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The Manzi collects WHAT?

A year after we discovered that Rob Bruggeman, the nastiest, meanest guy to play offensive line at Iowa since Robert Gallery was pancaking opposing defenders, had a closet Beanie Baby collection, now comes word from Marc Morehouse that the Manzi himself is a Twi-Hard (and I wish I was making that term up).

"My room is decorated with all sorts of stuff you would not expect to see in a college football player’s room," Stanzi said.

Comic books, Harry Potter and Twlight stuff.

Twilight?

"You see?" he laughed. "I’m surprised I’m even telling you guys this. I’ve got all these microphones in front of me and I’m telling you what’s in my room. I guess that’s my personality, like a big kid, I guess."

Not sci-fi, but superheroes and comic books, Harry Potter (since grade school) and he started reading the "Twilight" series this summer.

Cooler to be a werewolf or a vampire?

Naturally, this demands a poll.

(Thanks to commenter Third Generation Hawk for the heads up)

Poll
Which hobby is more embarrassing?
Ricky Stanzi's TWILIGHT collection
377 votes
Rob Bruggeman's Beanie Baby collection
323 votes

700 votes | Poll has closed

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Next we're going to find out Angerer collects unicorns

Fortunately, I hear that Clayborn collects the hopes and dreams of opposing QBs and detroys them. So it evens out in the wash.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Nov 4, 2009 12:32 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

For god’s sake, my 12 year old daughter reads Twilight. Was he bullshitting to see what traction this would get? I think this is a bit.

by txhawkeye on Nov 4, 2009 12:32 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Stanzi is no longer the Manzi in my book if he likes Twilight crap. I’m ashamed for him.

Iowa - Where undefeated is just not good enough.

by CUNKNNK on Nov 4, 2009 12:36 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Beanie Babies

At least Twilight was a book series that was semi not-embarrassing before the emo movies. Beanie babies are what I liked when I was 10.

by studbucket on Nov 4, 2009 12:40 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

We're fucked...

…by that chiseled jawline, that perfect hair, those piercing eyes, that muscular frame…oh…oh god….

shit. I mean FOOTBALL! GO HAWKS! BEER! TITS! BEER! FOOTBALL!

by Tmo87 on Nov 4, 2009 12:40 PM CST reply actions   1 recs

Ok, ok...

I can dig the Harry Potter thing – I mean, that shit came out when he was a little kid and probably (hopefully) got him intersted in reading. And, they’re fucking awesome books.

And the vampire thing… ok, that’s pretty cool too; I mean, I loved the Anne Rice novels and True Blood is a great show, but Twilight? Ugh. Come on, dude. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s technically about vampires too, but it’s weak as hell. They can be in the goddamn sun, for fuck’s sake! Talk about shitting all over proper vampire lore & the “rules.” And that Stephanie Whateverhernameis lady can’t write her way out of a wet paper sack. Have you ever tried to read any of that tripe? Terrible. Just terrible.*

Then again I love Star Wars and played a lot of D&D in high school and listen to heavy metal even though I’m a grown man, so… whatever.

*Disclosure – I haven’t read them, but my wife loves it, so I may have cracked open one of the books here and there just to give it a sniff, you know? Seriously, it reads like it was written by a 13-year-old girl writing a note to her BFF about how dreamy the algebra teacher is or something.

by Bucketochicken on Nov 4, 2009 12:48 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

My wife loves the Twilight shit

and when I was away one day she downloaded the movie to watch. Since I was curious, when I got home I hit play and then put it on 4X fast forward. I didn’t need the words to get caught up on what this was about. I basiocally learned one thing: The chick in the movie bites her lip A LOT!

Also – Harry Potter books are pretty effing good. Got no complaints there.

Last: I am glad we are talking about Twilight and Harry Potter, while over on the Gopher board they’re fighting about another player that got arrested. Hah! Glass houses, my rodent friends.

by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Nov 4, 2009 12:53 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I have no idea

What any of that stuff is. I’ve heard of Harry Potter but never seen or read it.

by Duez I say on Nov 4, 2009 1:51 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Most of the books in the HP series are pretty good,

but there’s waaaaay too much teenage angst and snogging in the later books.

Clayborn = Hagrid?

by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Nov 4, 2009 2:59 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Vampires don't sparkle in the sun!!!

I watched the movie and saw that the vampires not only like to play baseball but can also exist in sunlight….complete bullshit!!
What pisses me off even more is that teenagers absolutely LOVE this shit.

You want a good vampire move watch Lost Boys you want a piece of shit little bitch movie watch Twilight.

by J.R. Angle has a posse on Nov 4, 2009 3:32 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I love Star Wars as well Bucket....

So I have your back. I’ve probably read like 40 of the post good trilogy star wars books.

by Argulor on Nov 4, 2009 4:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Hmm...

I’m not sure how I feel about this “revelation.” It just sounds like he’s trying to screw with people’s heads and make them want to see what his room looks like (an excellent move if he’s looking to entice some lady’s to come back to his place*).

*I can’t imagine he would need any help accomplishing this after his fourth quarter performance last Saturday. I could see it if he was benched in the third quarter though.

They took the bar, the whole fucking bar!

by recoveringfratguy on Nov 4, 2009 12:52 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

If this actually got a girl into his room

the only things they would do would be listen to the newest Taylor Swift CD and talk about feelings.

by Tmo87 on Nov 4, 2009 12:55 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Come on, people. How is this even close?

Beanie Babies are one of the safest investment vehicles in the market right now. But Twilight? What a joke.

Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Nov 4, 2009 1:09 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Cause Beanie Babies are dolls

And dolls are, well, dolls.

"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me

by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 4, 2009 2:13 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

All Hail Dark Helmet!

