White House: You'll See The Rain
by Run Up The Score on Sep 24, 2009 8:58 AM EDT
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Refresh my memory. Outside of the 2007 Notre Dame game, has the weather ever not been crappy for one of these things?
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Night games or white outs?
I remember it was a gorgeous evening when PSU got pummeled by Miami in 2001.
I'm thinking "white houses"
And I can only remember a few games where the entire stadium wore white, not just the students.
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"Not everybody is the perfect person in the world. Everyone does - kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me." -- Terrelle Pryor
by Run Up The Score on Sep 24, 2009 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions
Michigan 2006 was a full White House (the first?)
Beautiful day, but it was fairly cold. I wore my insulated hunting bibs; they’re like a blanket wrapped around your legs and lower torso – wonderful. I was comfortable, unlike the MSU game last year, so I’m thinking it was probably around 50 during the day and 30 at night for Michigan 2006.
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
It was colder than that for Meatchicken '06.
…at least it felt colder. That was as cold as I felt at a football game up until the Debacle in Iowa City last year.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions
You want cold? Meatchicken '95 standing on packed ice.
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
by NittanyTide on Sep 24, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Or MSU last year
When Dantonio called two timeouts in the waning seconds while trailing 49-18
Let's Go State!
by Gopher Broke on Sep 24, 2009 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions
I refuse to believe it’s possible for a PSU game to be colder than the ’02 MSU game.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Wind chills of -8 to -20
Check it out here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/22/sports/college-football-penn-state-stops-notre-dame-21-20.html
by dontcallmescooter on Sep 24, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Scooter, Scooter, Scooter
Yeah, was at that one, too. Also very cold.
I think at that one we walked to the stadium from 20miles out. Uphill both ways of course.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Even worse where I was
I was at the Yale-Harvard game that day (dad’s an alum) and it was -30 wind chill there. All the food in the concession stands exploded, it was a mess.
Stupid cantabs one late after a fumble. Great game otherwise.
Blogging about D.C. Baseball since April '04. Penn State alum. Also partial to the Washington Capitals, New York Yankees and Yale football.
Most miserable game ever
I think it had to be around 1992 against Pitt. I just remember sitting in the north endzone upper deck. It was 40 degrees with 40 mph winds blasting you with rain in the face. I’ve never been so miserable in all my life. PSUncle and I left at halftime.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
PSU-ND 87 - Was that the one with all the snow?
Never so cold in my life.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
I still can't believe how stupid I was
I went to that game wearing nothing but gym shorts and body paint. I think the bourbon is the only thing that kept me alive.
"gotta love the HD"
by biscoiv on Sep 24, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+1
Just for this line:
I think the bourbon is the only thing that kept me alive.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Old Granddad to the Rescue
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Candyass
Bourbon is good for you.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
this is just specific to granddad
memories of doing bubbles…uggghh
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Bubbles?
I pray to Zug you’re not talking about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
i wasn't sure if that was a universal term
it’s when you chug out of the bottle, usually straight up, so air bubbles go up through the bottle. does that make any sense?
the useful things you learn through fraternity life…
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Bubbles?
I pray to Zug you’re not talking about Michael Jackson’s pet chimp.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions
What do think this guy's packin?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
I was there.
At least then you could warm yourself up with the activity of participating in a snowball fight.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
was that the
fake FG by Nastasi game? we walked to the stadium from toftrees bc we couldn’t get out of our driveway
Fairly sure Notre Dame '07 was the first ever full White House.
Michigan ’06 was a student section whiteout, no?
It struck me as an odd question from RUTS since we’ve only had 2 previous whitehouses.
'07 First Full
"...WHITE OUT; white in this way > > > "
by BlueWhiteLife on Sep 24, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
And Nebraska was beautiful
And I could be wrong, but wasn’t Michigan also very nice?
I remember Nebraska being humid and rainy.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions
No
Nebraska was a beautiful night. At least, in my seat above the clouds it was.
Ah, but was Nebraska a stadium-wide white out?
