Would You Help a Hawkeye??

[isucyfan]

An example of the ultimate holiday spirit:

Driving from the Twin Cities to NW Iowa, an SUV with Hawkeye plates and bumper stickers that blew by me on slick roads. Moments after I said to my wife that the driver was asking for trouble, I saw the SUV airborne, and it rolled 4 times.

Me (obviously a big Cyclone fan) and another guy in a Cyclone hat helped get the young lady Hawk out of her vehicle and to safety. I commented to the other Cyclone samaritan about the irony, and the lady overheard and expressed her thanks for us helping out a Hawkeye.

It's a good reminder of how silly any allegiances (sports, politics, etc.) are when someone needs help.

 

[brianhos]

Yeah, you have to help, we all have to step back once and a while and realize we are all really on the same team. Some of my closest friends are hawks, it is fun to razz them, but I find myself wanting the hawks to win sometimes just so they will be happy. Then I realize what I just thought and punch myself in the head for thinking it.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Absolutely I would. My fiance and her family are Hawkeyes. We all make poor life choices at some point.

 

[Drizzle]

As long as ******* fans keep their mouths shut, they aren't too bad... Also, good for you for helping out someone in need:yes:

 

[1100011CS]

Then I realize what I just thought and punch myself in the head for thinking it.

Diet Pepsi just spewed from my nose:biglaugh:

 

[ajk4st8]

Hard to help idiot drivers.. hawkeyes or not.

 

[DaddyMac]

Yeah - you have to help in that situation. I don't really get too hung up on the sports allegiances

However, given your description of "blowing by you" and the other discussion this morning of how some people drive in bad conditions, had it simply been a "got stuck" moment - I'd have been tempted to leave her.

Given that she rolled and might have been in real peril, you certainly did the right thing and good for you in doing such.

 

[redrocker]

Of course, you can not put a silly sports team infront of helping out another human that may be in real danger.

I was tailgating at Arrowhead one year for a Chiefs game and we left the car radio on and it killed the battery. I had to ask a Jay Hawk fan for a jump, he say my ISU plates and razzed me, but he helped me out.

 

[isucyfan]

My thread title was a bit facetious, because anyone who was near this accident would have helped...it was nasty. But there was some sweet irony there.

I meant to ask the fellow Cyclone if he was a CFer, but it was well below zero with the wind chill, and I had jumped out of my car with no coat, hat or mittens, so I had to go get warm!

 

[1100011CS]

The fact that we're even discussing what should be so brutally obvious is sad.

You should have left the freekin' squawkeye for the coyotes:wink:

 

[SuperCy]

I meant to ask the fellow Cyclone if he was a CFer, but it was well below zero with the wind chill, and I had jumped out of my car with no coat, hat or mittens, so I had to go get warm!

Mere mortal. After saving the damsel's life there is no reason that Cyclone athletics should not be discussed.

 

[isucyfan]

Mere mortal. After saving the damsel's life there is no reason that Cyclone athletics should not be discussed.

Hey, Superman could have at least wrapped his cape around himself for some warmth!

 

[cmoneyr]

Question: Do I have to touch them while I help them?

Kidding, I would help her out and make sure she was all right. Then I'd push her down the hill and drive off.

 

[CYVADER]

Yeah - you have to help in that situation. I don't really get too hung up on the sports allegiances

However, given your description of "blowing by you" and the other discussion this morning of how some people drive in bad conditions, had it simply been a "got stuck" moment - I'd have been tempted to leave her.

Given that she rolled and might have been in real peril, you certainly did the right thing and good for you in doing such.

you may get to do the good deed yourself before too long as another poster from said thread basically wished me into the ditch. i have isu plates so that may make it easier for some of the heartless people on here to help me out though...

 

[Wx4Cy]

It would be a little like shopping at Wal-Mart. Sure we all would do it, we just wouldn't tell anyone and we hope that no one we knew saw us doing it.

 

[Cyclonesrule91]

Since I am a good Christian, I say you should always help out when there is an opportunity to help. We can always pray for healing when we are done helping them. Even when I don't help a hawk in need, I tell most of them when I meet them that I will be praying or their healing......

In all seriousness though, sports team allegiances I would hope would fall down the priority list when someone is in need or needs a helping hand.

Oh and ISU BET, I used to commute 30 miles to work in northern Iowa and always had to pass this idiot that drove stupid slow whenever we had a dusting of snow and there was days I wanted to open up a can of you know what on his sorry you know where. Well one day he got stuck in a snowdrift right off the road and I came to his aid and pulled him out and we both went on our merry way, of course I was much faster. So, long story short, us fast guys might have to help the slow guys that think their driving is so much better then ours and might wish us to go in the ditch.......

 

[cmoneyr]

It would be a little like shopping at Wal-Mart. Sure we all would do it, we just wouldn't tell anyone and we hope that no one we knew saw us doing it.

And because the person you helped out of the ditch probably rang you up last time you shopped at wal-mart. ITS THE CIIIIRCLE OF LIIIIFFEE!!!

 

[Erik4Cy]

you have to realize (big picture) we are all americans and we are all human beings, so of course you have to help...But as Cyclones we also realize and recognize that we just make better life choices that hawks.

Its funny you mention that, because I saw something similar happen...

 

[moo-u]

what would superman do...

hmmm...

Superman doesn't need to stay warm.

He would have used his cape to wrap the
hawkette up with, and warmed HER up
nice and toasty!

moo.

Hey, Superman could have at least wrapped his cape around himself for some warmth!

 

[superdorf]

I think even if she had an F-YOU bumper sticker I would stop to help. If you think about stuff like that in this situation you are the one that needs help...

I realize isucyfan is just pointing out the irony of the situation and didn't give it a second thought to render aid... I have always wanted to say that... render aid!