Friday's Alright For Farmageddon: Iowa vs. Nebraska Football Moved To Black Friday
by RossWB on Mar 7, 2011 5:18 PM CST
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Good news, everyone! The wait for our too-long-dormant rivalry with Nebraska to be renewed just got one day shorter. As expected (or at least hoped for) since the 2011 schedule was first released months ago, the Iowa-Nebraska game will be moving to the Friday after Thanksgiving.
The Hawkeyes and Cornhuskers announced Monday that both the 2011 contest, in Lincoln, and the 2012 game, in Iowa City, will be played on Friday. The teams will meet in Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 23, 2012.
Nebraska has a storied tradition of playing football on Black Friday, dating back to the historic tilts with Oklahoma in the '70s and '80s and, more recently, a slew of less-memorable games with Colorado (although anyone with a Husker-hating heart could appreciate the 62-36 neutron bomb Chris Brown and the Buffs dropped on Nebraska in 2001). Iowa has a less-storied tradition of playing football on Black Friday; in fact, they have no such tradition. I can't even recall the last time Iowa played a non-bowl game on anything other than a Saturday. Welcome to the bold new world of the future.
Although it's not formally announced (and might not be for months yet), you might as well pencil this in as a 2:30pm CST game on ABC; that's when Nebraska's games with Colorado have been kicking off the last few years and it's pretty unlikely ABC would want to bury this game at noon when people are still emerging from their tryptophan-induced comas (that's reserved for inferior Big East games). With the Iron Bowl also moving back to the Saturday after Thanksgiving, this may be the top game of the day on Friday. And, as Bama Hawkeye noted, it gets the game out of the shadow of Ohio State-Michigan on Saturday (as well as Penn State-Wisconsin, for that matter). Bring on Farmageddon. Let the Meth Wars begin.
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Is football season here yet?
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
Too bad Nebraska's colors are red and now blue.
We could start calling this game Black and Blue Friday.
Nahh... Blood and Bruises Friday.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Mar 7, 2011 6:35 PM CST up reply actions
WAIT.
WHAT? I’m dumb.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Mar 7, 2011 6:36 PM CST up reply actions
That picture reminded me of my youth.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
by HawKCP on Mar 7, 2011 5:45 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Rec'd even if I have zero idea what bootleg game that's from
Couple thoughts from an outsider:
1) That’s some major debt allowed for a small-time guy apparently able to carry only what fits in his trenchcoat.
2) Sandy Schwing sounds like a loose young lady
3) Are those kidneys representing your health level? Hilarious
4) I love the “Dump” button being so prominently involved, makes me assume a GTA-type cop involvement
5) Having an empty weapon rack seems like a poor idea for somebody in debt for a cool 1.3 mil to drug dealers.
6) Who knew street drugs had such quickly variable pricing structure? Answer: everybody.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 7, 2011 7:14 PM CST up reply actions
Drug Wars
And several various knockoffs were responsible for plenty of wasted hours during my freshman year of college
You could get that shit loaded on a graphing calculator and be swindling mofos with bunk peyote
during Algebra 2 class.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
as long as were on the subject of meth
I think that the loser of this annual tilt should have to claim council bluffs as a part of their state for the year.
" Every Christmas my Mom would get a fresh goose, for gooseburgers, and my Dad would whip up his special eggnog out of bourbon and ice cubes. "
by alex henery's foot on Mar 7, 2011 5:47 PM CST via mobile reply actions 12 recs
No bet!
I don’t want ANY chance of them being a part of my state. Bad enough Carter Lake is on our side of the river.
Because the Omaha
neighborhoods around the Iowa part of Carter Lake are just sooooo damned nice.
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. - Hayden Fry
by NileKinnickIronman on Mar 7, 2011 8:04 PM CST up reply actions
Exactly
Iowa’s seeping into our state, polluting the population in the eastern neighborhoods.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
/blissful ignorance
Hey now
I think the problem is Nebraskans going into Iowa. This did almost lead to war once, you know.
Football on a Friday?
* curls up and rocks back and forth *
It’s so cold…so cold…so cold
(nah, just kidding, I’m good with a black Friday game)
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 7, 2011 5:58 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd, but I'm not kidding.
The most awesome thing about this change of events is that it will take place on my birthday!
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye (yeah, the science guy)
Your birthday is the fourth Friday of November every year?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 8:56 AM CST up reply actions
My bad...
