Stories from that dump of a stadium

t-noah

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I mean, it's not like it was that SEC game last year (was it Tennessee/Auburn) where it was raining water bottles. A couple random people throwing cans isn't great, but it's nothing to make a big deal over. I've seen all of one pic of one can on the field. I'm one of the first to condemn hoks on their crap, but I feel like this is NBD.
Maybe somewhat. Sometimes you can call that stuff "an outlier" or whatever. but there does seem to be an allowed pattern that occurs in IC, more often than it should. That pattern could and should be curtailed and condemned, whenever it surfaces, by the higher ups. You know, the coaches, AD, President, announcers, refs, etc.

It just doesn't seem to be condemned often enough. Maybe I'm just not hearing it or seeing it. If not condemned, it becomes an accepted culture.
It’s their culture. We stood outside the barstool set up and the Hawkeyes were throwing stuff before the people even came out. My youngest said he say peioe spraying the crowd with their beers and drinks also. Then they pelted everyone on stage with stuff and even head shotted the pregnant woman. Throwing stuff is in their blood. You gotta stop that crap at some level or it will just keep growing
I agree with this. Them throwing stuff at the ref and/or players... I'm surprised the refs didn't stop play to somehow get a handle on the situation. Honestly if it weren't for the horrible calls that went against ISU at the very end of the game, I think fans would have been even more pissed off.
 

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And seemingly NOTHING was done or said about it! At least I didn't hear anything said from the BTN announcers. The officials apparently didn't do anything. Nothing from the stadium announcer, I don't think.

You can't let stuff like that go.

So yeah, John and Eric saw it and talked about it. But nothing still on Iowa's side? Strong culture over there if not.

I re-ran it about 10x. Couldn't believe it each time. Looked like a beer can to me.

What does it take for them do do something? Hit a player?

Has Iowa said anything about that kind of behavior, publically, yet?
I was in the North EZ, where most of the action was. After the X TD I saw at least 4 beer cans and 2 water bottles, not all of them made the playing surface. Otherwise I had a pretty good experience, had not been in Kinnick since Tim Dwight played... Some dipsticks behind us whaling at the refs for every call/non call in the game...
 
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I went to the game with an hawk friend of mine. He refuses to boo, but is actively rooting against the team right now so KF will make a change at QB. Said if they don't show any signs of life, he's not planning on watching anymore games this year. And he's a diehard.
My biz partner has been a fan since he was little, used to go watch through some wood fence in the early 70s when he was a kid. His dad was a prof there.

He says he won't be watching anymore this year, it's just too ugly and hopeless. He went into the season without much hope because of Petras, but it's just unwatchable for him at this point.

He spent saturday golfing and skipped the game entirely.
 
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My biz partner has been a fan since he was little, used to go watch through some wood fence in the early 70s when he was a kid. His dad was a prof there.

He says he won't be watching anymore this year, it's just too ugly and hopeless. He went into the season without much hope because of Petras, but it's just unwatchable for him at this point.

He spent saturday golfing and skipped the game entirely.
I kept repeating Chris' line to him "You watch. Petras is gonna be Joe Montana on Saturday." My buddy kept saying "I DON'T want that to happen because we need to bench him!"
 
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This wasn’t at the stadium but in a bar in Cedar Falls, my buddy and I walked in and there wasn’t very many people. We walked in and this drunk 25 something punk told us to **** ourselves. We had ISU hats on.

I’m not one to let something like that go even though I should have. Plus I had had a few. Not sure he expected a middle age guy to call him on his ********. Some trash talking and his girl told him to shut his mouth before he got his ass kicked.

I’m just tired of Hawkeye fans and their ********
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And seemingly NOTHING was done or said about it! At least I didn't hear anything said from the BTN announcers. The officials apparently didn't do anything. Nothing from the stadium announcer, I don't think.

You can't let stuff like that go.

So yeah, John and Eric saw it and talked about it. But nothing still on Iowa's side? Strong culture over there if not.

I re-ran it about 10x. Couldn't believe it each time. Looked like a beer can to me.

What does it take for them do do something? Hit a player?