"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me

by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 4, 2009 2:37 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

No Sir! I did not see you playing with your dolls again!

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Nov 4, 2009 4:13 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I knew it!

I’m surrounded by assholes!

"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid

by HawkOnRails on Nov 5, 2009 6:41 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I don't know why everyones' surprised that...

Stanzi’s into “Twilight”. He rises from the dead every game.

by Zulu on Nov 4, 2009 1:15 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I just hope...

Ricky better not be out late before the Minneosta game catching the midnight showing of the new movie…

"All the hay is in the barn as far as I'm concerned come game time" - The Legend Hayden Fry

by hawkeye4life on Nov 4, 2009 1:18 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Twilight and Beanie Babies are both bad

but they have nothing on AJ Hawk’s My Little Pony collection…

"I'm driven by greatness" - Derrick Williams

by HookMania on Nov 4, 2009 1:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

No shame in that!

My Little Ponies were perfect for turning your G.I. Joe action figures into the mounted cavalry. Or so, I was told (yeah, that’s it, they’ll believe that)

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Nov 4, 2009 1:43 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Sad to say

but I’ve read all 7 Potter books and all 4(?) Twilight books (hey, i was trying to see who this ‘edward’ guy was that my wife was saying i was nothing like!). Maybe he started reading the twilight crap for a chick. One would think he’d just say he was the starting qb, but maybe he goes for smarter chi……yeah, couldn’t finish it without laughing. Sorry, Ricky, I tried to help you out!

by Swarley on Nov 4, 2009 2:02 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

God dammit, Ricky

Harry Potter I can live with, but reading Twilight if you are not a middle school girl is fucking embarrassing.

I refuse to say anything about what Rob Bruggeman does because he scares me.

by NorseHawk on Nov 4, 2009 2:22 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I'm gonna go with the beanie babies on this one

because of the fact that bruggeman is an OL. therefore he has about 100 lbs. on ricky That means a 300+ pound man collects plush animals with pun names and probably sleeps with about 3 or 4 of them each night. also, a factor has to come in if he could actually argue BB’s with the average 5 year old. if he can hold his own in that convo, that is worse. if you think about it ricky is only removed from twilight by 8 years and a penis whereas bruggeman is removed from BB’s by 250 lbs, 20 years and mental competence. therefore bruggeman’s beanie baby collection is worse. Now if stanzi went as Edward Cullen (don’t ask me how i know, i have a sister) that’d be a different story although apparently SDS is a vampire.

by Pain in the Sash on Nov 4, 2009 2:23 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

It's funny...

…how many of you guys proclaim exposure to twilight shit via your wives. I am a chick and the day I influence the reading list of my partner-in-crime is the day he and I will have a giant foofy wedding in front of the Pope. Then again, I’m not reading twilight shit, so maybe I’m not a real woman. I voted for beanie babies as more embarrassing even though they could serve a point if Bruggeman can juggle.

by Chuck Long Duk Dong on Nov 4, 2009 2:25 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

No, you're a real woman (I assume)

You’re just not a 13 year-old woman*. Key difference.

*Note, being married to a 13 year-old is illegal in 47 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa. It is legal in Kentarkabama.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Nov 4, 2009 2:29 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Kentarkassippibama?

I thought it was only 46 states that it was illegal in.

"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me

by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 4, 2009 2:35 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Marriage is antiquated.

Why buy the cow (teenager) when you can get the milk (twilight) for free.

by Chuck Long Duk Dong on Nov 4, 2009 2:45 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

OMG I think I'm gonna be sick!!!

Say it ain’t so, Rick! NOOOOOOOO!

by HawkeyeRecon on Nov 4, 2009 3:18 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

My Wife Has Read the Books at Least 4 Times Each

She says they are awesome and that Edward is the perfect man.
She also says they make her feel like a teenage girl again.

That does not bode well for Ricky.

by storminspank on Nov 4, 2009 3:48 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

At least the beanie babies

were investments. For awhile, some people were paying hundreds of dollars for the rare ones. I think there are probably still a few fanatics out there.

by TEXaco on Nov 4, 2009 4:13 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Twilight is pretty damn terrible...

I could care less if Stanzi prances out of the locker room in a neon pink thong belting out showtunes and making out with an Edward Cullen poster – as long as he stays as clutch as he has been and keeps WINNING.

I have occupational turrettes... My job makes me swear uncontrolably at everyone.

by Ioweegin on Nov 4, 2009 5:20 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Keep doing what your doing!

My first response to this news was WTF! But then I thought about it. Stanzi appears to have balls of steel and I like to compare a QB to a closer in baseball. The good ones have to be a little different to handle the pressure and stay focused. So if Harry Potter and this twillight shit keeps Stanzi’s mind in the right place then great!

However, if I hear Stanzi and Bruggeman like to hangout in the pink locker room after practice because they enjoy the ora…then I will be worried!

by jrr18Ha on Nov 4, 2009 8:51 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Now there's an idea

They should put up Twilight posters in the visiting locker room. It should be a nice addition to the pink. Of course, we’ll have to find a way to keep Stanzi out of there on game days.

Though, maybe that could work to our advantage. Stanzi could learn about the opposing gameplans. After this revelation I assume he’ll show up this Saturday wearing purple anyway.

by Tmo87 on Nov 4, 2009 9:18 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

They just released a photo of SDStanzi's Hillcrest Dorm Room:

Iowa - Where undefeated is just not good enough.

by CUNKNNK on Nov 5, 2009 6:01 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Wait...

So he’s a Hannah Montana fan, too?

Bring in Vandenburg.

I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.

-- Judge Smails

by WaterlooChazz on Nov 6, 2009 1:24 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

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