Fryowa
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I play fungo golf if that counts.
Iowa withheld some athletes from competition
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MelroseHawkins
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Damn it..................Google here I come.
Fryowa
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If there were any evidence that guys were underage and using other people's accounts the gaming commission is gonna get involved. I don't know if that's the case or not but it's an example. Also, the high profile of this thing is probably enough right there.
SCHawkeye2
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Last FB season I bet the under consistently for every Iowa game.
Even though the over/under became ridiculously low as the season went on, the under was a solid winner.
Even though the over/under became ridiculously low as the season went on, the under was a solid winner.
Northside Hawk
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Gambling is too stressful for me as well, even if I win at blackjack or something.
And betting on sports scares the piss out of me. If it were that easy there would be no bookie business.
I remember betting on a quinela (first and second in either order) at Dubuque Greyhound Park back in the day. Definitely college years. There was a photo finish that took over ten minutes to make official. With about a hundred bucks on the line (huge money in my college years) it felt like ten weeks.
It hit and I cashed in, but it almost wasn't worth the stress. I think the physiological effects of getting addicted to the rush are real. And of course compulsive gambling.
There was an old poster in these boards, @NoBeer, who's posts were consistent with someone who bet on Iowa games. He was a nervous wreck, especially when basketball team didn't cover.
Northside Hawk
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What I never got is that Iowa was favored in that game. Don't remember by how much. But if the racketeers were betting on UCLA plus the points, Iowa could have still won and the thugs would have collected.
They must have best UCLA to win outright. Or perhaps Ronnie wasn't taking any chances.
99topdawg
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We actually play off a tee. We all suck at it so it's pretty hilarious. I definitely like fungo golf better.
99topdawg
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I've got 5 guys that throw it pretty well. The bad part is that they, our defense, and our hitting is so stinkin' inconsistent, just like most teams. We'll be pretty damn tough if we can get any kind of consistency.
Fryowa
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I’ve got a BIG ass problem coming up. My catcher is a hell of a ball player and he graduates this year. Dude is built like a tank, smashes the ball, and he’s an old school hard nosed ball player. He plays like Pete Rose without the temper.
The kid I had in my son’s sophomore class who caught was pretty decent but decided last year he didn’t want to play ball anymore. The current freshman and middle schoolers have no one who can play the spot competently. I need to book a trip to the Dominican and see if there’s a 6’4” 225lb 15 year old who can throw lasers and hit bombs and wants to come live in Podunk, IA.
Yeah my buddy keeps telling me I should do it it's so easy and I'd be good at it yadda yadda. I resist cause it's just not fun to me. Due to the stress part. I live and die by my Hawks winning and losing enough as it is putting skin in the game regularly would mess with me mentally too much. So being self aware I just never have been a better. Fantasy football that I play with my cousins is all I do.
NorthKCHawk
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I normally hate hijacked or meandering threads, but this one is too good. It travels from gambling teenagers, to possible throwing games, to requests for violent acts of retribution against former players, to lamenting the entire concept of gambling, to fungo golf, to Fry's inability to field a competitive high school baseball team in the near future. Welcome to the HawkeyeNation Board!
Fryowa
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It's the offseason, whaddya do?
Speaking of meandering threads, I need some help and OT won't get enough views...
I have a full (not cut in half), skin-on pork belly that I need to do something with asap because it's taking up the entire top portion of my freezer. A family member asked if I wanted a free pork belly and I, assuming it was skinless and cut in half like most grocery store bellies, said sure. It's freakin huge.
Someone give me a good smoker or grill recipe for this thing. I do not want to do a bunch of work skinning it or trimming it, I just want to cut it into a size that will fit on my Pit Barrel and Weber Kettle at the same time and cook this thing off and get it out of my freezer.
Go.
Fryowa
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I should add I don't want to make bacon.
The funny personal irony of this gambling thing is that the sports books are starting to come out with college football season win totals, which I've had some decent luck with in recent years. It's usually good to bet on the season O/U totals early because oddly enough there are usually a couple the books clearly get wrong -- but everybody jumps on those and within a week the line moves and those get corrected. But it makes no sense to even TRY to project Iowa or Iowa State's season win totals until its clear if any key players from those teams will be suspended, etc...for gambling.
okeefe4prez
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If I had that much pork belly I would host a gigantic shabu shabu party but I suspect that you lack the equipment necessary to pull that off and you probably don't have a Japanese grocery store to get sauces unless you go to Minneapolis. I don't know any other way to deal with that much pork belly. I have found that boiling it on the table top and then dipping it in ponzu or goma dare is really the only way to do anything with pork belly at home and it is a cooking style and flavor profile that most Americans have never had and really enjoy. There are knock off burnt end recipes and such but I have found that I don't really care for smoked pork belly.
HuckFinn
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To keep with irrelevant posts on this thread, I will cheer for “controlled” gambling. As a college undergrad in the mid-1960’s I shot pool for $$ to help pay the bills. Biggest bet was $100. $25 + was common. I will just say that I did fine. Later in life, I was shooting pool in a bar in Prairie du Chien for beers. Two locals were our opponents. They changed the rules claiming towny rules. So, I ran the table and had to back out of the bar with a pool Q.
Yeah I saw that Iowas O/U was 7.5 I bet most folks would be hammering the over on that. 8 wins seems really really doable with this team hopefully 10 plus if the cards really fall our way.
okeefe4prez
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It's like my granddad always told me, "you can't say Praire du Chien without saying douche." That man hated Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri more than anyone who has ever lived. He had no problems with Dakota, though. Both of them. He even changed where he went fishing in Canada in the summer so he could drive through Dakota instead of Minnesota because he got so pissed off when he got a ticket for going 57 in a 55 north of Duluth one year.
Fryowa
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It had to be round about '97 or so, I was on my way home from visiting an aunt and uncle in Marshall, MN.
Got pulled over by a loser of a state trooper for one of those tree air fresheners hanging from my mirror. Gave me a ticket for an obstructed windshield which was a moving violation and went against my folks' insurance for a 17 year-old. Only reason I remember it was when he came up to the car he was giving me and my car the, "I want to bust you for something really bad" once over, then reaches into my car and swipes his finger on my dash board, and smells it. It was an old POS car that I took on gravel every day and he must have thought I had summa that Colombian yayo just randomly powdering my dash board. I hope that cop had 10 years of ass cancer before he bit the big one. Total asshole.
Chickenlounge
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Are you trying to imply that Sioux City isn't a bastion of ethnic foodie diversity? For shame.
