Worst weather Giants games you attended

at Patriots, October 2003. Same weekend Yankees Red Sox ALCS - I think the baseball game was rained out.

Tiki fumbled on the 1st drive of the game and it was returned for a Pats TD, game may as well have been over at that point. Giants had 5 turnovers.

just a miserable October, rainy, windy day and it happened to be a game i attended in person.

I went to a decade straight of home games and that was by far the coldest of them all. Bitter cold with the old stadium wind whipping across the parking lot. Needed handwarmers, footwarmers the whole arsenal. Only game my tailgate crew ever took breaks in their vehicles to warm up.

And the game went to overtime!

Wind, rain and cold.

But...

December 31st of 2017. The last game of the year in a miserable 3-13 season against Washington. Ben McAdoo was fired a few weeks earlier. Sunny and clear, but windy, and the high temp that day was about 15 degrees. It was between 8 and 10 degrees in the lot all morning, and the game time temperature hovered around 13 degrees.

I vividly remember putting my drink down on a table in the lot that morning, speaking to a friend for about five minutes, and when I turned around, the drink was already slushy because it began to freeze.

Coldest game I’ve ever attended.

Giants won 18-10.

In comment 15131564 pjcas18 said:

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at Patriots, October 2003. Same weekend Yankees Red Sox ALCS - I think the baseball game was rained out. Tiki fumbled on the 1st drive of the game and it was returned for a Pats TD, game may as well have been over at that point. Giants had 5 turnovers. just a miserable October, rainy, windy day and it happened to be a game i attended in person.

I was at that game too. A miserable afternoon. That might have been the game the Pats started that insane winning streak.

December 10th, lousy teams, 4:00 game, end of the season.
Thomas Lewis (remember him?) ran one back for a TD...Coldest game I even attended (I had season tix for 20 years, until Mara sold out with the PSL's-asshole), I was with a friend who was a Redskins fan...we tried to stay warm with the bourbon we snuck in...it didn't work. My feel were frozen...Giants won, but boy was I cold....

hard to remember -and I see mentioned here

the 1990 Bills game late in the season when Simms went down. -cold- wet rain bordering freezing temps

the 86 championship game with the biting wind

also the 1990 season Chicago playoff game - very cold - snow ice on the stadium floors below your feet - saving grace was the bright sun

always prepared with a cold weather suit. - wet rainy games were always the worst

Freezing rain, wind, treacherous driving conditions. My buddy who I attended games with never made it down from Connecticut to meet me. Many other people didn't make it either. Miserable, miserable day. I was dressed heavily plus had large plastic garbage bag covering me. Got soaked anyway. Especially my feet. To make things worse, it was the game that Phil Simms was injured (he never returned that season.) Jim Kelly was knocked out of the game, as well. I had been to many bad weather games but this was, by far, the worst.

where we won in OT despite Tiki’s 3 fumbles was bone-chilling cold

Only 47,000 tickets sold at this game. Temperature in the teens and windy. Maybe 25,000 came to the game and it was almost empty when the game ended. We were under cover in the end zone. Giants and Eagles were fighting to stay out of last place. Looked like the Giants would win with only a few minutes to go. Up 14 to 10. Neither team could move the ball very well. They put this rookie in who nobody ever hear of. Wilbert Montgomery, 6th round pick out of Abilene Christian. Think they gave the ball to Montgomery almost every play and in 2 1/2 minutes marched right up the field to score and beat my Giants 17 to 14. Brutally cold game. Long drive home to Delaware and no one spoke in the car.

But I was there for undefeated Bears at the Meadowlands in 2006. Poured rain, cold as hell, and Hester ran back that 108-yard kickoff. Brutal.

In comment 15131522 Earl the goat said:

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In comment 15131518 johnnyb said: Quote: No snow but the wind was brutal, and damn it was cold. And it was the late game, so it got colder as the game moved on. Somehow I did not seem to mind the cold. Verse the Skins. I was there too but dressed properly Very very cold and windy

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In comment 15131575 Bobby Humphrey's Earpad said:

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I went to a decade straight of home games and that was by far the coldest of them all. Bitter cold with the old stadium wind whipping across the parking lot. Needed handwarmers, footwarmers the whole arsenal. Only game my tailgate crew ever took breaks in their vehicles to warm up. And the game went to overtime!

I agree. The 2007 Skins game was bad, but the CAR game was at night, which made it so much worse. The wind was brutal. I’d also throw in the 1997 WC game v Philly - a steady mix of rain and snow, topped off by a Giant meltdown.

I think the worst weather game I ever went to was a Jets (Balt) Colts game with a wind chill of like -10. Both teams sucked, the wind caused numerous missed gimme FG’s, and it ended up 6-3. I don’t even remember who won!

