Shonn Greene.............

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Just stumbled upon his highlights. Look at this beast. Its hard to believe this will be our 3rd season without him. Me being only 17 years old he is my favorite Hawkeye player hands down. I faintly remember the 0'2 season but I was only around 7 at the time and hardly knew what was going on but love watching the 0'2 team play on the BTN, I really got passionate during the Drew Tate era and thats when Hawkeye football really started for me. I never knew a Chuck Long ,Tim Dwight, or Hayden Fry. For me Hawkeye football is Kirk Ferentz and great players like Shonn Greene and Tate etc. Watching Shonn's highlights he is truly a 1 in a Million player, and watch as he never gives up, love the Wisconsin and Purdue runs. Whenever I hear the name Shonn Greene i think of those 3 runs. And I also rmember Shonn would always take his time getting up after a play and in the back of my head would always freak out thinking he was injured but this guy was a human tank and would always stop defenders in their tracks, they wouldn't go to Shonn, he'd go to them.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKZP6d-WP7E&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Shonn Greene: College's Best Running Back‬‏[/ame]

 
I hear ya on him taking his time getting up. I was always holding my breath when he'd get hit a little awkwardly, and then see him slow to get up. But he always got up.

I watch this video (and the second video that forms a pair with this one) pretty regularly. 2008 was my first year of being at every home game (my freshman year on campus), and he made it very special. Hard to believe it's been 3 years. I can still see many of those runs as vividly as if they were yesterday.
 
Being just 18, Greene is one of the guys I enjoyed watching the most. The other was Banks. My memory of Iowa football basically started in 2000 or 01 since I was like 8 at the time and hardly remember watching much football before that.
 
I'm only 21, so I hear you guys ... my first Hawkeye game in Kinnick was Western Michigan in 2000. Ugh ... Been there for both Western Michigan losses too.

But my first great Hawkeye memory was the upset over Penn State in 2000. Just remember how excited my dad was and I knew the Hawks were headed on the right track ... the Alamo win in 2001 pretty much sealed the deal for me as a Hawk fan.

As far as the original topic goes, I loved watching Shonn, but my favorite Hawkeye of the Ferentz era has to be Ed Hinkel. That guy caught EVERYTHING, and since I played WR for my high school team, he was my hero. DJK might be the record holder, but I still think Hinkel has been our best WR of last ten years or so.

Good video of Greene, though.
 
Great video. Being not that much older than you guys, this was the guy that got me hooked on Iowa football.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMcJUyak3o"]YouTube - ‪Sedrick Shaw‬‏[/ame]
 
Yep KF does well with that style of back. Lets just see what happens this year.
Watching Shonn was cool, and so was watching Pat Angerer, they were both just plain bad azz.
 
You know what the most amazing thing about Sedrick Shaw is? He was so good that Tavian Banks was second string for a couple years behind him.
 
Sedrick Shaw was fantastic...he seemed to be heading for a decent NFL career til he took a horrible shot in what I believe was NE's last pre-season game his rookie season that left him with a concussion...I don't think he ever really bounced back from it and never did cash in...he just bounced around a little bit.
 
I still have a Matt Sherman rookie football card. I also read an almanac to win a number of pages contest to get a BJ armstrong autograph.
 
AFAcademyHawk said:
I'm only 21, so I hear you guys ... my first Hawkeye game in Kinnick was Western Michigan in 2000. Ugh ... Been there for both Western Michigan losses too.

But my first great Hawkeye memory was the upset over Penn State in 2000. Just remember how excited my dad was and I knew the Hawks were headed on the right track ... the Alamo win in 2001 pretty much sealed the deal for me as a Hawk fan.

As far as the original topic goes, I loved watching Shonn, but my favorite Hawkeye of the Ferentz era has to be Ed Hinkel. That guy caught EVERYTHING, and since I played WR for my high school team, he was my hero. DJK might be the record holder, but I still think Hinkel has been our best WR of last ten years or so.

Good video of Greene, though.
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I totally agree on Hinkel. I pestered my dad for months about getting an Ed Hinkel jersey my freshman year of high school. I was so stoked when I finally got it, and I still wear it to games today. Dude's body control was amazing, EXCELLENT hands, great route-runner, not afraid to go over the middle and get dirty (this is the area that really puts him above DJK for me).
 
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