Unfortunately, "Nine Toe Norm" No Longer Applies
by Adam Jacobi on Aug 8, 2009 3:39 PM CDT
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PrintPer HawkMania, Norm Parker's down to eight little piggies. Naturally, he doesn't give a shit:
Parker showed up at the Hawkeyes’ media day on Friday with one foot in a walking boot, the result of recent surgery to remove an infected toe on his right foot.
"I lost a toe when I was on vacation," Parker said. "I had a blister on my foot. One day it rained bad and water filled my fishing boat. I went out to bail the water out, the blister got infected and all of a sudden it was bye, bye toe."
Of course, the last time Parker lost the toe was 2004, and all Iowa did that season was go 7-1 in the conference. Clearly, the two factors are closely related and anything less than 6-2 is a bitter disappoint to all fans and, more importantly, the amputoe.
Shame, really; Nine Toe Norm is an awesome nickname. Or was, anyway. Eight Toe Norm doesn't work as well. Any ideas for a new nickname? Is "The Ocho" too played out?
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The Octoe'd one
I’d take it as a sign that Iowa goes undefeated in the month of October
www.wewillalwayshavetempe.com
Perhaps he should look into finding a replacement
No self-respecting man from Iowa goes anywhere without beer
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 8, 2009 4:12 PM CDT reply actions
For some reason
I think Norm will go without the green paint.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
by Hawkeyewith49Jackrabbits on Aug 9, 2009 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe...
8 in the box.
or
Touchdown and a conversion.
or
Forty-four.
or
Metatarsal-missing Madman.
or
(instead of Twinkletoes) Tackletoes.
or
The Four-toed Fisherman.
How about To-ed the Wet Sprocket?
Okay…It was all I could think of…and I know it makes no sense.
"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
Cletus
Some folk’ll never lose a toe, and then again some folk’ll, it’s Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel…
Alternate for games when the base-package, never-blitz, bend-and-then-eventually-break game plan is especially exasperating: Norm the four-toed sloth
Sounds a little fishy to me.
From a blister to amputation?WTF????Probably just put a band-aid on it the night before and KOK mistook it for “pig in a blanket”.2 bites and another piggy bit the dust.Although you have to wonder why Norm didn’t question him slathering it with mustard.
What if KOK spelled god????
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