The inaugural event will take place on my birthday. However, I tend to celebrate my bday the entire fourth week of November. I really am that awesome.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye (yeah, the science guy)
Damn, I'm going to have to wait a couple of years till it falls on my birthday
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 8, 2011 10:05 AM CST up reply actions
I know how you feel
Both my mom and sister have birthdays that week (which I believe you’re right smack in the middle of—theirs is the 24th and 26th), so in addition to just having a holiday weekend, we tend to usually party for the birthdays along with Thanksgiving. It’s a busy and fun week(end) to say the least.
You are correct there!
I’m on the 25th, exactly 30 days before the X-mas holiday, that’s how I remember it.
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye (yeah, the science guy)
The 2012 game is on my bday.
And so agreed on the birthday week.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 8, 2011 11:21 AM CST up reply actions
Schweet!!
I’m so glad to have a friend who celebrates birthday week like me!
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye (yeah, the science guy)
Don't worry, there are a lot of us out there that celebrate bday week.
I even have one friend who celebrates his birthday month. It got quite expensive most years.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 9, 2011 2:24 PM CST up reply actions
So what if we're girls?
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Bill Nye (yeah, the science guy)
It is true. Most of the women I know do this.
And only a few of the guys I know do.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 10, 2011 1:24 PM CST up reply actions
I'm in favor.
The only shitty thing is that this definitely makes it more difficult to attend road games in this series. Guaranteed that the group of guys that I go to road games with will be downsized significantly for this game.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
That's true.
But lots of schools (like Nebraska, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, etc.) have managed Friday games in the past, so I’m thinking it’s just something fans will have to get used to.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yeah, LSU-Arky have had some pretty great matchups the past few years.
(and yes, I tend to root for Arky just because I like to see the SEC powers get clipped).
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 7, 2011 9:20 PM CST up reply actions
speaking of Arkansas:
Two Razorbacks coaches were in the Deadwood last night enjoying a few drinks. When I asked them why they were in town (recruiting our players!!?!) they said they were watching tape with our coaches related to how we use tight ends. They seemed kind of secretive about it.
by The Final Gun on Mar 7, 2011 10:04 PM CST up reply actions
Just part of the Petrino brothers' secret plan to steal our Big Ten secrets...
and adapt them to SEC SPEED.
Thank god we’ve brought in Nebrask-bwahahahahahahahahah.
Sorry, couldn’t say it without laughing.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 7, 2011 10:40 PM CST up reply actions
I hope it wasn't John L. Smith
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Mar 8, 2011 12:35 AM CST up reply actions
They know what a tight end is?
Oh, right, they’re not the ACC
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 8, 2011 10:05 AM CST up reply actions
Two questions you should have asked.
Why were you in Deadwood? Why were they in Deadwood?
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
because you can smoke pot in the open?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 9:08 PM CST up reply actions
That might have ended on July 1, 2009
When the smoking ban went into effect. Harder to “hide” it now that you can’t smoke cigarettes any more.
Was it the Simpsons hour?
Do they even still do that?
Because the Deadwood is awesome. Just out of curiosity, what bars does Colteyes prefer?
Bars
When I was there, I suppose I preferred Brothers or Field House. Now if I went back it would be something a lot more chill. During the Iowa/ISU weekend this year, me and my old roommates went to that new one by where Etc is or was, and it really wasn’t my flavor. I can’t remember what it was called though.
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
Called it.
And I think you’re talking about DC’s.
by The Final Gun on Mar 9, 2011 6:31 PM CST up reply actions
Sorry, brah.
Every time I try to get into really rad bars like Sports Column or Brothers, I get bounced, ‘cause my collars not poppin’ ’nuff and I can, you know, articulate.
But, yeah, the Deadwood is totally not Ricky Stanzi-approved.
I was there because it’s low-key enough to let a 30-something professional have a few drinks without being bothered too much and there’s always a good pool game to get in on.
They were there because they were trying to have sex with girls and Deadwood doesn’t advertise that girls there will only have sex with you if you are a girl or if you have drugs.
by The Final Gun on Mar 9, 2011 2:46 PM CST up reply actions
All of this bar talk is pretty fascinating to me since I've only been in a bar once.
I didn’t realize there was a hierarchy.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Mar 9, 2011 5:26 PM CST up reply actions
I always preferred Mickey's.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
For me it was always House of Lords for some goblets and then Charlie's or Gus' to finish the night.
