When did you become a Cyclone?

STLISU

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2nd Grade. My elementary school (Gilbert) teacher was married to Iowa State's quarterback, John Warder. The first year of the Johnny Majors era. She invited John to class for a "show and tell". I was hooked. I began listening to ISU games on the radio that fall.

Although as a third generation Iowa State alumnus in reality I was ordained a cyclone at birth.
 
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Cy4Lifer

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3rd grade. I was riding the bus and almost no one was left on it because we were near the end of the route (rural Iowa). One of the 7th graders asked me who I rooted for. I said I didn't know. He said I would root for ISU or he would beat my ***. I said OK.

Doing some maths tells me that was probably 1984.

Bullying is bad! However in this situation, I’m OK with it!!
 
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LincolnWay187

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Watching Hoiberg and company on tv when I was in fifth grade. My football jersey in junior high/hs was number 28 after legend Troy Davis.
 

CentexCyclone

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Pretty much my whole family graduated from ISU. There was a time when I was a kid that I thought I was a Hawk fan in elementary. I remember pretty well a couple of kids in my class we're real dbag hawk fans that talked endless crap about ISU. One of them was my best friend at the time. I decided then and there to cheer for ISU because I didn't want to be like that. He moved away after elementary school. I saw him many years later at a bar in Ames. I had just graduated from ISU with my masters degree. He had just gotten out of prison.

Good life lesson there: don't be as a trash talking, d-bag, hok fan. It leads one to dark places.
 
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CyBobby

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October 1962 when I attended the ISU @ Nebraska game in Lincoln, NE.....Cost me $2.50 to sit in the south endzone three rows from the grass field....It was the last Nebbie game that was not a sell out...all four corners of the east and west stands were empty....The next nebbie game against Mizzou and Johnny Roland started the sellout streak....

Scores 1962
Iowa State 22- Nebraska 36
Mizzou 16- Nebraska 7

That first Iowa State made me a Cyclone for life, four of us went over from Council Bluffs where I grew up and cheered for the Cyclones and we were the only four cyclone fans in those richety wooden bleachers...It was a great day...

GO Cyclones
 

crs8975

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Freshmen year 2004 I became a fan. 2005 was when I went to every game and really started caring though. Would have likely happened a lot earlier if my mother hadn't forced my father to sell two tickets I won in a drawing as a child to the Iowa vs Iowa State game. Making me go to some random ass cousin's wedding. Uggh....still get pissed off thinking about that. Even the groom leaned down to whisper to me "I would have gone to the game."
 
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mb7299

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Grew up as a fan of IU and ISU was taken to games at Hilton and Carver as well, it all switched for me when Alford was the coach at Iowa though, that guy just rubbed me the wrong way and it was easy to be all in on ISU especially with how much more fun of an atmosphere Hilton is to see a game. Best decision Ive made (I did question it during the Chewy age though).
 

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5th grade when my parents took me to a concert at Hilton. It was the first time I stepped on campus.

It was a Neil Diamond concert.
 
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mattyheiden

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August 1992. Moved into the house mid August and started classes a week later. Graduated from Iowa as well. I was one of the people who helped toss the goal posts into Lake Laverne after the 19-10 upset of Nebraska. Malcom Goodwin had a hell of a game that day
 

Blandboy

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Spent high school wearing a lot of different color shirts (blue/maize, green/white, orange/blue, red/white) in Kinnick, watching the TOE get curb-stomped in the midst of their 19 consecutive losing seasons. Big bro went to ISU, so I did, too.
 

GoodyISU1

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From birth at Mary Greeley. By the time I was in middle school, I had gone to more football games & basketball games than I could count. ISU football in the 80's was...just miserable. I remember my parents bringing in hot chocolate for the late season games & not sharing with me. Little did I know they had put booze in it. I learned from the best!
 

VeloClone

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When my brother transferred from UNI to ISU in 1980. I never really followed college sports before that and I quickly knew I didn't want to be a hawk when anyone mentioned ISU and the hawk fans went all d-bag. I remember going to my first ISU tailgate in lot A1 with my brother and drinking from the keg and botas as a kid. I'll never forget Robert Ray walking by the tailgate and all of the guys hollering trying to get him to come have a beer at their tailgate. Of course that was the start of ISU taking 3 straight from Iowa - followed by 15 years of misery. That losing streak was probably caused by me getting too cocky with the hawks at my school. I learned to not talk smack because of that.
 

mred

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I grew up an Iowa fan -- my brother was (and is) an ISU fan and my parents were pretty neutral. Generally I had no trouble rooting for ISU to do well when they weren't playing Iowa. Then in middle school my family moved to Ames. A year or so later, I realized during an Iowa-ISU basketball game that I was rooting for ISU to win, and I never looked back.

One early ISU memory I have:
I had a friend in elementary school who was a huge ISU fan. For his birthday, he took a few of his friends (myself included) to an ISU football game. It was the ISU-OSU game in 1988 when Barry Sanders rushed for 293 yards. I still specifically remember seeing his 80-yard touchdown run. That dude was a pretty decent running back.
 

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