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Hall of Famer [8119]
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Worst Clemson football road trip?
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Mine was probably the gator bowl in 1996 vs Syracuse. Drove with a buddy eight hours to spend New Year’s in Jacksonville, next day sat through 3 quarters of probably the worst Clemson football performance I’ve ever seen with the worst hangover I think I’ve ever had. Then had to drive eight hours back and we had to go to work the next day.
What is yours?
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CU Medallion [18228]
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Hands down it was the 1979 Peach Bowl...
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:12 AM
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...freezing cold in Atlanta that day and we lost to friggin Baylor.
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That was the coldest I have ever been at a game...
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:18 AM
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Standing in the sleet/freezing rain and getting wet at the pregame parade didn't help.
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Re: That was the coldest I have ever been at a game...
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Aug 21, 2024, 3:42 PM
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yes and the wife was 4 months pregnant at the time
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Orange Immortal [68088]
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LOL...I was only 16 years old at the time.***
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Re: Hands down it was the 1979 Peach Bowl...
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...freezing cold in Atlanta that day and we lost to friggin Baylor.
I only had a light jacket and about froze to death.
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Game Changer [1691]
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Re: Worst Clemson football road trip?
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:19 AM
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At Syracuse 2017. Losing to them exposed some of the worst fans I've ever experienced in my years. Mix in a crap city for postgame. Will never go back.
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All-Pro [777]
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Re: Worst Clemson football road trip?
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:25 AM
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Gator bowl loss to VT and Mike Vick.
Gator bowl loss to Baylor.
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Orange Immortal [68088]
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I have a few...
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:24 AM
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1 - The CFP championship game v. LSU
2 - The 2012 Orange Bowl v. West Virginia
3 - The 41-0 beatdown in the 1996 Gator Bowl v. Syracuse in the pouring rain
4 - The 2002 Tangerine Bowl v. Texas Tech.
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Top TigerNet [32630]
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i was at 3 of those ang #4 is easily the worst beat down IMO
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:46 AM
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heck. NC State beat Clemson worse than WVU did in 2012.
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Hall of Famer [8119]
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Re: I have a few...
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Aug 21, 2024, 3:14 PM
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Yeah, the championship game versus LSU, the trip itself is a lot of fun with the walk back to the hotel room after the game was awful
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Re: I have a few...
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1. Yes - surrounded by cajuns somehow even though we were sitting near Clemson band
2. Even worse - My dad and I got separated because he wouldn't use a cell phone yet and it took until the parking lots were empty to find him. (too many drinks were involved and we're not proud of it)
3. I was too young to be very mad (6)
4. Our RV broke down just outside of Brunswick on the way home on Christmas eve.
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Re: I have a few...
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1 (LSU Natty) and 2 (WV Orange Bowl) on your list for me. Throw in the 2009 ACCCG in Tampa against GT just for the heart break.
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Tangerine bowl. the worse beat down i ever watched Clemson take***
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Dynasty Maker [3167]
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2006 Music City Bowl loss to Kentucky
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:29 AM
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Just a p i s s-poor showing by the Tigers who were on something like a four-game losing streak to begin with.
We later heard Proctor was somewhat if not more than a little bit hungover during that game. Never confirmed the rumor, though.
Then on the long, depressing drive back to Anderson, we listened to them hang Hussein over there in Iraq.
A weird day.
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I think that is the game where CJ had maybe 7 touches....***
Aug 22, 2024, 8:36 PM
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Rival Killer [2916]
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Never had a bad one.
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:30 AM
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I don't make a lot of road games, but we ew
won every one I attended.
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Orange Immortal [68088]
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We need to make d@mn sure you're in Atlanta next week!***
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Game Changer [1843]
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Re: We need to make d@mn sure you're in Atlanta next week!***
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Aug 21, 2024, 1:38 PM
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I'll buy his ticket!!
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Hall of Famer [8119]
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Re: Never had a bad one.
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Wow!! I never saw us win one other than South Carolina until the 2011 ACC championship game. That’s a fact…. I was on like a 12 game losing streak traveling., excluding Games at Williams Bryce. I’ve never seen us lose to the gamecocks there in 5 trips
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Solid Orange [1314]
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Re: Never had a bad one.
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Aug 21, 2024, 3:45 PM
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1 Pittsburg 2022
2 Any game at Ga Tech
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Commissioner [1229]
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Re: Worst Clemson football road trip?
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:33 AM
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NC State 2011...enough said
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EASILY, Cooterville 1975. Day game with the reflection off the Roach Rug so bad
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:36 AM
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that no yardlines or sidelines could be seen from my seats. And, the Coots behind Jeff Grantz Veered us to death, 56-20.
