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

[uihawk82]

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.

Your dad bailed on you with a live game at kinnick over a fusker game. Wow, really bad.

 

[BergHawk7]

Even though I wasnt born till 6 yrs later, id want to see the 85 game against #2 michigan. If I could go back in time to see a hawk game id choose that one, and id want to see it at kinnick. the atmouspher I bet was unbelievable and uncomparable to anyother iowa game.

 

[uihawk82]

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 -

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I was at the Rec Center with about 5,000 fans watching the same 1981 game. Pitch dark with big screen image, we did get some sound and I remember ron hallstrom several times on sweep plays just pancake a couple mich players on each play. The hawks defense was amazing and luckily a bizarre holding call against an iowa wide receiver didnt come back to hurt. Iowa had a sweep for a TD and this bozo official calls the receiver for holding clear on the other side of the field.

 

[LG210]

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.

Yo.

 

[latrans]

I remember listening to it on the radio with my old man. I lost him about 7 years ago so it holds a special place in my heart.

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.

LOL I was actually worried for a minute that you had a soul of some sort. Faith in the order of the universe restored. Carry on.

 

[FalseMirage]

I remember listening to the 81 game on the radio with my great-uncle. In some ways it seems like only yesterday, in other ways it seems like several lifetimes ago.

 

[mtnhwk]

I went with the 1980 win against Georgetown as I was a freshman in Burge watching the game with about 10 others in a dorm room. When Steve Waite hit those free throws to win all hell broke loose and the celebration spilled out onto the streets. It was an amazing time to be at Iowa.
Also, the win over MSU to put us in the Rose Bowl was a game I attended. As OSU beat MI to help us secure the Rose Bowl trip, you could literally hear the word spread around the entire stadium as people listening to their transistor radios (no Iphones) reported the news. The only time I've "rushed" the field after a victory! Sweet memories.

 

[hogeye]

I remember those days...up hill both directions to and from Kinnick in 3 feet of snow.

 

[hoffahawk]

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.

Wow that is scary.

 

[HawkPrdatr40]

I like the poll but find the selections all to familiar.. If I could watch a great Iowa win for the 1st time.

I would choose:


1. Rose Bowl Victory in 1958 against California won 38-12. Do people forget we do have a National Championship in College Football.

Next game I would choose is 1939 Notre Dame game in Iowa City we won 7-6, Nile Kinnick second to last game he played.

 

[JonDMiller]

I like the poll but find the selections all to familiar.. If I could watch a great Iowa win for the 1st time.


Next game I would choose is 1939 Notre Dame game in Iowa City we won 7-6, Nile Kinnick second to last game he played.

I am pretty sure the demo for that game is just about...dead

 

[DuffMan]

prolly that stellar performance agianst directional arkansas a few years back.

 

[Doublewide]

The greatest Iowa game I have ever witnessed was the 2002 game when Iowa played ISU. It was a thing of beauty to be in the student section that night.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

When I was a twenty something I tended to think anything that happened before I was born in 1963, was like ancient history. Well, not quit ancient. I kind of thought of the era of my parents, post WWI up to the early 60’s as the black & white era. That stuff was good for history books, but lets get real, I didn’t want to watch or participate in any of that old foggy stuff.

I wonder if a current twenty something college student feels the same way about anything that happened before 1990 or so. How much of it is a youth thing, and how much is the times we live in. Growing up I found the world of the 40’s and 50’s so dramatically different than the 1970’s and early 80’s, that they seemed far more than just a generation apart. Maybe it was just me, but I didn’t think things changed so dramatically in the 80’s and 90’s as they had before. It just seemed a big box version of what we had before, 30% more in the box for the same price, whether you were talking about the house you lived in or stuff you put in it. The era before had loads of new ideas, the 80’s and 90’s were more about marketable ideas. The personal computer & Internet revolutions were a big jolt though.

I just wonder if kids now feel like stuff from the 1980’s is as remote as I felt at the same age about my parents world. Of course my parents were in their 40’s when I was born so that probably makes a difference. I feel connected to the world of the 1960’s when my older siblings grew up, although sometimes I feel the media does total overkill on everything 1960’s.

Than again, for another perspective they'll still be flying B-52 Stratofortresses long after the same name band members are all dead.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Sorry, I was thinking out loud abut the kid who wasn't alive for all those 80's games. I think I'll go stock up on Depends. That part of life is right around the corner, you know.

 

[ChosenChildren]

There are actually pretty good color highlights of the Iowa 7 Notre Dame 6 game in 1939 (they are on a Notre Dame film). Notre Dame wore green jerseys in the second half. Amazing footage

 

[StatelineHawk]

I went with the 1980 win against Georgetown as I was a freshman in Burge watching the game with about 10 others in a dorm room. When Steve Waite hit those free throws to win all hell broke loose and the celebration spilled out onto the streets. It was an amazing time to be at Iowa.
Also, the win over MSU to put us in the Rose Bowl was a game I attended. As OSU beat MI to help us secure the Rose Bowl trip, you could literally hear the word spread around the entire stadium as people listening to their transistor radios (no Iphones) reported the news. The only time I've "rushed" the field after a victory! Sweet memories.

Good memories mtnhwk. Waite hit just one free throw though. Traditional 3 point play. I was frosh in college and home on break for Gtown game. Lots of beer drank during that NCAA run. I do not believe the VCU game was even on TV.
I was also at the MSU game that clinched Rose Bowl berth. $11 ticket. Lived 240 miles away from IC. 4 of us went to game and 3 came back. Rushed the field and lost one guy. Before cell phones. He did make home 3 days later.

 

[Husky28]

Funny thing about 87 OSU is most people still haven't seen it/ I dont think it was on live TV

I spent my Freshmen year at a private school (college) in Ohio... watched that game on a local channel surrounded by OSU fans. Really sucked... not a good memory for me. LOL

edit: I watched the '85' game in Ohio... not '87'.

 

[ferentz4life]

Interesting poll but built on a faulty premise. You could know the outcome of most of these games just by remembering how the season ended (ie bowl game Iowa played in or how far we advanced in the NCAA tourney).

 

[hawkfan8691]

Interesting poll but built on a faulty premise. You could know the outcome of most of these games just by remembering how the season ended (ie bowl game Iowa played in or how far we advanced in the NCAA tourney).

Agreed. When I read Jon's article and voted, I went with his premise about not knowing the outcome. So I voted for '85 Michigan because going into that game, the conference and national implications were huge. I also voted for the 1987 Gamble shot. Since I was 6 at the time, I can only vote based on how I thought it would feel now to be that deep in the tourney and knowing we had a real shot if it were today. I don't think I'd be able to put many games ahead of that for the anticipation factor

This also makes me believe that when we poll about the 2000s, the Cap One Bowl will win based on the outcome, whereas there were many other games that were more intriguing leading up to them IMO