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1.) Bears v Giants - last game 1977?, snowy cold 2.) Bill v Giants - 1990 - ice on the roads, ice on the field, nightmare to drive in

Bears v Giants is the worst weather for me, it was also my first Giants game!! Great memories!!!

But 1981 vs. The Skins in November. Driving rain storm all day. I've been to cold games and I don't mind it as much, you can bundle up. Rain sucks. You cant hide from it. Giants were down late. Simms got knocked out for the rest of the season, Brunner comes in and leads them on a crazy drive including a miracle 4th down td to Johnnie Mistler. Looks like we won. We squib kick it, they get a good return Mosely hits like a 50 yarder to tie it at the gun then a similiar kick to win it in OT. Was soaked heading home depressed. Friggen Mark Mosely. Guy beat us like 10 times with gw fg's.

I've been to 30ish games (all in 99 and 00 -jr and sr year of hs) and the Giants Panthers OT game where Ward ran wild was the first that came to mind. We were standing on a block of ice all game and when it went to OT we almost lost it. I think that's the only game my wife has been to.

so I didn't attend a lot of games, but the worst weather one I went to was 12/28/2003, home game against the Panthers (also Fassel's last game as Head Coach).

It was a 4pm game in old Giants Stadium, so the weather wasn't bad...until the sun set.

Then the wind and cold rolled in. I live in the Northeast, and I used to ski, so I'm used to nasty weather, but this was miserable...you could feel the cold bite from the cement bite right through my winter boots and heavy socks. Like most of the crowd, I was on my feet and stamping around, not only to cheer, but to keep warm.

Funny, when I went to the NFC Championship a few years earlier in January, the weather was really good for that time of year. Funny how that works...

December as I recall. Giants lead almost the whole game until right at the end. McNair scored the winning TD as I recall with hardly any time left. We drove down from Massachusetts that day and drove back same day. Cooler of beer etc. Took one step out of the car and looked at each other and said are you shittin' me? Drank a beer, jumped back in car and stayed until game over. Totally numb from the cold when we left in defeat. A long ride home.

during the game. We didn't we jumped in the car after drinking our beer then went into the stadium.

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and the worst was vs Tenn., 12/16/2018. Cold, pouring rain. Giants getting shut out at halftime. I swear there were less than 200 people in the stands at the start of the 3rd qtr. The weather always seems worse when we suck.

I went to that game as well.

No surprise, I forgot about that one.

In comment 15131585 Vin_Cuccs said:

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Wind, rain and cold. But... December 31st of 2017. The last game of the year in a miserable 3-13 season against Washington. Ben McAdoo was fired a few weeks earlier. Sunny and clear, but windy, and the high temp that day was about 15 degrees. It was between 8 and 10 degrees in the lot all morning, and the game time temperature hovered around 13 degrees. I vividly remember putting my drink down on a table in the lot that morning, speaking to a friend for about five minutes, and when I turned around, the drink was already slushy because it began to freeze. Coldest game I’ve ever attended. Giants won 18-10.

Oh yeah I forgot I was there for that, too.

In comment 15131502 State Your Name said:

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and the worst was vs Tenn., 12/16/2018. Cold, pouring rain. Giants getting shut out at halftime. I swear there were less than 200 people in the stands at the start of the 3rd qtr. The weather always seems worse when we suck.

All week long, the weather forecast for that Tennessee game called for heavy rain on game day. My father works for the water company. He has access to some of the best waterproof equipment and gear available.

Knowing it was going to rain heavily, I called him up, and asked if I could borrow some of his stuff. He had a dresser full of waterproof apparel in his basement. He said to grab whatever I need.

Before the first quarter ended, I was saturated. Wet all the way through. I was miserable the entire game. It didn’t help that the Giants were getting shout out.

The Giants got whipped that day. In the 4th quarter, after a TD, the entire Tennessee offense did the dance from the movie Remember the Titans.

On the way home, I called my dad, furious. I asked him why his waterproof gear was terrible. It apparently slipped his mind that waterproof gear loses its effectiveness after about two or three years, hence why he always gets new apparel. I lost my mind. It would have been nice to know that.

I woke up the next morning go to work, and the driver seat in my truck was still damp from the ride home.

My dad and I still have a good laugh about that story every now and again.

that took place in January 2009 was freezing, fucking cold that day. Our seats were covered in ice that we had to break the ice on our seats before we sat on them. I made the mistake of lowering my window on the turnpike on the way to the game, and couldn't get my window back up until about 5 mins before the game started. It was ridiculously cold that day. Add to that how terrible the Giants played that game, and it ruined the fact that we had 13th row seats for that game.

would be one of the afternoons sitting in a blazing hot sun.