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"Not everybody is the perfect person in the world. Everyone does - kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me." -- Terrelle Pryor
by Run Up The Score on Sep 24, 2009 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't think it was even a partial white out
That didn’t happen for at least a few more seasons if my memory serves me correct.
Nebraska....
wasn’t a whiteout, but was by far the loudest, craziest, most amazing sports experience of my life. I remember shouting at the the top of my lungs and I couldn’t even hear myself. That’s how deafening loud it was. I’m still proud I was there and get goosebumps talking about it.
COLDEST game I remember was I think 2002 vs Iowa. The season LJ & Mills took us to 8-3… That game was unbearably cold, mounted a furious 4th quarter comeback ( i think 22 points down) and people still left rather than staying for overtime. It was an instant classic and people still left it was so damn cold.
I still say
That when Gardner got that interception for a touchdown to ice the game, it is the loudest I have ever heard Beaver Stadium. If anyone else can top this, I will be amazed.
Was anyone at both
Nebraska 02 and OSU 05? I’d love to get a noise level comparison. I wasn’t at Nebraska 02, but I think Calvin Lowry’s interception at OSU 05 was the loudest I’ve ever heard Beaver Stadium.
by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions
idk...i'd say tamba up-ending of troy smith might have been louder
can’t remember though…too busy hugging everyone around me
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Nebraska vs OSU - loudest
I wasn’t at the OSU game, but the thing about the Nebraska game was that it was ALL GAME LONG. The crowd never, for one minute, let up. From start to finish we anialated Nebraska. This was after a couple down years, so the crowd was ready for it.
I was at both
And I have Troy Smith at #2. The first drive that Miami had the ball, before the blew us out, may very well be my #3.
First Drive on Miami game?
I remember exactly zero yards in the first half, and I think I’m being generous.
When Miami had the ball on their first drive
It was incredibly loud.
I hit both of these
Nebraska ‘02 was a 3 hour party, Ohio State ’05 as an intense focus. I don’t know if you could say one was louder as a whole, but the Troy Smith hand-stand was the wildest moment of any game I’ve ever been to.
But, it’s all gonna depend on where you where sitting and how much you had to drink.
BSD
I would submit
that it was actually louder after the replay showed that it was a fumble – there was a quick hush as everyone studied the jumbotron – and then mayhem.
both Neb ’02 and tosu ’05 were electric – the buzz of the crowd was amazing.
by PSUgirl on Sep 24, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
And what really made it
was the complete lack of marketing and stagedness. Everyone was genuinely excited, no gimmicks, and the games were obviously great.
BSD
we've definitely lost that
especially with how organized paternoville is now.
granted, i’ll give up some of the that organic excitement in exchange for 10-13 wins per year
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Yeah man, I just remember going to paternoville
For OSU in 05 and I think we had 2 tents for like 15 people. All week, there wasn’t much sleep. We were hammered every night, met Mrob and Zemaitis and JoePa, played football untill 3 in the morning, got the sickest I ever got and it was totally worth it.
Also, probably my biggest memory of that week was Saturday at 5 in morning. I was up all night drinking with some buddies and we went to the Cold Pizza/Gameday stage to hang out and get good spots. Up rolls Woody Paige to get ready. He steps out of his car with sunglasses on(at 5am) looks like he is still drunk, and he proclaims to the small crowd, “I think you’ll beat the S**T out of em today!” I shook the mans hand, and he went on his way.
.end ramble on 05 OSU paternoville
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Sep 24, 2009 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+1 for drunk Woody Paige
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Really tho
When is Woody Paige ever not drunk?
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Sep 24, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Zing!
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
Nice how Curley’s turned it into a boy scout camp. But at least we can wear cool tie dye now
by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Also Wisconsin 2005
People forget the phenomenal energy for that game. Both teams were in the top 15 and it was Senior Day. I’ve never heard a louder crowd while watching a game on TV.
by Cairo on Sep 24, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Agree
That was by far the most emotional sr day of my time there – so much love for MRob, AZ and others. 2008 was close with the big 3.
by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
+1
Too bad, though, that Wiscy forgot to show up.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't they almost always forget to show up?
