Let's change it up. What's your most embarrasing moment involving Gopher football?

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The time I was at practice and asked this guy who the guy was wearing the loafer shirt. He said--its my son. He explained to me what his son did--quite minor. The player is still on the team. What are the odds of the guy being the dad of the player with the gopher loafer shirt on.
 

I think the guy was too far gone to be embarrassed but when we left the Ohio State game in the Metrodome early in 2007 (gophers were getting killed and we were hosting guests), we hit the street in our car and were beginning to leave the Metrodome area on 7th street. We came to a stop light and although the light turned green, we had to wait a few extra moments as an older guy decked out in Buckeye gear was limping badly and slowly in the cross walk. One of us mentioned the poor guy must have some form of palsey or perhaps brain damage. I then glanced to his guardian already waiting for him to catch up on the curb corner. She had a very angry look on her face and my first thought was how insensitive she must be and how she shouldn't be taking care of a guy in that condition. As the guy finally reached the curb and turned our way as we started up... the whole situation came crystal clear. His khaki pants were were dripping wet from crotch, through inner legs, all the way to his shoes. He wasn't "challenged" at all. He was THAT drunk and it was his wife, not his "guardian" waiting for him with the angry look on her face. He probably didn't remember but it certainly was an embarrassing moment for her.
 

Most embarrassing would be a toss-up between working my "game" on a 15-year-old in Madison in 2002 (we've all been there, right?), or being so drunk we slept through a fire at the hotel before the 2003 Sun Bowl. Apparently the firefighters came running through the halls banging on doors and everything. Oops.

At least I've never had a chair leg shoved in my eye socket.
 

I saw that guy too...

Schnauzer said:
I think the guy was too far gone to be embarrassed but when we left the Ohio State game in the Metrodome early in 2007 (gophers were getting killed and we were hosting guests), we hit the street in our car and were beginning to leave the Metrodome area on 7th street. We came to a stop light and although the light turned green, we had to wait a few extra moments as an older guy decked out in Buckeye gear was limping badly and slowly in the cross walk. One of us mentioned the poor guy must have some form of palsey or perhaps brain damage. I then glanced to his guardian already waiting for him to catch up on the curb corner. She had a very angry look on her face and my first thought was how insensitive she must be and how she shouldn't be taking care of a guy in that condition. As the guy finally reached the curb and turned our way as we started up... the whole situation came crystal clear. His khaki pants were were dripping wet from crotch, through inner legs, all the way to his shoes. He wasn't "challenged" at all. He was THAT drunk and it was his wife, not his "guardian" waiting for him with the angry look on her face. He probably didn't remember but it certainly was an embarrassing moment for her.
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I saw him inside the 'Dome. My buddy and I were walking back to our seats in the upper deck end zone and walked past him in the concourse. He yelled "Ohio!" at the top of his lungs, something we've laughed at since. His female companion was not impressed, although I don't recall if he had peed himself before that.
 

drinks at Northpoint said:
Worst: 55-0. We were at the game, surrounded by Hogeye fans. One drunk fell into me and almost knocked me over. Another drunk Iowa couple propositioned our guest for a three way. I don't know what was worse, the game or the drunken, smug, arrogance of all those around us. The Lois Feldman incident did bring a smile to my face the next morning.
2nd Worst: Michigan.
3rd Worst: South Dakota. I really wanted the Brewster thing to work. I defended him in multiple arguments for 3 years. One play convinced me I was wrong and Brewster needed to go. USD on offense about their own 30. The left gaurd pulls to the right and the right gaurd pulled to the left. The two run into each other right behind the center and look at each other like they knew they effed up. Meanwhile the QB ran around right tackle for a 30 yard gain. Walking out of that stadium and seeing the team, it's fans, and their incredibly obese cheerleaders taking a team picture under the scoreboard was horrible.
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Man. Those are spot on for me as well! Except, I think, after much deliberation, the South Dakota game has to be my #1. I was in attendance that week (as I am at all home games, by the way, Michigan '03 is a close 2nd as I was a Soph. At the U at the time and in attendance int the lower level of the student section) and have never seen a team that could not stop the SAME basic play over and over and over again. Absolutely NO excuse to lose to a .500 win percentage FCS school. I was working for a large corporate bank that I am still employed by, but no longer working at the location in the F-M area at the time and had to listen to KFGO announcers (after NDSU had trounced South Dakota a week or two later i believe) absolutely lambast my beloved alma mater all day on the radio about how terrible we were and how we had no business being in the big ten. I have never been so mad & embarrassed at the same time. Sad, sad series of events for myself. :(
 


55-0 was far and away the least enjoyable game I've endured as a Gopher fan. I've been a mature Gopher fan however. Any embarrassing moments I have as an individual relate to my alma mater, Wisconsin, which will surprise nobody on this site.
 