In comment 15131705 Dave in Hoboken said:

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that took place in January 2009 was freezing, fucking cold that day. Our seats were covered in ice that we had to break the ice on our seats before we sat on them. I made the mistake of lowering my window on the turnpike on the way to the game, and couldn't get my window back up until about 5 mins before the game started. It was ridiculously cold that day. Add to that how terrible the Giants played that game, and it ruined the fact that we had 13th row seats for that game.

I was at that one as well. Wind was whipping around in the stadium. I remember watching one of Eli's early throws to the sideline, drop like it was a curve ball. It was also the last game I went to with my dad due to health issues

I'll always remember the 1990 playoff game, I was 10 and it was freezing.

Does anyone remember the 86 parade at the stadium? That might have been the coldest day

was one of them. But I think the game that Earl the goat referenced is the one I'm thinking of too. I was also pretty young. I remember driving to the game in Yankee Stadium with my father and uncle in a brutal snow storm that did not let up even when we got home that night and it was windy and freezing cold in the stadium.

My seats were in section 326 (the visitors side) It was a miserable cold & icy end to a cold snowy week. Most of the snowballs were thrown from the sections around the 50. I saw snowball that knocked out the SD "coach" hit him. He hit the ground hard and had to carried off the field. My wife went with me to that game. That was the last one she ever went to.

December 1959. Cleveland Browns
In the old Yankee Stadium. My first game attended. Sold out of course so we had SRO up with the pigeons. Gates opened at 10 a.m. and we RAN up all the ramps in order to get a spot at the rail behind the last row of grandstand seats. It may not have been bitter cold that day but standing for 6 hours in the shade on cold concrete was memorable. 48-7 Giants. Jim Brown was ineffective but Bobby Mitchell scored on a return. I was 12.

December 30, 1962. Championship rematch against Packers. Sold out of course with very few no-shows 17 degrees, windy. We couldn’t get tickets to the game so we drove south to Princeton, NJ, edge of the blackout zone, found a summer motel, not winterized, paid summer rates and watched the game feed from Philly.

2 tickets on the 50, 4 rows up from the field for the Giants vs Vikings game that got postponed due to the Vikes Dome collapsing due to snow

In comment 15131916 montanagiant said:

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2 tickets on the 50, 4 rows up from the field for the Giants vs Vikings game that got postponed due to the Vikes Dome collapsing due to snow

That pissed me the fuck off so much. Once again, that worthless franchise and their stupid dome cost me seeing most of the game that should've been that day. Saw 3 quarters of it but God damn what a fucking useless franchise screwing up my important football schedule.

Saw 3. Lol.

My cousin and i actually went to the devils flyers game earlier in the day and then hit up Giants redskins.

Between the slush at the seats and having to buy an extra pair of gloves and still not being and to feel my extremities because of the cold and wind, I still can't understand why threw the ball like 50 times.

In comment 15131919 Route 9 said:

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In comment 15131916 montanagiant said: Quote: 2 tickets on the 50, 4 rows up from the field for the Giants vs Vikings game that got postponed due to the Vikes Dome collapsing due to snow That pissed me the fuck off so much. Once again, that worthless franchise and their stupid dome cost me seeing most of the game that should've been that day. Saw 3 quarters of it but God damn what a fucking useless franchise screwing up my important football schedule.

We drove up the day before and we learned they were closing I35 behind us as went by the exits. Got to Minny and the exit ramps had 3' of snow on them. Made it to our hotel and thank god the only open restaurant in a 20-mile radius was across the street. Had no interest in going to Detroit for the make-up game since it was first come/ first served for seats

First is the 1989 game at Giants Stadium against the Eagles, the subject of "No Medals for Trying." Brutal wind, which of course was the reason for Randall Cunningham's epic 90+ yard punt. Worst part of the day was walking dejectedly through the parking lot, into the howling wind that must have originated around Hudson Bay, to find our car.

Second was the 1962 NFL Championship at Yankee Stadium against the Packers. Temperature dropped all day into the single digits, howling wind. I was 12 years old, and lost all feeling in my feet during the first quarter. The Packer Hall of Fame at Lambeau has displays around each of their championship games, and the display of that one highlights the brutality of the cold and wind. Second only to the Green Bay-Dallas game that gets all the headlines.

I was 9 years old, the weather was brutally cold and windy at the old Giants stadium with white outs. The Bert Jones led Colts with shellacked us 31-7. A bunch of guys behind us got so schnockered that one guy ended up barfing on my Dad’s back.

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But I was there for undefeated Bears at the Meadowlands in 2006. Poured rain, cold as hell, and Hester ran back that 108-yard kickoff. Brutal.

This is mine too.

Christmas Eve 1989 vs. the Raiders. It was about 10 degrees at kickoff and dropped from there. It was so bad my face turned blue.

2013 I think? It’s the game where Eli hurt his ankle at the very end. Last game of the season. It rained. I was completely soaked. Never felt better getting into a shower.