We rarely went downtown.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 10, 2011 1:27 PM CST up reply actions
This seems especially true given that its the day after Thanksgiving.
This change makes the chances of my going to Iowa Nebraska this year go waaaaay down.
by The Final Gun on Mar 7, 2011 6:26 PM CST up reply actions
Wasn't this belief discussed when the B1G extended the season a week last year
Was attendance actually a problem anywhere? For the season ticket holders and fan families I can imagine this not being a problem. I’m sure it will impact some people, and we can all provide personal tales or anecdotes, but I just don’t think it will actually reduce butts in seats at all. If your butt can’t go, somebody else’s will.
THIS
If someone doesn’t want their ticket, I (and lots of other people I know) will be more than glad to take it off their hands. And I would venture to guess that MOST people have that day off anyway (or they take it off to have a 4 day weekend, regardless of a football game).
i hate retail
Looks like i’ll be listening to this one on the radio. Since I work in retail I’ll have to work on black friday without a doubt with zero chance of getting the day off. Whoever invented the marketing gimmick that is black friday needs to be punished for ruining what would otherwise be a nice 4 day weekend.
impossible is nothing
I think it is a tremendous opportunity for us
we will be a big attraction on the day after thanksgiving (minus the crazy black friday shoppers) when a lot of people have time off from work. It will most likely give us a guaranteed national TeeVee audience. As long as we don’t shit on the field it cannot be a bad deal for us, especially as you mention, we are out of the shadow of “the game”
Now you ain't gonna come up here and steal Pepper Jack's best ho.
Nowadays the black friday shoppers
are finished by 7 am. The stores are almost deserted after noon now.
by DrHenryKillinger on Mar 8, 2011 9:26 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, humanity is pretty much doomed.
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 8, 2011 9:27 AM CST up reply actions
This is not news
and we totally deserve it
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 8, 2011 10:06 AM CST up reply actions
I like this and don't like this
CFB is meant to be played on a Saturday, and I’m worried about students being back in town for the game, namely Illinois based kids.
I’m likely underestimating our fan base and will come to enjoy this new start time
by IrishHawkeye7 on Mar 7, 2011 6:44 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
It really depends on the season.
Our student section isn’t exactly known for always showing up. Granted they have done pretty well the last couple years from what I can remember. If we are 8-3, 7-4 or worse are the students going to be back and show up on Friday?
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
Tailgating sometimes overrules actually attending the game for students with tickets
It’s probably a good idea to let it do so if you’re VERY drunk. Not sure if that is going to be a higher or lesser probability on a Friday.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 7, 2011 7:19 PM CST up reply actions
I would agree.
But a lot of times they are probably thinking fuck it we aren’t top 10 or whatever so let’s just get blasted instead. I think the two are pretty closely correlated.
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
This game has my attention.
Well done, evil neighbors. Very well done.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Mar 7, 2011 6:49 PM CST reply actions
I assume you'll be rooting for Nebraska.
Since who hates Iowa White Speed Receiver hates Iowa.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Mar 7, 2011 10:53 PM CST up reply actions
Good for the game, bad for me
As I travel from Chicago for games, day trips are a little unseemly. So the likelihood I will be able to attend has been significantly decreased. That being said, for all the reasons stated above, it is obviously a good thing.
Ankles! We don't need no stinking ankles!
by three and out the kok story on Mar 7, 2011 7:21 PM CST reply actions
Well, if you have family like mine...
they use Black Friday as an excuse to get up really early and spend money. Now, you can do the same…you just have to do some distance-driving, as well.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 7, 2011 9:24 PM CST up reply actions
Ok.
…
lol
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Mar 7, 2011 8:18 PM CST up reply actions
I actually think that Iowa/Nebraska should find a different name.
Stealing a rivalry name from ISU/KSU is a bit of a downer.
by The Mexican't on Mar 7, 2011 8:22 PM CST up reply actions
Stealing or using something nobody is really using
Its like a kid getting called up to the big leagues… The name Farmageddon is better than either of those schools.
ISU, if you love it let it go, if it never comes back… its becuase you are ISU!
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
by Amonra on Mar 7, 2011 8:30 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I suggested METH WARS as an alternative.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
FarmMethgeddon?
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Mar 7, 2011 8:55 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Happy Hour Health Spa baby.
Home of the $150 shower.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
That place intrigued me so much in my early teens.
