Iowa Gets Missouri in Nashville

[#1DieHardHawk]

Drinkwitz is a good coach, and very good recruiter.

As others have pointed out, it's hard to know what to expect with Mizzou. Very up and down, even within games.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

$4,300 for two people + rental car + meals + walk around money in a butthole of a town with more people pissing in the street than Vegas…

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Could spend a week in Belize all inclusive in a damn nice place for less than that.

Did I mention LOLOLOLOLZZZZZZ?

I am thinking of taking my son as a xmas present. I can get flights for $275 each (which I can point). I found a reasonable hotel downtown for $225. Also can point that. Decent tickets are $150 each right now (and that will go down if I wait). Add some cash for Uber and food and booze and I still can do this trip for two people for a grand.

 

[Hawkboys]

Very up and down, even within games.

Have you seen the Black and Gold this season?

 

[#1DieHardHawk]

Have you seen the Black and God this season?

It's definitely not an exclusive quality.....

The difference is Missouri can look like Georgia for a quarter, then Purdue the next quarter.

Keeping it real, we never look like Georgia.

 

[Fryowa]

I am thinking of taking my son as a xmas present. I can get flights for $275 each (which I can point). I found a reasonable hotel downtown for $225. Also can point that. Decent tickets are $150 each right now (and that will go down if I wait). Add some cash for Uber and food and booze and I still can do this trip for two people for a grand.

That seems like a great idea, the best bonding I've ever done with my son was taking him to his first Hawks game and ponying up for front row behind Iowa's bench. Maryland 2015, Desmond King ran that pick six back right in front of us and Kittle (unknown at the time) high-fived him. Trip for the ages and it cost me maybe $400 from the time I left our driveway till we got back home.

My only suggestion is this...stop thinking about it and book it, brother.

 

[vork22]

Sitting here in Flagstaff watching the sports news. Arizona State fans and players crowing about there all mighty team in beating the clowns.

Maybe they are better than I am giving them credit for, but may be they are just king of the turds of their conference.

Both Mizzou and Iowa have to be disappointed in their bowl game with all the expectations to begin the season. It is what it is.

I live in Phoenix and can tell you that ASU is no turd of a team. They aren’t elite but I would not want to see Iowa play them. They won’t beat Texas or Clemson but they had a great season with an exciting young coach.

I also don’t think this Iowa team would’ve finished in the top 4 of that conference.

 

[BigD]

Just be careful guys. I understand some areas are dangerous. I had a co-worker who used to live there. He was just passing through and got of the interstate to get gas. It was his old neighborhood from when he lived there several years ago.

Pulls up to the gas station and notices one guy standing up at front of the gas station and on each corner. He also noticed bars on all the windows. Gets his gas and he and his buddy walk up to pay through a partially bared window.

Now me I just pull on through and get back on the interstate and take a different exit.

The two guys come up behind them and pull their guns out and rob them. When one of the buddies accidentally drops his wallet the thieves bend over to pick it up. They then make a break for their pickup and tear out of there. The bad guys shoot at their truck leaving several holes in the side of the truck which also had their children in the back seat.

This conversation ensued from me noticing the bullets holes in his truck at work when he pulled up next to my car.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Just be careful guys. I understand some areas are dangerous. I had a co-worker who used to live there. He was just passing through and got of the interstate to get gas. It was his old neighborhood from when he lived there several years ago.

Pulls up to the gas station and notices one guy standing up at front of the gas station and on each corner. He also noticed bars on all the windows. Gets his gas and he and his buddy walk up to pay through a partially bared window.

Now me I just pull on through and get back on the interstate and take a different exit.

The two guys come up behind them and pull their guns out and rob them. When one of the buddies accidentally drops his wallet the thieves bend over to pick it up. They then make a break for their pickup and tear out of there. The bad guys shoot at their truck leaving several holes in the side of the truck which also had their children in the back seat.

This conversation ensued from me noticing the bullets holes in his truck at work when he pulled up next to my car.

Saint Louis was once our halfway overnight point for a family vacation to the Smoky Mountains. Went to a Cubs Cardinals game at Busch and intended to gas up the next morning near our downtown Saint Louis hotel.

Alas, numerous roads were closed for a 5k/10k/half marathon. We decided to cross into Illinois and find the first open gas station.

It turned out to be on the border of Washington Park and East Saint Louis. So I walk in and prepay $50 cash, fill up.......and suddenly realize where I'm at with my family in the SUV.

I got the hell out of there and back on the interstate as fast as I could. My fill up was $41. That attendant will have my nine bucks for eternity! We took a different route home. One day from the smoky mountains through Louisville and Indianapolis and then I-74 back into Iowa. Ate at my first Waffle House in Lexington Kentucky.

 

[Seth53]

I am thinking of taking my son as a xmas present. I can get flights for $275 each (which I can point). I found a reasonable hotel downtown for $225. Also can point that. Decent tickets are $150 each right now (and that will go down if I wait). Add some cash for Uber and food and booze and I still can do this trip for two people for a grand.