Has Iowa said anything about that kind of behavior, publically, yet?
It was a couple water bottles and pry a beer or two. It was definitely more than one beer.
 
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Wait. Are you implying that the Hwakeye radio crew was drinking during the game, and that one of them was drunk? If so, that is amazing! A fireable offense at most places, I would think. No?
To be honest, if I had to explain to a radio audience Iowa's offense as it "happened" I'd have to be drunk to get through it.
 
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The game experience for me wasn't horrible this year in Iowa City, but as others have stated I think a good amount of it was because of Iowa fans knowing the Iowa offense was trash.

Tailgating was good besides just some normal back and forth between a few hawk fans.

The stadium was interesting but I expected worse honestly. I had a real drunk girl keep telling me she was sorry when the two block punts happened which I laughed at. Had a group behind me yell scoreboard at me when Iowa finally scored a touchdown and flipped me off a good amount. After X scored the touchdown at the end I just turned around and threw up an X symbol and said X gonna give it to ya. Had some friendly banter with some others.

Worst part was some guy getting right in my face in the bathroom and yelling F State This was mostly bad because he smelled like he hadn't showered in a week.

As far as sound off goes, it is a little much that it runs for 3 hrs but, I do find it funny to listen to for a bit. I hope they keep it on as it passes time sometimes on a drive home.
 
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t-noah

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I'm one of those guys and I won't go back. Wasn't running my mouth, just walking down the sidewalk with I guess the wrong color shirt on. I went to two games there and can count 5 different incidents that were just over the top bad...including getting into a shoving match with some drunk dude who wanted to fight us because he got hit with a beer can that was aimed at us. I've seen bad stuff from ISU fans in Ames for that game as well, but IC is 10x worse. I'll never go back there. I applaud those ISU fans who make that trip to cheer on the team, but I'll be happy watching from home.
My former tavernhawk wife was more irritated than I was. There was a group behind us trying to ride us hard. I just kept walking, I knew it was bothering them that We had ignored them the whole time , but my wife took a turn as soon as she could and said she had to get away from them asap. I laughed and said, you get used to them after a bunch of years and they wanted a response out of us.

She was more concerned about her oldest who had had a few when a dude was getting ready to fight him since he only waved about 2/3rds of the song. Dude was sitting in the ISU group and wanting to fight several people. Even another drunk Iowa kid who was in the wrong seats. The drunk Iowa kid immediately befriended us after the tuff guy went at him the first time.
Couldn't agree more. I have been to over a dozen games there, and each time was "uncomfortable" at best. One year a drunk guy fell into and knocked over my mother in the stands. She never went to a game again.

On the other hand, two of my children have attended school there, and I enjoy the wide variety of restaurants that generally are missing in Ames.
This is why I declined a free ticket and seat in our work suite with co-workers. The rain game in 08 was my last ISU game there and my last because of **** thrown at me. Was there with my FIL, who is a big IA fan.
The entitlement of the big donors is pretty amazing. They used to get booze when the serfs weren't allowed. I didn't think that was such a big deal but apparently there was way more backlash and cancelling of tickets at the time than anyone realized.
Do we want to discuss prohibition of alcohol at Trice? I for one feel like 'maybe' it should be allowed, because it might make the AD some money, and people are gonna smuggle it in anyway.

On the other hand, look at Iowa City and Kinnick. So I don't know. It'd be nice if all people who imbibe to a reasonable degree with alcohol, would just play and be nice. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

I get happy, sometimes chatty, sometimes mellow, when I drink. A certain percentage of people lose their minds and become aggressive.

And they all sound like solid team players whenever they are interviewed. Their parents seemed to have raised them well, it appears.
Parents, yes, and good coaches very likely.
 

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This wasn’t at the stadium but in a bar in Cedar Falls, my buddy and I walked in and there wasn’t very many people. We walked in and this drunk 25 something punk told us to **** ourselves. We had ISU hats on.

I’m not one to let something like that go even though I should have. Plus I had had a few. Not sure he expected a middle age guy to call him on his ********. Some trash talking and his girl told him to shut his mouth before he got his ass kicked.

I’m just tired of Hawkeye fans and their ********
HaHa! Is that you Kurt?