I mean, it’s a 24 hour “spa,” where everyone seems to be in on what it actually is, operating like 5 blocks from the police station?? I couldn’t figure out how that worked.
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Mar 8, 2011 7:37 PM CST up reply actions
Seriously, it's a whore house.
I tried getting in at like midnight once in my early years and some broad in nothing but a towel answered the door and carded us, as we reached for our IDs she said “Yeah, I don’t think so.”
I had a couple of friends who did get in once and they were led to a room where they were presented with a sheet listing out services and prices. I can’t remember the prices he told me but I given the prices I would be pissed if the shower just included really good smelling soap. They told her they needed to hit an ATM and come right back.
Oh yeah, I also had a coworker who has a friend who goes there regularly to have expensive sex with hookers. So there’s that.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
Since you guys are apparently the experts
Touch of Mink in IC – is that still open? Never actually went there but was mighty tempted a couple times when living a block away and walking home frustrated (and very drunk) some nights.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 12:38 AM CST up reply actions
Never heard of it
But a quick google search seems to indicate that it hasn’t been busted recently. So the answer is probably yes.
They did from what I recall.
But it’s possible that it’s open again in a different location.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 9, 2011 8:55 AM CST up reply actions
I go to an actual spa (Nadia's)
and let me just say that being massaged by a beautiful woman while completely nude and wrapped in a warm blanket is pretty much the best thing ever. And expensive.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Mar 8, 2011 7:51 PM CST up reply actions
As if we weren't associated with meth already?
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 8, 2011 10:07 AM CST up reply actions
At least our prostitutes are funny and wise
and starred in Arrested Development a few years ago.
\Take that, East St. Louis
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Mar 8, 2011 11:59 AM CST up reply actions
Yes, plus a billion.
ISU & KSU used that name first, which makes it LAME to the highest degree. I want no part of that buffoonery.
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 7, 2011 11:31 PM CST up reply actions
It doesn't even need a nickname.
Not everything has to have some fabricated Official Marketing Title.
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 7, 2011 11:43 PM CST up reply actions
"The Dr. Tom Affair"
Pierce Brosnan can present a trophy with a Janus-like two headed Osborne-Davis figure on it.
by PackerHawk on Mar 8, 2011 12:03 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
On the other hand, it tweaks ISU fans, which is always fun.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yes, this is an excellent point.
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 8, 2011 5:53 AM CST up reply actions
Well, the use of the name Farmageddon for ISU-KSU
was mainly started at fellow SBN blog Bring On the Cats as T B and I tried to search for a name for the rivalry. That’s where it first started to gain traction, so both Tye and I kind of want to see the name stick – haha.
FUCK FARMAGEDDON!
thats our rivalry name. Hard to picture the trophy though.
Deadspin: by douche bags, for douche bags.
nope.
Sorry Hawk fans, but “little brother” already has that name…ISU-KSU. Be original and find something else. Sorry that an insignificant game already has it, but whatever.
Yeah. Way too much of what we do is stolen from other schools.
Gator Chop. Blech.
Let’s try to be original for once.
by The Final Gun on Mar 8, 2011 11:56 AM CST up reply actions
Can anyone name me one legit reason why ISU and KSU are rivals?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
Wait, TFG.
I thought Iowa did the chop first?
Or were you using the sarcasm font?
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:44 PM CST up reply actions
Because they're trying to prove who's the better copycat?
Kansas, who’s colors are Yale Blue and Harvard Crimson, and ISU…who seem to be trying their hardest to be the U$C Trojans.
Poster Fail!
Got confused between KU and KSU.
::facepalm::
I'm guessing no one even noticed.
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 8, 2011 8:28 PM CST up reply actions
Same reason Iowa and Purdue are?
Everyone needs a secondary or tertiary rival? They both have state in their name?
Actually my KSU fan thinks it is because they are both known for engineering and agriculture.
Iowa State was the first university whose legislature accepted the provisions of the Morrill Act
Making them the first land grant under the federal system. KSU was the first university founded as a land grant university. MSU and PSU, fyi, were both founded as state land grants and therefore are not the first “federal” land grant schools.
So ISU and KSU can lay claim to the titles of first cow colleges by one metric. MOooooo
Iowa-Nebraska: Winner gets to keep the Ghost of Tom Osborne for a whole year.
Seriously, that guy looks worse than Quint after the shark ate him.
