The Wave

[52342cyclone]

Hawkeye Heaven (on Facebook) helped make "The Wave" a actual thing. They are requesting that since they are on a bye week, and that the Cyclones are at home, that ISU does it after the 1st quarter this Saturday vs KU. My first reaction is... Just another thing that Hawk fans will b**** about us "copying" them. But if this is something that the people that "created" this tradition wanted us to do, would it be such a bad thing to do for the kids? Just wanted some feedback. And no, I don't follow hawkeye heaven, but I had an Aunt (who is the only hawk fan in our family) share the post. Just trying to get the idea rolling...


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[NetflixAndClone]

I think the wave is a pretty cool thing Iowa does, but how would it work? do we wave to the east?

 

[ISUCubswin]

It's a trap. I don't know how or why but it's a trap.

 

[52342cyclone]

Thats a great question that I don't have an answer to. I suppose to the east would work?

 

[52342cyclone]

It's a trap. I don't know how or why but it's a trap.

That was my initial reaction and I commented such on their page. I had a few hawk fans say that they hope hawk fans would embrace it. I got 0 negative interactions. Felt very strange!

 

[Frak]

No and no. Hawks are mad at all the good press ISU has gotten and now they have a bye. So might as well have ISU get them some press this week. There’s no hospital near JTS. So fans would just be waving to IC? I’m sure half their fans would claim iowa invented waving.

 

[ViktorLuzor]

No disrespect but is this a joke or a troll attempt? It just seems like too odd of a thing to ever be considered a good idea.

 

[awd4cy]

Hard to see us waving from 130 miles away.

 

[alarson]

Yeah... no. Its their tradition. A nice tradition, but its theirs, and would make no sense for us to be doing.

 

[GTO]

This is THEIR thing. Keep it that way, unless they want to start sounding tornado sirens every time they score during our bye week.

 

[SoapyCy]

Yeah... no. Its their tradition. A nice tradition, but its theirs, and would make no sense for us to be doing.

We should do the gator chomp since we are copying original ideas.

 

[ViktorLuzor]

Ehhhh...on further thought, I like the idea less and less. It just feels like it's forcing a feel-good moment. If I was at the ISU game and they were telling the crowd to do this I would sit like a curmudgeon and not participate. But actually, that's what I do for the annoying "smile cam" and "dance to crap music cam" and all the other obnoxiously cute sponsored cams...yeah. I go to Jack Trice to watch football, not to participate in mass mind control experiments.

 

[CyDude16]

Legitimately makes zero sense.

 

[IASTATE07]

If it was about anybody else other than Hawkeye Heaven asking us to do it I'd consider it. Half of their posts are about running us down. No thanks.

 

[jsb]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard. Will the hospital have all the TVs to the Iowa State game? Would fox even know? Who does the wave when Iowa is on the road? I suspect this is about Hawkeye heaven being mad we’ve had some attention.

I’ll be honest, I really don’t get the wave anyway.

 

[CYCLNST8]

We already have a lame tradition of singing a stupid song before we blow a lead at the start of the fourth quarter...

 

[BryceC]

Legitimately makes zero sense.

Yeah I honestly don’t even get it.

 

[everyyard]

It's pretty cool that they do it, it is not so cool that they keep patting themselves on the back for it. It is supposed to be about the kids.

 

[DeereClone]

I really like their wave tradition - it's a great story.

It's their story and their tradition, we shouldn't steal that from them.

Also curious if they have been doing a wave from another stadium when they are on the road?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

On the surface it's kind of an "awwwwww" idea - for the kids, you know? But then it begs the question, who waves to them the other 45 Saturdays of the year when there's no home game? I think the wave is cool, but it's THEIR wave. It's a Hawkeye wave, not a state of Iowa wave.

How about if their football team goes out on the field on Saturday afternoon and waves to the kids, then goes inside to visit them? Much better continuity...