There are people on Twitter claiming he's actually a Hawk fan. Of course those people are Hawk fans themselves so... And it really doesn't matter.
This guy is the GOAT. Pure class and an awesome story.
I thought the same...but also it's so public now that if they bailed it would look REAL bad. I'm guessing soon they'll put a date on this to wrap it up.
VERY cool story all around...good for him and likely going to go over half a million dollars...that's probably worth him getting something named...or better yet, a Busch Light wing of the hospital, lol.
I just want to know what cell service he uses - I'm amazed he was getting text messages at jack trice on saturday!! Someone could've venmo'd me $3000 and I wouldn't have known until about midnight.
Any Hawk/Cyclone discussion and comparison in this thread is pure trash. This is an awesome story that goes far beyond University affiliations.
Sadly, a not-insubstantial portion of the Iowa fan base has used the wave as yet another thing to try to lord over ISU fans. They've managed to turn something good and pure that everyone should rally around into another reason to divide the fan bases. Naturally you're going to have ISU fans responding in kind.
There was a hint of where this was going a couple years back when the wave was still new, and there was a mini-groundswell among Iowa fans online to get ISU to do the wave at its home game during Iowa's bye week. It was obvious even then that this was a bad-faith PR stunt, the obvious subtext being that ISU would look bad if it declined to take up the idea.
Just this week when ISU announced its facilities plan, I read a response tweet that basically said, "this looks nice but I'd rather have the wave." It was nonsensical on a number of levels but it's really gross that someone's first instinct when hearing about completely unrelated ISU news was to invoke the wave.
I would hope there are few Iowa fans that think that way and I realize that social media and message boards probably magnify their reach. But I also understand why some ISU fans wouldn't embrace the wave in the way Iowa fans do.
Unless he cleaned up his twitter, he had a ton of Iowa State things on his feed over the last year or so. That's as far as I scrolled.
I looked at his facebook page and his profile pic is of him and a young kid both in hok hats.
On murph and Andy yesterday he was asked what school he was a fan of and he said Iowa state big cyclone fan. I'm not sure why he would lie. I grew up a hawk fan but then went to ISU and the rest is history.
If it is based on a doctors recommended consumption of alcohol, probably like.. 7 cases.
You really can't tell what the kid is wearing, but if he has family that are Hawk fans sometimes people wear their gear to fit in.
Exactly, my son wears hawk gear because his wife is a fan. My son loves working on cars for fun and not a sports fan at all - happy wife happy life.
