Cyclones voted worst Unis, Stadium and Mascot in Big XII
by Seer on Aug 3, 2009 11:24 AM CDT
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Big XII media days just happened, and I'd figure you might want to have another laugh at the Cyclones. See, the players there were asked about what the best and worst of the Big XII were. ISU had the worst stadium, uniforms and mascot. That's not really news though is it? But some of these quotes are just awesome.
Quotable: "That was the first game I started in. At the time, I thought it was cool. Until I played in everyone else's stadium." — a Big 12 South offensive player, on Jack Trice Stadium
Quotable: II: "We went up there two years ago and it looks like a McDonald's, all red and yellow. It looks kind of funny." — a Big 12 North offensive player, on Jack Trice Stadium
Ouch.
Quotable: "They are a knock-off of USC. When I see it on film, I think 'What are we doing playing USC?' " — a Big 12 North offensive player, on Iowa State's uniforms
Yeah, pretty sure that this has been mentioned here before.
Quotable: "The worst mascot is the Iowa State Tornadoes, or whatever they're called." — a Big 12 South offensive player
Yeah, it's bad when your own conference doesn't even know who the fuck you are.
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That is...
hilarious and brutal.
But, just to pile on, the Tornadoes have also been voted worst TEAM in the Big 12 (well, technically they got the same number of votes as A&M, but I feel fine calling ISU the worst).
http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=106181&SPID=13139&DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=204763502
In fairness to ISU...
Nebraska’s mascot is darn fruity. And also, while I like Penn State’s uniforms partially because they are classic, I think Nebraska’s uniforms (especially the white jersey/red pants combo) are kinda awful.
Finally, while I have never been there or seen it from the outside except for pictures, when I watch a game on TV and see Nebraska’s stadium from the inside, it seems big but not cool. Anyone else (that reads BHGP) ever been there? What do you think of it?
I loathe Nebraska
But even I will admit that they do have a nice stadium. Or at least it was pretty nice when I was there 10 or so years ago – I can’t speak to its current state. But at the time I think they were at the forefront of the stadium renovation movement and they had a nice new exterior, some great jumbotrons, and the standard luxury box amenities. It reminded me a bit of Kinnick, only without the “fans right on top of the action” seating that Kinnick has, and the incredible atmosphere that provides. But it was still a good gameday atmosphere.
That said, I’ve never bought into that whole “best fans around” hokum. Growing up in NW IA in the 90s, I knew a lot of arrogant and obnoxious Cornhusker fans. Personally, the Callahan Era was a great source of schadenfreude for me (particularly since Callahan was fresh off ruining my favorite NFL team at the time).
+1
Growing up in SW Iowa during the 90s I held much the same revulsion for the Cornshuckers and was pissed I lived in ND for most of Callahan’s tenure, thus missing most of my payback opportunities.
Memorial Stadium
I last went to a game in Lincoln in about 1993 or 1994. I’ll echo Ross; it’s a pretty cool place to watch a game, even if I hate Nebraska with the white hot intensity of a thousand supernovas. Pre-game and post-game festivities leave a lot to be desired, though. You’re usually parking in an area that looks like a place where the mafia would stash dead bodies, and nobody really gets after it.
I will say this: There are a lot of arrogant Husker fans out there, and I hated them all when I lived in western Iowa. That whole “applauding the other team” thing that they do? It’s only so people will shower them with praise for their sportsmanship. They secretly loathe everyone. And they wear headphones in the stands, which is the height of stupidity.
storminspank: "Or we could join you can take our pants off."
Thanks, HS...
for the good info.
Also, if I were you, I would not be sure that they were not stashing dead bodies near the tailgate zone. I just looked at the wikipedia articles of Lawrence Phillips, Christian Peter, and Jason Peter. Here is what is on those entries:
Lawrence Phillips – dragged a woman down some stairs from Scott Frost’s apartment, assaulted a woman at a night club, drove a car into some kids, and is currently doing a 10 year prison term in California for 7 counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Oh, and probably could have been the best running back in history, but oh well.
