POLL: Bring Us Your Iowa-Indiana Fears
by RossWB on Nov 4, 2010 10:30 AM CDT
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Last week, you were all a-scared of the football gods/football karma wreaking havoc on Iowa against Michigan State and, then, well... that happened. So either (a) you were all full of shit, (b) the football gods/football karma didn't care for RUCKERGATE, or (c) the football gods/football karma enjoy delivering a comeuppance to Big Ten teams that get to 8-0/9-0. The last three Big Ten teams to reach that mark (2008 Penn State, 2009 Iowa, 2010 Michigan State) all found themselves felled the very next week. Coincidentally, all three lost games in Iowa City. Kinnick Stadium: where BCS Championship dreams go to die (even Iowa's).
But now we're moving on Bloomington, where Indiana players will be trying to break the proverbial rock (in this case, a Big Ten win) and Iowa players will be trying to preserve their conference title dreams. And, yes, we're plenty nervous about the linebacker situation or what Indiana's potent passing attack might do against our sometimes-shaky secondary (not to mention the A-Rob rumors)... but, again, we're not going for your garden variety obvious fears here. What's going to chill you down to the marrow this week?
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As soon as I saw the title of the post
my first thought went immediately to Shada’s facemask pressed firmly into the ass of Hardy in the endzone (probably after he scored his 12th touchdown against us)
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Nov 4, 2010 10:42 AM CDT reply actions
I still have nightmares
of a 20 foot tall Indiana receiver with giant pancakes, covered in stick-em, for hands.
Welcome to Ohiowa, the great potato state!
Bret Bielema is a damned red-commie traitor.
Wouldn't maple syrup be easier?
As long as we’re using pancakes. And then he could eat them after the game for a tasty snack.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Nov 4, 2010 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Mmm delicious
Then he should have bacon for his mustache and eggs for his eyes. I think a photoshop is in order.
Welcome to Ohiowa, the great potato state!
Bret Bielema is a damned red-commie traitor.
My worst fear is AIRBHG, and the corollary AILBHG. Hence, I declined to vote, surely skewing the results.
AIRBHG is back with a vengeance, possibly
Word has it A-Rob has a concussion, and has been sitting out this week to rest up. I hate to think what that would mean to the offense.
by One Night Stanzi on Nov 4, 2010 11:10 AM CDT up reply actions
"I hate to think what that would mean to the offense."
The Manzi with 500 passing yards?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Well, obviously.
But it can’t be a good thing to be without (arguably) the most consistent player on offense.
by One Night Stanzi on Nov 4, 2010 1:03 PM CDT up reply actions
It's not good, sure. Obviously, you'd rather have him playing.
But it’s not the end of the world, either, especially against a defense as woeful as Indiana.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Is it a prerequisite for IU coaches
To have a temper that a 4 year old would find overly dramatic?
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
If ARob is limited then Stanzi might just lock up every the Big Ten QB
award this week. [hyperbole alert] Although, I hope we see some Coker. Indiana will wilt if we get them down early. They are the walking dead over there emotionally. Conversely, if we do what we did last year they could make a go of this. I hope Hyde is ready to play because he is going to see a LOT of action. Prater’s award last week ensures that.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
If Coker get injured
can you run the headline: “Coker Problem Catches Up With Hawks”?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Nope.
It will say “Kyle McCann’t Injures Coker With Joke Headline, Cause He’s A Jerky McJerkerstein.”
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 4, 2010 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Two of CBS Sportsline's"experts"
have Stanzi as a Heisman Finalist
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 11:28 AM CDT up reply actions
Do we know one of these "experts?"
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Nov 4, 2010 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Nope.
Jacobi isn’t on the panel. J. Darin Darst has Ricky 4th and Tom Fornelli voted him 5th.
by The Mexican't on Nov 4, 2010 11:50 AM CDT up reply actions
Darst is always pretty kind to Iowa
although I don’t have a clue about Tom Fornelli. All I know about CBS Sportsline is that A)Jacobi needs a picture and B)Dennis Dodd and Chris Doyel are the two biggest douchebags in sports this side of Jim Rome.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Fornelli is solid ...
He may be a White Sox fan, although I regard that as a sign of higher intelligence.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Nov 4, 2010 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
If you click on the "expert picks" you'll see Jacobi.
He picks the games and even has a picture.
by The Mexican't on Nov 4, 2010 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Well I'll be.
And that’s one ooooooopen collar.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 2:06 PM CDT up reply actions
CBS doesn't pay well enough for Jacobi to buy razors?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Nov 4, 2010 6:50 PM CDT up reply actions
That's part of his look.
He calls it, “Rugged, homeless rabbi”. It’s the next big thing.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions
No, no...
He’s just participating in No Shave November… except… all the time.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Nov 5, 2010 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions
J. Darin Darst seems like the fakest name since Kyle McCann't.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Mine is only half-fake.
Rupert is my real first name.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions
You don't see many apostrophe marks in last names
Is it Dutch?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
French, like Toussiant L'Ouverture
but I’m far more important in Haitian history.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Ah. Do you go to testicular cancer survivors' meetings?
Is your alter-ego named Tyler?
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 4, 2010 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Hello Gamecast
Damn, Comcast/Big Ten Channel out here showing Wisky-OMHR! And Mich/Ill on espn3. Oh well, s’posed to be another beautiful day here in Boulder, I’ll take the laptop and my Kahlua and Coffee (10am start here) and “watch” the game via espn.com gamecast.