My only other road trip during my time at Clemson was equally bad, GT in Atlanta. This was the game they booted a fumble forward into the endzone and fell on it for what turned out to be the winning touchdown, 33-28.
After the Cooterville debacle in '75, I swore off road trips.
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Game Changer [1788]
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Re: EASILY, Cooterville 1975. Day game with the reflection off the Roach Rug so bad
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Aug 21, 2024, 4:23 PM
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that no yardlines or sidelines could be seen from my seats. And, the Coots behind Jeff Grantz Veered us to death, 56-20. My only other road trip during my time at Clemson was equally bad, GT in Atlanta. This was the game they booted a fumble forward into the endzone and fell on it for what turned out to be the winning touchdown, 33-28. After the Cooterville debacle in '75, I swore off road trips. ">">">
I was there, we jumped the turnstyles to get in, huge hangover and a total a$$whipping in Jim Carlen's 1st year.
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All-Time Great [91328]
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That one was definitely a rough one. Mcnabb killed us that game.***
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:37 AM
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I was at Pittsburgh in 2021.
Ukulele handed off to a Pitt guy going the other way … and there was more. With intelligent/sensible play Clemson wins … but noooooooooo …
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:41 AM
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Tangerine Bowl....Texas Tech
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Clemson Conqueror [11441]
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worst overall in person experience......
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2006 @ Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech was good..........and coming off the big GT Gameday beatdown the Saturday prior, we THOUGHT we were good.
Bad game experience and the fans were AWFUL
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LOL
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Drove the family down from Virginia to Wake for CTB's last game on a Thursday night. What a crappy effort on our part but it did bring in the Dabo era so there was a bright spot.
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Orange Phenom [14802]
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Easy... 2001 Gator Bowl
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:50 AM
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Got dropped off at the Hospital on the way to the game. I had started throwing up around 4am and it just wouldn't stop.
After 2 doses of anti-nausea medication, they were rolling me into a room for either an xRay or MRI and was about to hurl again. Nurse told me there was no way I could still be sick. I said if you don't hand me that pan right there you're the one that's gonna be the one cleaning this up, not me. She got that pan to me just in time.
The nurse said that's it, I'm knocking you out. She gave me a 3rd dose of anti-nausea and something else b/c and I was out cold for hours. I eventually was moved out to the waiting room to make room for others coming in because wouldn't know it, all sorts of people started coming in sick like me.
Figured it out, we all had food poisoning from a local fast food chicken place had some bad chicken.
I woke up on a bench on the waiting room to all my friends looking over me. All of them happened to be VT fans and were all smiling. I knew the game was not good one for us that day.
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Orange Phenom [14802]
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Runner Up
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:55 AM
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Duke, 2023.
Ugh.
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Game Changer [1940]
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Same game for me.
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:58 AM
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Met Jamie Trimble a couple of years after that game in Charleston.
Told him I stayed til the last play.
His response was... Oh.. so that was you!
Really cool guy. Hate he ended his career with that game.
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Standout [230]
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Aug 21, 2024, 12:42 PM
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1993 at FSU . . . got beat 57-0 and then when we were walking out of the game, heard an FSU fan from above say "Clemson, boy they are no Duke" (Noles beat Duke 45-7 the week before) Talk about rubbing salt in the wound!
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The 70-33 drubbing by WV.
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Aug 21, 2024, 12:58 PM
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Was part of a travel group from Greenville on a chartered flight. Lots of anticipation, mirth, and happiness on the flight down.
The pre-game was good. We got to enter the Discover Card tailgate with great free food and non-alcoholic beverages.
The game started and we were playing relatively well. Then, the fumble happened. And, the rest was unbearable. We left the game in the middle of the 4th to go back to the bus that was to transport us back to the airport. Waited quietly in-line with the rest to get back on the plane. Unfortunately, one guy was so drunk, he was not allowed back on the plane. Slept most of the way back but awoke just before landing. I had never had flight motion sickness, but that early morning I did. Thankfully, no barfing, but the whole plane was "spinning" to me. Glad we landed quickly. Otherwise, I would have.
We landed back at GSP. Headed towards the house. It was 3:00 am. Pulled up to a red-light to turn left. After 3-4 minutes of the traffic lights cycling, it never turned green for us. With absolutely NO ONE on the road, I turned left under a red light. Of course, a cop was hidden and pulled me over. When he saw it was me, my senior-citizen parents, and a person asleep in the back seat, I told him we were returning from the game. He said, "I'm sorry. I just have to run your license. Just wanted to make sure you weren't drunk."
