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

[Nick44]

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

Mystery solved! Amazing, thanks for sharing. That was definitely what I witnessed.

 

[DoubleDee]

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

Same. Thanks Dad.

That reminds me of something crazy, although not at the time but in hindsight. We literally sat top row on the sidelines, and as one could smoke in there at the time, the entire area was like you were in the clouds. Sat in a similar area for the Sugar Ray fight in a similar environment.

 

[buffalorange]

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.

That was a crazy incident. The Temple player was ejected after his second blatant late hit on an SU player, maybe even the QB. The player stood in the middle of the field trying to flip the bird at the fans through his taped up hands. The Temple staff didn't control him on the sidelines and he ended up throwing a cup of Gatorade at the booing fans. That is when the fans began throwing drinks. I believe SU won the game.

 

[CuseFan]

Was at both the cheerleader falling and Nebraska upset games. Both were so memorable!

 

[VTAaron]

Honestly, some of these events are horrible. Hope all those peeps are doing ok for all of them. It's not cool with people fell/broke bones etc. I was just talking about world of walmart kinda stuff, but there is nothing happy or fun about persons hurt in all of this thread.

 

[orangesox44]

I was hoping to see a story of myself in this thread…. Haven’t seen one yet

 

[orangesox44]

They delivered beer and all stadium food straight to any seat in The stadium, so you never had to leave your seat unless you had to pee…. Or go outside to smoke…. Or get a great variety of food, chicken wings, steak sandwiches, dinosaur bbq, or a variety of Burger King food and Italian food…. You could also pay cash for all of this, plus we were consistently in the top 25 in bball and football, competing for conference championships

 

[BigNastyJon]

They delivered beer and all stadium food straight to any seat in The stadium, so you never had to leave your seat unless you had to pee…. Or go outside to smoke…. Or get a great variety of food, chicken wings, steak sandwiches, dinosaur bbq, or a variety of Burger King food and Italian food…. You could also pay cash for all of this, plus we were consistently in the top 25 in bball and football, competing for conference championships

Now get off my lawn!!

 

[Jake]

Saw a visiting fan get confused and take a whiz in the men’s room “hand washer”. He may have been hammered and he may have been wearing a Virginia tech jersey.

 

[VTAaron]

Saw a visiting fan get confused and take a whiz in the men’s room “hand washer”. He may have been hammered and he may have been wearing a Virginia tech jersey.

Nice try

 

[sufandu]

Did we ever get the full story on that? Was she in her right mind and THAT frustrates? Seems beyond belief.

It was an Indiana fan at an early season game. I think they came into the game favored and we killed them. She was so disgusted she took all of her Indiana gear off.

 

[Cheriehoop]

It was back when St John’s was the Redmen, the students sat in the Blue curtain stands and the team benches at the dome were on the blue curtain side. I was sitting in my season ticket 312 nose bleed seats and something caught my eye across the court. It was an SU student running down a blue curtain aisle as fast as he could then turned running down the walkway in front of the Blue Curtain section. He then grabbed the Indian headdress of the St John’s mascot right off his head. He did it in one quick swoop, turned towards the backcourt running as fast he could holding the headdress in his hand above his head. By then about 5 security guys noticed and started running after him but by then he had reached the stands in the backcourt running straight up them disappearing totally from view up into the back court concourse and probably out an exit. By then the dome was roaring finally noticing the fiasco.

Everyone was yelling, laughing and wondering what the heck was going on. I ended up telling the people around me what had happened, most had missed everything but the very end seeing the security etc running after the guy who was running up the stairs. An usher came up to me asking what I saw from my 312 row M seats. I told him and he told me to wait, that he was going to tell someone. I continued to watch the game and the usher never returned- not that I could tell him much other than the color of his coat and what aisle he had come from (no way I knew what row). It became a big thing with St. John’s demanding its’ return, reward offers, police involvement and a number of articles asking for its‘ return and pleading for information. Last I heard it had never been found, I guess it was valuable. It was pretty funny though - ok, any of you finally going to fess up?

 

[ImperialOrange]

It was back when St John’s was the Redmen, the students sat in the Blue curtain stands and the team benches at the dome were on the blue court side. I was sitting in my season ticket 312 nose bleed seats and something caught my eye across the court. It was an SU student running down a blue curtain aisle as fast as he could then turned running down the walkway in front of the Blue Curtain section. He then grabbed the Indian headdress of the St John’s mascot right off his head. He did it in one quick swoop, turned towards the backcourt running as fast he could holding the headdress in his hand above his head. By then about 5 security guys noticed and started running after him but by then he had reached the stands in the backcourt running straight up them disappearing totally from view up into the back court concourse and probably out an exit. By then the dome was roaring finally noticing the fiasco.

Everyone was yelling, laughing and wondering what the heck was going on. I ended up telling the people around me what had happened, most had missed everything but the very end seeing the security etc running after the guy who was running up the stairs. An usher came up to me asking what I saw from my 312 row M seats. I told him and he told me to wait, that he was going to tell someone. I continued to watch the game and the usher never returned- not that I could tell him much other than the color of his coat and what aisle he had come from (no way I knew what row). It became a big thing with St. John’s demanding its’ return, reward offers, police involvement and a number of articles asking for its‘ return and pleading for information. Last I heard it had never been found, I guess it was valuable. It was pretty funny though - ok, any of you finally going to fess up?

