Iowa Football Gets A Little More Patriotic
Did you know there was an International Federation of American Football? Did you know that they hold a Senior World Championships every four years? Did you know that the next installment (the fourth ever) is coming up this July? The answer to all of those questions is likely "no," even though the IFAF Senior World Championships is really the closest thing American football has to the World Cup. I mean, minus the fact that there are only eight teams, none of the best players play, and no one gives a shit about it. But other than that: totally like the World Cup.
So why might you care a fraction more this year? Because there's a Hawkeye on the squad, of course: former Iowa offensive lineman Josh Koeppel is taking his talents to Innsbruck (and Graz and Vienna) to help the U.S. team defend their crown (four years ago they beat Japan in the finals, 23-20, in double overtime, which should probably tell you something about the caliber of players the U.S. sent). He's joined by a handful of other former major college players, including West Virginia's Johnny Dingle (snicker), Kansas State's Daniel Calvin, Baylor's Jordan Lake, and Virginia Tech's Stephan Virgil. Oh, and former Colorado quarterback (and current Stockholm Mean Machines signal-caller!) Cody Hawkins. Heh.
The U.S. is in a group with Australia, Germany, and Mexico. (The other group features Japan, France, Canada, and Austria.) The top teams in the group advance to the Gold and Bronze medal games. PROTIP for Australia, Germany, and Mexico: Josh Koeppel survived this. He's not gonna be scared of what you're bringing to this tussle unless you show up in a tank. Anyway, best of luck to Koeppel and the rest of the U.S. team.
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Surprisingly we haven't absolutely dominated this
We’ve only won one titled and we barely beat Japan in double OT. That’s right…we needed double OT to beat Japan in American football.
Last time
was the first time the US fielded a team for this. And we don’t completely dominate because they won’t take any pro players and have to take players from D-1, D-2, D-3, and NAIA.
That would be the reason then
I just looked at the results and couldn’t believe we hadn’t won all 4 World Cups.
And no serious D1 team
is going to let their good players participate in this.So the best players are going to be guys like Josh who are done with college but not quite good enough to make the NFL.
Seriously though, as much fun as it would be to watch for a game or two, an all-star NFL team bulldozing everybody 95-0 would pretty much kill this competition.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
These type of players
Should still be good enough to win it every time though. Seriously how big are these Japanese guys playing?
They say you're a pitcher, you're sure not much of a dresser. We wear caps and sleeves on this level, son.
Cue the gif
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by therealCatnuts on Jun 16, 2011 9:08 AM CDT up reply actions
Please don't ask that question.
I fear we will now hear from SEG about the, um, “girths” of the thousands of Japanese men she has bedded.
/joking.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 16, 2011 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
That's just not fair
They have plenty of bigs

It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Jun 16, 2011 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm guessing the OL is made up of Sumo Wrestlers
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." -Albert Einstein
by 6 seconds of hell on Jun 16, 2011 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't believe the U.S. even participated in this event the first two times it happened.
They dominated the non-Japan teams they played last time (77-0 Korea what what). And, yeah, they don’t send the best of the best to this thing. They don’t even send the tenth-best of the tenth-best to this event.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
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"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Oh, no!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 16, 2011 11:01 AM CDT up reply actions
Or what?
You’ll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead—do your worst!
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Jun 16, 2011 11:05 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
NFL better get this lock-out shit resolved quick.
It would seem that representing our Flag would be more important to Stanzi than waiting around for a contract.
/yes, that statement is false, but I didn’t see any Stanzi comments yet.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
A fine photo of Mr. Dingle and his best friend
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story" - KF
by The Bacon Explosion on Jun 16, 2011 10:24 AM CDT reply actions
Linky fail.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Mr. Berry indeed

