The games I've been to lately I haven't really seen the crowd in that area as the stomp on the floors type crowd.
What was your first experience with Iowa State sports?
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The games I've been to lately I haven't really seen the crowd in that area as the stomp on the floors type crowd.
I have more hope for the Sukup End zone Section once the people in the lower corners get stomping. It would be nice if they put something on the videoboard at the right times calling for people to stomp.
Born in Ames and grew up with parents who worked at Iowa State and was going to games at a very young age. I have a picture as a newborn in front of Hilton with Johnny Orr holding me (obviously don't remember that, but still cool).
Playing the 96 basketball season is when I really got into Cyclone everything. Then Fred Hoiberg camps, playing football on the hills was a blast.
Playing the 96 basketball season is when I really got into Cyclone everything. Then Fred Hoiberg camps, playing football on the hills was a blast.
There is stomping in the SEZ. But not everyone and I think just on third or fourth down. It does increase the noise quite a bit. But yeah, if we could get everyone to stomp it would make a difference. One problem in the SEZ, at any given time you have a lot of people not in their seats, either getting drinks, bathroom breaks (due to the drinks), getting food, or wanting to cool off or warm up depending on the weather.
Noise-wise, we can still accomplish a lot if the lower corners really get into it. They tend to stay in their seats more than the End Zone Club people. Whoever is left in the middle sections can just add to it. We will be in the upper deck banging on the ribbon board!
Too young to remember. I’m 39 and my family has had season tickets for football and basketball since before I was born. For me the earliest memories aren’t about the games as much as they were tailgating, weekends in Ames, etc. Game days were one of the only times we spent time with my parents friends from college and their families. Tailgating was simpler then for many reasons. And obviously for anyone that was a kid at games in the 80s and early 90s the hillside football games.
One very vivid memory from when I was younger was when Cy was stolen around the mid 80s. I remember seeing the picture of Cy in the article of him being stolen in the Des Moines Register and thinking it meant Cy was dead.
One very vivid memory from when I was younger was when Cy was stolen around the mid 80s. I remember seeing the picture of Cy in the article of him being stolen in the Des Moines Register and thinking it meant Cy was dead.
For all practical purposes he was dead. Some frat rats absconded with him, tied him to the back of a car and dragged him down a gravel road.
What year was that? I just remember completely freaking out when I found out he got drug behind a car. I’m pretty sure my parents were forced to tell me it was just a costume and Cy is not a real birdman just to calm me down.
Thanks, I was 6 at the time. Which would explain why I remember being so torn up and it also being my Santa's not real moment for mascots with my parents.
The first time I saw them on TV was the 1972 Liberty Bowl, ISU lost 31-30, First time in person was March of 1983, ISU played Oklahoma, who featured a phenomenal freshman by the name of Wayman Tisdale. Johnny Orr had Ronnie Harris guard Wayman, and it almost worked, the Sooners won in overtime. Been hooked on ISU forever it seems.
I was at school then too and I didn't remember it either. When I read that article it sounded (very) vaguely familiar so I must have heard about it at the time.
My first memories are of the CyHawk football game on TV. Dad had us cheering for the hawks, but I always thought ISU's uniforms and mascot were way cooler. We had a collection of glass Pepsi bottles from the late 70s commemorating the renewal of the rivalry. I have the 1978 bottle and proudly display it in my basement: 31-0.
(I snagged this image from Ebay, but I have the same bottle back home.)
Dad did however cheer for Orr's basketball teams and even took us to see a game in Hilton during the Tim Floyd/Cato era. My younger brother who is a full blown hawkeye now attended a Troy Davis game and had his jersey hanging up in his room back in the day. I specifically remember watching the '87 CyHawk basketball matchup at grandpa and gramma's and rooting for the Cyclones because the crowd was so much more lively.
I turned strongly anti-hawk once I attended ISU. The condescension from the other fanbase made it easy.
(I snagged this image from Ebay, but I have the same bottle back home.)Dad did however cheer for Orr's basketball teams and even took us to see a game in Hilton during the Tim Floyd/Cato era. My younger brother who is a full blown hawkeye now attended a Troy Davis game and had his jersey hanging up in his room back in the day. I specifically remember watching the '87 CyHawk basketball matchup at grandpa and gramma's and rooting for the Cyclones because the crowd was so much more lively.
I turned strongly anti-hawk once I attended ISU. The condescension from the other fanbase made it easy.
First experience?
As a child my babysitters son attended ISU and became a Vet. He was a big fan and I honestly would't have known who ISU was w/o him.
First EXPERIENCE?
I'd left the hawk cult after the UI/ISU game my freshman year ('97). Simply too many douchebag hawks to associate with.
The next year I was present at Kinnick for the DMC streak ender. The conversion was ecstatic, complete, and permanent. I can't think of a better way to become a true fan of a team.
As a child my babysitters son attended ISU and became a Vet. He was a big fan and I honestly would't have known who ISU was w/o him.
First EXPERIENCE?
I'd left the hawk cult after the UI/ISU game my freshman year ('97). Simply too many douchebag hawks to associate with.
The next year I was present at Kinnick for the DMC streak ender. The conversion was ecstatic, complete, and permanent. I can't think of a better way to become a true fan of a team.
