A Message from the ISU "Flag Runner"

[superfan]

Posting this for a friend:


I'd like to thank everyone who has supported my flag running the last 3 years. It has been a lot of fun and an honor to cheer on the Cyclones with you. Sadly, this tradition is nearing an end. Due in part to my time as a student coming to an end, and due in part to circumstances beyond my control, I will be running for the last time at a Big XII game this coming Saturday vs. Texas Tech. I would like to thank all of you again for your support and hope to see you at Hilton on Saturday. Go Cyclones!

 

[aeroclone08]

Circumstances beyond your control? Did you guys finally run the Ames area out of red paint? :wink0st:

 

[HiltonMagic]

Circumstances beyond your control? Did you guys finally run the Ames area out of red paint? :wink0st:

No, he's been told he can't run around anymore :frown3qg:, apparently it's unsafe. :rolleyes5cz:

Run, Flag Runner, Run!

 

[Skyh13]

First Chief Illiniwek, now the Flag Runner..... what is this world coming to?

 

[jparker22]

I'll miss you Superfan's friend, I always enjoyed your running during the breaks, I know how far it is to run around the upper ring. I used to run it for exercise when I was in school. You were doing a good thing, sorry it ends with you! Thanks for being an active fan!

 

[Kyle]

He was my hero... This is a sad day in cyclone history... :sad9cd:

 

[norsemen]

If the flag runner goes away, the terrorists have won....

 

[BryceC]

Honestly, that's pretty lame. But if they are going to make you hang up the flag and the crazy hat, I think they should send you out with style. When you start the final run, they should play the Chariots of Fire theme or something. As a perennial balcony sitter I've really come to enjoy the flag runner. It's an every game thing and I've grown to like it. I fear change.

 

[83Clone]

Posting this for a friend:


I'd like to thank everyone who has supported my flag running the last 3 years. It has been a lot of fun and an honor to cheer on the Cyclones with you. Sadly, this tradition is nearing an end. Due in part to my time as a student coming to an end, and due in part to circumstances beyond my control, I will be running for the last time at a Big XII game this coming Saturday vs. Texas Tech. I would like to thank all of you again for your support and hope to see you at Hilton on Saturday. Go Cyclones!

I called him the "Clone Ranger"

 

[Hasbeen]

This makes me think of the WWE dude who made his own championship belt last year after ISU won the "Mythical State Title." He wore a cape, had huge rings, painted up and had a mask. Dude even had a little sidekick. I saw him at football games last fall, but not at hoops that I can think of. I guess he could have graduated......

 

[mj4cy]

It is too safe! if every usher is watching out for him, sheesh
can't have fun anymore...whats next....bball players have to walk instead of run up and down the floor?

 

[Cyfan322]

You should go out in style by streaking with the flag...

 

[Cyclonesrule91]

I have enjoyed the flagrunner too watching him run at the games I have been to this yr. The only time I didn't like it was the Kansas game when some rabid Jayhawk fan started chasing him with a KU sign. I wanted to kick that person in Nards, but he was a she so probably wouldn't have been taken to kindly by the crowd...

 

[Hasbeen]

Whoa! My son just had me help him restart his NCAA 2006 football PS2 game. Of course he is playing as ISU and guess who's pic shows up as the game is loading?????? ISU WWE guy that I was just posting about. Wierd.

 

[Angie]

This makes me think of the WWE dude who made his own championship belt last year after ISU won the "Mythical State Title." He wore a cape, had huge rings, painted up and had a mask. Dude even had a little sidekick. I saw him at football games last fall, but not at hoops that I can think of. I guess he could have graduated......

I only saw him at one of the exhibition games. There may be a pic in the gallery somewhere that he's lurking in the background of - I tried to get a good pic of him, but he was too far away. He made me laugh.

The flag runner is one of my favorite parts of the second half!! We'll miss you!

 

[CYdTracked]

I love that guy. That's the 1 thing us up on the balcony can count on is him running the ring around Hilton in the second half. Hell they even have a clip of it on the video board before the game!

Section 226 is gonna miss you man!

 

[dbronco7sc]

This makes me think of the WWE dude who made his own championship belt last year after ISU won the "Mythical State Title." He wore a cape, had huge rings, painted up and had a mask. Dude even had a little sidekick. I saw him at football games last fall, but not at hoops that I can think of. I guess he could have graduated......

That's the SUPERFAN... who started this thread! And the sidekick you're thinking of is the FLAG RUNNER!

 

[dbronco7sc]

Whoa! My son just had me help him restart his NCAA 2006 football PS2 game. Of course he is playing as ISU and guess who's pic shows up as the game is loading?????? ISU WWE guy that I was just posting about. Wierd.

That's awesome... you need to get a picture of it and post it. And SUPERFAN needs to collect some royalties!

 

[wonkadog]

I second the streaking idea, what have you got to lose??

 

[cyclonekj]

Hey, bodysuit man!