Storming The Field

[HawkeyeMHA]

Not a storming the field day at all

 

[okeefe4prez]

Here's the deal. If fans want to storm the field, let them. Don't be threatening the very fans that pay for everything with arrests and maulings by police dogs. There's a place for police enforcement. Kinnick Stadium field, after a game, shouldn't be one of them.

Absurd. Field rushers are trespassers, plain and simple. I want water cannons, dogs, tear gas, hippie strength bear mace, nightsticks and the word "unconstitutional" removed as a qualifier from the phrase "choke hold" when these punks storm the field. Law and order must be preserved. The playing surface must be protected.

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

Ahhhh two star Stan, rest in peace my friend

 

[homes]

Absurd. Field rushers are trespassers, plain and simple. I want water cannons, dogs, tear gas, hippie strength bear mace, nightsticks and the word "unconstitutional" removed as a qualifier from the phrase "choke hold" when these punks storm the field. Law and order must be preserved. The playing surface must be protected.

While I disagree, the idea of water cannons is intriguing (and potentially a lot of fun!)

 

[BLKNGOLD48]

Nothing wrong or "unclassy" (is that a word?) about storming the field after a big win IMO. It just adds to the gameday environment if you ask me. I don't understand people who whine about things like this.

100% agree.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Storm is the wrong word. Go down on the field to congratulate the players on a big upset( 10pt underdogs at home?) is fine. Stroll the floor of Kinnick and soak in the cool feeling of beating wisky and beng on the same field as Nile Kinnick 74 years ago. look up at the stands and try to imagine being a rb running down the field with all those fans roaring....jog a bit, get some exercise....enjoy being a Hawkeye!

I will ook again when i get home, but pretty sure the field was not at its current location in 1939. Could be totally off on my historical recollection (via "100 Years of Hawkeye Football") though.

 

[okeefe4prez]

I will ook again when i get home, but pretty sure the field was not at its current location in 1939. Could be totally off on my historical recollection (via "100 Years of Hawkeye Football") though.

Don't bother. You're wrong. Opened in '29. I think the field surface was technically moved slightly in one of the renovations long before I was born, but that sacred ground has been sacred ground bince '29.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Only time I ever went on the field was due to unavoidable situation. Was in first row of endzone for Minnesota game in 1985, where we made the Rose Bowl. Thank God, it wasn't as crazy at the Michigan game earlier that year, where one of my classmates almost had his ear torn off by the goalpost.

 

[ssckelley]

So you would skip seeing Iowa beat a ranked opponent because your annoyance for watching fans storm the field would outweigh your joy of seeing that victory in person? I would recommend that you and all fans like you stay home and let the real fans attend the game.

Heck no, I just don't wanna be the only one storming the field. Would be kinda embarrassing. Plus my wife would be mad as heck if she had to bail me out of a campus jail.

Guys, this isn't Dayton in a first round NIT game. Let's act like we've been here before and listen to the fine folks at Whelan Security.

whateva, you will be at home eagerly anticipating the Nebraska/Northwestern matchup.

 

[ssckelley]

Storm is the wrong word. Go down on the field to congratulate the players on a big upset( 10pt underdogs at home?) is fine. Stroll the floor of Kinnick and soak in the cool feeling of beating wisky and beng on the same field as Nile Kinnick 74 years ago. look up at the stands and try to imagine being a rb running down the field with all those fans roaring....jog a bit, get some exercise....enjoy being a Hawkeye!

Are you friggin serious? You usually that calm and collected after a big Hawkeye win? Heck I dang near put a hole in the floor of my living room from all the jumping up and down I did after beating Northwestern. I can't imagine how I will be if Iowa pulls off this upset.

 

[1hawkeye1]

Only storm the field when wisconsin lines up in punt formation.

 

[smhawk]

Check back on hawkeyenation with 30 seconds before the game finishes. Hawkeyenation will decide if it is okay to storm the field.

 

[tubahawk]

Heck no, I just don't wanna be the only one storming the field. Would be kinda embarrassing. Plus my wife would be mad as heck if she had to bail me out of a campus jail.

Wish I could make to this week's game. I'd be sitting next to you in the cell.

Normally I'd use my one phone call to speak with OK4Prez. Apparently that wouldn't be a wise choice in this circumstance as he would likely petition to be the prosecuting attorney.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Only storm the field when wisconsin lines up in punt formation.

OMG, that is AWESOME. Took me a second to catch the full significance.

 

[HawkeyeMcNutt]

We're not Minnesota. Beating an underrated Wisconsin team doesn't mean we should storm the field.

 

[JHHawk]

Brian Ferentz's comment about the game-day experience is spot on. The Fun Police have come out so hard, they take away some of that experience. Tail-gating, getting crazy in the stands, going down on the field to congratulate the players, all that stuff must go....no fun allowed...this is now serious business...we have to maintain our sparkling image at all costs....forget fun...this is work now!

 

[kicker22]

Brian Ferentz's comment about the game-day experience is spot on. The Fun Police have come out so hard, they take away some of that experience. Tail-gating, getting crazy in the stands, going down on the field to congratulate the players, all that stuff must go....no fun allowed...this is now serious business...we have to maintain our sparkling image at all costs....forget fun...this is work now!

I'm not one that says storming the field is totally unacceptable and should never happen, but that said from a security/safety standpoint fans should never be allowed on a playing surface and athletes should never enter the stands. Too much could happen.

 

[hoffahawk]

Don't bother. You're wrong. Opened in '29. I think the field surface was technically moved slightly in one of the renovations long before I was born, but that sacred ground has been sacred ground bince '29.

Pic of the old stadium in the 20's before Iowa Stadium (Kinnick) was built-

Hear pic from 57-

 

[bcl20]

Now this is how you troll this board.

 

[kmurp]

Pic of the old stadium in the 20's before Iowa Stadium (Kinnick) was built-

Hear pic from 57-

The most amazing thing about that pic is the size of University Hopsitals. One can see how healthcare has become 17% of GDP.