Friday OT - The worst Hawk fan you ever knew/met

[MNCyGuy]

Guy sitting behind me at last years game (maybe not the worst but the freshest in my mind, worst cuts a wide path with iowa fans). he has his 6 or 7 year old son with him, sitting bascially in the ISU section in Kinnick, so he is actually in the minority, which apparently means you have to be extra annoying. HE was being loud, and in general a total ******* with lots of profanity, i actually felt sorry for his son who will eventually grow up to be just like his dad someday.
The good part was when UI throws the pick down with 5 min left in the game, he says "F*** it, its over"! took his son and left, which i'm think that we haven't moved the ball since the 2nd quarter, and we are going to basically run the ball 3 times and punt, which is exactly what happened. As iowa was driving down the field, my one positive thought was at least that SOB will still be walking back to his car when he finds out iowa won. Luckly Jake Knott prevented me from having to take comfort in that, and that the guy was right and it was over.

For some reason this reminds of not really a bad fan, but just a funny story. At the 2011 game I went with a buddy who had his grandpa's awesome seats (45-yd line about 20 rows back). In the seats behind us this guy in his mid-30's shows up in an ISU polo and has a kid in a hawk t-shirt with him. I'm guessing the kid is about 7. As the game goes on the kid is shrieking "GO HAWKS!" roughly every 3 minutes, regardless of what's happening on the field. It's kind of annoying, but it's a little kid, he's having a good time, what are you gonna do? Anyway, around the 3rd quarter everyone in the section is just kind of chuckling at this kid. The guy sitting next to the adult decides to make a good-natured joke and says something like, "You'd think dad would have raised that kid better and cheer for the Cyclones." Everyone in earshot laughs for a little until Junior shouts, "HE'S NOT MY DAD!" Awkward silence for what felt like 10 minutes.

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

Another one... two years before the pee incident we are in IC just tailgating. I made the mistake of wearing a yellow Cyclones shirt - not my brightest moment. Anyway, we go to a bar during the game and this drunk Hawkeye wearing a gold shirt walks right over, puts his finger on my chest, and says "Anyone who wears a gold shirt around here is a f----t". I say, "what color shirt are you wearing?" He says, "f you" and walks away.

They must not teach colors in Chicago schools.

 

[TXCyclones]

The worst Halkeye-fan I know is unfortunately my wife's nephew. He's a good kid, ex-marine, current Cedar Rapids cop, but he is the WORST Halkeye fan, and falls closely into Tavernhalk territory. The bluster about the Halkeyes is deep and you'd swear he had to have graduated from there. But, no, not one person in his family went to school there. I dread the game each year because I can't stand he or his mom.

 

[ianoconnor]

For some reason this reminds of not really a bad fan, but just a funny story. At the 2011 game I went with a buddy who had his grandpa's awesome seats (45-yd line about 20 rows back). In the seats behind us this guy in his mid-30's shows up in an ISU polo and has a kid in a hawk t-shirt with him. I'm guessing the kid is about 7. As the game goes on the kid is shrieking "GO HAWKS!" roughly every 3 minutes, regardless of what's happening on the field. It's kind of annoying, but it's a little kid, he's having a good time, what are you gonna do? Anyway, around the 3rd quarter everyone in the section is just kind of chuckling at this kid. The guy sitting next to the adult decides to make a good-natured joke and says something like, "You'd think dad would have raised that kid better and cheer for the Cyclones." Everyone in earshot laughs for a little until Junior shouts, "HE'S NOT MY DAD!" Awkward silence for what felt like 10 minutes.

Speaking of raising kids, the other day as I was driving I saw a car with those ridiculous stick figures on the back. The parents and 2 out of 3 kids were ISU stickers, but the other kid was a Hawkeye sticker. I wasn't sure what to think. Maybe he was adopted or put into protective custody?

 

[dualthreat]

I know over by Cedar Rapids is Hawk territory - is NE Iowa, as well?

Oh yes

Slowly improving though

 

[westlbcyclone]

I think I've posted this here before, but it still holds up after 10 years.

I was a sophomore in HS in 2002, and dating a girl from IC who was a freshman in college at iowa. Her parents got us tickets to go to the ISU/iowa game in Kinnick. During the early part of the game, when ISU is getting crushed, these two guys in front of me are turning around giving me crap. I was young, and only weighed about 120 pounds, and so all I could think to say was "Sure, iowa is winning now, but let's wait and see what happens in the 4th quarter." I think we all remember how that game turned out.