Randall Cunningham did the 91 yard punt is the coldest I remember. The wind that day was so unbearable (and so was the result). I think it took like four day for my feet to unfreeze.

I was young but I was like 5 at the 1981 Dallas Giants final game where we won to go to the playoffs and that game was really windy or cold, but because I was so young I don't know if that is a vague memory or not.

In comment 15131596 blueberry said:

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hard to remember -and I see mentioned here the 1990 Bills game late in the season when Simms went down. -cold- wet rain bordering freezing temps the 86 championship game with the biting wind also the 1990 season Chicago playoff game - very cold - snow ice on the stadium floors below your feet - saving grace was the bright sun always prepared with a cold weather suit. - wet rainy games were always the worst

With respect to the 1990 Chi playoff game, My father was away on business and my mom took me to that Bears playoff game, the block of ice under your feet was insane. The part of your body that suffers the worst (or at least for me it did was my feet) to be on a block of ice for three + hours was insane. My mother spent the entire game in the corridors because she could not take it.

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and the worst was vs Tenn., 12/16/2018. Cold, pouring rain. Giants getting shut out at halftime. I swear there were less than 200 people in the stands at the start of the 3rd qtr. The weather always seems worse when we suck.

Agree completely. And I've also been to a million games. This game was so bad, the weather was so bad, the team was so bad, etc. etc. etc.

That was the Bo Jackson Raider team, when he was at the height of his career and the “Bo Knows” Nike campaign.

Giants won the Game and held Bo in check.
The Monday New York papers had a photo on their back page of a guy who was in my section holding a small sign he had made “Bo Don’t Know 10 Below”.

but the Giants were playing the Bills late in the year and we had seats in the uppermost row with our backs exposed to the wind. I am an outdoorsman who has spent more hours that I can ever hope to count in miserable freezing weather including cod fishing bouts out in the Atlantic in January. But I don't think I was ever colder than that game even though I was well dressed for the cold.

Giants playing the Bills IN Buffalo

In comment 15132170 Crispino said:

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That was the Bo Jackson Raider team, when he was at the height of his career and the “Bo Knows” Nike campaign. Giants won the Game and held Bo in check. The Monday New York papers had a photo on their back page of a guy who was in my section holding a small sign he had made “Bo Don’t Know 10 Below”.

I recall that frigid game as well. Bitter cold but on the sunny side of stadium you got a few extra degrees! Meggett with a huge punt return for a touchdown.

Rams game with Flipper Anderson afterwards was a big blow.

The last few years there have been numerous November and December rainy shitty games. Too many to even count.

I went to 4-5 games a year or more back in the 80-90-2000s and don’t remember one bad weather day. I remember cold, but not nasty wet crap. Because they were winning.

2018-2019 was the worst. Slop fest after slop fest.

In comment 15131575 Bobby Humphrey's Earpad said:

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I went to a decade straight of home games and that was by far the coldest of them all. Bitter cold with the old stadium wind whipping across the parking lot. Needed handwarmers, footwarmers the whole arsenal. Only game my tailgate crew ever took breaks in their vehicles to warm up. And the game went to overtime!

I was there and it was glorious. That was literally one of the most enjoyable days of my life. From sun up to midnight it was just.... perfect. You could have made it into a movie.

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In comment 15131585 Vin_Cuccs said: Quote: Wind, rain and cold. But... December 31st of 2017. The last game of the year in a miserable 3-13 season against Washington. Ben McAdoo was fired a few weeks earlier. Sunny and clear, but windy, and the high temp that day was about 15 degrees. It was between 8 and 10 degrees in the lot all morning, and the game time temperature hovered around 13 degrees. I vividly remember putting my drink down on a table in the lot that morning, speaking to a friend for about five minutes, and when I turned around, the drink was already slushy because it began to freeze. Coldest game I’ve ever attended. Giants won 18-10. Oh yeah I forgot I was there for that, too.

I was there too. First play orleans darkwa took one 70+ to the house. I woke up the next day with a torn meniscus and didn’t even know it that day. It was so cold. We actually tailgated like assholes. Why. Why....

Walter Payton ice bowl to end the season.

I saw a giant receiver dive for a slant and slide 15 yards over the wet icy turf.

We lost the game in overtime, but the loss knocked George Allen and his skins out of the playoffs.

-10 degrees with a windchill of -30.

I went to a Patriots – Bucs game in 1988. A couple of co-workers at the time were huge fans and had an extra ticket. Wind chill was around -25 and I wasn’t prepared. It wasn’t nearly as cold when we left NY.

I didn’t care about the game and wanted to leave by the 3rd qtr. I remember Eason heaving a ball towards the back of the end zone from about the 25. I think he was just trying to throw it way. The ball fluttered in the wind and was intercepted near the goal line. Game goes into overtime and the guys I was with insisted on staying. It was brutal. Worst game of my life.