If you could watch a great Iowa win again for the 1st time???

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I was 10. I was at home with my brother and sister watching it on TV. The house I grew up in was about 2.5 miles from Kinnick. I was too nervous to watch the kick so I went out on our front porch, heard a huge roar in the direction of Kinnick and knew the kick was good.
 
Didn't hesitate... I still remember Houghtlin's field goal ( Michigan) and Long's bootleg like it happened yesterday.
 
Gotta go with 87 at OSU. We had gone in there ranked 1 in 85 and predictably lost. We hadn't won in C-bus bince 1959. Hayden won twice there, IIRC and Kurt has never won there. Plus, the way we won it was just a thing of beauty, not with some field goal, but with a TD pass to Cook on the last offensive play of the game as time was winding down. We have actually gotten lucky and beaten Michigan a few times, but the rarity with which we have beaten OSU has been startling.

Zabel's call of it is a thing of beauty:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7M85CGjegs]Zabel calls Marv Cook TD against Ohio State. - YouTube[/ame]

Ed Podolak is hugging and kissing me.
 
To clarify my above post, my father didn't die, however he moved to Omaha about 10 years ago and after roughly 2 or 3 years of living there, he converted to a full fledged Husker fan. I saw him this past weekend and after exchanging pleasantries, the first thing he asked is if I could get him several Nebraska-Northwestern tickets.
 
okeefe4prez said:
To clarify my above post, my father didn't die, however he moved to Omaha about 10 years ago and after roughly 2 or 3 years of living there, he converted to a full fledged Husker fan. I saw him this past weekend and after exchanging pleasantries, the first thing he asked is if I could get him several Nebraska-Northwestern tickets.
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May God have mercy on his soul.
 
FalseMirage said:
May God have mercy on his soul.
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In 2004, he came to visit me in Iowa City. We were going to go to the OSU game. An hour before game time, he started to get antsy and asked for the keys to my apartment because he wanted to "run back to take a crap." We set up a time and place to meet just in case our cell phones weren't working and we were going to have him come sit in the student section with us. He doesn't show and of course I can't get a signal on my cell phone. After the game ends and I sat in the stands admiring the scoreboard until they turned it off, I strolled back to my apartment and asked him where the hell he was. He says "I wanted to catch the Nebraska game so I decided to bail on the Iowa game." We didn't speak again until Christmas of 2005. I can't say I blame him wanting to back a team with a winning tradition, but for heaven's sake, you don't just bail on someone like that.
 
okeefe4prez said:
In 2004, he came to visit me in Iowa City. We were going to go to the OSU game. An hour before game time, he started to get antsy and asked for the keys to my apartment because he wanted to "run back to take a crap." We set up a time and place to meet just in case our cell phones weren't working and we were going to have him come sit in the student section with us. He doesn't show and of course I can't get a signal on my cell phone. After the game ends and I sat in the stands admiring the scoreboard until they turned it off, I strolled back to my apartment and asked him where the hell he was. He says "I wanted to catch the Nebraska game so I decided to bail on the Iowa game." We didn't speak again until Christmas of 2005. I can't say I blame him wanting to back a team with a winning tradition, but for heaven's sake, you don't just bail on someone like that.
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Great stories. I listened to the Ohio State 1987 game with my Dad as well. After Iowa scored on the 4th and 27, I fell out of the kitchen chair and was rolling around on the floor, screaming. He was laughing so hard he almost passed out. That was an incredible play and Zabel's uncontrolled joy made it very special.

I don't think you can beat the Iowa win at Ann Arbor in 1981, however. The game wasn't on TV so we went to the Five Seasons Center in CR to watch it on closed circuit. There were bout 5,000 lunatic Iowa fans there to watch. There was no sound at all - just the images of the game. The idiots doing the game would never show the scoreboard so we never knew how much time was left in the game. All I remember was it got later and later with Iowa holding a precarious 2 point lead - Iowa punted and michigan took over on their own 20. Then the TV camera finally flashed the old Michigan scoreboard and it read "4th Quarter" with 2:34 to play. The auditorium let out a huge roar because the fans for the first time realized that Iowa really could win the game. Iowa held and I never saw such jubilation in my life. You have to understand -

Iowa was the worst program in the country for 22 years before this win over Michigan. THE WORST. This win really put Iowa on the map and put us in legitimate Rose Bowl contention, since Michigan was the pre-season Number 1. It was really a stunning, unexpected upset.
 
