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but for those of you who couldn’t make it, here’s a little taste of the insanity that was GameDay pre-game in Iowa City on Saturday:
YouTube - Here Come the Hawkeyes

I tried to buy black and gold ribbon at Wal-Mart on Tuesday night and they had absolutely none. All the other colors were still neatly in the ribbon racks, but the black and gold slots were completely empty.
Its like the night before Christmas around Iowa City today. You know, if your Christmas celebrations had an [...]

A Conference USA official said league referees made a mistake when they flagged Iowa’s Chad Greenway for being offside late in the fourth quarter of Monday’s Outback Bowl…
But in other related news, how many days until college football starts again? That Rose Bowl was awesome! Damn good football when I can not care about either [...]

This past weekend was a blur coupled with me out on the edge of sanity. 50% of it caused by my impending move. The other 50% caused by my cat.
Friday night I headed to my mom’s house right after work, with Mac in tow and an audiobook in the CD player. We had some pizza, [...]

From The Sporting News:
Iowa City is No. 49 in the magazine’s annual ranking of America’s best sports cities, and No. 1 for college football.
I can’t decide if looking at Kinnick ten times a day makes the waiting easier or worse.

We sold out all our games in record time this year. Basically, if you don’t have tickets for games and you aren’t in alumni band, you’re out of luck.
Contrast this to a commercial I just saw on tv for Iowa State football tickets (featuring the “We Don’t Have a Fight Song” song). They have to [...]

I’m officially completely over basketball.
Let the pre-season football hype begin! CBS Sportsline has Iowa ranked Number 2.
The begining of the article is enough to make any Hawks fan beam with pre-season excitement:
OK, OK, I believe.
After underestimating Iowa all these years, it’s time for some love. Lose Robert Gallery? No problem. No running game? A [...]

University of Iowa men’s basketball Coach Steve Alford has permanently dismissed star player Pierre Pierce from the team, the athletic department announced this afternoon.
an email from a co-worker:
Subject: In case you’re wondering how the rest of the season might go….

this sentence pretty much sums it up.
“The Hawkeyes will start either Mike Henderson (3.3 ppg) or [...]

That would be the sound of the other shoe dropping on the Iowa men’s basketball team. Welcome to the Big Ten, boys.

Officials put halt to Herky on Parade
Just takes a few stupid and hateful people to ruin it for the rest of us.