Do it!

I've done five bowl games and two B1G Lucas Oil games.

Plus around 30+ away games.

Memories for a lifetime.

Enjoy

 

[BigD]

Saint Louis was once our halfway overnight point for a family vacation to the Smoky Mountains. Went to a Cubs Cardinals game at Busch and intended to gas up the next morning near our downtown Saint Louis hotel.

Alas, numerous roads were closed for a 5k/10k/half marathon. We decided to cross into Illinois and find the first open gas station.

It turned out to be on the border of Washington Park and East Saint Louis. So I walk in and prepay $50 cash, fill up.......and suddenly realize where I'm at with my family in the SUV.

I got the hell out of there and back on the interstate as fast as I could. My fill up was $41. That attendant will have my nine bucks for eternity! We took a different route home. One day from the smoky mountains through Louisville and Indianapolis and then I-74 back into Iowa. Ate at my first Waffle House in Lexington Kentucky.

Being in Utah now we do miss the Waffle House’s. As my kids got older and went off to college they always wanted to eat at waffle houses before leaving for college and when coming home for Christmas breaks.

East Saint Louis??? I have/had associates that worked in law enforcement in East Saint Louis. They had told me there are parts that they would not go into after dark.

 

[Zstatman]

Mizzou plays in the SEC and is competitive. We should expect a tough game.

I'm not a Mizzou fan by any means but here is a small defense of their athletics. Several years ago, Mizzou hired a new AD, Desiree Reed-Francois, who had previously resurrected the UNLV athletic department. She specializes in getting financial houses in order, developing revenue streams that bring in money. After UNLV she did the same thing at Mizzou, if you've noticed over the last several years their football and basketball programs have gotten much better, they had the resources, and we all know how money talks in college sports these days. A year ago, she was hired away by Arizona, the one in Tucson, to do the same thing, developed the financial resources for them to be successful. I'm guessing she will succeed.

 

[BigD]

Saint Louis was once our halfway overnight point for a family vacation to the Smoky Mountains. Went to a Cubs Cardinals game at Busch and intended to gas up the next morning near our downtown Saint Louis hotel.

Alas, numerous roads were closed for a 5k/10k/half marathon. We decided to cross into Illinois and find the first open gas station.

It turned out to be on the border of Washington Park and East Saint Louis. So I walk in and prepay $50 cash, fill up.......and suddenly realize where I'm at with my family in the SUV.

I got the hell out of there and back on the interstate as fast as I could. My fill up was $41. That attendant will have my nine bucks for eternity! We took a different route home. One day from the smoky mountains through Louisville and Indianapolis and then I-74 back into Iowa. Ate at my first Waffle House in Lexington Kentucky.

I am glad to hear you got out of there safely.

 

[BigD]

By the way I am not taking Missou lightly. It will be a tough game especially since our all-American running back won’t be playing.

Tim is going to need to get really busy recruiting
*Quality QB’s
*Quality receivers
•Quallity Offensive Linemen

We will see what he is made out of as a recruiter and coach.

 

[trj]

Isn’t Nashville the new Austin?

 

[trj]

Saint Louis was once our halfway overnight point for a family vacation to the Smoky Mountains. Went to a Cubs Cardinals game at Busch and intended to gas up the next morning near our downtown Saint Louis hotel.

Alas, numerous roads were closed for a 5k/10k/half marathon. We decided to cross into Illinois and find the first open gas station.

It turned out to be on the border of Washington Park and East Saint Louis. So I walk in and prepay $50 cash, fill up.......and suddenly realize where I'm at with my family in the SUV.

I got the hell out of there and back on the interstate as fast as I could. My fill up was $41. That attendant will have my nine bucks for eternity! We took a different route home. One day from the smoky mountains through Louisville and Indianapolis and then I-74 back into Iowa. Ate at my first Waffle House in Lexington Kentucky.

C’mon, man. You stole that story from the first Vacation movie. So you went 100% Clark Griswold? I’m just kidding, I’m f*cking with you.

 

[Fryowa]

C’mon, man. You stole that story from the first Vacation movie. So you went 100% Clark Griswold? I’m just kidding, I’m f*cking with you.

My mom's family was all from Mississippi, back in the day when road atlases were a thing we always drove from Iowa through ESL on the interstate, had a similar story I'll always remember as a kid. My folks got kinda turned around and it was way late, line 1, 2 in the morning ish...

Had an '86 Astro Van (still love that thing), they stopped at a gas station in ESL not knowing any better to ask directions, the attendant told my dad to get out of there and not stop for stop signs or red lights. I remember he was a super nice guy and told us how to get back on the interstate but you could tell he wasn't messing around telling us to get outta there.

Nowadays with Google maps you can plan around that stuff and either way that route probably wasn't optimal, but back then you planned out trips at the kitchen table with a road atlas and a highlighter.