"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2011 9:07 AM CST up reply actions
Pardon me, Mr. Pot, but you sure are calling Mr. Kettle black.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Mar 8, 2011 10:11 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Look, there’s just no way Joe looks worse than the Ghost of Tom Osborne. Sounds worse, maybe, but I was not the only one stunned by how decrepit the dude looked when the BTN interviewed him about the new lineups.
"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2011 11:07 AM CST up reply actions
He might not look WORSE, per se, but he doesn't exactly look great.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
There is a reason that he survives on brains
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Mar 8, 2011 11:29 AM CST up reply actions
And really, shouldn't *I* be an expert on this matter?
"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2011 1:28 PM CST up reply actions
You have the Civil War, presidents, generals, Panzer tanks, and the feeding habits of David Taylor's unicorn.
Isn’t that enough on your plate?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
you forgot trains, PA accents, and farm livin'
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 3:09 PM CST up reply actions
Looks like a DEAD heat, to me.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:48 PM CST up reply actions
RR is right. Osborne is MUCH more ghostly
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 9:33 PM CST up reply actions
It's in the voice.
The whole presence Osborne had in the interview I saw was breathtaking. Ghostly voice, ghostly visage, it was amazing.
Joe just looks old.
"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2011 11:04 PM CST up reply actions
RR's a racist?
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Mar 8, 2011 12:12 PM CST up reply actions
How about
The Missouri River Melee
The Heartland Havoc
The Farmland Fracas
The Black Friday Blitzkreig
The Corn Country Carnage
The Hawk-combat Husk-irmish
or my personal favorite
The chance for Iowa fans to see what TRUE football fans are really like.
by DrHenryKillinger on Mar 8, 2011 9:41 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Battle for the Corn Belt
Just add WWE style Corn belt (with switchable bling Hawkeye/Husker spinner) and you have an intstant classic!
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
by Amonra on Mar 8, 2011 10:29 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd for effort, but:
The Missouri River Melee – Obvious derivative takeover of Red River Rivalry.
The Heartland Havoc – Worth thinking about. B+
The Farmland Fracas – Most of America wasn’t educated in the Midwest and won’t know what “fracas” means.
The Black Friday Blitzkreig – The play on “Black Friday” is a great idea. What about the “Black Friday Battle”.
The Corn Country Carnage – But no.
by The Final Gun on Mar 8, 2011 11:19 AM CST up reply actions
Black Shirt Gold Pants Friday
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Mar 8, 2011 12:13 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER
BEST BRANDING EVER.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Soil Rumble.
That is all.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 8, 2011 1:26 PM CST up reply actions
Or...Apocalypse Plow.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 8, 2011 1:34 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
OOOOOH
This one and Black Friday Battle are my crushes right now
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 1:43 PM CST up reply actions
Well you certainly weren't missing stuff like
“Hardcore Cornography”
Although I kind of like the idea of playing for a WWE-style wrestling belt as part of “Soil Rumble” (and the players would fucking love it).
A giant stein as the prize for winning “Croptoberfest” is also somewhat amusing.
And, while fun, I can’t see the national media getting behind “Meth and Destruction”
In the end, “Apocalypse Plow” might be my favorite, although that would be one damned unruly trophy.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 8, 2011 3:14 PM CST up reply actions
I love the smell of soybeans in the morning?
Personally, I like Soil Rumble.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:50 PM CST up reply actions
Clearly I have because
“Hardcore Cornography” might just be my world but “Apocalypse Plow” is a fairly close second.
Battle of Big Muddy has been suggested elsewhere
I don’t want the name Missouri (river or not) anywhere in the title.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Battle for who hates Iowa State more?
That would be worth fighting over.
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
Actually, I believe Amonra is also a Nebraska fan.
Personally, I would deem it the Battle of Who Could Care About Iowa State Less.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
How about the Battle for lame Nebby fans arguing with each other incognito on another team's blog?
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:51 PM CST up reply actions
Could also be Battle of the Waistbands
Because of both teams followers being so health concious and such.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
No way that title gets used
unless Wisconsin is playing
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Mar 8, 2011 10:08 AM CST up reply actions
Isn't Texas the fattest state now?
