crick is spelled creek but spoken as crick.
http://www.hawkeyenation.com/football/radar
I am mildly surprised by this...but given Iowa's history, perhaps it's best.
Thanks for the heads up Jon. These magazines will not be getting my money this year.
Thanks for the heads up Jon. These magazines will not be getting my money this year.
Just came by to say that I had a GT performer growing up.
It, too, had mags. Although it was a freestyle bike, I rode it on dirt tracks and trails all day.
Still. No predator.
Nowhere to go but up is how I like it this time of year. As fun as it is to have "respect" and have expectations I savor it more as a fan when they can go in with a chip on their shoulders. Everyone from Ferentz to the 2nd string long snapper. I'd rather be the Roger Dangerfield of college football then be Texas, OU or any other school with high expectations year in and year out and usually come up short.
The only concern I have with being underrated to open the season is that in the unlikely event that the stars align and we make a serious run for a playoff spot it hurts you in the polls. Of course, the 4 playoff teams are selected by a committee and not via the polls ala the former BCS, but I expect the polls will be somewhat influential in picking who get's a playoff spot. Especially with a weak schedule, you'd like to be somewhere in the AP Top 25 to start the season, which given the magazine rankings as rough indicators, probably won't happen. Not terrible news, but not preferable. Hopefully, we'll be in a position to argue that we should be included in the playoff. My guess is even if we lose just one yet go on to win the B1G championship game we'd probably be left out. SECCCCCC...
My Predator had two sets of front pegs and one set of rear pegs. A guy with three sets of pegs on his bike never fell off, bud. I used to leave it sitting on the side of my garage and one night someone stole it. One of the three worst days of my life. It was my dad's fault because he had this old Pontiac parked in our garage and it took up like 2/3rds of the garage and then my mom parked her car in there, too, so there was no room for my bike. I really miss that thing. Good luck finding such a choice ride today.
I just thought of my favorite day riding it. There were some choice trails with nice jumps cut out in the woods adjacent to the greenbelt. But there was one path that ended with an 8 foot drop into a crick. Some new kid came one day and was trying to showboat (he didn't have a Predator so he was immediately not cool with my posse). He showboated a few times (but managed to get virtually no air). Then, he gets a full head of steam and jumps it right off the path that went into the crick. He was all yelling like he broke his arm or something so we all bounced and left him there. When school started a few weeks later he was a new kid and he had his arm in a cast. He never did fit in and his parents took him out of public school for Catholic school after one semester. What a delta bravo.
If it makes us feel any better, I was reading a Big Ten preview on NFL.com, and 2 of the 3 analysts picked Iowa to win the West. I'll see if I can find a link.