who are the worst TCU conference opponent FANS you have encountered?

[bwnorx]

Who’s going to the game? Hope you meet some terrible OU fans and post a good story about them here

 

[ShadowFrog]

I was in the band "74 -"77.
Going to Fayetteville, we were the SWC experiment to see if a visiting band could go there again. Never found out how long it had been since a visiting band went there.

Anyway, we had police escort for the band busses as soon as we exited the highway. The police escort stayed with us in the hotel while we checked in, got into uniforms. We had police escort to the stadium and all around us during the game. Escort back to the busses after the game.

It was weird.

George Strandberg, is that you?

 

[tyler durden]

We’ve watched TCU play on the road in many venues, and I agree with Top: every school has good and bad fans (including our own), and our experiences varied wildly based on luck of the draw seating.

I’ve watched several games in Austin and never once had a bad encounter with a Longhorn fan, but that’s just anecdotal. The biggest problem was climbing those seemingly endless ramps to get to our seats in the northeast corner of the upper deck.

On the other hand I went to College Station ONCE (as a freshman or sophomore in the 60s), and that convinced me to never go back. I had the same experience in Lubbock and Baton Rouge during my days as a student. I absolutely LOATHED Arkansas.

In more current trips I’ve found Utah fans to be pretty rough, but BYU folks were saints. Oddly enough, New Mexico fans were unusually abusive - especially since TCU throttled them thoroughly both times we were in Albuquerque.

By and large BU fans were harmless - and clueless. SMU fans were just sad, but they could be pretty obnoxious on those rare occasions when they beat the Frogs. However, I generally just ignore them.

OU was very similar to UT. Sooner fans didn’t take TCU seriously, so there was very little trash talk. There were lots of obvious t-shirt fans in Norman, and many of them were unknowledgeable about football.

One great story. We combined a vacation to Colorado Springs with an Air Force game the year that massive ice storm hit, and to this day - that's the second-coldest experience of my entire life (the coldest I've ever been involved guard duty in Korea).

My son and I were bundled up with several layers of clothing, so going to the bathroom was a hassle, but the men's room was jammed shoulder to shoulder with cadets trying to stay warm. It took a couple of minutes to work my way through the crowd to the urinal.

Suddenly, I heard the door crash open and a commanding voice screamed, "Do your business and get back out there to support your fellow cadets on the field, ASAP. I'll start handing out "Ds" in three...two...one..." Almost instantly, I was virtually alone!

I stood next to another Frog fan at the sink washing my hands a moment later, and he looked at me and said, "Well, he didn't have to say it twice, did he?"

I’ll save bowl games for another time.

Go Frogs!

I also was at that Air Force game and experienced the restroom absolutely jammed, with all the air dryers running non-stop. I’ve been in lower temperatures, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been colder than I was that night.

 

[Big Frog II]

Who’s going to the game? Hope you meet some terrible OU fans and post a good story about them here

I really have not met terrible OU fans, and I have been to quite a few games here and there.

 

[Froginbedford]

I also was at that Air Force game and experienced the restroom absolutely jammed, with all the air dryers running non-stop. I’ve been in lower temperatures, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been colder than I was that night.

Colder/more miserable than the 2015 Baylor game?

 

[tyler durden]

Colder/more miserable than the 2015 Baylor game?

That Baylor game was miserable, for sure. But the Air Force game was many, many times colder, despite being in early October. Temp at kickoff was 10 degrees, but there was a low, freezing fog. Here’s a pic walking across the frozen parking lot into the stadium.

 

[Zubaz]

Yeah AFA was way worse. Beers were freezing faster than you could drink them. I bought a pulled pork sandwich at concessions that was frozen by the time I made it back to my seat. Those poor cadets that only had their dress sweatshirts or whatever they are.

 

[The TCU Football Jerk]

Tech and followed by as a mostly regular opponent, SMU. OU is distant 3rd.

 

[Frog DJ]

The AF game was extremely cold, but it pales in comparison to my experience as the Sergeant of the Guard one February night in 1971.

Korea is notoriously frigid in the winter, and this night was unusually so. The temperature was well below zero, and the wind was howling at 30 mph.

The North Koreans had infiltrated the DMZ (a regular occurrence), so all US installations went on high alert, and even broadcasters had to stand guard.

When I relieved the guards after the first two hours I literally had to chip the ice off their field jackets (we didn't have the fur-lined, full-length overcoats).

I called the CO and said, "Sir, this isn't going to work. One of our guys is going to get major frostbite, because we don't have the cold-weather gear we need."

He responded, "Okay, change the guard every hour, instead of every two hours." That meant I was out in the cold almost non-stop, because it took 45 minutes.

The next morning I went on the air (with no sleep), and in his first story our newsman reported that the infiltrators had been "neutralized" at 1900 hours.

That meant we'd stood guard in the bitter cold all night long for nothing! I was livid, but I was only a buck sergeant, so my complaints didn't mean much.

Ah, Army life...

Go Frogs!

 

[ShadowFrog]

The AF game was extremely cold, but it pales in comparison to my experience as the Sergeant of the Guard one February night in 1971.

Korea is notoriously frigid in the winter, and this night was unusually so. The temperature was well below zero, and the wind was howling at 30 mph.

The North Koreans had infiltrated the DMZ (a regular occurrence), so all US installations went on high alert, and even broadcasters had to stand guard.

When I relieved the guards after the first two hours I literally had to chip the ice off their field jackets (we didn't have the fur-lined, full-length overcoats).

I called the CO and said, "Sir, this isn't going to work. One of our guys is going to get major frostbite, because we don't have the cold-weather gear we need."

He responded, "Okay, change the guard every hour, instead of every two hours." That meant I was out in the cold almost non-stop, because it took 45 minutes.

The next morning I went on the air (with no sleep), and in his first story our newsman reported that the infiltrators had been "neutralized" at 1900 hours.

That meant we'd stood guard in the bitter cold all night long for nothing! I was livid, but I was only a buck sergeant, so my complaints didn't mean much.

Ah, Army life...

Go Frogs!

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