Parental advice for game days-needed

Oz, warm the lad up by screening the movie "Grizzly Man" in your man-cave. Oz Jr will get a good feeling for what Iowa's front four will be doing to opposing offensive players after he sees how bear #141 handles Tim Treadwell and Amie Hueguenard. :eek:;)
 
VintageHawkeye said:
Oz, warm the lad up by screening the movie "Grizzly Man" in your man-cave. Oz Jr will get a good feeling for what Iowa's front four will be doing to opposing offensive players after he sees how bear #141 handles Tim Treadwell and Amie Hueguenard. :eek:;)
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Vint,

You are one of the only posters here that I trust. I taking your advice. Grizzly Man here we come.

Grizzy man isn't in the "special" section of the video store is it?

P.S. Werner Herhog directed the movie? Here is an awesome quote on an interview with him..During a BBC interview about the film, Werner Herzog was shot with an air rifle. The interview was resumed indoors and at the end Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Though there was "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it." Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

OZ
 
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Ozhawk said:
Vint,

You are one of the only posters here that I trust. I taking your advice. Grizzly Man here we come.

Grizzy man isn't in the "special" section of the video store is it?

OZ
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LOL! No, it's a sort-of documentary by Werner Hezog, about the guy (Treadwell) who lived for years among coastal Brown/Grizz bears in Alaska, and then in Oct 2003, one of them finally ate him and his gal pal.
The documentary is controversial; some say Herzog edited Treadwell's own video to make him (Treadwell) look like a total whackadoo. I am nearly finished with a book by Nick Jans that paints a different picture of Treadwell than Herzog did.
The movie actually doesn't have any gory scenes in it; the mauling and eating of the two humans was caught only on audio, not video.
Anyway, sorry to go literal on you! I should have left my tongue in my cheek, maybe. :eek::D
 
Ozhawk said:
Vint,

You are one of the only posters here that I trust. I taking your advice. Grizzly Man here we come.

Grizzy man isn't in the "special" section of the video store is it?

P.S. Werner Herhog directed the movie? Here is an awesome quote on an interview with him..During a BBC interview about the film, Werner Herzog was shot with an air rifle. The interview was resumed indoors and at the end Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Though there was "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it." Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

OZ
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Yep, that's the one; I was typing my response to you when you were editing your post. The movie is worth viewing, but the book "The Grizzly Maze" by Nick Jans is a companion must-read.
 
Ah, best to just not take the young man and subject him to what could arguably be a very gory situation for regularly scheduled 3 and outs. Best to use that ticket for someone who has been exposed to such violence in the past, and is not offended, even of the visiting team cheerleaders, or student chants, or of the inept need to remain standing...I'm sure I could help fulfill that seat if you so succumb to the exposure.
 
Chuck Green might want to check the films after the game and count the muggings that our D is going to put on teams...
 
Ozhawk said:
Hey gang I need some good advice. I guess I ask my question at the bottom of the page underlined.

This year I will be able to actually use my season tix and my 6th grad son has developed a HUGE appetite for hawkeye football.

I am very concerned about things this year though. I am not one of those parents who likes to shelter my kids from the "world" but I am very concerned about the game day scene at kinnick. In years past game day situations were much better for children but this year could be an exception for taking small children to the games. I do plan on having a heart to heart with my son before setting out for kinnick each weekend but I am a little concerned about when we get inside the actual stadium. I may even be inclined to cover his eyes whenever something happens that may not be good for him to see. I could just not take him to the games but it could easily be a great bonding experience.

DOes anyone have advice on what to do for my son when the Iowa defense takes the field. I don't want to create some sort of traumatic situation that may disturb him:D
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Well, I think you have two options.

You could, in advance, set up a year's worth of therapy sessions with someone who focuses on kids with PTSD. This way, after he sees the game, his appointments are already set up.

Conversely, you could just have him embrace it. Say things like "good, good...let the hate flow through your veins."

When I took my son (who is now 13) to a game when he was in fifth grade, I took another friend of mine with us. He is this huge, crass dude. When the MSU quarterback (Smoker, I believe) went down due to a brutal sack, my friend said "wrap a chain around him and drag him off the field!" My son couldn't stop laughing.
 
Just explain the natural order of food chain, and how although it may seem brutal, our guys need those qb's, rb's to survive. It's all part of the great circle of life (in the B10).
 
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