THIS IS AWESOME
by Adam Jacobi on Sep 6, 2011 4:10 PM CDT
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PrintWe all love the Hawkeyes, and we can all agree that there's nothing more awesome than Hawkeyes.
Nothing, that is, except...
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That's Capt. Justin Sime of the 389th Fighter Squadron. And that's a Hawkeye flag being held up at like 30,000 feet or whatever in his F-15E, over freaking Afghanistan, where Sime is currently deployed. Everything here's on the up-and-up -- they were on autopilot, so there's no safety regulations being flouted.
I actually played football in high school with Sime for a little while, and we weren't great friends or anything like that, but he's still a name I instantly recognized when a buddy of mine -- also a former teammate, and also a captain in the Air Force -- sent me this picture last Saturday.
Needless to say, we think this is the awesomest thing ever, and while we're not sure how international diplomacy works vis a vis flags, we're pretty sure that flying the Hawkeye flag higher than any other in the country meant that for those glorious few seconds that the picture was taken, Afghanistan was actually under the jurisdiction of the University of Iowa athletic department. No word on if Kirk Ferentz took the opportunity to send some player who was dogging it in practice to Kabul.
Either way, we'd like to think it goes without saying, but thanks to one and all who serve our nation here and abroad. We're hoping you all come soon safe and healthy (mentally and physically) as soon as possible. And keep flying those Tigerhawks high and proud -- though if you can't manage "cruising altitude of a fighter jet" high, we won't hold it against you.
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Here's hoping that he can finally take out the menace that is
HOCKEYBEAR.
"I've never seen a supernova, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova it'll light up the night sky." - Philip J. Fry
Awesome
THAT photo wins the INTERNETS today.
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Best thing to happen in a fighter jet since Maverick and Goose were “keeping up international relations”.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Pretty sure this is actually just a picture of Nike's new Pro Go-Bot uniforms for Iowa.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Sep 6, 2011 4:19 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs
First off, stay safe, gentlemen, and thank you for your service
Secondly, AWESOME!
And third, if the country was under Hawkeye jurisdiction, I’m pretty sure the ratio of ground to air assault would probably be close to 50/50. Cause some things never change
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Sep 6, 2011 4:23 PM CDT reply actions 12 recs
Can F-15s
fly in a 4-3 COVER TWO formation?
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Sep 6, 2011 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Feels like single high safety
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 5:22 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
I fear for our ground troops in this scenario
Though maybe an M-1A1 Abrams tank is just what’s needed to take out AIRBHG
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Sep 7, 2011 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
My take: WOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOO!
BARRELL ROLL! PUNCH IT! GO! GO! GO!
The Cyclone Fanatic take: We should boycott the USAF for allowing Iowa crap on their planes. Also, he probably didn’t go to school there and isn’t qualified to be a fan.
Me, again: AWESOME! SUCK IT, AL QAIDA! SUCK IT, HITLER, EVEN THOUGH YOU’VE BEEN DEAD ALMOST 70 YEARS!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 4:33 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
That is now my wallpaper. Tiled.
Thanks… and thanks for your service guys.
"u r awesome" ~ my daughter
F-15 Eagle Weapon Loads
1 – M-61A1 20mm multibarrel internal gun, 512 rounds of ammunition
4 – AIM-9L/M Sidewinder on the underwing stations
4 – AIM-7F/M Sparrow missiles conformal fuel tank
8 – AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles
Yea, it’s armed alright.
I swear the "robbed a place" was actually not ment as a smart ass remark. I just forgot that he actually robbed a place for a second. ~ justsomehawkeyefan
by Kluginator on Sep 6, 2011 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
That could certainly rain shit on someone's day in a big way.
"u r awesome" ~ my daughter
by The Bird Cult on Sep 6, 2011 6:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Question to aircraft-loving-nerds:
(I’m one of them),
Are the big gray things under the wings, missiles or fuel tanks? My cousin asked me that the other day when we saw them on TV, and I said I thought they were missiles. He thought they were fuel tanks.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Sep 6, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Fuel tanks. They can be released (dropped) when there is a need for speed.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Thanks.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Sep 6, 2011 10:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Lake the Posts can kiss our cornfed asses.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Sep 6, 2011 5:17 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs
You're everyone's problem, Hawkeyes. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
I put that movie on anytime i want to get some ass
It is full proof and the only guarantee in life!
You'll figure out what to do, for god's sake your The Boat! - JD Scrubs
by smokinthereiff on Sep 6, 2011 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions
to like, get pumped up to go out....
to remember the words to I got that loving feeling, or when you bring a girl to your home?
Only one of those is acceptable. And it’s not either of the two you think.
meh
Panties. Dropped.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Sep 6, 2011 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Lotta sweaty naked dudez up in here
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 7:43 PM CDT up reply actions
So...we stole Afghanistan with the cunning use of a flag?
YEAH BUDDAY!
by With Ferentz Like These... on Sep 6, 2011 5:51 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
Saw Izzard live in Chicago a few years back during his last tour, but hadn't heard much about him since.
