25 Years Ago To The Day, Something Magical Happened

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jul 9, 2009 1:00 PM CDT in Football Comment 18 comments

No, it's not the 1939 awesomeness from yesterday, but whiile we're waxing nostalgic about historic wins, why not this one from literally over 7 centuries ago? It's Iowa facing San Diego State in the 1986 Holiday Bowl, and the hated Aztecs had just taken a 38-36 lead on the good guys. Cue the other brother Harmon:

By the way, that's absolutely vintage Hayden: collar over the jacket, white pants whenever the hell he feels like wearing them--calendar be damned--and the sharpest set of aviators since the Luftwaffe (what? they were good at airplane-flying. Fine, since the RAF. You happy now?).

Yes, Iowa won the game (sorry for not giving you a spoiler alert, but as we mentioned before, it's been like 50 years), but they weren't done punishing the Aztecs for giving them the scare in the first place. Years later, the Fry Intelligence Agency would install Chuck Long in the SDSU head coaching spot, running the program into the ground in historic fashion. Imagine Long is the young man at the beginning, the boss is the AD, and the chair is football:

Take that, you bastards.

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Magic started before the game

Thanks OPS. One of the four west coast bowls I watched the Hawks win or tie. Two
red tail hawks were over the Murph during the game so the final outcome was never
in doubt.

by bolthawk on Jul 9, 2009 2:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it just me...

or does SDSU’s coach bear more than a passing resemblance to one Joseph A. Pa.

Iowa Basketball: We don't rebuild, we implode.

by three and out the kok story on Jul 9, 2009 3:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I thought

he looked like Earl Camembert

by Cairo on Jul 9, 2009 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have that same chair.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 9, 2009 3:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have to defend the fat guy...

we have those chairs in our office and they totally suck.

"I'm not doing any good back here."

by Hawkaloogie on Jul 9, 2009 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I broke that same chair.

It did not break quite like that, but mine is definitely in the graveyard somewhere.

by WaterlooChazz on Jul 9, 2009 4:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Good game footage though.

I remember it as though it were yesterday, even though it took place back in March of ’57.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 9, 2009 4:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You know what's funny?

The first piece of Hawkeye clothing that I remember myself choosing to wear was a sweatshirt of the 1991 Holiday Bowl.

Yep, it’s the only Holiday Bowl that Iowa did not win (tied with BYU 13-13.)

Oh well, I guess it could be worse, I probably could have an article of clothing commemorating this auspicious game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Humanitarian_Bowl

by WaterlooChazz on Jul 9, 2009 4:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow....

That video is bordering on ol’ timey. The white Pony shoes, the bulky thigh pads, the loose jersey sleeves, and check out the way Vlasic drops back to pass….the straight up back pedal. A QB would get eaten alive today with the speed of the defenses.

"I'm not doing any good back here."

by Hawkaloogie on Jul 9, 2009 6:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What’s the patch on Iowa’s helmets? Between the stripe and the tigerhawk.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 9, 2009 8:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

ANF

America Needs Farmers

by shada's revenge on Jul 9, 2009 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is (was?) a similar patch used in the last couple years

It was ANF inside an outline of the state of Iowa on the back right of the helmet by the numbers

by shada's revenge on Jul 9, 2009 9:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 9, 2009 11:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Happy birthday?

Unless you’re referring to the fact that 25 years ago the 12th Minster of York was destroyed in a lightning storm.

If that’s where and when you were born, then god help us.

by geekfootnerdball on Jul 9, 2009 9:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow

That’s a blast from the past. I was a 6th grader at Grant Wood back then. My parents were at that game too. Good times.

"Sweet lady fate, why dost thou piss on me so?"

by bluearmadillo on Jul 11, 2009 8:56 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Damn...

that was not exactly a stunning example of clock management or playcalling at the end of the game there. That or Hayden had a lot of faith in a kicker who’d gone 0-2 already that night…

by RossWB on Jul 11, 2009 2:31 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Also, to be fair

One of those kicks was from a ludicrous 62 yards, as the announcers mention. Oh, Hayden.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jul 13, 2009 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Even more impressive than the kick

Was the ensuing flop. I like how he catapults himself in the complete opposite direction of the defender like he just took a headbutt to the chest from an invisible Zidane

No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer

by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Jul 12, 2009 3:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs