Who Hates Iowa?
by GopherNation on Nov 18, 2008 10:30 AM CST
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We hate Iowa! It's not so much that they are so hated, it just kind of rolls off the tongue. Usually this is the forgotten trophy around here. The Jug means something cause it is Michigan. The Axe means something because we all hate Wisconsin. But since we don't have either of those, lets get the one trophy that has spent more time in Minnesota than the rival's trophy case.
To get you all ready for this weekend's showdown for Floyd of Rosedale, I thought we should have a quick history lesson to get us up to speed on some of the finer moments in recent Hawkeye sports history...
(Note: I'd love to string this out into more than one post, but we have real teams outside of football to talk about here.)
2006
Started promising for the always overrated Hawkeyes. The 5-1 start climaxed with a #13 ranking in the AP poll before a trip to Indiana brought the mediocre Hawkeyes back to reality. Drew Tate led the Hawkeyes to a brilliant 2-6 Big Ten record over the final eight games of his senior season. Fortunately for the Hawkeyes, Northern Illinois was mixed into the schedule late to avoid seven game losing streak to end the season. Minnesota handed Iowa one of those losses in a game where Brian Cupito was just too much to handle. Floyd spent the year at home, in Minnesota.
This was the year of stunning collapses from overrated Hawkeye teams as this gem preceded the football collapse...
They have been able to achieve mediocrity in football, but their basketball has always been terrible.
2007
If 2006 was spectacular, 2007 must have been better right? How about
Iowa State-15
Iowa-13
This win for Iowa State, who must have been really good, launched them to a 3-9 record. A classic battle of the titans which was met with a collective yawn from the sports world.
And if a Hawkeye fan starts making fun of the Gophers for losing to a MAC team last year, remind them of this.
Western Michigan - 28
Iowa - 19
Yes, we lost to Bowling Green, but at least they won their conference and went to a Bowl.
On the plus side for Iowa they were able to beat Minnesota during our worst season in school history. And they were able to rack up almost 300 yards and 21 whole points against the worst defense in all of college football (that allowed 500 yds and nearly 30 points per game). The 2007 Gopher team is worthy of making fun of and we were dominated by many teams, Iowa was not one of them.
The facts are often lost on delusional Hawkeye fans
- We have a higher win% over Iowa than every other Big Ten team (except Northwestern, but who doesn't).
- Floyd of Rosedale started as ours, has usually been ours and will be ours.
- Iowa is the most boring state ever. Well, except for Des Moines, they have an terrific nightlife down there.
- Time to choose sides...
Vs.
This game means a little something for us here at TDG. A bet has been made with the fine folks soon to be dejected folks at Blackheart, Gold Pants. It is important for all of us that we win this game/bet or you may be forced to look at some gay porn on this upstanding site for 24 hours. (I'm not kidding, they love gay porn).
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Gay Porn
would still be better than looking at Roseanne naked.
Props to you Tom Arnold.
by the accomplice on Nov 18, 2008 10:45 AM CST reply actions
You heard it here first
Minnesota fans want to look at gay porn.
May I suggest throwing a lemon party?
AKA Shadow
by Adam Jacobi on Nov 18, 2008 10:51 AM CST up reply actions
Typical Iowa Fan
Trying to make lemonade from a lemon party.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Nov 18, 2008 11:03 AM CST up reply actions
imagine what goole searches are going to direct people here now
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What kind of searches?
Apparently gay porn in Minnesota uses a different search engine than the other 49 states.
damn it
I am spelling and data accuracy challenged.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
I really want to hate Iowa
But I can’t. I mean, the Bonobo Ape research facility is only in the news when the apes full the fire alarm when they want to be fed. You also don’t hear much about the indoor rainforest that was supposed to save the state’s economy. I’m also pretty sure that the caucuses were dreamed up by a failed state somewhere in Central America. So you ask, who hates Iowa, and I have to say, not me. I pity Iowa.
Floyd...
may have spent more time in Minneapolis than Iowa City, but Iowa is 18-9 since 1980 and has won 6 of the last 7. But I’m sure you all ready knew that. If the Jug means more “because it’s Michigan” then how come it didn’t get it’s own post?
I hope you have more IQ points than teeth
Both in the mid-single digits I assume?
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2008/11/6/655570/the-little-brown-jug
by From The Barn on Nov 18, 2008 1:22 PM CST up reply actions
Is that as many times...
as Minnesota has actually won the Jug? Honestly, I don’t know.
Never mind
I see that Michigan has a scant 66-22 lead in the series. No wonder that trophy is so important, no one in Minnesota has ever seen it in person.
Minnesota's .250 win% vs. Michigan
is really bad, but not as bad as Iowa’s .200 win%
another fine example of an Iowa fan thinking his team is above Big Ten mediocrity, but in fact they are not. Michigan and Ohio St fans are arrogant, but at least they have reason to be.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on Nov 18, 2008 2:11 PM CST up reply actions
Relax...
It’ll only be 15 more years before you beat Michigan again!
someday
we’ll be as dominant as Iowa who takes care of Michigan on a regular basis.
2-10 in last 12 meetings is WAY better than 1-11
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on Nov 18, 2008 4:50 PM CST up reply actions
If your point
is that Iowa sucks against Michigan, I’m well aware of that. I would bet that most teams in the conference not named Ohio State have a losing record against Michigan. That ass-whipping that gave your boys really must have cut you deep.
you got me there
if it were so important, it just might have been worthy of its own post.