It’s hard to keep track since we’re all ridiculously fat now. Fun stat I heard on NPR a couple months ago: The thinnest state now (Cali) is fatter than the fattest state was just 15 years ago.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 10:16 AM CST up reply actions
Mississippi was last year.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 8, 2011 10:56 AM CST up reply actions
There is a great picture (shopped i think) of a park bench with 5 armrests on it because the person who dedicated it hated fat people.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Maybe he also hated skateboarders
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 1:27 PM CST up reply actions
Armrests are not a problem...
as long as they are a good 1 and 3/4 to two feet apart.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:52 PM CST up reply actions
west virginina
is the fattest state
by a lot
long live the pellican whore
I don't intend to upset folks with the way I write it just happens,,,
Googling...
It appears it varies greatly depending on which source you use. Gallup says WV is worst, CalorieLab (who?) says MS is worst. Both list CO as best. As I recall from the NPR broadcast they said it was CA and NY as 1 and 2 for the best, but Gallup says both of those are merely top 10ish. The lesson in all of this: Polls are stupid. Except the guys at FiveThirtyEight.com, they are usually dead nuts on in their poll aggregation that factors in biases by polling firm
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 12:48 AM CST up reply actions
It will probably end up being called something stupid
like the missouri river rivalry.
Now you ain't gonna come up here and steal Pepper Jack's best ho.
I can't imagine them putting the name of another school in the rivaly name.
Yes, I understand it would be refering to the river and not the school but it is still a school name. Of course it would be a reminder to MU that they were not the chosen ones every year and that could be fun.
by Carfino'sWay on Mar 8, 2011 10:02 AM CST up reply actions
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better...
I work at CU. Was intense but…. Now it’s Farmageddon and I’m ageddon outta here….
/drunk post, yep
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
Working at CU they let you get drunk by 6:30 on a Monday?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 7, 2011 7:52 PM CST up reply actions
Rocky Mountain High, indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 7, 2011 9:27 PM CST up reply actions
Friday after Thanksgiving I am ok with
If this is the first step to Tuesday night games after the Big East “game of the week”, then I might get concerned.
I think the Big Ten will draw the line on mid-week games.
This is kind of an exception because it’s a holiday weekend. Although Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio State have all opened the season on Thursday night in recent years.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I'll take your tickets
for all of you poor souls who cannot use your tix because the game is on Friday, I have a slew of Hawkeye fans who would easily make the trip.
looking for someone smarter than KOK...
by not so fast, my friend on Mar 7, 2011 8:49 PM CST reply actions
Having quit football a few months earlier, I was a Pizza Hut Delivery driver in Northern Lincoln during that CU beatdown
I made $180 cash (plus $5.15 hourly) for ten hours. I think Nebraskans were trying to eat their sorrows away.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Oh, and this is great news.
I am really, really, really glad they did this. If anyone wants to get me tickets to the game in Lincoln for my wedding present (late Sept), I’m down.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I was at Folsom for that game
and I respectfully disagree with your perspective.
The Nebraska fans who went out to smoke at halftime had to circle the wagons to keep the brahsome smuffs fans from jumping them.
by Albino Tornado on Mar 8, 2011 8:28 AM CST up reply actions
I still liked the team at that point (obviously, I knew everyone on it)...
…so I couldn’t gloat while taking their money, but looking back, so sweet.
Speaking of, I did, while in the dorms on gameday, the year before, I ran around hallways shouting Boomer Sooner. That was great.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
It was awesome, deal with it
Yes, Folsom crowds are rude, especially when it comes to Nebraska. After the “Sal’s Dead Go Big Red” sign incident Husker fans deserve whatever they get if they venture to Boulder.
I am just beside myself about this.
I get to stay home and watch the Hawks play, and the Mrs. goes out battling the infidel foes Christmas shopping. Win both way.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Mar 7, 2011 10:54 PM CST reply actions
I live to serve.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Kirk originally expressed concern bordering on objection to playing on Friday...
so I am now hoping Friday does not become his new “west coast time zone / desert” whine. And by “his” I mean our.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Those demons were exorcised at the Insight Bowl
by PackerHawk on Mar 8, 2011 7:41 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Thank God!