Christian Peter – arrested 8 times while at Nebraska, including for threatening to kill a parking attendant. Also raped two women, and groped/berated a third one at a bar.
Jason Peter – Christian’s little brother, he has a book coming out soon about his addiction to alcohol, pain killers, cocaine, and heroin. (by the way, Christian and Jason had a little brother named Damian who was going to play at Notre Dame, but paralyzed himself while swimming. Karma is a bi***.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 3:58 PM CDT up reply actions
These guys...
have moved beyond Fulmer Cup. Phillips and C. Peter are people you your women-folk would be afraid to be around.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 6:13 PM CDT up reply actions
They had
moved into barbarian raiding party territory.
I know that’s why I hate the team so much. It wasn’t just Thug U, they were simply recruiting animals.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 3, 2009 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Forgive me for asking, but...
are you being true, or making fun of me?
I’d like to think I would have appreciated L. Phillips’s skills had he not had all the crime to go with it.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 10:51 PM CDT up reply actions
The crime overrides the skills
I seem to remember (and this is just my memory) that it was a program that was out of control and supported by the administration. They didn’t care what happened as long as the program was winning.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Such lovely hate
You guys should play each other.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2009 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd like to see it get scheduled.
Some people want us to play them every year. I don’t know about that. But I would like to play them once every 4 or 5 years.
@ Reading Rambler: We did play Nebraska as recently as 1999 and 2000, but got stomped (those were Ferentz’s first two seasons and he won 4 total games in those seasons).
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 10:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Now I've never seen the Cornhusker's mascot..
but if it’s what I think it is (a giant ear of corn?), wouldn’t it be considered ‘vegetable-y’ :)
"If we got to we're going to crawl in this locker room. And on our back is going to be an axe..."
by buddylee853 on Aug 3, 2009 3:15 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Huskers...
@ BuddyLee: Here are some good pics and info of how they have “updated” the image of their mascot, and somehow ended up with 2 of them?:
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=218533
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Husker
I respect/tolerate the old mascot (link below), but I hate the new ones.
http://www.huskerspot.com/history/images/nebraska-herbie-husker.gif
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 3:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I miss the old mascots
They were charming, at least. Like the old Cy – the little red bird just walking along, wearing his big floppy yellow shoes. Now you get shit like the modern Cy, a buffed-up bird-man in a blender, and the new Nebraska mascots, which are prime sources of nightmare fuel. Herbie Husker is just terrifying with those giant eyes and massive grin. And Lil’ Red… he is just utterly unnerving and unnatural.
@ Ross...
While I like the ISU mascot when it is on a t-shirt,
it doesn’t really work in 3D:
But the Nebraska mascots are nightmare fuel, indeed:
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 4:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I am just not a fan of the bird-man-in-a-blender logo, in any form
Although it is lightyears beyond the shitty generic I-State bullshit they have now. At least the bird logo was somewhat distinctive (though clearly not too distinctive if one of your conference foes thought you were the Tornadoes). The I-State nonsense looks like something Pollard whipped up in MS Paint.
Yep...
the new I State logo is awful. If I was a Iowa State fan, I would refuse to buy anything with that on it.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Old Herbie is making the 'My weener is only this big sign"
"Sweet lady fate, why dost thou piss on me so?"
by bluearmadillo on Aug 3, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm the anti-NE good luck charm.
Seen 4 NE games live and they lost all 4 to date: @ Iowa City in the day (yay, Iowa win), NE at UT (crazed UT crowd), UT at NE on Halloween (UT crushing) and I forget the 4th. If you’re a NE fan it’s a great place to watch a game – good site lines, pretty closed in, knowledgeable fans, although lots of older farts who don’t make a lot of noise (they pioneered miking up the stadium to provide artificial atmospheric noise hello Indy?). My guess is NE fans have reduced their insufferability a little since the Callahan experience. Osborne will forever be a god there even if he did sell his soul to win NCs. Something tells me he isn’t visiting ol’ Lawrence in the slammer.
