Hero Complex: Big Ten Adds Pretentious, Douchey Vibe To Iowa-Nebraska Rivalry

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Ronald McDonald is down I-80 from us.

I’d rather we have a bad ass trophy. Although we are all overlooking one huge part of rivalries. Not all trophies are a trophy. The Slab of Bacon, The Old Wooden Bucket, The Keg of Nails, Paul Bunyan’s Axe, that frying pan thing, shit there are a lot of trophy games that are for coveted items.

Quick, we need ideas:
I’ll start it off with “The Battle for The Battle for Ryan Loftin’s Playbook”

but BHGP without sarcasm or humorous anger just wouldn’t be BHGP, IMO.

I’m sure there are plenty of D-Bags on twitter, but I think it is a little less self-important than Facebook. Personally, I use twitter to post interesting links that I find, as much or more than I do to make comments about myself or my thoughts or what I’m doing…

I’m willing to admit that I don’t have enough creativity to be in sports marketing. But, I fear that the people who actually have those jobs right now (at least, with the teams I care about) also don’t really have enough creativity to be in sports marketing. And yet, they are. The ideas don’t have to be mine/ours, but I’d also like them not to be too self-important, anti-septic, or overjoyous.

And so, while I disagree with you about this Heroes Game thing, you definitely deserve the right to voice your support of it. It is nice to have some balance around here.

Respectfully yours,

WChazz

Finally, all that effort cultivating my pretentious douchiness has paid off.

and it completely makes sense. It’s almost like they’re trying to make a huge joke about it and are saving all the good names for when they’ve finalized their expansion.

I’d be happy if, after the final Big12-pacolypse, we snag Kansas, Mizzou, and the Oklahoma schools.

But, even if we get to 14 or 16 teams, I still want to call it the Big Ten. I know “Big Ten” hasn’t always been the name of this conference, but it has been for my lifetime, (I’m 30), and it brings a sense of pride when I hear it.

something a bit different

You can just hear it, can’t you?

But I will be pissed if I have to listen to Enrique.

It really isn’t that bad of a song, just absurd for a theme song.

And, no, we didn’t play Nebraska every year. We played them from 1980 to 1983.

Penn State got screwed over in ‘68, ’69 (Joe: “I want to know how Nixon knew so much about football in 1969 and so little about Watergate in 1973”), and ’73 for two reasons: a media bias against “Eastern football” and somewhat weak schedules. Around the late ’70s, Paterno, who made the schedules at that time, decided to alleviate the issue by making an effort to prove Penn State’s quality during the regular season. Hence Alabama, hence ND and Nebraska, hence Miami in 1981, hence the two-game series with Iowa in the mid ‘80s, hence two or three games with Texas. There were quite a few other games against fairly decent opponents, but I won’t list them all.

As for the Eastern schools, Pitt was very, very good from 1975 to 1983. That’s it; WPIAL prep football was already in decline by the early ’80s as Pittsburgh was losing population. Syracuse had two good years in ’87 and ’88 (The only years they beat Joe), and sucked every other year. Maryland had a few good years with Boomer and Stan Gelbaugh but they never beat Paterno. Still, they got to tear down the goalposts when the Terps managed to tie PSU in ’89. WVU was terrible before Nehlen and with him they could only beat Paterno in ’84 and ’88.

I know they show something farm-related once or twice a game in the first 2/3 of the football season, but I haven’t been overly-annoyed with ESPN/ABC coverage in Iowa because of it.

I haven’t watched enough coverage of Nebraska football to make a statement about it.

Finally, while small-to-medium-sized family farms seem to be going the way of the dodo, it is difficult to think of too many other things that Iowa should be known for. During a football game, they already run a commercial or two about UI and its campus, so what else are they going to point to? It doesn’t make a ton of sense for much mentioning for Des Moines in a Hawkeye game.

One thing that might be awesome to see would be more aerial shots of Kinnick during the game. I know this may be a bit limited because of the hospital’s helicopter clearance, and maybe even the relative proximity of Kinnick to the IC airport (about 2 miles). Personally, I think people would be impressed to see the stadium jam-packed and rocking, especially for a night game.