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worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 11, 2012, 1:44 PM
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in your life?
I have never been to one that really stood out as terrible
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Wake in 1994 i belive? Raining and no one in the upper decks***
Dec 11, 2012, 1:45 PM
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Oh and we lost***
Dec 11, 2012, 1:45 PM
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Re: Wake in 1994 i belive? Raining and no one in the upper decks***
Dec 11, 2012, 1:58 PM
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It had to be 1993 or 94. It was about 70 when I left James Island that morning - wearing shorts. No idea why I didn't check the weather.
I probably ended up with pneumonia from that day.
Without a doubt the most miserable game I've ever attended. And, as you said, we lost to WF.
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Re: worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 11, 2012, 1:45 PM
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When I was in school in the early late 60s-early 70's 30K was not unusual at all ... all students had great seats and for many games you could walk through the gates after the first quarter without a ticket and sit on the 30 yard line.
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Maryland during Hatfield era I think. Maybe 35k there.***
Dec 11, 2012, 1:45 PM
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Re: wasn't it Hatfield error?
Dec 11, 2012, 1:48 PM
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his hiring certainly was
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whatever year it was when ugay
Dec 11, 2012, 1:46 PM
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Kicked us around pretty good....to the tune of 30 to 0....also it was 800000000000000 degrees that day too.
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we were in SI that week
Dec 11, 2012, 1:49 PM
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nice picture from the top of the hill. Bowden decided we were going to huddle that year. Did not work.
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There seems to be a misunderstanding of the question...
Dec 11, 2012, 3:15 PM
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Some see it as, "What is the worst game you ever attended?"
Others are viewing it as, "What game, for which you were present, had the worst attendance?"
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Re: worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 11, 2012, 1:47 PM
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UGA game in 2003, it was hot and we got shut out/blown out
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I thought that was pretty full***
Dec 11, 2012, 1:48 PM
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Re: it was
Dec 11, 2012, 1:50 PM
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till people started spontaneously bursting into flames.
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according ti wiki
Dec 11, 2012, 1:49 PM
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a lot of games in the low 60,000's during the West era.
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oh #### i mis read your topic.......
Dec 11, 2012, 1:50 PM
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Several games in tbe hatfeild error.and toward the end of the west error.....remeber going to the Thursday night game vs gay tech west last season and there only being enough folks to fill one side of the lower deck
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I think mine was the 1993 Homecoming
Dec 11, 2012, 1:50 PM
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Game. We may have played ETSU. The stands had maybe 50k and airplanes flew banners over DV saying Fire Hatfield.
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Re: I think mine was the 1993 Homecoming
Dec 11, 2012, 1:59 PM
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The attendance may have been even worse later that season when we played Maryland and Virginia at home. At one of those games a plane over the stadium pulled a banner that said, "Howard built it, Danny filled it, Hatfield killed it."
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Most likely the high school state championship few years ago
Dec 11, 2012, 1:52 PM
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The stadium seemed so empty. It was very weird.
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Tcu
Dec 11, 2012, 1:52 PM
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TCU a couple of years ago. Pretty much downlpoured the whole time and lighting delays.
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It was actually well attended, the crap didn't start
Dec 11, 2012, 1:54 PM
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until around halftime, then it emptied out pretty good. I was still there, soaked to the bone.
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Re: It was actually well attended, the crap didn't start
Dec 11, 2012, 3:40 PM
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I was there the whole time as well and the upper north deck was sparsely dotted at the beginning of the game. Thousands of people never even showed up with the weather forecast and flooding going on in Tenn and GA.
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i remeber that game.....
Dec 11, 2012, 1:52 PM
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Wasn't that the solomen....Patrick.sapp game.
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Re: The entire 1975 season
Dec 11, 2012, 1:54 PM
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2-9. Average attendance was around 28-30k! Different era too.
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Re: The entire 1975 season
Dec 11, 2012, 1:59 PM
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I was in high school then and got in for $15 bucks. We drove up for more than half the games that season. I still remember a homecoming float that said, "We Love You Win, Lose or Draw". They'd had at least one, maybe two ties. That could have been a year or two before. By then, attendance was getting better.
In the late 60's and early 70s, it was worse. I remember a game against Wake Forest in '71 or '72. There was no upper deck and I walked from my end zone spot to a set on the visitor's side around the 20-25 yard line and could have brought a dozen friends. We had been playing football on the hill using empty coke cups balled up together.
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IMO and for all who endured those years known as
Dec 11, 2012, 2:09 PM
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"The Late, Oft-Lamented Hootie Era" a special bronze patch should be issued to wear on a jacket or something---a badge of honor as a die-hard.