Jike Spingleton said:
Most embarrassing would be a toss-up between working my "game" on a 15-year-old in Madison in 2002.
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I'd say it was less embarrassing that you were hitting on a minor and more embarrassing that you were attempting to have relations with a female human being ostensibly born and raised in Wisconsin. How drunk were you? Did your inebriation make her appear to be sub-300?
 

e.bigelow said:
Man. Those are spot on for me as well! Except, I think, after much deliberation, the South Dakota game has to be my #1. I was in attendance that week (as I am at all home games, by the way, Michigan '03 is a close 2nd as I was a Soph. At the U at the time and in attendance int the lower level of the student section) and have never seen a team that could not stop the SAME basic play over and over and over again. Absolutely NO excuse to lose to a .500 win percentage FCS school. I was working for a large corporate bank that I am still employed by, but no longer working at the location in the F-M area at the time and had to listen to KFGO announcers (after NDSU had trounced South Dakota a week or two later i believe) absolutely lambast my beloved alma mater all day on the radio about how terrible we were and how we had no business being in the big ten. I have never been so mad & embarrassed at the same time. Sad, sad series of events for myself. :(
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With you on the Coyotes. I was so steamed I chucked my Gopher hat in the river on the walk back to the West Bank. I was covering the team for Bleacher Report at the time (yeah, yeah, it sucks, I know), and wrote something to the effect that the Gophers had no business losing to a team that was likely going to celebrate their victory with a post-game party at the Subway inside of Walmart in Vermillion. Somehow, that made its way to a bunch of Coyote fans and they jammed my email with a wide variety of threats and nasty messages. I stopped writing shortly thereafter.
 

Mine might be a yearly thing that has gone on for at least 35 years. That is proudly, humbled and embarrassed to say each season that "I Am A Gopher Fan." See once I say it ...its not so bad. One of these years, one of these years ............
 



Losing to 4-7 Pacific at home was maybe not the worst but it was kind of the Gutey era in a nutshell. The Utah debacle back 90 would be another example.
 

dpodoll68 said:
I'd say it was less embarrassing that you were hitting on a minor and more embarrassing that you were attempting to have relations with a female human being ostensibly born and raised in Wisconsin. How drunk were you? Did your inebriation make her appear to be sub-300?
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Give me some credit. She was a Gophers fan. It wasn't until a while later, when I asked what year she was, that I got what grade she was in as a response. The night ended there.
 

I am not sure if this was my most embarrassing moment but the 2005 loss to Wisconsin at the Metrodome was my worst moment as a fan. I had given my Wisconsin football tickets to a friend and then decided to buy a pair of tickets in the second deck of the north end of the Metrodome. We arrived early and took our seats hoping to enjoy a great game. After about 5 minutes into the game, 6 already well oiled Wisconsin students sat down in front of us. When we began to dominate the game in the second half they decided that more drinking was their best course of action. As a result, by the middle of the fourth quarter they could no longer stand and several of them were already passed out. Then it happened as only Mason could do it. With the game almost won Wisconsin blocks our punt in the end zone to win the game. As we are getting ready to leave a few minutes later, one of the passed out students wakes up and asks me “What happened?” I turned to him and said “Good question.”
 




Fall Quarter circa 1976...last game of the year at Memorial Stadium. We decide to rush the field and tear down the goalpost in the closed end of the stadium, about 40 of us or so. When the goalpost finally came down in a sea of drunken humanity, that damn sumbitch managed to come down on top of my foot and broke 2 toes. I had to hobble all the way to the student medical center for x-rays and treatment. I retain the physical scars of my pain and embarassment to this day.
 

This is less gophers and more minibeaver, but it happened at a gopher game. I was introduced to Gopher Football because my dad had season tickets during the dome era. Consequently, during one of these games I had my first trough urinal experience. All the stalls were taken so i had no choice. I was not a teenager yet, and I can remember being so nervous I couldn't even 'do muh' thing'. I ended up standing their with trow down for a few minutes before I gave up and went to look for an open stall again. Felt like the whole room was staring at me. That was one of the most embarrassing times of my life.
 


All the obvious embarrassing moments are mentioned (USD, 03 Mich, 05 Wisc, etc...) and unfortunately I have no good game day stories. So I'll go with "Big Play Traye" hushing the home crowd at TCF after returning a blocked field goal for a TD against Purdue. Great play, but celebrating a TD by hushing the home fans was embarrassing to watch.
 

Being born a year after their last Rose Bowl appearance. Has it really been 50 years?!?
 

