Jon Gruden Gives Iowa State the Ultimate Shout Out

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For those that don’t know, Jon Gruden has been doing an unboxing series where he receives care packages from programs, opens them up and talks about them a bit.

CMC and Iowa State just sent him one and it comes at no better time because Jon loves Tyrese Haliburton. Lot of pumping up of the basketball program, football program and even a Hooters shoutout.
 

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TIL the Hooters founder went to Iowa State
There is/was an area of "nooks" in the Gerdin Business Building called the "Droste Den". I remember during orientation they told us that it was after the guy who founded Hooters and my dad laughed. For some reason that fun fact stuck with me. Used those nooks quite a few times during Dead Week/Finals Week.
 

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TIL the Hooters founder went to Iowa State

When Iowa State played at UNLV in 2008, Hooters hotel and casino gave out free beer to anyone wearing Iowa State gear because one of the co-founders went to Iowa State. Of course ISU fans overran the place, they ran out of glasses so they were giving out full pitchers of beer and ISU fans were walking around using full pitchers for their glasses. Was one of my most fun away games I've been to.
 
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There is/was an area of "nooks" in the Gerdin Business Building called the "Droste Den". I remember during orientation they told us that it was after the guy who founded Hooters and my dad laughed. For some reason that fun fact stuck with me. Used those nooks quite a few times during Dead Week/Finals Week.
I was a tour guide at ISU back in my day. We used to point this out on the tour. Some parents laughed, some were disgusted. Probably lost a few good ones because of that factoid!
 

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For those that don’t know, Jon Gruden has been doing an unboxing series where he receives care packages from programs, opens them up and talks about them a bit.

CMC and Iowa State just sent him one and it comes at no better time because Jon loves Tyrese Haliburton. Lot of pumping up of the basketball program, football program and even a Hooters shoutout.

Hok fans can’t help themselves but to jump in and badmouth ISU. Like, why?? What do you have to gain other than make yourself look like a jealous little kid?
 

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Hok fans can’t help themselves but to jump in and badmouth ISU. Like, why?? What do you have to gain other than make yourself look like a jealous little kid?
It's jealousy. And it's all they have. Because they know the hard truth. Despite the fact that they have dramatically more resources than ISU, they have become little brother. Our football and men's basketball programs are both better than theirs, and are getting more national respect than theirs. We will see what happens with their MBB program, but as long as Campbell and Ferentz are in place, ISU has a better football program.
 

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When Iowa State played at UNLV in 2008, Hooters hotel and casino gave out free beer to anyone wearing Iowa State gear because one of the co-founders went to Iowa State. Of course ISU fans overran the place, they ran out of glasses so they were giving out full pitchers of beer and ISU fans were walking around using full pitchers for their glasses. Was one of my most fun away games I've been to.
They had free appetizers too IIRC.
 
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It's jealousy. And it's all they have. Because they know the hard truth. Despite the fact that they have dramatically more resources than ISU, they have become little brother. Our football and men's basketball programs are both better than theirs, and are getting more national respect than theirs. We will see what happens with their MBB program, but as long as Campbell and Ferentz are in place, ISU has a better football program.

The one main thing they had was “we put guys in the league”. They still do, but so do we…at more glamorous positions.
 

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Hok fans can’t help themselves but to jump in and badmouth ISU. Like, why?? What do you have to gain other than make yourself look like a jealous little kid?
If Iowa twitter fans were a gif
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Am I the only one who got nervous watching him not retract the box cutter blade...and then tossing clothes on top? If I did that, there’s no way my finger or that jacket would escape unscathed.
 
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Am I the only one who got nervous watching him not retract the box cutter blade...and then tossing clothes on top? If I did that, there’s no way my finger or that jacket would escape unscathed.
lol I was going to post something similar. He didn’t give two sh*ts the way he used it on the box at all.
 
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I never understood why we didn't have a Hooters in Ames, seems like that would have been a profitable franchise for someone. The Des Moines location closed a long time ago and is now the Jethros location. My wife would never dine in for obvious reasons but she liked their wings so she had no issues picking up a carry out order.