Well, aside from running marathons. Turns out, according to his taping on the The Green Room with Paul Provenza, that he plans to enter the political game. Seemed an odd choice for a transvestite stand-up. I guess we’ll see how that shakes out.
by The Mexican't on Sep 6, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
The exact thing I thought of.
No flag, no country, Afghanistan. Kabul-Hawkeye Arena has a nice ring to it.
I can ride my bike with no handlebars...
I know a guy who went to Iowa State who drives a garbage truck when his uncle lets him.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
by jebushchrist on Sep 6, 2011 6:06 PM CDT reply actions 11 recs
the irony is that ROTC at Iowa State
is huge compared to Iowa’s
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Too bad this is the "jets" they use
Oh, and it’s a little difficult to grasp the “scale” of this particular “fighter jet” but that’s not a gigantic cement wall and forest next to it, that’s a curb…….and a weed.
Skol!
by DM_Purp on Sep 8, 2011 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Speaking of awesome
I saw this in the Templeton Rye newsletter, their offer of a new Cy-Hawk trophy
Oh, sure, the universities aren’t going to want a bottle of booze as a trophy. Fine. Haters gonna hate and all that. But personally, I could live with it. At least it has a football theme
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Sep 6, 2011 7:12 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs
Never has a trophy looked so delicious.
/rec’d
"I've never seen a supernova, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova it'll light up the night sky." - Philip J. Fry
true or not, worth a rec
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 7:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Did they take it to Antiques Road Show? (I kid. That's actually awesome.)
And it represents Iowa.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 6, 2011 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions
I got this too
I love the arms on the bottle, so much.
Hey Dolph, you look like I need a beer.
by Give Eddie a Beer on Sep 6, 2011 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions
This makes me want to win a football game
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story" - KF
by The Bacon Explosion on Sep 7, 2011 8:37 AM CDT up reply actions
If anyone in the IC area is looking for Templeton Rye
I found a place that has a few bottles in stock and isn’t gouging for them, and doesn’t have a year-long waitlist. I think they have 3-4 bottles left?
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
I think it has become much more plentiful lately.
They even have it at a gas station in Waterloo (some gas stations are now liquor stores masquerading as gas stations).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Sep 7, 2011 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Pictures of Iowa's next head coach
"I hope we're not looking past Alabama to Temple the next Saturday." - Jack Ham
That's a handsome mustache.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Sep 6, 2011 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice Calvin and Hobbes reference.
I miss that strip.
by ISleepwithaBuckeye on Sep 6, 2011 8:25 PM CDT reply actions
/pours a beer out for Calvin and Hobbes.
by EnergizerHawk on Sep 6, 2011 11:39 PM CDT up reply actions
That's the official ending to a game of Calvinball, right?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Sep 7, 2011 2:28 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Probably not something anyone cares about,
but that particular fighter is from Mountain Home AFB in Idaho.
Watching the Cubs piss it away for 31 years.
I think the ones that did the "too low" Kinnick flyover were also from there.
Or, if not, I know Kinnick has had a flyover in the last 5 years or so with aircraft from Idaho.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Sep 6, 2011 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions
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[F]or those glorious few seconds that the picture was taken, Afghanistan was actually under the jurisdiction of the University of Iowa athletic department.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Sep 6, 2011 8:56 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
What a strange, beautiful, terrible vision that is.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"George Teague doesn't give a shit what down it is. He gets the ball, or he dies." ~ Spencer Hall
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 6, 2011 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I think he means
“Mediacom Province of Hyveeland was actually under the jurisdiction of the University of Iowa athletic department.”
Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun.
by KilometersDavis on Sep 6, 2011 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
"The Taliban has entered the Case-IH Killzone!"
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Sep 7, 2011 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Let's just hope AIRBHG doesn't take out the landing gear.
Seriously, amazing pic, amazing gesture, amazing people. Regardless of your thoughts on American military engagements worldwide, you can’t help but feel proud of our men and women who choose to serve.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Sep 7, 2011 2:30 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
Speaking of the military and Hawk fans...
Does anyone have a high-res picture of Captain America Herky from last year’s MSU game? A pilot in the Iowa Air National Guard asked me for help in tracking one down.
Any help y’all could provide would be much appreciated. Thanks!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Usually HawkCentral is a great resource for high-res photos.
But these are the only photos I could find of Captain America Herky, and they’re probably not large enough.
Didn’t someone throw a fit for not getting credit for their photo last year? Maybe that person has the original high-res image.
by The Mexican't on Sep 7, 2011 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions
Found the original post.
HMBPhoto took this photo which is probably the best of the bunch.
by The Mexican't on Sep 7, 2011 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions
I wouldn't call it throwing a fit; he rightly wanted credit for a very nice picture. I'm happy to do that.
And, yeah, I reached out to him and he was looking into it. I was just wondering if anyone else could hook me up.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I didn't recall just how vicious the comment was.
After looking back, “throwing a fit” probably was a bit harsh.
by The Mexican't on Sep 7, 2011 11:07 AM CDT up reply actions
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