Giving Thanks - part deux

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Dec 7, 2009 8:23 PM CST in Iowa Hawkeyes Football

Those of you who were around this time last year may remember a bet that I had with my Cyclone-loving cousin on the Iowa - Iowa State game. His penalty was to wear a t-shirt of my choosing to our family Thanksgiving get-together. This year I was hoping to up the ante a bit and say the loser had to stand up and sing the opposing school's fight song. He declined, citing too much Hawkeye support in our family (the majority of us are reasonable people.) Since he wasn't interested in any of the other totally kickass embarrassment-based ideas that I had, we eventually just decided on beer. Now while I certainly enjoyed the 30-pack of Keystone Light and the 2 boxes of microbrews he had to pony up, I still felt like he was getting off too easy.

Sometimes when you watch a game live, it's difficult to grasp the shitty ineptitude of your team, so I put together a video of the game in order to remind him exactly what happened. I gathered the family around the TV and started what I'm hoping will become a tradition. I'm thinking of calling it "The Annual Thanksmas Family Review of the Hawkeyes Kicking the Holy Tacoshit Out of Their Little Red-Headed Turd of a Step-Brother."

On a more serious note: Cyclone addiction, like necrophilia and cranial-rectal inversion, is a disease. As someone who cares about the well-being of a family member, I felt like I needed to help him see the error of his ways. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who knows someone suffering from an Iowa State-related affliction. If someone you know has this sickness, stop enabling their failure and share the follwing video with them.

Iowa versus ISU as interpreted by HFMR and the Pharcyde:

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He offered me a cup of ripple
So I broke out a titty, squeezed a nipple
Said lick it if you like, but please don’t bite it.
I had an urge to say fuck it, but I knew I had to fight it.

Not sure how it fits with that one-handed grab, but I liked that verse.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Dec 7, 2009 8:38 PM CST reply actions

Sad cyclone fans made me laugh my ass off. Well done.

by txhawkeye on Dec 7, 2009 8:43 PM CST reply actions

The guy at 2:06

Who seems to be in every Cyclone fan shot ever? I had classes with that guy. He’s every bit the annoying douche that you’d expect him to be.

"I am so proud to be your coach." -Paul Rhoads

by CyHawk on Dec 8, 2009 1:29 PM CST up reply actions

its nice to remember what a game sash and wehger had. already looking forward to next year

Gotta get up to get down

by Gustav on Dec 7, 2009 8:47 PM CST reply actions

I think I came a little...

I could literally watch this everday for the rest of my life and it would never get old. The dejection on their faces is priceless…

by DGnarly on Dec 7, 2009 8:49 PM CST reply actions

Wegher is fun to watch.

That is all.

"Andrew Jones....SEND IT IN, BIG FELLA!" - Bill Raftery, 4/2/09

by ReadingRambler on Dec 7, 2009 9:22 PM CST reply actions

That was the peak of his season, basically

He went from a non-factor at the start of season to suddenly going over 100 against our biggest rival. He definitely hit a wall about halfway through the year, but that was still sweet. Plus, it was where he first busted out his sweet superman dive over the top thing, which as far as I’m concerned makes it down right historic.

Anyway, awesome work as always HFMR.

by NorseHawk on Dec 7, 2009 9:39 PM CST up reply actions

This video is the shits

Great job HFMR. I do need some guidance fellow Hawk fans… with ISU and Minny playing each other in their bowl, how are we going to divide all the hate?

"Wow. You know you have problems when even the cheerleaders know you suck." ~ Pain in the Sash

by Leftcoast Hawk on Dec 7, 2009 9:56 PM CST reply actions

Reckon you can go three ways on this.

1. Pull for Minnesota because they’re Big Ten and you hate the Cyclones more than anything.

2. Pull for Iowa State because they’re repping Iowa and you hate the Gophers more than anything.
(this will be me, mostly because I’m in the Twin Cities for the year and FUCK do I hate Minny)

3. Root against both teams and enjoy / make a drinking game out of every bad thing that happens.

by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 8, 2009 12:50 AM CST up reply actions

#3 with a bullet

You should root for general ineptitude, sad faces, costly mistakes and the 3-0 final score.

by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 8, 2009 7:52 AM CST up reply actions

It depends.

If we want FIGHT TRY ~~WIN~~ GET SHUTOUT to hang around at Minnesota (and I think we do), it would be a lot more beneficial for Minny to win this game. Rhoads has tons of job security for just making a bowl game (a bowl game not in Shreveport, at that) and for being not-Chizik. Brewster needs to show something to convince Minnesota not to kick him out on his ass in the next few years.

by RossWB on Dec 8, 2009 8:17 AM CST up reply actions