Dan Gable Statue to be Erected at Carver Hawkeye Arena
by Patrick Vint on Jun 6, 2011 9:00 AM CDT
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PrintIn a long-overdue move, the University of Iowa has announced plans to erect a seven-foot statue of Dan Gable outside the main entrance of Carver Hawkeye Arena. The University has commissioned Larry Nowlan, who sculpted the Nile Kinnick statue now located outside the football stadium, to create the Gable statue. Nowlan has been told to commemorate one of Gable's finest moments at Iowa, and we think he's delivered.
For those who have forgotten, that is a shot of Dan Gable administering the Sub Zero MK1 fatality on then-Iowa State head coach Cael Sanderson during the Hawkeyes' 2007 dual meet victory. Sanderson was so traumatized by the experience that he had to leave the state, head quite literally in hand. BHGP contacted Gable by telephone for reaction; there was an answer, but the only audible noise on the end of the line was a dying grizzly bear.
(Original photo here; photoshoppers can get to work)
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I will give Cael this: even in mid-decapitation, he retains a stoic expression.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
He's so determined.
/swoon
"Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field."
by ReadingRambler on Jun 6, 2011 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions
I love this move by the university
Gable instilled a culture at Iowa and absolutely epitomized everything that Iowa wrestling is about. Add in his 19(?) National Championships and 9 in a row and Gable absolutely deserves this.
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
Long overdue.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 9:12 AM CDT up reply actions
You're sure gonna need a lot of bronze.
(I welcome any excuse to post this picture. And I still don’t believe anything except that right after the picture was taken Gable incapacitated the other three, including Brands and the ref, just because he could.)
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Jun 6, 2011 9:07 AM CDT reply actions
The other four.
Math is hard.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Jun 6, 2011 9:10 AM CDT up reply actions
I was told there would be no math!
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Jun 6, 2011 9:33 AM CDT up reply actions
The only thing he has not been successful at
but I don’t see him giving up. It just isn’t who he is.
by Carfino'sWay on Jun 6, 2011 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
If Gable says pleated pants are what winners wear, I’m not going to be the one to argue with him.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Jun 6, 2011 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions
yep.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions
I bet he would respect you if you challenged him for the right to wear flat front pants.
Even when you lose it will make you stronger.
by Carfino'sWay on Jun 6, 2011 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh, good!
My husband is in style again. (He refuses to wear flat front pants on the grounds that they are too constricting.)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Well...
If the shoe fits…
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 7:34 PM CDT up reply actions
I agree with the ridiculousness of the argument.
Removing pleats does not make pants constricting. Purchasing pants that don’t fit, however, does. Pleated pants are awful.
by The Mexican't on Jun 6, 2011 7:17 PM CDT up reply actions
If I recall correctly HG's husband is a 6'7" mountain of a man
He can wear whatever he wants and I’ll say nothing.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Ok, now that's hilarious to me
Because I was dating the 6’7" hulk of a man when I met my 6’1" & slightly-built husband-to-be.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 7:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Crap, was that one of the other women on here?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 7:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Now that you say that
I think maybe HawkeyegirlSTL? I think she has a new handle these days. Confusion understandable given the similarity in our names.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 11:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Now I'm also really interested in if it was the same guy
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 7, 2011 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Also ridiculous because he wears non-pleated jeans just fine
I have learned to pick my fashion battles. He has an identical twin & I can always rest easy knowing I married the more fashion conscious of the two.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 7:34 PM CDT up reply actions
So the twin wears pleated jeans?
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Jun 6, 2011 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Thankfully, no
But the ones he does buy are several sizes too big & tightly cinched with a belt. Comfort is of even greater importance to him (tho I don’t really see how that would be comfortable).
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Jun 6, 2011 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh,
they’re comfortable alright.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 7, 2011 8:20 AM CDT up reply actions
The white Sinbad!
"Pockets full of weed, chewing tobacco, wrapping papers and dental dams"
--HFMR Running the Beermile (tfj @ HawkeyeRecon)
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 7, 2011 8:38 AM CDT up reply actions
He has to wear them.
Cauliflower junk.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Jun 6, 2011 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow. Just...
wow.
/shudders
"Pockets full of weed, chewing tobacco, wrapping papers and dental dams"
--HFMR Running the Beermile (tfj @ HawkeyeRecon)
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 7, 2011 8:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Twas a wrestling meet between Iowa and ISU.
Gable was Brands’s assistant coach. Things got heated, and coaches started yelling at the ref and at each other. Gable gave the ISU guys an arm gesture that was a bit like flipping them the bird (though he didn’t actually give them the middle finger). Before you know it, the coaches are wandering out onto the mat as if a fight would start. No real fight occurred.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions
C'mon...
There’s an obvious inspiration here…
@jschnauzer
Bloggin' at http://joepasdoghouse.com
by Cairo on Jun 6, 2011 9:15 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I dream of the day Joe and Gable meet.
"Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field."
by ReadingRambler on Jun 6, 2011 9:38 AM CDT up reply actions
How do you make liver-spots in bronze?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions
My immediate thought upon seeing that . . . .
Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun.
by KilometersDavis on Jun 6, 2011 7:45 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
Notice that he's *winning*.
"Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field."
by ReadingRambler on Jun 6, 2011 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Like Dale Earnhardt Jr., he will run out of gas on the last lap.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
this fits in so many ways
I want it on the front page.