Running is passing.
Defense is offense.
Ferentz is Chizik.
by hkobb7 on Jun 16, 2011 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
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We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 16, 2011 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
That is glorious
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Jun 16, 2011 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
It took me awhile to get what the hell was so glorious
And then I read the names.
/Blonde
by Captain n Diet Coker on Jun 16, 2011 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Their numbers are even 92 and 93
It’s like someone in a back office of the WVU AD was at a computer assigning number to players and saw these two and said to himself, “YES!”
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Jun 16, 2011 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Go Fightin' Engineers!
So I was browsing the IFAF web site that Ross linked and I noticed that the Rose Hulman Fightin’ Engineers beat the Senior Austrian National Football Team by a score of 35-34.
I found this interesting as I recruit Rose Hulman engineering students for my job (I work for United Technologies Carrier Division). Hell I didn’t even know they had sports there. So now that I am like only 2 hrs away from Rose Hulman College, I am totally a Fightin’ Engineers fan.
Looks like we have a tough schedule this year. Here is a link to the schedule. Take a look and see where the trouble spots are for the Fightin’ Engineers.
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TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jun 16, 2011 10:28 AM CDT reply actions
I don't think Hulman is going to get a lot of cooperation from Defiance College
"but he is a worthless man, otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper" -Antisthenes
I am not sure.
I think that game in Kalamazoo is going to be tough. Kalamazoo College has some serious talent returning and I think they may give our Fightin’ Engineers more than they can handle.
Listen to this, Travis Braun, Kalamazoo College Hornets, place kicker was named the NCAA III statistical leader. Also, the Hornet’s wide receiver, Cory McCain was selected to play for the “Stars and Stripes” team against Mexico.
I really believe this will be the Fightin’ Engineers toughest game not just their toughest road game.
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TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jun 16, 2011 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I'm sure you are right
I was just messing around. I don’t know any of those schools well enough to guess who would be the toughest.
"but he is a worthless man, otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper" -Antisthenes
And Bluffton--you never know what they're holding!
My brother-in-law went to another D2 science/engineering college in Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology, so I guess that makes them MUST?). I was surprised to hear they have athletics as well, but they do, including trigonometry-based cheers for when they actually do something good.
Also, their mascot, Joe Miner, looks like the hillbilly cousin of that fuzzy P*rd** Pete that lasted all of about 3 days, except he has a pickaxe instead of a sledgehammer:

In another drawing, he switches out the pickaxe for a powder keg and detonator though, so I guess that’s kind of badass.
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Jun 16, 2011 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions
That face looks like the last thing you see before your innocence is snatched away
in a Ozark holler
"but he is a worthless man, otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper" -Antisthenes
by Lycurgus on Jun 16, 2011 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I always thought I was glad I grew up in Iowa and not Missouri or Arkansas.
And now I know I am.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 16, 2011 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't either
It was my attempt at sarcastic humor on a slow work day and continuing your humorous post.
Formerly known as SpoWAHawk
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jun 16, 2011 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Above post in reference to Lycurgus post about messing around
Formerly known as SpoWAHawk
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jun 16, 2011 1:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Sorry I missed that. Got confused
"but he is a worthless man, otherwise he wouldn't be so good a piper" -Antisthenes
So
Rose-Hulman leads the nation in undergraduate engineering, science and math education. We offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees, with nearly 100% placement.
Plus they are in Terre-Haute which is only 86 miles down the road from OMHR. Just another reason to like them. Anybody know where I can get a Fightin’ Engineer’s shirt?
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Lehigh used to be the Engineers before they were the Mountain Hawks.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 16, 2011 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions
But they were regular engineers
These guys are FIGHTIN’ engineers.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
The Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers Shop?
by Carfino'sWay on Jun 16, 2011 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't like that.
It should be The Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers Fightin’ Workshop.
"I can't go home until the carp is asleep. Because if I see it...swimming...I'll kill it."
by ReadingRambler on Jun 16, 2011 11:21 AM CDT up reply actions
Sorry, to disappoint.
It was a take off on Iowa Hawk Shop, but thank you for correcting I suppose.
by Carfino'sWay on Jun 16, 2011 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions
That's brillant
They have now become a top 5 team for me to follow by virtue of being the Fightin’ Engineers





