That was the worst game for me.
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Re: Worst Clemson football road trip?
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Aug 21, 2024, 1:28 PM
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Kentucky in 1985. Miserable game but good family trip.
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:10 PM
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Tangerine bowl in 2002. Had college friends from Furman, SC, and UGA along for the trip. Needless to say they didn’t shut their mouths the whole way back.
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Hall of Famer [8145]
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:09 PM
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Trip to Tally in 2000.
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Rival Killer [2642]
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AS far as the game, 1993 @ FSU
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:17 PM
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57-0.
But had fun in Tally, so not a total loss.
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Pick any bowl game played in FL during 90's early 00's
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:26 PM
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Citrus Bowl vs Cal
Gator Bowl vs Cuse
Gator Bowl vs VT
Tangerine Bowl vs Texas Tech
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Paw Warrior [4744]
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here are a few that stand out...
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:27 PM
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1986 Maryland Tie 17-17 (Baltimore Memorial Stadium)
1988 NC State lost 10-3
1989 Duke lost 21-17
1992 Citrus Bowl lost to Cal 37-13
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Rival Killer [3056]
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What was that score ?? 41-0 as Donovan McNabb torched us ??
What was even worse is the next season we opened vs UNC and got beat 43-0 or something.
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Aug 21, 2024, 2:41 PM
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1979 Peach Bowl. Tigers played a poor game and I thought I was going to freeze. In the fourth quarter the beer vendor was going through the stands yelling, "Hot beer!"
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Yes was at both of those and after the UNC game went to 1st ever Panther home game in Charlotte next day as a Falcon fan. Panthers won 29-6 so I didn’t see a TD by either of my teams that weekend.
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Rival Killer [2630]
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Whatever year Gator Bowl McNabb and the Orange bet us to #### in the rain***
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Game Changer [1923]
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Luckily I can say the three times I remember seeing us play on the road (Auburn 2012 Coots 2023 and Kentucky 2023) We’ve won. I was to little to remember anything else I know or atleast been told that I was at a Clemson Duke game as a very young child.
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Paw Master [17358]
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I was at Auburn the year Kyle got speared
Aug 22, 2024, 8:25 PM
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That game was a kick in the teeth
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Aug 21, 2024, 11:35 PM
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Bama...Sugar Bowl was painful...we stunk it up, walk back to hotel was freezing cold and windy with bama fans.
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Athletic Dir [1160]
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2003 Wake Forest Game was bad for me. We started chanting Uhal for Tommy. That was disgraceful showing that night. Then the Orange Bowl vs West Virginia because of the game and we went all the way down to Miami and it the weather was 40 degrees that week with a 25-35 mph winds. All the Cubans looked like Eskimos
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Re: Worst Clemson football road trip?
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2017 Sugar Bowl. My daughter (the former Tiger Cub mascot) got married New Years Eve in Greenville. We got up the next morning and drove to New Orleans. The game was 8:00 so we checked in the hotel in Slidell and went right to the parking lot planning to tailgate before the game. It was 28 degrees with 30 MPH winds. We went into a bar and got something to eat and a few beers and headed to the stadium. It was brutally cold walking the 8-10 blocks to the stadium and let’s just sat it wasn’t through the best part of town. Then we got our b u t t s handed to us in the game and had to walk that 8-10 blocks back in the cold. We got back to Slidell really late then got up early the next morning and drove back to Asheville via Greenville because we had to drop our friends who went with us at their house in Simpsonville. I told my wife that is the last time I’m doing a quick road trip for a playoff game. The next year we got a room at a bed and breakfast in Napa Valley for a week around the national championship game. Had a much better time on that trip.
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Paw Master [17358]
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I was there, and it was terrible
Aug 22, 2024, 8:24 PM
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Drove most of the way home sick and in a snowstorm. One of the biggest snows ever in Summerville SC. At least gave me a couple of days off work to recover.
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Citrus Bowl vs Cal
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Aug 22, 2024, 8:21 PM
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For regular season games, it was at Georgia, maybe that same season? 92 or 93?
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Clemson Conqueror [11128]
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Peach Bowl (1979 I think it was) vs Baylor. Took the 3 hour ride down & back
Aug 22, 2024, 8:24 PM
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the same day. It was 28 degrees, sleeting and 30 mph wind the whole game! We nearly froze...a miserable experience, plus we lost the game!
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CU Medallion [18535]
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Citrus vs Cal. Orange vs WVU. FSU when Sapp got killed at QB while we were
Aug 22, 2024, 8:34 PM
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baking in the sun. Those jump to mind............
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