As the turnaround got started, these guys got angrier and angrier, and I like I thought I should KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT. After ISU's last TD, one of the guys turned around, completely red-faced and started screaming at me. His buddy pulled him back, but was clearly also mad, and once the final whistle blew the first guy turned and reached out to grab me by the collar. I knocked his hand away, and at that time someone behind me got between us and the guys both left.

The guy who saved me turned out to be my teachers husband, they had been in the row behind me the entire game and never said anything, even though they knew it was me.

 

[clone99]

For some reason this reminds of not really a bad fan, but just a funny story. At the 2011 game I went with a buddy who had his grandpa's awesome seats (45-yd line about 20 rows back). In the seats behind us this guy in his mid-30's shows up in an ISU polo and has a kid in a hawk t-shirt with him. I'm guessing the kid is about 7. As the game goes on the kid is shrieking "GO HAWKS!" roughly every 3 minutes, regardless of what's happening on the field. It's kind of annoying, but it's a little kid, he's having a good time, what are you gonna do? Anyway, around the 3rd quarter everyone in the section is just kind of chuckling at this kid. The guy sitting next to the adult decides to make a good-natured joke and says something like, "You'd think dad would have raised that kid better and cheer for the Cyclones." Everyone in earshot laughs for a little until Junior shouts, "HE'S NOT MY DAD!" Awkward silence for what felt like 10 minutes.

No your story is funny, the guy behind me was a ***hole.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

For some horrible reason, there are a lot of Hawkeyes in SE South Dakota.

It's close to Sewer City, which sucks as bad as Iowa City?

 

[ISUME]

I was a sophomore in HS in 2002, and dating a girl from IC who was a freshman in college

Stop bragging.

 

[weR138]

Still wrapping my head around someone attending University of South Dakota (no offense to your grad degree) giving someone **** about attending Iowa State.

It was a ******bag hawk fan. No shame. No class. No clue.

 

[westlbcyclone]

Stop bragging.

What can I say? I got skillz.

 

[MNCyGuy]

No your story is funny, the guy behind me was a ***hole.

Oh I know, very different situations. You mentioning the kid just made me think of it.

 

[tzjung]

I think I told this story a few years ago...and I think even some here remembered it as they saw it happen.

Anyway, in 2002 (year of the Seneca Comeback), a group of us ISU fans were walking toward Kinnick but were about a mile away. An ISU tailgating bus was driving by saw that we were ISU fans. They stopped and picked us up and invited us to party with them. It was a painted school bus, but they had it completely decked out. They had Huge stereo speakers, big screen tv on the bus with a satellite dish. They even had stairs to a deck they had built on the roof. Anyway, we were all pretty excited to start tailgating with about 10 other ISU fans!

As the bus getting close to the stadium (I think we were on Melrose) the cops were directing traffic out in front of Kinnick at a cross road. As we were coming up on the intersection, it was our turn to stop and wait for traffic. Anyway, there were hundreds of Hawk students tailgating there on the corner of the stadium (along w/ the Marching band playing).

When the bus was stopped, one of the ISU fans who invited us thought he'd be a smart *** and got off the bus. He basically taunted the Hawk fans by pointing to his shirt and his bus and saying "Go ISU". He may have said some negative things about the Hawks as well, but regardless, it seemed all in good fun.

What happened next was crazy....this 5' little coed comes to the bus and pours her beer on it. Then...other people started doing the same...after about 1 minute all the students and tailgaters started throwing full beer bottles at the bus. The bottles were coming through the windows and pelting all the electrical equipment inside while we were huddled against the wall trying not to get knocked out. The Cops on the scene...DID NOTHING. In fact...they held the bus there for a good 5 mins while we were getting JACKED by all these students and drunk ********. Finally the cops just let us through the intersection like nothing happened, while about half the windows on the bus were broken out and the interior of the bus caked in beer and broken bottles.

Probably the worst I've ever seen hawk fans......


TL;DR: Hawk fans in front of the Kinnick (and in front of the cops who gave no *****) trashed an ISU tailgate bus by throwing beer bottles at it while there were about 15 cyclone fans on board.

 

[3TrueFans]

I think I told this story a few years ago...and I think even some here remembered it as they saw it happen.