Especially under Bielema?
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
That was Alvarez's last year
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
That was MRob
Thanking Wiscy for the concussion in 04. I think they got the message.
Joe still isn’t done repaying Bielema for 06. Too bad he may be gone by the time we play them again.
by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I was up in the boonies for that one
First time I ever sat out of the student section and it SUCKED. People were sitting the whole game, and it wasn’t very loud where I was sitting. Never again.
+1
For polite and formal submittal.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
So, so loud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADY_QW-ogo
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
A friend
and one of the most masculine guys I know, literally started bawling after the OSU 2005 win. So no, I don’t think you’re a girly man for using the word “emotional.”
Aaron Harris
There were probably technically louder moments at other games, but I still remember the roar after Aaron Harris blasted through the Ohio State front 7 late in the third quarter for a 51 yard touchdown more than any other. Granted, I was in the student section then and not for the other ones.
Blogging about D.C. Baseball since April '04. Penn State alum. Also partial to the Washington Capitals, New York Yankees and Yale football.
@ Both
I always compare things to the ’05 OSU game. I remember more putting the whooping on the Huskers and more the noise and how electric the stadium was in ’05.
by PhilipsburgPhantom on Sep 24, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Nebraska by a nose...
Was on the field for both games and Nebraska was the loudest I’ve ever heard a stadium. The weather was much better for Nebraska though, sure it had an impact.
I was standing in the South end zone when LJ scored and the place went nuts. I turned around to hug the closest person to me and realized it was DJ Dozier. Amazing, amazing night…
by jtw126 on Sep 24, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
is that a horseracing reference?
I’d say you’re Too Country, but the point is probably moo.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
2002 Iowa?
The game played in September? Cause I remember walking around in a t-shirt that day.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
I could be mistaken
but dont’ think so. A college kid in a t-shirt is not exactly an accurate description of weather…I’m searching online, but can’t dig anything up.
Yeah, but...
1) I’ve always hated cold weather.
2) I distinctly remember it being (at worst) in the mid-60s.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+1
for going to games in the mid-60’s
side question….how did Mike Reid compare to “modern” players. was that guy just an animal or what? he is the most intriguing player in PSU football history to me due to his multi-talentedness
Mike Reid!
The meanest piano player in Altoona!
Man, the 60s were great. So great I don’t remember anything!
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Daddy always said that
Mike Reid was the first and only piano player in the Marching Blue Band.
Daddy had a lot of stories about Mike Reid.
I thinnk you're right
I remember it being a pleasant fall afternoon in happy valley for Iowa 2002
"gotta love the HD"
So you're an Iowa fan?
I still remember sitting in the student section watching the kids around me filing out early in the fourth quarter, and screaming at them: ’don’t you know if anybody can blow this lead it’s Iowa?’. I thought it was funny when I heard they were trying to bribe the gate agents to let them back in during overtime.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
I should have been more careful about how I worded that
the weather was beautiful, I remember standing in the student section saying WTF to everyone around me as they left
"gotta love the HD"
yeah, that game was in September, and I don't recall it being cold
I remember people leaving because of the blowout, and I turned to my roommate and said “What’s the worse that can happen if you stay the rest of the game? We lose, which we were doing anyway. But if you stay, you have the chance to witness a great comeback,” which is what happened, and I recall hearing stories about people trying to get back into the stadium. We should have won that game, too, if the refs didn’t screw us over (that was the game JoePa chased the ref down, isn’t it?)
by The JuggerNitt on Sep 24, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously
Notre Dame 2007 was the first one ever. I remember Guido getting a lot of credit for organizing the entire thing. After the game, SI had a giant “leading off” picture of the scene in their next issue saying how cool it was, the whole deal.
not completely correct
because we in the “non- student” section were instructed to wear white for the um ‘06 game – it’s just that most didn’t comply/hear/understand.
