My wife loves to tell the story about one time when we first were dating that we met a bunch of her friends out at a bar in Cedar Falls and as she puts it I went "lawyer" on this obnoxious hawk fan. One of her friends brought this guy along post dinner date. He was a ***** and my wife's friend said as much when he went to the bathroom. Well after an hour the Iowa State highlights came on the tv (Tinsley, Fizer etc.) and he says man they suck. then he looks at me and after seeing the look on my face says "I suppose your an Iowa State fan." I said yes willing to play the polite game, when he says "I can't believe that you can be an ISU fan. How can you put up with that? They suck. Why would you go to school there?" I calmly explained the engineering angle. he stayed on his anti ISU slant. I explained that I'd grown up living in married student housing when my dad was in grad school and had been going to football games with my dad since the late seventies. He kept it up. (He was obviously drunk). At this point the tension at the table was rising including his date, my future wife, and at least three other couples, all of whom knew me and not him. he was oblivious. I asked him who he followed. Of course he followed EIU. I said oh that's cool. Pause. So what's your degree in? Silence. "Well I didn't actually go to school there." Quickly following up I say "Well then, your parents probably did right?" He says "uh no, dad farms." "Oh" I respond, "so you grew up in the Iowa City area then." "well no, we're from NW Iowa." "so you've been going to Iowa games since you were little indoctrinated at a young age?" He says, "well no, I watch them all on tv though." I finally let loose, "So what you are telling me is that you have absolutely no connection to the university at all. None. You didn't go there. Your parents didn't go there. You didn't grow up in the area. You've never been to a game." He says quietly "well I guess yeah." "So basically your a bandwagon fan. You have absolutely no reason to be a Hawk fan. You just chose to be one. You're a complete SHAM!" Silence. The other boyfriends at the table (all of whom were hawk fans) were straining hard not to laugh. After literally five minutes of silence, he finally mumbled something about needing a drink and went to the bar. I got up and went to the bathroom followed by the remaining guys at the table. THey about fell over laughing when we got to the bathroom. It was hilarious and that group of friends still talks about it.
