How Many Games Do You Plan On Attending This Year?
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Fryowa
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I still have to cross Rutgers and MD off the list.
Once my son graduates high school and goes his own direction in life I will probably stop going to every home game and just pick 3 or 4 (we'll keep our tailgate spot). My best friend from childhood is who we get our tickets with, and his kids are roughly the same age as mine. Once we are down to maybe a half season schedule we are going to start travelling to other B1G stadiums. He's only been to 2 other ones and we'd like to go to all 16 (for now) together.
Right now our plan is to go to non-Hawkeye B1G games on those trips. It's easier to take in the experience without a dog in the fight. Don't need to pay such close attention to the actual game.
Chickenlounge
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My guess is I'll attend 5 or so. Depends on who has tickets available. Usually one of my friends has a ticket free since their kids don't always want to go.
Still throwing around the idea of road-tripping out to Columbus for that game, but want to see how we look first. I don't want to go and lose by 30.
Still throwing around the idea of road-tripping out to Columbus for that game, but want to see how we look first. I don't want to go and lose by 30.
MelroseHawkins
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1.25
Which is 1.25 more than when my kid decided to go there.
I've been to exactly one game since I graduated. And I'm old enough to have had a colonoscopy or two, so it's not like I haven't had my chances.
Hard to justify for me travelling as an out-of-stater.
A lot different with a future actuarial scientist studying at Iowa. A lot more inspiration to go.
Which is 1.25 more than when my kid decided to go there.
I've been to exactly one game since I graduated. And I'm old enough to have had a colonoscopy or two, so it's not like I haven't had my chances.
Hard to justify for me travelling as an out-of-stater.
A lot different with a future actuarial scientist studying at Iowa. A lot more inspiration to go.
Fryowa
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Come on man. You live minutes away from Kinnick. Get your ass down to one.
Fryowa
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We could have a damn good team and still get beat by 30. OSU is a whole ‘nother area code.
okeefe4prez
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Where do you live, Moline?
okeefe4prez
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I'm only going to the road game at Illinois. My buddy and I are going to do a road trip to Purdue the next time after this year that they play there. Those are about the only decent road trips from where I live.
Fryowa
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You gonna get back to the 319 at all this winter? I’ll have some open wrestling tickets if you do and your kid wants to go.
Fryowa
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How many do you have? I have a coworker who’s looking for 4 seats to SDSU.
No...I'm a true out of stater. Paying out of state tuition.
STL.
Moved to IA as soon as I could after graduation. Took me a few years. The guy that hired me went on to become a well known sports broadcaster in DSM. Well known for the federal fraud charges leveled at him, and his eventual arrest while panhandling outside the shelter he was living at. But that, as they say, is a whole 'nother story. Easily researchable if not already known. Met my wife there. Had two of three kids born there and came back to the Lou for a family business. I would move back in a heartbeat. My wife, who is from Iowa....would not.
Oddly, 3 kids from my son's high school are freshmen at Iowa this year. Another high school classmate of mine has a son starting (from Chicago). Another local my wife knows from church has a kid starting there. My best man (also from The Lou) has a daughter starting there. From Iowa connections, one of my wife's bridesmaids has a son entering as a freshman, too.
The Avenue of the Saints helps. Shaves up to 1.5 hours off what the drive used to be. But that out of state tuition is brutal. I have to admit, I thought Drake was better suited to my son. He thought it was way too small. I'm happy he's at Iowa.
Fryowa
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Holy schnikies, Marty Tirrell, lol.
1) Could you tell he was a scumbag right when you met him, and
2) Did you ever buy tickets from him? I keed, I keed...
racerhawk
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Sorry. I actually gave those to some friends already.
Fryowa
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No worries at all, just thought I'd check!
Fryowa
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You have my sympathies. There's a damn good chance both teams are undefeated rolling into that one and those things are gonna be spendy.
I knew he was a bit of a jerk when I met him. But, that's not uncommon in radio. I'd met and worked with and for much bigger jerks. He was a hell of a salesman. And for the most part, he was pretty fair and understanding, certainly as radio goes. And a risk taker. He made radio and programming decisions that I thought were stupid, and dumb, and wouldn't work.
And I was wrong. He was right.
From fairly early on, there were times when I was in the studios working on a weekend and people were calling from various events (NCAA tourney in KC, NFL games in Chicago, etc.) of panicked people calling looking for him because there were no tickets in their name at the will-call windows. At the time, though, it seemed to me there were more "successes" than failures on those kind of fronts. Most of that was done under a separate LLC (or something) he was operating. Not entirely ethical, but not entirely unethical either. But it kept us insulated.
It only got squidgy when it seemed there was overlap. And maybe the radio station was used as extra for his outside business. Or the other way around. And it wasn't entirely clear what should or shouldn't be on the books. Again, not entirely uncommon in 'smaller' radio outfits which we were at that point in time.
I'm dying to appear in an American Greed episode with my identity and voice altered (just because it would be fun) to tell the story about the time when I was uncomfortably questioned and accused by a guy who had a cliche nickname (something along the lines of Alfredo "The Three Finger") who was the contact for one of those early off-shore sports betting books that were quasi legal before DraftKings and whatnot. It was an issue over some advertising he expected to still be getting. As far as I knew, the flight had ended. For a brief moment, I'm pretty sure I was being fitted for some cement shoes. He figured out I was just a lackey and became quite friendly to me and he was at some point firmly handed off to Marty.
For the most part, I was only sorta aware of smaller time ticket scams and the mixing of his businesses with radio business, or ripping off the NFL and NFL films. He made a lot of money for the owner at the time. The owner probably lost money until Marty came along. Course, he probably could have made a lot more and saved more if Marty would have just stuck to being a radio exec. I know the NFL deal cost the owner about $10k. That's a lot for the size we were at the time.
He was gone from the station and I left radio not too long after. I wasn't involved in his future endeavors where he took the fraud to much higher levels.
The best part was when I left radio, they had me record a whole bunch of spots and would periodically have me in to fix something and while I was there have me record some more. Usually stuff nobody else wanted to voice. I think I did spots for a topless bar and two different "adult stores". My new employers actually had a meeting as to whether it was OK for one of their customer facing employees to be the 'voice of porn' in DSM. They ultimately decided it didn't matter.