I'm cool dad, that's my thang. I'm hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face
Have you checked if you'll get it on an alternate channel?
I’ll have Minnesota-MSU as my main game, and Iowa-Indiana on an alternate channel.
I'll try
good idea. I used BT Channel’s web-site to find games on Comcast, but now realize the local sports bar has Direct as well. They listed an alternate channel for the EIU game, but we couldn’t find it. Oh well, will sit outside and enjoy the sunshine and the gamecast.
I'm cool dad, that's my thang. I'm hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face
by SantosL.Halper on Nov 4, 2010 11:23 AM CDT up reply actions
That is always my biggest fear
He won’t just stop at one set of players, he’ll attack the whole team
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Nov 4, 2010 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I once sat next to Bobby Knight's chair in his favorite steak restaurant in Southern Indiana
Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription...is more cowbell!!
Did you throw it into the middle of the dining room in an angry fit?
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Nov 4, 2010 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
It threw HIM into the middle of the dining room...
…and cursed at the carpet.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 4, 2010 7:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Not Sure Fear Is The Right Word
But I always get very nervous when Norm is not in the house.
You'll get nothing and like it.
by Loosemeatsammich on Nov 4, 2010 11:55 AM CDT reply actions
No.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
That's for the best
I think long travel is the last thing Norm needs right now
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
My fear is
ignoring any significant wind and calling moderate to deep pass plays against it. That and, of course, the running game without Robinson, unfortnately due to the Outwardly Calm But Apparently Maniacally Paranoid I-Was-Worried-When-It-Was 37-6-Now-They-Need-Four-Touchdowns-In-Nine-Minutes-So-Let’s-Put-Robinson-Back-In-There Coaching Staff. I truly think the world of our leaders, at least 90-95 percent of the time. This just seemed unnecessary.
In Norm we trust.
Wow
not too often do you see the OCBAMPIWWWIW376NTNFTINMSLPRBITCS make an appearance…
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Nov 4, 2010 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
OK, seriously
that was some dedication right there.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Nov 4, 2010 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions
BIl Lynch reminds me of
1) a Leprechaun
2) a little Bobby Knight
3) a normal Danny Bonaduce
4) I will think of more later
by ChryslerKinnick on Nov 4, 2010 12:52 PM CDT reply actions
The little guy at the bar ...
who is hostle for no reason?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Nov 4, 2010 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions
he already mentioned Bonaduce
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Nov 4, 2010 7:39 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
No. The little hostile guy at the bar...
is the jNWU fan alum. He also has an Armani suit and an inexplicably hot woman with him and he still can’t overcome his, ahem, shortcomings.
by Abbas_Cincinnatus on Nov 5, 2010 1:10 PM CDT up reply actions
WOOO!
Bloomington! (Nice exterior hides evil Hellmouth on the inside!)
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Oh, no, not the ghost of James Hardy.
I remember the 2007 Penn State-IU game where he singlehandedly kept IU in the game. We put Justin King on him. Didn’t work. We put Justin King and some other guy on him. Didn’t work, didn’t stop him. We put Justin King, some other guy, and a bearded clone of James Hardy on him. Didn’t work.
I hate that guy.
"Iowa is like a flat Pennsylvania."
Beat Northwestern.
Can we do away with even mildly serious options?
I…for one…would most definitely have voted for William “Dick the Bruiser” Afflis
Ok…ok…calm down. So he played football for OMHR…but we’re all well aware of OMHR’s penchant for using double agents and he does hail from the Hoosier state.
I would include a picture in this post…but I’m honestly too afraid to Google Image “Dick the Bruiser”.
.
Because I was curious
I decided to look up what happened to James Hardy. As it turns out, he was released by the Bills during their final cuts on September 4. If even the Bills don’t want you, that’s not good…
However, I’m thinking this was all part of a larger scheme. Hardy told the Bills to release him so he could become a free agent, come back to Indiana for the game against Iowa, rack up 600 receiving yards and 5 TD’s, re-boost his NFL stock, and sign with a team again.
/Bill Lynch conspiracy’d
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Nov 4, 2010 4:34 PM CDT reply actions
My fear is Tanden Doss...
…because that name reminds me of my first computer (A Tandy) and how I hated writing MS-DOS code. I was too young to understand what I was doing and accidentally wrote a Russian Roulette game code wrong. It was supposed to be a random “click” generator, but at some point it would randomly go “BANG!” If you got to the bang before stopping you lose, if you stop the try before the bang, you win.
As I said, I was too young. I wrote the code so wrong that you could pull the trigger (hit space bar) an infinite number of times without the “BANG” ever occurring. Do you understand how boring an MS-DOS game of Russian Roulette with an empty cyber-chamber can be?! Do you!??? It’s just a nine year old sitting at a keyboard hitting the space bar over and over and over and over and over… with the screen filling up with “Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click…Click” and that’s it.
Tanden Doss is going to bore me to tears and send me into convulsions of frustration by the end of the game. This may be the least enjoyable win of the year for me.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 4, 2010 4:47 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
The joy of the Tandy
It was a big deal at home when we got our Tandy. It was a hell of a step up from the C64.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Nov 4, 2010 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I eventually went in and officially changed the title from Russian Roulette...
…to Soviet Time Killer. Like a year later Tetris was a best seller. I changed the title back (it still never worked).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Nov 4, 2010 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions
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