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride!" HST
Enter Black Friday....the new desert/time zone hex
http://thegazette.com/2010/09/28/ferentz-not-ready-to-embrace-possible-black-friday-tradition/
Kirk is not exactly an early adopter and his squeamishness with any sort of chance is one of his most obvious weaknesses as a coach. Players pick up on it and in the end everyone is answering questions all week about, “Why don’t you like to play on Friday?” I wish he’d grow up and display a bit more bravado and just say, “When it comes to Nebraska I’d play those guys at the crack of dawn or do a midnight kickoff. It’s Nebraska and I just want to get it on.” Instead he’s worried, as usual, about his apple cart.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
post fail
any sort of chance change
although chance could work too…because Kirk sees change as chance.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
I don't like chaaange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av1JPq0Qmy4
I know shitty picture, but it was the only one I could find.
by DJK's bongwater on Mar 8, 2011 10:28 AM CST up reply actions
I'm OK with a coach who doesn't want to "get it on with Nebraska."
The word “compete” is overused, but would have been better.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 8:55 PM CST up reply actions
Playing football on any day but Saturday is stupid.
That is all.
"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"
by ReadingRambler on Mar 8, 2011 9:08 AM CST up reply actions
I understand what you're getting at.
But I think he’ll be OK. He used to be all squeamish about night games, but we did pretty well in them in 2009. He’s not totally incapable of adjusting plans.
Don’t we play P****e the week before? I’m more worried about us being too drained from a taxing game with OMHR.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I think it will be good for recruiting.
I doubt there is any way to accurately track it, save a student outright saying it, but I have to think the more exclusive showing on nat’l TV, the better.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I agree.
I’m not sure it’s a tangible thing you can point to and say “well, get player X because we’re playing Nebraska on Black Friday,” but it’s one of those things (like the rumor of Pro Combat unis) that just makes Iowa seem a little cooler and more desirable, I think. And that stuff certainly never hurts.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
IF we win.
I have the feeling this game is going to be instrumental in some recruiting battles between Iowa and Nebraska. Winning the first matchup (in Lincoln) is CRUCIAL.
Nah. Publicity matters more than outcome.
People still pay Paris Hilton $100K to show up at their club.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 2:00 PM CST up reply actions
Early adopters?
Hasn’t there been college football on the day after Thanksgiving for a while now?
"If you’re ever going to do a short week, it has to be at the end of the season like that," Ferentz said. "So it might be worth a discussion, but I don’t see what advantage it is because by the time you get back here you’ve got class Monday. It’s not like it’s a huge thing."
I wouldn’t exactly call that squeamishness more like indifference.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
To be fair
The Black Friday 11 am game is WV-Pitt which is always very entertaining.
It’s the two schools in that league that have any football tradition.
Jack Trice Stadium - Easily one of the Top 10 Stadiums in Central Iowa
To be fair to the Big East? Bah.
(But I agree, it is a fun game. Shh.)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Syracuse has tradition.
It’s just tradition in the Minnesota sense (like, 4 or 5 decades ago).
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 9:00 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah.
I guess they did make a BCS bowl when McNabb was around, and I think Miami FL and BC were still in the Big East at that time.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 9, 2011 9:49 PM CST up reply actions
from "I am a Cytenist"
Nebraska, Iowa; it’s understandable that you’re so creatively bankrupt that you need to steal the rivalry name of your neighboring teams. But ISU & KSU have become rather fond of Farmageddon, so as a pre-emptive strike; here are a few names that you can use for your series instead.
Ag-pocalypse (Not as catchy as Farmageddon, but it gets the point across)
Soil-ocaust ( See above)
Corn-Stock (Like Woodstock. GET IT?)
Husker Deux (Deux, for the two teams in the game. My personal favorite. Not only pays tribute to an awesome band, but the winner can reclaim the Cornhusker name for the year. I don’t know if that’s a good thing).
These are all GOLD. Use any one you want, free of charge. Just leave Farmageddon alone.
Wouldn't your teams have to be known
by anyone to know you’ve used that name in a ‘rivalry’? And really, it isn’t a rivalry when all you’re trying to do is suck less then the other guy.
I say Farmageddon! Suck it ISU/KSU.
ISU and KSU have a rivalry?
They play football at those schools?
Change the name of that one to the Battle for 9th Place.
by DJK's bongwater on Mar 8, 2011 1:07 PM CST up reply actions
At least its not the battle for 11th place anymore!
by DJK's bongwater on Mar 8, 2011 1:07 PM CST up reply actions
Now it will be the battle for 9th!
Movin’ on up in the world!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
ISU fans can talk crap about it when the ISU-KSU game happens at a home stadium of one of the two teams.
Or is it that impossible to get a sellout at Trice Field or Snyder Family Stadium?
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 9:02 PM CST up reply actions
ISU has the ugliest fucking colors of any team ever.
