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

Virginia Frog

Active Member
Tech. So there.

As for Hawaii, the BYU people (!) hate to go out there due to the sheer level of drunken, insane fury they pour out on anybody in opposing colors. Apparently, it is a National Pastime.
The upside to BYU as opposed to the The Hawaii "Rainbows" (That is what they were called in the'90s) is that they are not going to spray beer on Frog Law or the Cheerleaders. If we ever do play BYU again, the band needs to work up the song "No Beer In Heaven" - the lyrics say - no beer in heaven, that's why we drink it here!

Sitting in a prime seat on the 40 in the UVA section (2009), I thought their fans were a pretty surly lot. They knew that they sucked but that didn't stop them in the slightest. (Small world though. The guy sitting in front of me was friends with a TC Williams teammate from the early '70s. - he was my only salvation there.)
 

froginmn

Full Member
On our way out of the Rose Bowl and across the pots to the busses, I noticed a strange phenomena. I called this to my lovely wife's attention: "Hey, Honey," I said, gesturing at all the people in Wisconsin gear studiously ignoring us, "We're invisible!"

The next day we flew out of LA. The airport bars were all packed with people in, you guessed it, Packers gear. Not a stitch of red to be seen. Again, decked out in all the Purple we had, we were invisible.
I had the best postgame experience. We flew back to Minneapolis-St Paul airport, the only TCU fans among all of the Badger folk. A friend of mine was an airline exec and had arranged first class seats for us.

The flight attendant had chatted us up pre flight, and we were decked out in Frog gear.

We sat there as all of the Wiscy fans walked past in shame.

She did the pre flight announcement and screwed it up: congratulations to the Rose Bowl winners, Wisconsin... Oh wait, TCU.
 

BrewingFrog

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The upside to BYU as opposed to the The Hawaii "Rainbows" (That is what they were called in the'90s) is that they are not going to spray beer on Frog Law or the Cheerleaders. If we ever do play BYU again, the band needs to work up the song "No Beer In Heaven" - the lyrics say - no beer in heaven, that's why we drink it here!

Sitting in a prime seat on the 40 in the UVA section (2009), I thought their fans were a pretty surly lot. They knew that they sucked but that didn't stop them in the slightest. (Small world though. The guy sitting in front of me was friends with a TC Williams teammate from the early '70s. - he was my only salvation there.)
If memory serves, you had the trumpet. I believe you win!
 

Frog DJ

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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!
 
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Purple Hearted

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In the SWC days, Arkansas. They’d come in Winnebagos on Friday and take over the stadium, most of whom never graduated from high school, much less a college. Leaving AGC after one blow-out loss a little grandma looking thing slurred out, “We kicked your M——- F——— As—s!!” At a game in Fayetteville a whiskey bottle Thrown by a 5’8” 350 pounder in red striped overalls with no shirt missed me by a hair.

Then UT for their sheer arrogance.
Then Aggie, just because they are Aggies.


I grew up going to Frog games in the 70's with my Dad (a 1970 grad) and well remember the Winnebago invasions, arse kickings and trash talking by Razorback fans.
While a student, me and a few friends road tripped to Little Rock in 1990 to watch the Frogs take on the Hogs (Leon Clay, Richard Woodley, Steven Shipley, Blackwell, etc). We were heavy underdogs that day (as always), but TCU came out and ran up and down the field on the way to a route. 54-26 if memory serves. Anyway, being full up of alcohol and "Pig! Sooey!" after years of hearing it, I began leading my own cheer among the 150-200 Frog fans in our little area. It was a stupid cheer ("Frogs, Ribbit!", yeah, it was weak)....but, damn, it was fun. Everyone in purple seemed to be having a helluva good time.
Anyway, for my efforts, first, a cup full of spit was hurled toward us. A little bit later, I was hit in the head by a mini bottle of vodka and cut open a bit. (Perhaps some of our older members were there and vaguely recall the incident). So, there's my story. It's Razorbacks and Aggies for me. I wish we still played them every year.
 

Showtime Joe 2.0

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I got banned from Lupton Stadium for an entire season because I got into a fight with our own drunken frat guys.

TCU tried to bill me $250 for repairs and I still have not paid them to this day and they still have collectors calling me. And it happened over 10 years ago
Some unsolicited legal advice: just tell the collectors that the Statute of Limitations has run.
 

BrewingFrog

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As a TCU Bandsman back in the day, heading over to the Hog Winnebago Parking Area (Now Lot 4) at roughly midnight, roughly sober (YMMV), to play the Fight Song was always a hoot. Especially when we began playing and all the Winnebagos turned on their lights and honked and such about a second after we started playing.

Them piggies wuz lyin in wait...
 

