The name 'Farmageddon' to me seems disrespectful of the farming heritage of both schools. To have a trophy to enshrine the disrespect? Thanks, but NO!
How do we get a Farmageddon Trophy started?
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All it would take is for the ROTCs or some organization common to both schools to just make one. ISU/KSU is one of the oldest rivalries in FBS and our mirror profiles make it seem odd to me that we don't have one. I mean, pick any farm tool and there you go...a trophy that makes perfect sense.
Open station tractor as the trophy - winner keeps it on their campus for the year. Engrave scores in the sheet metal from all the games. This would be a sweet photo op for people to sit on it and get a pic a few times a year at different events, with supervision of course.
Also, the losing coach has to drive the open station tractor to the opposing team campus in late November.
Also, the losing coach has to drive the open station tractor to the opposing team campus in late November.
Yes, serious. Find a different name, then maybe there is something to talk about. There's a reason why people instantly started to refer to that ill-fated Corn trophy when this was brought up. Its a historic series. The name 'Farmageddon' trivializes it.
I suggested in a post to the DMR site in 2007 that this game would make a good neutral site game. The rationale was that KSU had no true rival, and both schools needed cash. Nebby was a rival on the field, but would never lower themselves to agree to something like this. KU's true rival was MU, who they played annually in Arrowhead. ISU loves KC, and how could KSU refuse given their own proximity? The 2007 KU-MU game at Arrowhead was a classic "Border War", of course, and a play-in for the Big 12 championship game.Yup - that's what I found in Wiki. I found the part in blue interesting.
The Iowa State–Kansas State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Iowa State Cyclones and Kansas State Wildcats. The two Big 12 Conference rivals have played every year since 1917, making it the 8th-longest continuous series in college football history and the nation's single longest never-interrupted college football rivalry. The game in October 2016 marked the 100th straight year the two teams have met.
Times have changed with MU moving to the SEC, Nebby to the B1G, and the Big 12 filling its coffers with TV contract money. But "Farmageddon" has lived on, complete with the faux mysticism of Bill Snyder, who returned from the grave to rescue victory from the fangs of death in both Arrowhead games. And, of course, he carried on that tradition until CMC finally turned the tables on him last night.
Wow - I didn’t realize Air Force-Colorado State, Washington-Washington State, Arizona-Arizona State, Arkansas-LSU, Army-Navy, Oklahoma-OSU, Cal-Stanford, Boston College-Clemson, UNC-Duke, Oregon-Oregon St, Ole Miss-MSU, Florida-Georgia, Florida-Miami, FSU-Virginia, Alabama-Auburn, Kentucky-Louisville, LSU-Ole Miss, Michigan St-Notre Dame, Notre Dame-Stanford, Notre Dame-USC, Oklahoma-Texas, Colorado-CSU, SMU-TCU, Arkansas-Texas A&M, Kansas-K-State, TCU-Texas Tech, Texas-Texas Tech, USC-UCLA, Virginia Tech-West Virginia, Virginia-Virginia Tech, and UCF-USF (among others) are dumb, meaningless “B1G trophy games”. Thanks for the education, pal! /sarcasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_college_football_rivalry_games?wprov=sfti1
Farmageddon is marketing genius. It just is.
Get a tractor. Paint that bad boy Cardinal and Purple. Drive it to the games.
Show off our Ag traditions. Hell our little brothers out east do a better job of marketing farm heritage than the ag school.
It's bull **** and we need to aggressively recapture the narrative!
Ok, lets work this concept. Here is a route, according to Google Maps, you might drive a tractor from Ames to Manhattan. It is an automobile route that avoids highways:
Google Maps Route from JTS to BSFS
The route is ~ 350 miles, and 6 hours, 8 minutes by car. By tractor, it would take at least twice that amount of time. Too much for one day, so you would need a stop over. If you look closely at the route, you will see that the approximate halfway point is Clarinda, IA - just east of Shenandoah. Who do we know from that region who could sponsor an annual event of this magnitude?
Don’t they have trailers for that sort of thing?
Besides, after Snyder retires and Campbell sticks around, that tractor wouldn’t be going anywhere for the next thirty years or so.
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trophy is a gaint check
trophy is a gaint check
If you are doing a full size tractor you probably want to do classic tractor something on the lines of a small tractor that can be transported easily and will fit in the stadium easily. Like the old Fords etc.
But something you have to realize these tractors all max out at maybe 15mph and driving them the entire way would be impossible. But shipping these small tractors would not be that difficult.
I just doubt the University would want to deal with it. I would guess the only way they would go along with it is if you find a trophy case size trophy. But these tractors below are what I could see.
Another Idea is a historic plow like below. This would be more easily transported and managed, and may be easier to get the University to approve.
But something you have to realize these tractors all max out at maybe 15mph and driving them the entire way would be impossible. But shipping these small tractors would not be that difficult.
I just doubt the University would want to deal with it. I would guess the only way they would go along with it is if you find a trophy case size trophy. But these tractors below are what I could see.
Another Idea is a historic plow like below. This would be more easily transported and managed, and may be easier to get the University to approve.
Since the man Farmageddon was a tongue-in-cheek effort to make fun of the Mizzou-KU rivalry, I feel the trophy should be equally irreverent. A ridiculously giant hoe m, a giant feed pail, a golden chicken and name it Walter of Olathe, a giant rope called Pecos Bill’s Lasso...etc
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When I first saw "Farmageddon", it felt like someone was making fun of . . . ISU, KSU, farmers, the game . . . something in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on. Since then, it seems at least ISU fanbase has embraced the moniker. Presuming the KSU fanbase does too, I now think of it almost like folklore or tradition.
Forget the farming icons. Just have a bronze referee picking up a flag. Pretty much sums it up for me.