@ txhawkeye..
Keep up the good work as the jinx. Would you be willing to attend some Iowa State, Michigan, and Ohio State games?
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2009 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
To be fair
He really only needs to employ his jinx powers at Iowa-Iowa State games in Ames. Iowa State doesn’t need any help losing the rest of their games.
Thanks...
for the info, Ross.
I also dislike Nebraska. I have always thought that their end zone seating looked like Kinnick’s, but that ain’t enough to make me like them. However, I probably need to get to a game there someday, just to see it (I have not seen a lot of college stadiums other than Kinnick. I’ve been to Iowa, ISU, UNI, Drake, Illinois, Metrodome, and a few Bowl stadiums, but nothing else).
I graduated high school with a person who was a big Nebraska fan, but of course, he had lived in Iowa for most of his life.
If they really had the best fans around, they probably would have tolerated someone like Frank Solich. But, they didn’t, so they’re not.
ISU does finish first in my own, uneducated poll for the following:
Ugliest girls
Lamest bars
Lamest college town
Best Female Athletic Director
Number of Basketball Players Who Have Robbed Fast Food Restaurants
by Twin Cities Hawk on Aug 3, 2009 6:06 PM CDT reply actions
You forgot "best major"...
Floristry
[just kidding]
"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know." Bill Parcells
good
point
"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know." Bill Parcells
Trev Alberts
I live next to the town he grew up in, and he is about the only member of the national media who pays any attention to anything in Iowa before it is popular or mandatory to do so. But even I must say he is a douche.
He may be a douche and a Cornhusker
but he was a pretty entertaining douche. And I’d still take him over Sweet Lou. Just keep Lou around for the pep talks and possibly the Dr. Lou bits. Although he’ll probably never top the newspaper magic trick bit he did…
But, yeah, 2002 is the reason I still have fond memories of Mark Jones, Bob Davie, Trev, and Mark May. I don’t care how much the blogosphere rails on them… they were the unofficial media cheering section for the Hawks in 2002 and I still appreciate them for that.
Bob Davie....
Is a major fan of Kirk Ferentz. Every time he announces an Iowa game he gushes over Ferentz. They must have worked together at some point, or dated.
"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know." Bill Parcells
He also had no idea how to pronounce “Sean Considine”.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2009 8:37 AM CDT up reply actions
It happens.
We still have the next J Leman (minus the strong patriot theme).
http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics21/200/SE/SEVPTFBFGMXUVUM.20090730195702.jpg
@waterloochazz
Damn, their mascot really is a fruit… I would have been much more comfortable with a giant veggie than a cartoon-like character with a child molester grin and an ear of corn sticking out of his pants… shiver
If something like that ever snuck up on me I’d break his corn cob in half and feed it to him!
"If we got to we're going to crawl in this locker room. And on our back is going to be an axe..."
by buddylee853 on Aug 4, 2009 10:17 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah...
the old mascot (with the ear of corn) was disturbing, but seemed unique and folksy, and very Nebraska. The new ones just seem bland and fruity.
If you think about it, Iowa is pretty lucky with Herky: not too weird-looking, but you won’t mix him up with other teams’ mascots.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2009 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions
Iowa State
I think they are some of the ugliest uniforms I have ever seen1
Debbie Jones
THE GUILTY PARTIES MUST PAY!!!
Ha! Some dingus at CF has even posted a list of who the “possible offenders” are:
THE INFIDELS MUST BE FOUND!
AND BURNED! Or at least tarred and feathered.
Although I like the response right after that one:
BEST TAILGATING & FANS > EVERYTHING ELSE
Um… where has that dude been going to games? Something he tells me he might be like the player in that quote about Jack Trice: seems fun enough… until you go, oh, ALMOST ANYWHERE ELSE.
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