Hoosierfrog

Tier 1
I grew up going to Frog games in the 70's with my Dad (a 1970 grad) and well remember the Winnebago invasions, arse kickings and trash talking by Razorback fans.
While a student, me and a few friends road tripped to Little Rock in 1990 to watch the Frogs take on the Hogs (Leon Clay, Richard Woodley, Steven Shipley, Blackwell, etc). We were heavy underdogs that day (as always), but TCU came out and ran up and down the field on the way to a route. 54-26 if memory serves. Anyway, being full up of alcohol and "Pig! Sooey!" after years of hearing it, I began leading my own cheer among the 150-200 Frog fans in our little area. It was a stupid cheer ("Frogs, Ribbit!", yeah, it was weak)....but, damn, it was fun. Everyone in purple seemed to be having a helluva good time.
Anyway, for my efforts, first, a cup full of spit was hurled toward us. A little bit later, I was hit in the head by a mini bottle of vodka and cut open a bit. (Perhaps some of our older members were there and vaguely recall the incident). So, there's my story. It's Razorbacks and Aggies for me. I wish we still played them every year.

Was that the one where we came from behind? I remember going into a restaurant in Houston thinking another loss. I came out tried to find WBAP and heard a band and cheering thinking we got hammered, then I said that sounds like our band and the guy says it’s a final from Fayetteville, TCU wins it. I almost ran off the road.
 

Froglaw

Full Member
This I-went-to-Hawaii-in-the-90s-and-personally-complained-to-the-AD not-so-humblebrag deserves immediate admission to the humblebrag hall of fame.

Ha! it was the annual TCU alumni trip!

However, I did manage 5 days on Maui for golf.

Thanks for noticing Dirt.

Edit: Dirt, how come you don't think I drove my old Ford Expedition there?
 

Travis Trucks

Active Member
Some unsolicited legal advice: just tell the collectors that the Statute of Limitations has run.

The reason I refuse to pay in the first place is because they were breaking the stadium's own rules. Rich TCU donor allowed his son and his frat friends to take over the 3rd base patio and were drinking alcohol on the patio - WHICH WASNT ALLOWED. They were so drunk and unruly I had to put one of them in his place which broke the fencing. They should have enforced their own rules but I guess if you are a rich TCU donor you can break the rules. The funny part is I was the one who was ejected, criminally tresspassed and banned, not the rich TCU donor or his drunk unruly son/frat boy friends WHO STARTED THE FIGHT. I was 100% self defense and every witness around were taking my side.

TCU only cares about rich donors. Which is why I always give them the bird when they ask for money.
 

tcumaniac

Full Member
One fan base I haven't seen mentioned yet is Southern Miss. I went to Hattiesburg, MS for the Thursday night game against Southern Miss in 2003. Brandon Hassle was our QB and if we win that game, we become the first BCS busters. Their fans were absolutely atrocious. Genuinely felt unsafe at times.


Tech fans are by far the worst in the Big 12, especially in Lubbock. They seem to take pride in being as vile as humanly possible. I remember in 2013, I saw some students walk up to Tyler Matthews' parents and cuss them out for no reason. As already mentioned, they put the visiting TCU fans in the middle of their overflow student section, and as you can imagine, it was a disgrace filled [ Finebaum ] show. Their students spent more time flipping off and cussing at the TCU section than they did watching the game. Their fans were slightly less awful in 2015, but still sucked. Haven't been back since.


I also have to affirm that the Boise fans were unbelievably friendly. They even had a welcoming committee at the airport thanking TCU fans for visiting Boise and offering advice for where to visit and eat. The morning of the game, we literally couldn't walk past a tailgate without being greeted and offered free food and drink.
 

asleep003

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Believe the Big 12 fans are quite civil compared to BIG and SEC fans. I refer to those nastyass Badger fans at our Rose Bowl game. Primarily those 10,000 students in the South end zone... were verbally out of control.!!
 

YA

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Not even close - Hawaii out there.

Drunk sumo wrestlers in grass skirts, throwing beer on us, our cheerleaders.

LT got hurt early and the crowd cheered as he came off the field; not applauding, cheered.

Stadium that swayed because it was poorly bolted together.

Watched the late replay at the hotel, the TV announcers laughed and joked about the TCU cops cowboy hats.

I told our AD that if we never played those drunk Ba$724@ again it was fine with me.

Nice place to visit, but what fan base wants to pay a lot of money for that crud.

Yes, I've been to Tech (bad), Purdue (real bad), and the Rose Bowl.

Hawaii was by far the worst.
100% agree on Hawaii. I was actually scared at the stadium and I'm never scared for my safety. The local cops allowed the hawaii fans to come onto the field to access the TCU section. Lots of fights and lots of blood is what I remember. The next day it was nice to see Coach Patterson walking the sidewalks on Waikiki Beach keeping the players in line from the clothing stores to the Jack in the Box before their flight back to Fort Worth
 

asleep003

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Believe the Big 12 fans are quite civil compared to BIG and SEC fans. I refer to those nastyass Badger fans at our Rose Bowl game. Primarily those 10,000 students in the South end zone... were verbally out of control.!!
Purdue fans were cool though, in West Lafayette, last fall.
 

stadiumfrog

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We had a great time with WI fans...most who got even drunker than us!
Some have heard this story but most haven't. When the Show Girls entered the Rose Bowl I overheard a WI guy remark to his friend " we don't have any body that looks like that". Funny stuff.

Tech is worst. Only been to one game in Lubbock. TCU grandfather with 5-6 year old grand daughter got blasted with "F... TCU".
Once was enough.
 
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