Press Release for Heroes Game

[Snowcraig]

It is stupid to manufacture a name, and then really stupid to come up with Heroes as that name.

They should have just played for a few years and let a name develop.

 

[CptPuertoRico]

It is stupid to manufacture a name, and then really stupid to come up with Heroes as that name.

They should have just played for a few years and let a name develop.

That is my thinking on it. When I think of good college football rivalry names this is what comes to mind:

The Red River Rivalry
Iron Bowl
Worlds Largest Cocktail Party (I know the universities are trying to get away from it, but still my favorite.)
Backyard Brawl
Civil War
Egg Bowl
Border War
Bedlam
Holy War

And dare I say, Farmageddon (what can I say, I like it, it's fits for those two schools)

Good names come with time when a rivalry develops. Instead we're stuck with ******* "Heroes Game" with a team Iowa has played what, twice in the last 30 years? I just don't understand the rush on it. Let the schools go after it with the division title on the line a few times and it will come.

 

[MultipleDundieAwardWinner]

There is a reason "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" is the best name in rivalry games. It's because it developed on its own, because of the atmosphere of the game, not developed before the rivalry was ever played in hope that it will become a "tradition". It is good because it doesn't have corporate sponsorship, in fact the powers that be want nothing to do with it. It is 100% by the fans, for the fans, not by a corporate suit, for a corporate suit.

 

[ShockRerun]

There is a reason "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" is the best name in rivalry games. It's because it developed on its own, because of the atmosphere of the game, not developed before the rivalry was ever played in hope that it will become a "tradition". It is good because it doesn't have corporate sponsorship, in fact the powers that be want nothing to do with it. It is 100% by the fans, for the fans, not by a corporate suit, for a corporate suit.

That is the way to make the name stick. With out the fans backing it becomes an after thought.

 

[SDK46]

Dunno....but why the fuss about *having* to have a trophy?

OSU/Michigan never have had one....works fine for them.

This is manufactured and it stinks of unadulterated commercialism...."let's make yet another buck off the FB players." Great

 

[WhitUp]

I could care less what commercialized concept of what they pretend to call the game. But is the trophy going to be something that looks like a hero???? Not sure how you do that, but if the trophy is corn or a combine nobody is going to call it heros game everyone will refer to it as cornbelt or farmaggedon. Did they say what the trophy is going to look like at all????

 

[hawkeyemark]

I read about this in Hawk Talk Daily that I get in my inbox every day and liked it so much I forwarded it to an Illini friend, just across the border into Illinois. It surprised me to come here and read so much negative reaction. Forget that it has corporate sponsorship- like it or not and I don't that just comes with the territory in college football these days. The idea of focusing the event around charity and honoring oridinary people who do positive things seems classy and very Midwestern.

 

[vigorousKnit]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6F7M15YdE&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[vigorousKnit]

I like the idea. However, I think they should have gone further. If Iowa wins we give them Council Bluffs. If Nebraska wins they get Council Bluffs.

this is the best idea I've seen yet regarding this "rivalry"!