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If I had a moment like that, it was in college. After that, work got in the way of a lot of games I wanted to see, and that was just life. And if work could do it, something personal definitely could. (I might've also blocked out being an ass, I dunno)

I also grew up without cable, so I got very used to watching games on gamecast. Now I can track the score on my phone and often be less of a mess. 

I did have a friend with a strong rooting interest who had to miss the second half of OSU-Michigan in 2006. A young lady wanted to claim his v-card and he was in no position to refuse. 

During the 2014 season work sent me to Madison WI at the last minute. Flying in on a Monday, I was scheduled to leave on a Saturday, which disrupted my plans to be in Tucson for an Arizona game that same day. Working in Washington DC at the time, obviously there wasn’t time to take my scheduled flight back East before routing all the way to Arizona. So I changed my flight to leave very early from Madison through Dallas to Tucson. This cost a hundred dollars. Then on returning to work and filing my travel voucher, work, because of bureaucracy, stuck me with the airfare to Madison, both there and the unused return flight on the same roundtrip tickets. That was about $350 on top of the flight costs I already paid to fly from Madison to Tucson before returning East at vacation’s end.

So was it worth it? YES! Landed in Tucson before Arizona’s kickoff against California, used my brother’s student ID to get into the student section with grad school friends, and witnessed, in person, a game winning Hail Mary from a few rows up of where it was caught. BTW, Madison is a great college town.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFsnkRFvYk

Nice. Back during that same 2010 NCAA Tournament I changed a flight my work had scheduled for me into Orlando on Sunday to an earlier flight because I was going to miss WVU’s second round game against Mizzou.

Yeah...I'm afraid my experiences with this all go the opposite way, which is to say missing games I really didn't want to miss because of obligations. I had to back out of the 2010 Ohio State game in Madison because of work, instead attending the Austin Peay game. No worries, only one of the greatest nights in Camp Randall ever that I missed for some work training. Grrr.

And I missed the 2015 basketball final because I was coaching a softball game. At least I didn't miss a win.

Oh man.  You missed a national championship game?  That would have been very hard for me to do.  Did you record it?  Try to avoid the score?

Hmmm, does this count? I pushed back a job interview like a week on the off chance a team I liked won a title and there would be a parade. It was my first job out of school and I desperately needed it. 

They ended up winning, so worth it. 

Hmmm, does this count? I pushed back a job interview like a week on the off chance a team I liked won a title and there would be a parade. It was my first job out of school and I desperately needed it.

They ended up winning, so worth it.

That counts.  That’s great.

Can’t believe you gave up watching the final, something that happens (what?) every 25 or so years to coach a softball game for the 20 or 30th time that season? Which would and did lead me to doing something similar to Marq’s doing...
Was spending the long Thanksgiving weekend a few states away with family I was tired of before I even got there. Not knowing how I’d make it through the Friday and Saturday after a particularly long Thanksgiving Day of being put to work only to at every turn having to hear I was doing things the wrong way, I suddenly remembered the nearby Hospital ER, where I’d spent the previous Thanksgiving with my Mom, had a TV.

So yes, I spent a whole Saturday escaping to an ER waiting room to watch college football uninterrupted. A good place to watch, if you have to ask; everybody else waiting in an ER has much bigger problems than who is this guy hogging the remote and flipping between two and three games?

That is fantastic.

I had it on the DVR, but got home with about three minutes to play, so I just watched the end.
It was worth it to be with my daughter and her team.
The 2010 game against Ohio State bugs me more. It was semi-mandatory work training—the kind you need to keep advancing, and it would not have been well received if I had said, “next year.” But we knew that was going to be a great game, so it was painful enough cancelling...then I missed one of the best moments in Camp Randall history, and I left the job about 18 months later anyway. Grrrrr!!!

Man, good for you.  I coach my daughter’s softball team.  She loves playing and I enjoy coaching them.  But if WVU were playing for the NCAA Title I’d try my damndest to get out of it for just one night.
I have a similar work story.  Years ago I worked for a large non-profit and once per quarter we would have have late Saturday morning meetings to accommodate the work schedules of our volunteer board members.  So naturally one day a meeting was going to cut into the noon kickoff of a WVU-Maryland game.  I went into my manager’s office sort of pouting about it.  He was a very cool guy and knew I loved the Mountaineers.  This is a summary of our conversation.
Me:  “You know that damn meeting is going to cause me to miss the first half of the WVU game.”
Him:  “Well if you had tickets I could probably tell Stan and he would excuse you for it.”
Me:  “I don’t have tickets.  I just want to watch it.”
Him:  “Yeah, well, if you TOLD me you had tickets I could probably get you out of the meeting.”
Me: “Yeah, well if I had tickets that would be great, but I don’t.”
Him: (A little exasperated) “If Stan THINKS you have tickets I believe he’d let you out of the meeting.”
Me: “Jeff, I already told you...”
Him:  “Goddammit!  Just tell me you have tickets to the game so I can tell Stan and get you out of this meeting!”