Away Games

GrandpaHawk

GrandpaHawk

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Our computer crashed so I wasn't able to ask until now.The Arizona game was our first away game experience.We were wondering if this is the norm for all away games and if so I guess we won't be going to any in the future.You expect some abuse but I couldn't believe how some acted.Some of our fans didn't help any by getting into verbal exchanges with them.On there jumbotron they had closed caption on every play and they misspelled our players names on purpose,like Sandy instead of Stanzi and changed the score to 44 pts for them all of the time.Just thought it was classless.I was told that they hardly ever sell out there stadium and now I see why.I sure hope our students don't act like that.
 


This was our first "true" away game as well. I don't count Ames since half the tailgate population over there is Iowa fans. My neighbor goes to all away and bowl games and he said that nothing he has experienced in other stadiums equals the douchebaggery seen down in Tucson.
 


The fans were bad, the Arizona AD even wrote an open letter to their fans asking them to show some more class. So you do have a beef there, but it shouldn't be the norm for away games.

The closed captioning, as far as I can tell, was computer-generated from the audio. So Stanzi was listed as both Sandy and Stan I. The 44 pts thing was a bug. It seemed to happen the very moment the quarter ended.
 


ICHawk24 said:
The fans were bad, the Arizona AD even wrote an open letter to their fans asking them to show some more class. So you do have a beef there, but it shouldn't be the norm for away games.

The closed captioning, as far as I can tell, was computer-generated from the audio. So Stanzi was listed as both Sandy and Stan I. The 44 pts thing was a bug. It seemed to happen the very moment the quarter ended.
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It wasn't a bug. It was the score of the ASU/Iowa game in 2004.
 


I would agree I have attended every Iowa game home and away since I graduated UofI in 94 and lots of tough crowds best way to deal with them is not acknowledge fans. What I did not like at AZ was what the school was doing with score and names fans I understand, but for university to take part not good, but from fans was really not that different from other schools for sure and Iowa fans I have seen as well.
 


What got me the most about the now-infamous clip of AZ fans acting like animals in the stands and getting physical with Iowa fans was that it was before the game even started. The clip concludes with Iowa running out of the tunnel to begin the game. I've had some bad treatment at other stadiums (Illinois was pretty bad) but never before the game even starts. That sort of thing usually gets going after a few quarters or at least after a few big plays and hard hits. Their behavior was way over the line.
 


Thanks for the replies.It's been a bad week all around.Airline told my wife she didn't have a seat coming home from Chicago,she lost her drivers license in O'Hare,our computer got hit by lightening,our washer started leaking(need a new one) and our Hawks got beat.Gave up 21pts and no first downs,unreal.
 


A few of my experiences at other away games:

@Michigan = good fans
@Wisconsin = can range from horrible to tolerable depending on where you are in an around the stadium.
@ Penn State = tolerable but had a run-in with some PSU students in the parking lot.
@ OSU = my father had his vehicle vandalized while they were in the stadium (side mirror broken off)
 


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