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by GopherNation on Nov 18, 2008 1:36 PM CST up reply actions
that's great
we won the first 12 games by a combined score of 463-30 (including 8 shutouts), both streaks are about as relevant.
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by GopherNation on Nov 18, 2008 2:40 PM CST up reply actions
Floyd will look good in TCF's trophy case
This has been a good year for the Gophs, but it has been very disappointing the last 3 weeks. Decker is back which should help the offense a ton. I personally hate the Hawkeyes and Badgers equally. So since we didn’t get that win last weekend, we need to end the regular season on a good note and destroy the hawkeyes.
Awesome
Minny’s performance the last 3 weeks, puking all over itself in losing to Michigan (!), Northwestern and Wisconsin (combined 17-16, 9-13 Big XI) ought to give you all the confidence in the world. Enjoy 30,000 Iowans in your crapulous stadium.
Metrodome
This is it. The last game EVER for the Gophers in the Metrodome.
I have a feeling this is what I will see on Saturday night:
Actually I'm seeing Odoacer deposing Romulus Augustulus...
…and putting the long, long, long eviscerated empire out of its misery.
"Sweet lady fate, why dost thou piss on me so?"
by bluearmadillo on Nov 18, 2008 9:47 PM CST up reply actions
I'd rather stare at a pig than your boring commentary.
"If we got to we're going to crawl in this locker room. And on our back is going to be an axe..."
My Iowa Stories
Yes – I hate Iowa.
I went to Iowa State my first 2 years of college before transfering to Minnesota. ISU always seemed to be the 2nd class citizen to UI. I remember ISU destroying Iowa in a baseball doubleheader and the Des Moines Register having a picture of an Iowa player crossing home plate after hitting a home run for one of their few runs of the day.
My best memory though was the 1981 game (I’m old) at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames (stadium named for a player killed in a game vs. Minnesota actually). The Cyclones were pretty good and were favored so the athletic department in their wisdom decided to put up temporary goal posts. Basically it was wooden goal posts set in oil drums. So sure enough with 90 seconds to go and ISU with a lead the fans started moving onto 1 end and the first set of goal posts went down. With 30 seconds to go and the fans itching to storm the other set went down. Luckily there was no need to kick but it was a pretty funny scene to have no goal posts to kick at had they been needed.
Just one quick comment
Des Moines has a “terrific nightlife”? Really?
When the hell did that happen?
sarcasm
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by GopherNation on Nov 19, 2008 10:33 AM CST up reply actions
OPS = one-man "terrific nightlife"
"Sweet lady fate, why dost thou piss on me so?"
by bluearmadillo on Nov 19, 2008 11:37 AM CST up reply actions
this is so laughable! this is all the better you can do? after all those absolutely hysterical chokes against meatchicken and wisky and you print this. iowa losing to iowa state 15-13? oh boy. losing to a rival. OH BOY that NEVER HAPPENS to you! yeah iowa sucks compared to the golden goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofies. and then you have to switch sports and compare it to our bball team? yeah des moines or rochester, mn…once again…oh boy you have SOOOOO much to make fun of. having gone through last season with jake christensen, probably the worst qb to ever take the field for iowa he is STILL not as bad as 3/4 of the minnehaha chokes that we have witnessed through the years.
I applaud your choice for finally getting a coach after the collection of the worst coaches in the world picks but still you managed somehow to choke. of all teams talking about chokes for iowa…your team has absolutely no room to speak. keep them coming because this is getting really funny
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007. even when we had JC as our qb WE STILL kept floyd in iowa city.
top 5 wins over the gooooooooofies
no.1!
Iowa fans celebrated a Big Ten co-championship by ripping down one of the goalposts and trying to carry that bad boy out of the building.
Iowa completed an 8-0 Big Ten season and won a record 11th regular-season game, and Hawkeye fans stormed the Metrodome field and tore down the goalposts.
Quote: “It’s going to be hard to knock a smile off my face for a while. For probably two weeks, I’m just going to walk around like some goofy guy,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said.
funny he uses goofy as his adjective
NO.2
“I remember the time we went up there and got flagged for excessive crowd noise,” Elliott, the former Hawkeye assistant, says, and you can almost hear the chuckling all the way from his office at San Diego State. "Our crowd outnumbered Minnesota fans and officials called timeout and went over and talked to Hayden. Hayden went out on the field and waved to the crowd and told them to keep it down.
“Minnesota went out on the next play and the noise was even louder! It was the Minnesota fans … they realized if they made it louder, they’d flag us for the penalty. It takes Minnesota people a while, but eventually they figure it out, you know?”
NO.3-
1982 rose bowl year
Iowa coach Hayden Fry emerged from the winning locker room in a straw hat, red flannel shirt and bib overalls after beating the Gophers for the first time in six years. It was a dig at Minnesota coach Joe Salem, who donned overalls in practice as a way of motivating his team.
Quote: “These are my Iowa clod clothes. All you great Minnesota writers, radio people and TV … I didn’t want you to look like liars, so I’ve got my clod clothes on. We’re taking Floyd home where he belongs. Soooo-ey pig. Sooooo-ey,” Fry said.
NO.4
chad greenways tackle changing game
Minnesota kicker Rhys Lloyd missed a 51-yard field goal in the final minute and Iowa counterpart Kyle Schlicher booted a school-record five.
We dont play florida and not just BEAT but embarrass them without that
NO.5
Minnesota was penalized for having 12 men on the field as Iowa’s Rob Houghtlin missed a 51-yard field goal. Given a second chance, Houghtlin nailed the winner and Iowa clinched a berth in the Holiday Bowl with an 8-3 record.
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