Iowa-Iowa State Fan Map
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I would have guessed Marshall at right about 50/50. Seems like the divide, as soon as you hit Le Grand it goes downhill Hawk fast.
This is pretty awesome. Map showing Iowa and Iowa State fandom across the state. There's a pretty big chunk of the state that's red.
Source: http://imgur.com/9AtOals
These numbers actually ate pretty close to my guesses. Is this county licence plate data? What is the source?
hopefully in a few years we can get it more like this. I can't understand that there are cyclones who cheer for the hawks.
Umm the key word here is ALUMNI. A lot of tavern hawks all over the place who didn't go to either.
This was my thought as well. I first saw it and thought "wow the source for this has to be garbage, yet this will go on for 50 pages with debates about it".
I'm not sure it could be reddit though as I doubt they could get all counties represented to make those percentages work, they'd have to make up a lot of info.
What ticks me off to no end is all the ISU alumni that consider themselves Hawk fans.... just sickening. The absolute worst kind of bandwagon jumpers ever IMO.
These are the kind of people that can't think for themselves at all and just do whatever everyone else is doing. They stand for nothing and are weak. Spineless.
If you're going to be a spineless bandwagon jumper, you might as well be an Alabama fan, right? I mean at least be a fan of a good team, am I right?
I live in NW Iowa, and there are tons of TV Hawk fans. Most have never attended a game in Iowa City, but jumped aboard during the Fry years. The "I'm a winner, because my team is a winner" crowd. Plus the fact they can get a shirt at the nearest Walmart. Things are changing...More ISU alums in the state than any other university, more Iowa high school seniors choose ISU than any other university, and let's face it we have a young energetic coaches. Go State!
Why the hell is western Iowa pro-hawkeye?
No matter. In another 10 years we'll own the state.
No matter. In another 10 years we'll own the state.
I grew up in Sioux City and I was one of two Iowa State fans my age. I go back every few months or so for work and am floored at how many Iowa State license plates, flags, etc are around. Echoing what has already been said, the map would have been 100% black 15-20 years ago. I see 60-40 as a very, very good thing.
This is a case by case thing imo. I know of one guy whose entire family are huge hawk fans and have season tickets. He is the only one that didn't go to Iowa because he wanted to be an engineer so he went to ISU.
Lyon County native here, and I agree with these sentiments. Sounds like you know my in-laws, whom I love, but are "TV Hawks" to the extreme. So, so many farm-dependent and rural folks up that way that seem to believe in all seriousness that UI is somehow the ag-based university in our great state.
I agree. I honestly see slightly more ISU plates in Cedar Rapids than Iowa plates. It seems to be increasing too.
It's my home town. In the 80s up to late 90s I'd say it was 60 Iowa, 30 Nebraska, 10 ISU. Now I think it's more like 50 Iowa, 35 ISU, 15 Nebraska. There is at least 3x as much ISU sports gear around as there was when I was a kid. It's definitely on pace to be ISU country in a generation or two.
I get the sentiment, but it does go both ways. My fiance's brother spent the better part of a decade going to Iowa for Dentistry and he still is a Cyclone Fan. Both her cousins went to Iowa and still have season tickets to Iowa State basketball and sit behind the bench.
Want to know how much it is killing Iowa fans that increasingly more students are choosing to go to ISU? Read this article titled: Dear high school seniors, don't go to Iowa State.
http://thetab.com/us/iowa/2016/04/28/state-4145
If you don't want to give it page clicks, it basically says ISU colors suck and Ames is in a corn field. Solid arguments.
http://thetab.com/us/iowa/2016/04/28/state-4145
If you don't want to give it page clicks, it basically says ISU colors suck and Ames is in a corn field. Solid arguments.
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Complete with the slam against farmers/agriculture while supporting the team with ANF on its helmets.
Willing to cut the kid some slack as an overzealous 19 year old hawkeye fan with a failed attempt at an opinion piece...until he closed with that beauty. More than likely just a very stupid person.