Most on Tigernet wouldn't have made the cut
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Re: The entire 1975 season- I went to 9 games that year
Dec 11, 2012, 2:01 PM
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arduous, seemed like it was never ending. not just losses but pummelings almost every week.
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I was ALL IN in 1975.....
Dec 11, 2012, 3:08 PM
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Lived right on the corner of D4 by the stairwell.
Beside the RA. 
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the makeup game vs Duke in 2001 was disappointing
Dec 11, 2012, 2:01 PM
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considering it was Woody's last home game and when he set several records.
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Re: the makeup game vs Duke in 2001 was disappointing
Dec 12, 2012, 5:41 PM
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my first thought. clemson buddy talked me into going with him. cant imagine death valley has ever been much more dead than that. understandable, though, because it really feltblike season should have been over.
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10/31/1998....NCSU
Dec 11, 2012, 2:05 PM
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T. West final year. We were so bad we lost to Wake and Duke. It looked like a spring game that day with a sorry team and the game falling on Halloween. There was 6 of us in our group and we sat anywhere we wanted in the lower deck(tickets were for the upper deck)....no one ever asked for their seats that day.
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I was at that game
Dec 11, 2012, 2:08 PM
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one of my earliest ones I can remember. I remember Torry Holt making a ridiculous diving catch right on the Tiger paw logo
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November 11, 1968 in Death Valley vs MD
Dec 11, 2012, 2:09 PM
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Raining and cold wind blowing whole game. No tv back then so that wasn't a fall back position. Was a freshman, so I lived in the Tin Cans (Johnstone Hall). Could really see into the stadium and whole field out my window. At half time we went to my room and about eight of us watched the second half out my window up on F-5 in the Tin Cans. CU 28 MD 7
Those were the days!
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Re: Wake in 1994 i belive? Raining and no one in the upper decks***
Dec 11, 2012, 2:13 PM
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I was going to say that one. It was 93.
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Western Carolina under Tommy West***
Dec 11, 2012, 2:23 PM
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Maryland in 1969 - was raining like hell so there.......
Dec 11, 2012, 2:26 PM
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wasn't much of a crowd.
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GT during a tropical storm, but I don't remember the year
Dec 11, 2012, 2:28 PM
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early 2000's maybe. There weren't more than 15K people in the stands because it was raining like the whole earth was going to be washed away. I don't think I've ever been that wet.
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2002
Dec 11, 2012, 2:30 PM
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because 2004 was the "bad snap" game debacle.
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Re: HAH! I was there - the stands looked like waterfalls!***
Dec 12, 2012, 7:13 AM
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I was in the front row of the north lower deck. The drainage system could not keep up with the rain, and by the middle of the 1st quarter the water was up to my shins. We honestly thought we were going to have to move up another row or two (not like there were that many people behind us!) because the water continued to rise. Mercifully, the rain eventually subsided and the drainage system was able to catch up.
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Re: GT during a tropical storm, but I don't remember the year
Dec 11, 2012, 2:38 PM
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Yep, I was there...on the hill...the whole game.
Soaked to the bone. My shoes and socks turned Orange from the color that bled from my overalls.
...Holy crap, that was a wet game - people sliding down the hill/mud pile - insane
#goodtimes
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Re: GT during a tropical storm, but I don't remember the year
Dec 12, 2012, 7:16 AM
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Honestly it's one of my fondest memories of a football game. I've never sat so close to the sidelines (1st row!) and even though there weren't many people there, those that showed up were rowdy and having a great time. My section had a lot of fun heckling the GT players on the sideline. I was sitting next to a biker dude alumni and his biker chick wife, who had come all the way to California to see the game. He said it was his first game in about 15 years. When the clock read zeroes, we both jumped over the wall and rushed the field like we were little kids.
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Re: That's the wettest I've ever been at a football game......
Dec 12, 2012, 7:14 AM
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I also had to buy a completely new set of clothes. Went down to knickerbockers and got some sweatpants and flip-flops, and I think I changed in my car but can't remember.
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in the early 90's during the Curley Hallman era
Dec 11, 2012, 2:36 PM
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Luckily, we have made some much better coaching hires since then, and the place has been rocking for a while.
Oh wait, did you guys mean the wannabe Death Valley or the real one in Baton Rouge?
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the Real, Original Death Valley....the one in Clemson
Dec 11, 2012, 3:42 PM
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that was built IN AN ACTUAL VALLEY.