I know this because I rarely wear white and because I blogged it way back in 2006. http://tinyurl.com/yewon2w ain’t the internet grand?
Sunny skies, no rain.
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
by NittanyTide on Sep 24, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions
ha take THAT Rambler!
Two people backing me up on this one.
by STU Boy on Sep 24, 2009 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Definitely a Great Day
Flew up from Atlanta for the game……great tailgating weather all day long!
I thought only safeties played 15 yards off the ball?
Paging the Suck It Dog...
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
by NittanyTide on Sep 24, 2009 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions
+ 1 for shamelessness, you shameless person.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Pfft...
Weathermen, schmeathermen. What do any of them know?
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
Thus, the humor value of my comment.
"I thought the kid we were using had the potential to be a good quarterback, and I blew that one." - Joseph V. Paterno
by leeharvey418 on Sep 24, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, they can't even perform a decent Brazilian wax.
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
(reply to leeharvey FAIL)
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
by NittanyTide on Sep 24, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions
lol, yup
otherwise I wouldn’t have made my reply ;-)
by The JuggerNitt on Sep 24, 2009 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions
White outs vs White houses
Just to clarify…
First ever white out: ’04 purdue (my last season in college)
First ever white house: ’07 ND (followed by ’08 Illy)
There’s only one white house a year, and then 2-4 white OUTS a year.
There was DEFINITELY an effort to get a full stadium whiteout for Michigan '06.
May not have been called a white house, but the intent was there….
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
by NittanyTide on Sep 24, 2009 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
that's what i was thinking
although technically, wasn’t the first white out in Winnipeg in the late 80’s or something?
We decide when you hear the snap count...
Actually
Actually, there’s never been more than two student white outs in a year, and only in 2008 was there more than two white-anythings. Total history of color-outs at Beaver Stadium:
Purdue ‘04: First student white out
Iowa ’04: Student white out
Northwestern ’04: First “Code Blue” encouraged for all fans (miserable failure, but later adopted by other sports like v-ball and soccer and seems to work pretty well for them)
MSU ’04: Second and last try at Code Blue, still miserable failure
Ohio State ’05: Student white out
Wisconsin ’05: Student white out
Michigan ’06: Student white out – other fans encouraged to wear white but it didn’t really work and wasn’t promoted the same way later official “white houses” would be
Notre Dame ’07: First full white house
Ohio State ’07: Student white out
Oregon State ’08: Student white out
Illinois ’08: White house
Michigan ’08: Student white out
Of those, there’s only been two white houses, and half of them have had good weather. The rest are a mixed bag, but since 05 we’ve only had two white out losses, and both were in good (at least not rainy) weather.
by PSUMark2008 on Sep 24, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Just the name “Code Blue” sounds stupid and like something Guido came up with.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Sep 24, 2009 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Rain shouldn't be a big problem, wind would be a problem.
No way a non-concussed DC17 goes 9 for 23 at Happy Valley in the rain.
Unless he's being spelled by a starting wide receiver
Instead of the talented second-string quarterback.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
In school from 1997 to 2001
The game weather during those years was incomparably nice. Rainy games were extremely rare, and I only recall a few minutes of sleet during the 2001 Ohio State game.
I recall on several occasions experiencing 4-5 consecutive days of rain, only to see the weather break just in time for the alumni to arrive for game day. I blamed Spanier.
The Whiteout last year was awesome
and the sing along made the rain not suck at all.
And honestly
how long did it rain for? Maybe a half hour tops? And it was intermittent, otherwise, it was a great night last year.
Let it snow!
On that note, does anyone have a video of “Let it Snow” during the Michigan State season-closing-Big-Ten-winning game?
I have been looking for that since last fall. Something about the weather, the cold, the football, and Christmas right around the bend made that one of my most enjoyable moments in section NA—and that existence has spanned many, many years.
Might have been the worst game I ever went to
Blogging about D.C. Baseball since April '04. Penn State alum. Also partial to the Washington Capitals, New York Yankees and Yale football.
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