Anyway, in 2002 (year of the Seneca Comeback), a group of us ISU fans were walking toward Kinnick but were about a mile away. An ISU tailgating bus was driving by saw that we were ISU fans. They stopped and picked us up and invited us to party with them. It was a painted school bus, but they had it completely decked out. They had Huge stereo speakers, big screen tv on the bus with a satellite dish. They even had stairs to a deck they had built on the roof. Anyway, we were all pretty excited to start tailgating with about 10 other ISU fans!

As the bus getting close to the stadium (I think we were on Melrose) the cops were directing traffic out in front of Kinnick at a cross road. As we were coming up on the intersection, it was our turn to stop and wait for traffic. Anyway, there were hundreds of Hawk students tailgating there on the corner of the stadium (along w/ the Marching band playing).

When the bus was stopped, one of the ISU fans who invited us thought he'd be a smart *** and got off the bus. He basically taunted the Hawk fans by pointing to his shirt and his bus and saying "Go ISU". He may have said some negative things about the Hawks as well, but regardless, it seemed all in good fun.

What happened next was crazy....this 5' little coed comes to the bus and pours her beer on it. Then...other people started doing the same...after about 1 minute all the students and tailgaters started throwing full beer bottles at the bus. The bottles were coming through the windows and pelting all the electrical equipment inside while we were huddled against the wall trying not to get knocked out. The Cops on the scene...DID NOTHING. In fact...they held the bus there for a good 5 mins while we were getting JACKED by all these students and drunk ********. Finally the cops just let us through the intersection like nothing happened, while about half the windows on the bus were broken out and the interior of the bus caked in beer and broken bottles.

Probably the worst I've ever seen hawk fans......


TL;DR: Hawk fans in front of the Kinnick (and in front of the cops who gave no *****) trashed an ISU tailgate bus by throwing beer bottles at it while there were about 15 cyclone fans on board.

That seems like a combination bad ISU fan/bad Hawk fan story.

 

[cyhiphopp]

That seems like a combination bad ISU fan/bad Hawk fan story.

Yeah, you don't whizz on someones foot when you are in enemy territory.

 

[liljones13]

My two older brothers.. Nuff said..

 

[Clonefan94]

He was a neighbor of a friend of mine. So he ended up showing up at our get togethers, including ISU vs Iowa game parties. Well, after the game of Arnaud's Senior year, he goes on to explain to me how much he loves that Arnaud lost to Iowa and how he hated him. The reason, "Because Iowa recruited him heavily and he still chose ISU."

I asked him if he knew the kid's story. How his dad played for ISU, he was from Ames, grew up a Cyclone fan and not to mention, when he was being recruited, ISU was borderline dominant in the series. He told me that that shouldn't matter, Iowa is a much better program, probably top 20 in the country, why you would choose ISU over Iowa didn't make any sense to him.

He loved to use the classic lines too. ISU's Super Bowl, it means more to ISU, etc. You could not have a sensible conversation with him about football. He would always go into the downfalls of ISU football, how they would never be worth watching. Hell, I remember him telling me during the Nebraska/CU realignment that ISU would be lucky to survive as a program at all in FBS and that we'd be better off joining UNI's league.

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

Yeah, you don't whizz on someones foot when you are in enemy territory.

i didn't read that in his story? my ISU friend got whizzed on in enemy territory.

 

[cyhiphopp]

i didn't read that in his story? my ISU friend got whizzed on in enemy territory.

Yeah, I was being metaphorical. Sadly, there are literal examples as well.


When I was in the band in 2002 we got full cups of beer and even full cans thrown at us.

 

[Funhog]

2004 game in Iowa City, I was attending a joint ISU/Iowa tailgate. A drunk Iowa fan gave me the revisionist history of how the game was revived by Hayden Fry after not being played since 1934. I told him that Hayden Fry had nothing to do with reviving the game and the contract to play the 1977 game was signed in 1969 by then athletic directors Clay Stapleton (ISU) and Forrest Evasheski (UI). Iowa did not want to play ISU and the State Legislature was about to intervene and force the series to resume in football before Iowa finally agreed to play. They would only agree to the original contract if the first four games (1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980) were played in Iowa City. This was back when ISU played at Clyde Williams Stadium. When ISU built it's new stadium which opened in 1975, some attempt was made to amend the terms of the contract to alternate the games between Iowa City and Ames, but Iowa would have none of it. The Iowa fan had no idea as to the series' background and kept insisting that is was Hayden's handiwork. I remember asking him, "what the heck is a "Tiger Hawk" anyway?" All I received back was a blank stare.