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jstud63 Wrote:Maybe the most bazaar weather that I can remember was back in 97 when we played against Arizona back when the had Ortege Jenkins and Trung Canidate. We took a flight out to Tucson on a Thursday night which was odd because we were to play that Saturday night. We arrived at the stadium that friday for a walk through practice and it was around 110 degrees. Every one was soaked with sweat. We got back to the hotel and everybody had the air conditioner pumping at full blast.

That Saturday morning everything was great the weather was typical i guess for Tucson and it seem that it was going to be an absolute gorgeous day to play football. Then came the rain. Out of nowhere. At one point it seem as if the water coming down was being poured out of a pitcher. On top of that thunder and lightning forced us to a two hour delay.

After the delay the rain simply went away. We ended up losing by two touchdowns. The ref took away a pick six interception by Dainon Sidney and also forgot to throw a flag on an obvious penalty that lead to a touchdown. I also remember that at the end of the game they was still trying to pad there stats by throwing hail mary's to the end zone to run up the score. It was pathetic. The fact that they felt that they should have hung up sixty on us and they couldn't. If it wasn't for the refs we could have won the game. I mean for crying out loud, that secondary we had back then had three guys drafted to the NFL.

I was there and really thought we could have won the thing. That thunder/lightning was scary for us in the stands!!!

RobSmith Wrote:Coldest was also in the band at M$U. Liberty Bowl, 1991-2ish. 3+ hours in literal freezing rain while holding a metal horn with ice forming on it.

I was there and could not remember the dates but it was cold. I did not have gloves and regretted it the entire game.

Hot doesn't really bother me that bad, so I can't tell you the hottest game I've been to. But the coldest by far was when I was in high school. It was one of our rivals... Sparkman @ Hazel Green. I was in the band and I had a thermal undershirt and thick tights under my uniform, hothands inside my gloves, and bought 2 or 3 hot chocolates that night. One of our trumpets lost a tuning slide on the field because it was so cold.