ChosenChildren said:
Great stories. I listened to the Ohio State 1987 game with my Dad as well. After Iowa scored on the 4th and 27, I fell out of the kitchen chair and was rolling around on the floor, screaming. He was laughing so hard he almost passed out. That was an incredible play and Zabel's uncontrolled joy made it very special.

I don't think you can beat the Iowa win at Ann Arbor in 1981, however. The game wasn't on TV so we went to the Five Seasons Center in CR to watch it on closed circuit. There were bout 5,000 lunatic Iowa fans there to watch. There was no sound at all - just the images of the game. The idiots doing the game would never show the scoreboard so we never knew how much time was left in the game. All I remember was it got later and later with Iowa holding a precarious 2 point lead - Iowa punted and michigan took over on their own 20. Then the TV camera finally flashed the old Michigan scoreboard and it read "4th Quarter" with 2:34 to play. The auditorium let out a huge roar because the fans for the first time realized that Iowa really could win the game. Iowa held and I never saw such jubilation in my life. You have to understand -

Iowa was the worst program in the country for 22 years before this win over Michigan. THE WORST. This win really put Iowa on the map and put us in legitimate Rose Bowl contention, since Michigan was the pre-season Number 1. It was really a stunning, unexpected upset.
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Great story - I'm too young to remember that one. Thanks for sharing.
 
Tough to beat Iowa-Michgan '85 for drama and intensity. (not to mention the National implications).

The Steve Waite drive to the basket that sent Iowa to the 1980 Final Four was great as well. I'll admit to being a student at that time, and when that shot went in, the campus exploded. The aftermath was something special... a few thousand students rushed to the Pentacrest, took to the steps of the Old Capitol and spent the next hour or so cheering, singing the IOWA fight song and also saluting the Wrestler's National Title. "College" at its finest.
 
Like many of you, my family listened to this one together in the basement of our West Branch home. How it ended, with a pass to Marv Cook who was 5 years older than me and a bit of an idol in West Branch, was all the more sweet...I recall running sideways on the wall for a bit..or at least the memory through the eyes of a childs mind remembers me running sideways on the wall. We even spilled outside into the streets (my brother and I) after that.
 
hoffahawk said:
1 vs 2.

I was 10. I was at home with my brother and sister watching it on TV. The house I grew up in was about 2.5 miles from Kinnick. I was too nervous to watch the kick so I went out on our front porch, heard a huge roar in the direction of Kinnick and knew the kick was good.
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Cool story, Brah.

It really is a cool story. :)
 
hawkdrummer1 said:
Tough to beat Iowa-Michgan '85 for drama and intensity. (not to mention the National implications).

The Steve Waite drive to the basket that sent Iowa to the 1980 Final Four was great as well. I'll admit to being a student at that time, and when that shot went in, the campus exploded. The aftermath was something special... a few thousand students rushed to the Pentacrest, took to the steps of the Old Capitol and spent the next hour or so cheering, singing the IOWA fight song and also saluting the Wrestler's National Title. "College" at its finest.
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Those are the two games I voted for.
 
BergHawk7 said:
I wasnt alive for any of these, cmon jon
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I was thinking about this as I put the three decade thought together..I don't want to always see certain era's out of balance because of the demo of the site is 18 to 35 heavy, at least half.

I was also thinking back that when I was 25, which was 1996, it would have been the equivalent of a site publisher posting polls to events that took place between 1966-1976 or so. that was a yo moment.
 
John Miller: "....I was also thinking back that when I was 25, which was 1996, it would have been the equivalent of a site publisher posting polls to events that took place between 1966-1976 or so. that was a yo moment."

I was talking to my cousin this weekend about great 80s movies. We mentioned Back to The Future. He said, do you realize that if they made that movie this year, the year they would go "back" to would be 1982. 30 years between 1985 and 1955. 2012 to 1982. That was a yo moment.
 
JonDMiller said:
Funny thing about 87 OSU is most people still haven't seen it/ I dont think it was on live TV
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Almost sure the game was live in the Des MOines area. I remember watching and listening to zabel at the same time. unbelievable play and especially great now to know that cook steamrolled bo pelini at the goal line.
 
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