked the whole thing over onto the 2nd deck below. Security came up, was yelling at everyone in the row as his friends were trying to protect him. Security guy said we have a camera on you and will be watching it the rest of the game. It was crazy.



(that guy was me. I felt absolutely terrible about it)

I remember asking where the cameras were so I could wave to them. Like the dome control center had Chinese ai robotic eyes tracking all movement

We were very drunk and extremely stupid but not that stupid

 

[Domedog84]

‘98 Tennessee. I was 13. My dad used my ticket in the 100s for a friend and bought my friend and I tickets 3 rows from the top in the end zone. We were on the aisle with a young couple sitting behind us and two older guys that were brothers who were absolutely hammered behind them.

This was the 4 beers a person days and they were bringing up drafts like crazy. They got into it with just about everyone in the section but were spilling beer on the couple behind us repeatedly. The woman finally went down and complained and the ushers came up and cut the one guy off. They did not cut off the brother, who went down and snagged another 4 drafts. The brother proceeds to dump beer on the woman again, she turns around and gets in his face, he yells at her and the boyfriend absolutely drills the dude in the face, breaking his glasses. Security comes up and kicks out the guy who got punched and his brother to a standing ovation.

One of the best crowds I have ever been part of at the dome and another funny story to make me always remember that day.

 

[Nick44]

I got 2, first one of my own doing…..I may or may not have dropped my nachos off the 2nd deck and they landed in the handicap section…during the national anthem. It looked like a crime scene.

Secondly, I swear I once saw a fan jump onto the field from an end zone during a football game and then ran the length of the field along the sideline (so he was somewhat hidden) jumped the fence at opposite endzone, ran up the stadium steps and into the concourse. Security no question lost him. Probably 10-12 years back. Might be only person on earth to run on a field and escape security. We sucked so it was one of few good memories.

 

[All4SU]

It was 1987. It was a team and a season for the ages. A guy a row in front of me spent the entire season bitching at the team. Every game. There was no satisfying this “fan.” Finally, it’s SU in the epic battle against WVU with an undefeated season on the line. Near the end of the game, WVU scores the go-ahead TD. This guy completely loses his $#|+. He promptly gets up out of his seat, cursing all the way, up the aisle and presumably out of the Dome. I take great pleasure in the thought that as he was walking through the quad, cursing to himself, he could hear the roar of the crowd as SU scored the winning TD and the 2pt conversion.

Second one. Sometime in the 80s and errant punt bounced into the stands right near me. A kid, who looked to be a college student, caught the ball, and without thought or hesitation, ran full speed up the aisle and out the door, running like Jim Brown. He was outta there and probably still has that ball on a shelf someplace.

 

[310Pigpen]

I got 2, first one of my own doing…..I may or may not have dropped my nachos off the 2nd deck and they landed in the handicap section…during the national anthem. It looked like a crime scene.

Secondly, I swear I once saw a fan jump onto the field from an end zone during a football game and then ran the length of the field along the sideline (so he was somewhat hidden) jumped the fence at opposite endzone, ran up the stadium steps and into the concourse. Security no question lost him. Probably 10-12 years back. Might be only person on earth to run on a field and escape security. We sucked so it was one of few good memories.

Can we talk about the streaker?! Here’s the thread about it. Streaker actually comes in and posts. Good times