 

[Zstatman]

My mom's family was all from Mississippi, back in the day when road atlases were a thing we always drove from Iowa through ESL on the interstate, had a similar story I'll always remember as a kid. My folks got kinda turned around and it was way late, line 1, 2 in the morning ish...

Had an '86 Astro Van (still love that thing), they stopped at a gas station in ESL not knowing any better to ask directions, the attendant told my dad to get out of there and not stop for stop signs or red lights. I remember he was a super nice guy and told us how to get back on the interstate but you could tell he wasn't messing around telling us to get outta there.

Nowadays with Google maps you can plan around that stuff and either way that route probably wasn't optimal, but back then you planned out trips at the kitchen table with a road atlas and a highlighter.

Well, Fry, you and I have a similar background. My mom was from Arkansas, just outside of Memphis. A lot of the family moved to Mississippi, and I spent a lot of time in the Mississippi delta region visiting family, Clarkdale to be exact. I feel like I went through every single town in SE Missouri/NE Arkansas on the way there, we'd stop at a gas station and my mom would say, there's Cousin Johnny, pick a name, any name, both my grandparents came from very large families. My mom always said if she would have known she was going to live in small town Iowa for the next 60 years she wouldn't have married him! It was a very different world down there, the South.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

That seems like a great idea, the best bonding I've ever done with my son was taking him to his first Hawks game and ponying up for front row behind Iowa's bench. Maryland 2015, Desmond King ran that pick six back right in front of us and Kittle (unknown at the time) high-fived him. Trip for the ages and it cost me maybe $400 from the time I left our driveway till we got back home.

My only suggestion is this...stop thinking about it and book it, brother.

Sage advice. We went to Indy last year together and had a blast. I mean, the game sucked, but we got to see Joey Chestnut eat 6 pounds of shrimp and hang out with 25,000 Hawk fans.

 

[Fryowa]

Well, Fry, you and I have a similar background. My mom was from Arkansas, just outside of Memphis. A lot of the family moved to Mississippi, and I spent a lot of time in the Mississippi delta region visiting family, Clarkdale to be exact. I feel like I went through every single town in SE Missouri/NE Arkansas on the way there, we'd stop at a gas station and my mom would say, there's Cousin Johnny, pick a name, any name, both my grandparents came from very large families. My mom always said if she would have known she was going to live in small town Iowa for the next 60 years she wouldn't have married him! It was a very different world down there, the South.

My mom knew what county she was born in but not exactly where. When she moved to Iowa in the 60s with my dad and they went to get marriage licenses, they asked for her SSN and she didn't have one. Didn't have a birth certificate either. She was born in a dirt floor home like her other 11 siblings. Tail-end of the share cropping generation and they moved around a lot. She did know she was born somewhere in Jackson county outside Jackson, but where it was is literally lost to the ages; there's no one alive who would be able to tell me or give me an idea. I remember as a kid when she'd have to give out her SSN (people actually wrote it on checks back in the day believe it or not...identity theft wasn't a thing yet) she'd always get raised eyebrows about the "weird" number she had that didn't coincide to her birth year range.

My mom was born in 1952 but literally didn't exist on paper until 1969. I have her birth certificate in a keepsake box and it says "JACKSON COUNTY" and "MISSISSIPPI" in the county and state fields, and "UNKNOWN" in the city field. I wish she was here with me for a million reasons, but now that I'm older I'd love to just sit down with her and talk her ear off asking questions. Now I'm gonna go act like I'm not choked up and try to think about who the next Iowa coach will be instead lol

 

[Hawkfnntn]

My mom knew what county she was born in but not exactly where. When she moved to Iowa in the 60s with my dad and they went to get marriage licenses, they asked for her SSN and she didn't have one. Didn't have a birth certificate either. She was born in a dirt floor home like her other 11 siblings. Tail-end of the share cropping generation and they moved around a lot. She did know she was born somewhere in Jackson county outside Jackson, but where it was is literally lost to the ages; there's no one alive who would be able to tell me or give me an idea. I remember as a kid when she'd have to give out her SSN (people actually wrote it on checks back in the day believe it or not...identity theft wasn't a thing yet) she'd always get raised eyebrows about the "weird" number she had that didn't coincide to her birth year range.

My mom was born in 1952 but literally didn't exist on paper until 1969. I have her birth certificate in a keepsake box and it says "JACKSON COUNTY" and "MISSISSIPPI" in the county and state fields, and "UNKNOWN" in the city field. I wish she was here with me for a million reasons, but now that I'm older I'd love to just sit down with her and talk her ear off asking questions. Now I'm gonna go act like I'm not choked up and try to think about who the next Iowa coach will be instead lol

We all have unique family lineages and yours is pretty cool with that. It's wild how not that long ago things were so very very different. My Gpa only had an 8th grade education. Hitchhiked from CA to Iowa at 16 to start working for his Gfs dad farming (my Gma-Great Gpa) and started farming on his own by the time he was 19 and I'll just say did quite well for himself and our family.

Something that would be totally impossible nowadays for anyone to do.