I'll add a second. It was in the 1980's and I don't recall who we were playing but I think it was probably Iowa or WI because it was one of those 50/50 crowds. At that time, the offense could call a crowd noise "timeout" (essentially a timeout without being charged a timeout). We called a crowd noise timeout and we were the home team. Ugh!
 

MNGoldenGophers1 said:
I'll add a second. It was in the 1980's and I don't recall who we were playing but I think it was probably Iowa or WI because it was one of those 50/50 crowds. At that time, the offense could call a crowd noise "timeout" (essentially a timeout without being charged a timeout). We called a crowd noise timeout and we were the home team. Ugh!
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This reminds me of Northwestern this season. They had to go to a silent count in the 4th quarter at home against Nebraska.
 

It's funny because my brother goes to school in Vermtown and they do have a Subway in their Wal-Mart, you may have been right!
 

Being only 24 I must say the most painful memory is the TT meltdown. Or the Iowa beatdown at the Dome. Kinda leaning towards the Iowa beatdown as the worst, because it was just such a buildup and than the Gophers laid a egg.
 

I was in the dome for a lot of embarrassing moments, including 55-donut and the Michigan collapse. But being born and raised in Fargo, ND the worst was our first loss to NDSU in the Dome. I had survived the 10-9 squeaker over the Bison the year before amongst friends, but the next year I was sitting with family smack dab in the middle of all the Bison fans. The game wasn't even close and drunken Bison fans enjoyed mocking me mercilessly. And now another loss later, going back home to North Dakota is still pretty rough and the people up in Fargo aren't ready to let it die any time soon.
 


Homecoming game in 1998 against Michigan State. I was going to KU at the time and was watching the game at a sports bar with a few Gopher fan friends and a few neutral game friends. Adam Bailey was literally lining up to kick the game winning FG with 13 or so seconds left in the game and the bartender changed the channel on the little TV they stuffed us in in the corner of the restaurant and I missed the kick. I stormed up to the bartender and in an out of character moment I started to yell at him and said a few things I regretted after. Since I'm a big tennis fan, another buddy who was with us, unscrewed the wooden tennis racquet that the sports bar had on the wall next to our table, he put it under his jacket and left with it. We hung it up as a badge of honor the rest of college. The racquet now hangs in my son's room, but he doesn't know it's stolen goods.

We won the game, I saw the replay and never went back to that sports bar again for a Gopher game.

Go Gophers!!
 

Apologizes for the crudness but it happened this year on my roadtrip to Iowa. While battling a hangover I had to find a port-a-potty in order to drop a deuce. Well you can't rush perfection and it took me a few minutes longer than normal. I started to hear some comments from those waiting in line: "What is taking so long?" "Is that guy ok?" "Is anybody really in there?" THen when I stood up to finish the thing must have moved a bit so a big roar went up from the crowd. It was all in good fun but yeah, having about 100 people know you just dropped anchor isn't exactly what I want to be known for.
 

Rescooter said:
The bottom for me was in Brewster's 1st year and the high expectations we all had.

I'll set the stage: lot's of hype going in to the season after having gone to a bowl game the year before and lots of talk about Big 10 championships. We had a seemingly easy OCC schedule. Reality set in after the first game - a loss to Bowling Green. It wasn't the loss, but how erratic our play was and disorganized everything seemed to be. Next game; a win, but still having the same problems (and worse). A trip to Florida - same result.

Our first opponent was Purdue. Our offense and defense were still a mess, but Purdue also started playing to our "level". We were looking for something....anything to show us that things were changing and we were going to get into the a groove and win some games. The momentum went back and forth. Our defense actually stopped Purdue on the 30. They lined up for a field goal. Here's what happened:

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Oh god, I remember that.

In all seriousness, Jamal Harris is on my list of top five worst CBs in my 30+ years of watchling Gopher football.
 

Sumtimegophs said:
Oh god, I remember that.

In all seriousness, Jamal Harris is on my list of top five worst CBs in my 30+ years of watchling Gopher football.
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AMEN. My favorite would be he'd get BURNED and the receiver would clean drop the ball, and Jamal would pound his chest like he had something to do with it from 10 yards away. UGH!!!!!!!!!!! Seeing him do that at Indiana after the Gophers had blown a significant lead should probably have been on my prior list.
 

Being relatively new to Gopher fandom, I would say the most embarrassing moment relating to the Gophers is 58-0 at Michigan.

For me personally, it was against Northern Illinois in 2010. I was so drunk I accidentally walked into the women's bathroom. The damn entrances are too close together. I got about 3 steps in and realized my mistake. Only a couple people saw but I felt really dumb the rest of the game.
 

1967 LeRoy Keyes fumbles on the goalline against Indiana, and cost us a trip to the Rose Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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