He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!
by SaturdayMorningKegStanzis on Jun 6, 2011 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
He enrolled the Dinosaur Racers in a re-imagination of that magical musical
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
"Pockets full of weed, chewing tobacco, wrapping papers and dental dams"
--HFMR Running the Beermile (tfj @ HawkeyeRecon)
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 7, 2011 8:40 AM CDT up reply actions
If you haven't ever read Randy Lewis' "The House of Seven Gables", you should
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
by Lycurgus on Jun 6, 2011 9:20 AM CDT reply actions 5 recs
Great article. Rec'd
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 9:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Thanks.
A great read like that is better than coffee on a Monday morning.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Jun 6, 2011 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions
That picture of Cael looks like Robocop's face
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm starting to realize that the face doesn't look much like Gable.
Of course, I have no sculpting ability, so perhaps I shouldn’t criticize.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions
I know it doesn't have to do with his time at Iowa
but I really think someone should make a statue of him on the medal stand at Munich. He just looked like a giant killer up there.
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Profiles in manliness
"Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field."
by ReadingRambler on Jun 6, 2011 9:55 AM CDT up reply actions 9 recs
That was a fast greenening. Well deserved, too.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 10:01 AM CDT up reply actions
rec'd patriotically.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions
One of my great-uncles was on that shore, somewhere
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Jun 6, 2011 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Is this him carrying a sword and bagpipes on D-Day instead of a gun and ammo?
I don’t care if I’ve posted the pic before, Jack Churchill and Dan Gable sound like brothers in manliness.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Nope...
Not that I’m aware of anyway.
Talk about a day when I always feel in adequate.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Jun 6, 2011 11:33 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
As Rambler has shown
Gable’s gold-medal picture really is the image that should be used for a statue. Iowa related or not, it’s quintessential Gable.
by The Mexican't on Jun 6, 2011 10:23 AM CDT up reply actions
I was trying to find a better pic of him as a coach,
but they probably all involve him slapping guys around, so…
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
The best one of him as a coach, in my opinion, is from the 1997 championships (as I said below)
To come in an underdog that year and set the scoring record was superhuman. He was emotional after Whitmer’s win.
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Yes.
It is just a bit difficult to find very many photos on a google image search for that. I see one where a another guy is hugging him from the side, and not many other ones.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions
There is one in which he standing with his black crutches in the air
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Mouth open is usually a bad idea in statues.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions
Good point.
I think they made the sculpture from this pic:
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 10:08 AM CDT up reply actions
It appears so.
But why’d they get rid of the 80s-style eyeglasses?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 6, 2011 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions
I do like Barry Davis doing his Austin Powers impression though
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Barry Davis looks way too static in that picture.
In my mind, Barry Davis is always a hyperactive ball of energy on the verge of a major breakdown. (But in a good way, usually.)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
He also looks like he should be in a British pop band from the early 60s.
Nice dickey, Bar.
by Carfino'sWay on Jun 6, 2011 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions
My favorite Barry expression is an imagined one – when Gable hunted him down and found him with the donuts before Big Tens (not B1G – fuck that) his freshman year. Linky:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125326/index.htm
He's demonstrating a move...
fireman’s carry, rip off testes, pull out entrails
works every time
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Jun 6, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Speaking of Sub Zero...
anyone seen these Mortal Kombat Legacy vids? Make with the click. They are fantastic.
I really think him on crutches at the 1997 championships was amazing.
I would love to see that as a statue too.
Der Hoelle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Are you serious that is what the statue will look like???
The statue brings to mind a cranky old man chasing kids off his yard or this guy….
"Make it tasteful, but dongier" - Blackheartnopants
If I could photoshop...
That painting of Washington crossing the Delaware River on his way to Trenton to kick the Kaiser out of some kraut mercs – I can imagine Gable in the bow of the boat.
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Jun 6, 2011 12:59 PM CDT reply actions
So after he won the gold
he came home and wore it out to some bar. A female at the bar asked if she could wear it for awhile, and he let her. He kept seeing in travel around the bar on different people all night. The reporter to whom he was telling the story asked if he was worried that somebody would steal it. his reply:
“Nobody was that stupid.”
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Jun 6, 2011 1:49 PM CDT reply actions 8 recs
That is the greatest story ever
I am not even joking at all
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Jun 6, 2011 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Looking forward to seeing the Gable statue!!!
Not sure why they are showing us one of Ernie Harwell singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in Detroit.
EH
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 6, 2011 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Perfect
That looks as much like Dan Gable as the supposed Gable one does.
by H I McDonnough on Jun 6, 2011 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions
The real Master Chief?
"I share with you an innate desire to be of public service to this country. It is the lot of our generation to serve as military men first, and then, with an idealism undaunted to enlist with as much zeal to form a lasting peace. All will come right, our cause is just and righteous. This country will not lose." - Nile Kinnick
by KOKers_Fury on Jun 7, 2011 12:36 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
I have no idea what this means but it gets a rec
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jun 7, 2011 12:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Reposted cuz the other one is erroring out
It’s an Epic Scene from when Master Chief (Gable) and the Yellow team defeated the Evil Red Team that Sanderson was on, even though he switched over to the blue team later on…
"I share with you an innate desire to be of public service to this country. It is the lot of our generation to serve as military men first, and then, with an idealism undaunted to enlist with as much zeal to form a lasting peace. All will come right, our cause is just and righteous. This country will not lose." - Nile Kinnick
Last try or I give up..... Im new to posting a picture
"I share with you an innate desire to be of public service to this country. It is the lot of our generation to serve as military men first, and then, with an idealism undaunted to enlist with as much zeal to form a lasting peace. All will come right, our cause is just and righteous. This country will not lose." - Nile Kinnick
by KOKers_Fury on Jun 7, 2011 2:51 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
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