Fuckin’ Hogwarts.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Mar 8, 2011 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
ISU has the ugliest fucking colors of any team ever.
Fuckin’ Hogwarts.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Mar 8, 2011 7:58 PM CST up reply actions
A comment so true you had to say it twice.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Seriously, though, it's like someone smeared day-old mustard all over period blood.
They’re fucking heinous.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Mar 8, 2011 11:38 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
That is the most accurate (and disgusting) description of their colors ever.
Bravo.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I can't unread that
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 12:49 AM CST up reply actions
And do you really want to?
Because that was pretty fucking dead on.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Mar 9, 2011 9:18 AM CST up reply actions
I'm actually kind of fond of Wyoming's...
particularly when they go with white helmets or white jerseys (although the piss-yellow is a bad choice on anyone but Iowa).
Then again, I like the Hawkeye jerseys with wings.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 8, 2011 9:06 PM CST up reply actions
I am watching the hell out of . . .
The “Breaking Bad” re-runs.
It’s got some flaws, but it’s the most intense show ever on television.
I absolutely love it. It’s poking at “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” for No. 1. And yes, cop out with the 1 and 1a.
"I always like it better when the clowns seem to try to be happy."
The 1/1A cop-out is an easy fix.
Just drop “The Sopranos” as “The Wire” is the best show on television…ever.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 8, 2011 3:28 PM CST up reply actions
I'm going with Breaking Bad
If not for the 2nd season of Friday Night Lights, I would have to give it the nod.
FNL? Ugh.
It’s 90210 with Hail Mary TDs to end every game.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 12:51 AM CST up reply actions
Aside from the high school setting, I couldn't think your comparison could be any farther off.
I think in 4 season there have been maybe one or two hail mary’s. And 90210 wishes it had the character development and relatively high degree of realism that FNL has.
Truth be told, Small Wonder is probably the greatest thing to ever grace the airwaves. Or Blossom.
You asshole.
I was going to apologize and confess that I only said that about FNL to rile people up, but then you have to go and throw Small Wonder under the bus.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 1:01 AM CST up reply actions
she made all 15 pool balls with one shot!
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 9, 2011 1:38 AM CST up reply actions
And that was just in her creator/dad's pants!
Yes, I watched it as a kid and, yes, it was just as creepy back then.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Mar 9, 2011 7:23 AM CST up reply actions
I've never seen FNL
My recollection of high school football is throwing up before games, being out of position (I would’ve been Greenwood’d) and leaning back into morning dew that was somehow cold in 90-degree August.
I don’t remember a Minka.
"I always like it better when the clowns seem to try to be happy."
by MarcMorehouse on Mar 9, 2011 12:44 PM CST up reply actions
Yep.
High School football was not as great if you sucked (as I did). But, it still gives you some memories.
Also, I think I would have been ragged on and nearly terrorized if I wasn’t on the HS football team. I was a fat kid who was in the band. High School would have been a very miserable time if I hadn’t made the football players at least neutral, if not outright allies.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Mar 9, 2011 9:52 PM CST up reply actions
This changes everything.
My family usually has Thanksgiving dinner on the day after Thanksgiving so that my sister can go to her husband’s family’s Thanksgiving gathering in Milwaukee. I’m the one that cooks (the great majority of) the dinner (and it’s fantastic every. year.), so it looks like that shit ain’t happening. Hope you like leftovers, Sis.
Maybe I’ll throw together a casserole beforehand, if they’re lucky. Or a cassoulet.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
Cassoulet?
Tell me more.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Mar 8, 2011 12:23 PM CST up reply actions
This is a bastardized version, but
it’s a damn tasty bastardized version.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Mar 8, 2011 1:32 PM CST up reply actions
The traveling trophy is gonna be weird now
I assumed it was to be a big piece of corn. Now throw in Thanksgiving, turkey leg give aways to players of the game, and now black Friday.
So now it'll be a big bronzed ear of corn covered in turkey grease n' gravy, inside of a shopping bag (with gift receipt, natch).
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid - ever, because... this is just a ride."
by Bucketochicken on Mar 8, 2011 3:32 PM CST up reply actions
Ah, the Jackie Thomas Show gift bag
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Mar 8, 2011 3:54 PM CST up reply actions
So...
Good for Nebraska fans I suppose?
Personally I am not too excited about the idea of driving in black friday traffic out of state??
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