Even LSU people confirm Clemson was the original one.....
http://www.theclemsoninsider.com/2012/12/clemson-is-college-footballs-original-death-valley/
Soon after being beat so bad by the Tigers, then Presbyterian head coach Lonnie McMillian started referring to Clemson Memorial Stadium as “Death Valley.”
“After we were beaten so badly in 1945, Coach McMillian and us players referred to the Clemson trip as going ‘to Death Valley,’” said Gault, now 83 years old and residing in Clinton, S.C. “I’m not sure when the press picked up on it, but I’m sure it was real soon.”
The press picked up on it because McMillian would tell them, “I’m taking my boys to Death Valley,” when he spoke about the Clemson trip every year. Presbyterian and Clemson opened the season every year from 1930-1957.
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In Marty Mule’s 1993 book called the Eye of the Tiger, One Hundred Years of LSU Football he describes that night and at the same time speaks to the origin of how Tiger Stadium became known as “Death Valley.”
In the Chapter called “Death Valley USA” and on page 123, Mule’ wrote about the reaction from Cannon’s 89-yard punt return to beat Ole Miss.
Mule’ wrote: “The noise level generated by Cannon’s run is to have supposed to have brought people scurrying from their homes for miles around to see what happened, part of why Tiger Field was dubbed ‘Deaf Valley.’
The name ‘Death Valley’ – which was used first at Clemson – was picked when the original term was not properly enunciated, and misunderstood.”
In other words, LSU never intended Tiger Field to be called “Death Valley.” The locals could not say “Deaf Valley” correctly. Also, it proves Tiger Field’s nickname did not come until many years after Clemson began using the moniker “Death Valley.”
Former LSU and South Carolina head coach Paul Dietzel confirmed Mule’s writings. Dietzel coached the Tigers from 1955-’61 and he said the nickname “Death Valley” was not used for Tiger Field while he was the head coach in Baton Rouge.
“I don’t think so. That came a little later,” said Dietzel from his Baton Rouge home last week.
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Hatfield years..Not 1 particular game sticks out.***
Dec 11, 2012, 2:37 PM
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UNC 2001 - Homecoming.
Dec 11, 2012, 2:37 PM
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I think we lost to the tune of 38-3 or so. Awful. Julius Peppers single handedly shut down Woody and our offense.
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Oct. 20, 2001 vs UNC. There was some kind of traffic issue
Dec 11, 2012, 2:38 PM
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that made it tough to get to the game. (I was already in Clemson - my friends couldn't get to the game until the 2nd quarter.) The crowd at opening kick looked like our current crowds at the opening kick of the 3rd quarter...
We lost of course - 3-38.
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Re: worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 11, 2012, 2:58 PM
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the year spurrier beat us with duke.
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Re: worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 11, 2012, 3:35 PM
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TCU 2009
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HS state championship a few years back***
Dec 11, 2012, 3:43 PM
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Re: worst attended game in Death valley you can remember?
Dec 12, 2012, 7:35 AM
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UTEP in 1997. I don't think the lower half of te stadium was even full. It was a beautiful day, but Clemson was pretty bad that year, I think there were literally dozens of us on the hill. We left before halftime.
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Point for beating me to it***
Dec 12, 2012, 7:46 AM
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Remember the 1997 game against UTEP feeling like an
Dec 12, 2012, 7:45 AM
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Orange/White scrimmage game.
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NC State, Thursday night game, Phillip Rivers whipped us..
Dec 12, 2012, 8:13 AM
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up and down the field. Lost, like 38-7 or something.
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Re: NC State, Thursday night game, Phillip Rivers whipped us..
Dec 12, 2012, 5:33 PM
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Granted, I was rather drunk at the time, but I seem to remember a pretty decent crowd at that game.
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It wasn't one of the worst..there were a good 74,000
Dec 12, 2012, 6:25 PM
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or so there on a Thursday night, rowdy and ready to go...unfortunately the team played so badly it almost instantly deflated the crowd...
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probably any game that involved wake or duke during 90's***
Dec 12, 2012, 8:42 AM
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1970 loss to UNC 42-7, cold, miserable and rainy.***
Dec 12, 2012, 5:43 PM
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Worst game in Death Valley?
Dec 12, 2012, 5:44 PM
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The Alabama loss this year was a bummer.
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A number of games in the 90's***
Dec 12, 2012, 6:26 PM
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TCU in 2009...
Dec 12, 2012, 6:26 PM
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Lots of people stayed home because of the terrible weather. Probably were less than 70,000 actually in the stands... although TCU fans still left saying Clemson was one of the loudest stadiums they had been to.
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USuC 2006, 2010, 2012.***
Dec 12, 2012, 6:54 PM
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