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thought it would be fun to share some memories of the Metrodome years - specifically, memories beyond the play on the field. Share your own if you'd like. Here are three of mine...
1) I have already posted this one on GH but it is related to this subject. I'll make it short. As I was leaving the Metrodome after the last victory over Wisconsin, I purchased a little Gopher football for my son (then 5, now 11). I had him by the hand as he clutched his new football with his other arm. As we walked along the NW side of the stadium, the football squirted out of his arm. As he turned around to pick it up, a drunken Badger fan walking behind us lunged forward and kicked the ball out into the street, with all his might, barely missing my son's outstretched hands in the process. It was in full view of 30 or more people... a third of which rushed out in the street to retrieve my son's ball, another third basically assaulted the drunken idiot, while the last third looked on with gaping jaws.
2) I consider myself an "insider" of sorts regarding the infamous bathroom sex encounter at last year's Iowa game. My wife and I had attended the game with another couple and the other three all had to visit the bathroom on the way out of the stadium. I was the only one with an empty bladder so I waited by the door. I cringed as I followed the last part of the game on one of the monitors outside the bathroom. As I was watching, a previously unseen dude struck up a conversation with me. He started by saying "Pretty rough day for the gophers, huh? I acknowledged and then he continued: "But not as rough as it is for these two over here", pointing at two people seated in the stadium entry, surrounded by security and a couple cops. It was at this point I noticed the guy that had started talking to me had an audio earpiece and he clearly was bursting to get some information off his chest. I obliged and inquired about the two and he proceeded to tell me all about the bathroom sex encounter. I got a good look at both of them and of course immediately shared the news with the rest of my party when they returned.
3) We took some west coast relatives to the '07 Ohio State game. As the fourth quarter arrived and it was clear the Gophs were out of the game, I decided not to subject our guests to more of a game that they didn't have a connection with anyway, so we left mid-fourth quarter. As we left the underground parking across the street and eventually got on 7th street, we had to wait for an Ohio State fan and a Woman that was walking in front of him. At first he didn't look drunk... he was walking more like he had a physical or mental challenge. My first reaction seeing the impatient woman walking in front of him was thinking she didn't look like a very empathetic care taker. The guy struggled past us and caught up to her at the corner. Just then the light changed and as we drove forward everything became clear. The guy wasn't challenged at all. He was just THAT drunk because the entire front side of his pants were freshly wet with pee. There was a scene in our car that started with complete silence for several seconds before we all bursted out laughing.
1) I have already posted this one on GH but it is related to this subject. I'll make it short. As I was leaving the Metrodome after the last victory over Wisconsin, I purchased a little Gopher football for my son (then 5, now 11). I had him by the hand as he clutched his new football with his other arm. As we walked along the NW side of the stadium, the football squirted out of his arm. As he turned around to pick it up, a drunken Badger fan walking behind us lunged forward and kicked the ball out into the street, with all his might, barely missing my son's outstretched hands in the process. It was in full view of 30 or more people... a third of which rushed out in the street to retrieve my son's ball, another third basically assaulted the drunken idiot, while the last third looked on with gaping jaws.
2) I consider myself an "insider" of sorts regarding the infamous bathroom sex encounter at last year's Iowa game. My wife and I had attended the game with another couple and the other three all had to visit the bathroom on the way out of the stadium. I was the only one with an empty bladder so I waited by the door. I cringed as I followed the last part of the game on one of the monitors outside the bathroom. As I was watching, a previously unseen dude struck up a conversation with me. He started by saying "Pretty rough day for the gophers, huh? I acknowledged and then he continued: "But not as rough as it is for these two over here", pointing at two people seated in the stadium entry, surrounded by security and a couple cops. It was at this point I noticed the guy that had started talking to me had an audio earpiece and he clearly was bursting to get some information off his chest. I obliged and inquired about the two and he proceeded to tell me all about the bathroom sex encounter. I got a good look at both of them and of course immediately shared the news with the rest of my party when they returned.
3) We took some west coast relatives to the '07 Ohio State game. As the fourth quarter arrived and it was clear the Gophs were out of the game, I decided not to subject our guests to more of a game that they didn't have a connection with anyway, so we left mid-fourth quarter. As we left the underground parking across the street and eventually got on 7th street, we had to wait for an Ohio State fan and a Woman that was walking in front of him. At first he didn't look drunk... he was walking more like he had a physical or mental challenge. My first reaction seeing the impatient woman walking in front of him was thinking she didn't look like a very empathetic care taker. The guy struggled past us and caught up to her at the corner. Just then the light changed and as we drove forward everything became clear. The guy wasn't challenged at all. He was just THAT drunk because the entire front side of his pants were freshly wet with pee. There was a scene in our car that started with complete silence for several seconds before we all bursted out laughing.