2007 vs Redskins. So windy and cold. The parking lot was a hockey rink of ice. No snow removed from the seats or ground.
It wasn't bad since I was covered, but 2019 in snow vs Green Bay was interesting. Hard to believe that was just over a year and one month ago.
2002 vs Tennessee gets another mention. 35 degrees, relative humidity 50%, wind 18 mph, wind chill 24. Felt way worse than that.
The weather always seems worse when we suck.
2.) Bill v Giants - 1990 - ice on the roads, ice on the field, nightmare to drive in
A driving, freezing cold 40-ish degree rain storm for the entire day. Had a great time with my dad, but holy shit the weather was miserable.
2005 vs Dallas
This one wasn’t bad, but very memorable. 1- it was a game we won in the red alternates. 2 - it snowed the night before! Everything was pretty cleared but there was still snow around. Any time the Giants scored we were throwing the snow around like confetti. It was fun to be part of that crowd after seeing that on TV so many times.
2010 vs Washington
THIS one is the winner for me though. It was a bright, sunny day at MetLife and our seats were a few rows from the very top. The temperature was 5 degrees and I’ve never been so cold in my life. In no way am I exaggerating that I was actually still cold for the next two days. It was a really fucked up weird feeling. Felt like I was incased in ice. Hat tip to all you die hards that have probably experienced this 100 times.
The weather always seems worse when we suck.
I was about to post the same thing. Been a season ticket holder since the new stadium opened and this was by far the worst game I’ve been too.
I was 9 at the time
Must’ve been 10 degrees outside
I wasn’t cold but got sick the next day and my mom screamed at my dad for taking me
Verse the Skins. I was there too but dressed properly
Very very cold and windy
Verse the Skins. I was there too but dressed properly
Very very cold and windy
2.) Bill v Giants - 1990 - ice on the roads, ice on the field, nightmare to drive in
These were the exact two games I was going to post as well.
The 1977 game was one of the first ever games my Dad took me too. Chicago won to make the playoffs with Walter Peyton. The 1990 game saw both starting QBs go down and unknowingly to most Giant fans at the time, the rise of Hoss.
Top of the upper deck lake side on a windy day.
At least it wasn't snowing.
Traffic on the way home was also horrible.
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.
And the game went to overtime!
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.
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.
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....
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
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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
+1
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!
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!!!
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...
The weather always seems worse when we suck.
I went to that game as well.
No surprise, I forgot about that one.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
This is mine too.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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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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....
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.
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.