Orangemen vs Redmen... what a world we used to live in for better or worse.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

My cousin and I were sitting way up in the 300s for a packed Georgetown basketball game in the 80s. We were probably around 13 or 14. This was back in the day where you could get a big plastic cup full of soda. It might have been 64 oz. We got up to our seats at the start of the game and before he could take a sip, my cousin loses control of his cup and the entire contents spill onto the back and head of the guy in front of us. He stands up and whips around pissed and ready to throw down. He sees my cousin who just shrugs and gives him a weak “sorry” ala John Belushi after smashing the guitar in Animal House. The frustrated guy turned around when he realized there was nothing he could do. He had to watch the entire game soaked to the bone.

 

[Chip]

‘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.

The 4 draft beers per person was not a great idea in hindsight.

Beer sales end at the start of the 3rd quarter.

Oh yeah? Well there’s 10 of us so we’re buying 40 at halftime.

 

[Jake]

The 4 draft beers per person was not a great idea in hindsight.

Beer sales end at the start of the 3rd quarter.

Oh yeah? Well there’s 10 of so we’re buying 40 at halftime.

Yeah. They used to give them to you in those 4 cup carriers you get at Dunkin. Covered them with cellophane to keep from spilling.

And you had the hawkers roaming the stadium. Didn’t even need to leave your seat.

There was a reason the fans were loud in the 80s-90s.

Can’t imagine the stuff the dome crew had to clean up.

 

[bballbeadle]

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

 

[OttosShoes]

Julie Boeheim helping someone find their phone. She is 100% as sweet in real life as she is on TV.

 

[SUinNWE]

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This game was miserable physically but elating emotionally! I was also riggity riggity wrecked. Had a hard time believing what I was witnessing.

 

[FrancoPizza]

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)

I miss the vendors shouting “get your ICE cold beer here!”

 

[HastingsCuse]

Orangemen vs Redmen... what a world we used to live in for better or worse.

I have a "Redmen are Deadmen" button in a drawer somewhere.

 

[Finwad32]

1997 - Syracuse vs NC. State. I believe we lost like 33-32.

I was sitting about 10 rows behind the SU Bench. At halftime, my dad’s friend tells me to sneak down on the field when everyone was in the locker room. Ties a pink index card to my shorts.

I walk down to the railing and slide on the field. Players start coming back out. I give McNabb a high five, pat Konrad on the shoulder pad and then go stand against the wall.

Security guard comes over to me and says hey kid, what are you doing down here. I say, Paul told me I could come down. He goes Paul who? I said Pasquoloni! He radios someone, I literally see HCPP look back, make a face and mutter something followed by a “no” emphatically. lol.

Same Security guard walks me out the tunnel laughing and brings me to the security room. Looked like 200 TV’s on the wall. They proceed to question me. Why are you down there? Did you want to harm anyone? Were you planning a terroristic threat (I was like 13 lol). Tell me never to do it again.

Security guard then walks me back to my seat, my father and his friend are crying they’re laughing so hard. Security guard was great about it. But that security room was insane.

 

[Phillymoose]

Exchanging monotone pleasantries with Blake Bednarz as we were stuck together under the crush of the dogpile at midfield after beating WVU in 1987.

 

[Cheriehoop]

I also remember the game where fans in the end zone broke the railing and they all started falling on the field - can’t recall what game, it was quite a while ago.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

It was back when St John’s was the Redmen, the students sat in the Blue curtain stands and the team benches at the dome were on the blue court side. I was sitting in my season ticket 312 nose bleed seats and something caught my eye across the court. It was an SU student running down a blue curtain aisle as fast as he could then turned running down the walkway in front of the Blue Curtain section. He then grabbed the Indian headdress of the St John’s mascot right off his head. He did it in one quick swoop, turned towards the backcourt running as fast he could holding the headdress in his hand above his head. By then about 5 security guys noticed and started running after him but by then he had reached the stands in the backcourt running straight up them disappearing totally from view up into the back court concourse and probably out an exit. By then the dome was roaring finally noticing the fiasco.

Everyone was yelling, laughing and wondering what the heck was going on. I ended up telling the people around me what had happened, most had missed everything but the very end seeing the security etc running after the guy who was running up the stairs. An usher came up to me asking what I saw from my 312 row M seats. I told him and he told me to wait, that he was going to tell someone. I continued to watch the game and the usher never returned- not that I could tell him much other than the color of his coat and what aisle he had come from (no way I knew what row). It became a big thing with St. John’s demanding its’ return, reward offers, police involvement and a number of articles asking for its‘ return and pleading for information. Last I heard it had never been found, I guess it was valuable. It was pretty funny though - ok, any of you finally going to fess up?

The headress, Michigan banner and the lax trophy are all in my safe room.