Why we care - a challenge to HN faithful



BSpringsteen said:
Read this post:

A History of Iowa Football PART VII: A High Porch Picnic, 1979-1998 - Black Heart Gold Pants

This starts before I was into college football and ends while I am enrolled at Iowa.

I challenge anyone here to read this post and not be misty eyed after the final paragraph is read.

That is why we care so much.

EDIT: If you skip to the last paragraph it doesn't count, context matters.
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This series has been AWESOME by the way. Must read.

(BTW, like all the BlackHeartGoldPants stuff, there is some coarse language. Not a biggie to most people, but just in case you care.)
 


One more thing... I had multiple goosebump moments reading this particular post. It really is a trip through time. Read it from the beginning like Springsteen says.
 


I was at the game in 1981 when we beat MSU to go to the Rose Bowl. Clearly the highlight of my career. Going into the season we were hoping for a winning season. No one even talked of a bowl game seriously (there weren't as many to choose from back then) and even competing with OSU and Michigan were pipe dreams, or so we thought. When we beat Nebraska and had Reggie Roby booming punts, a D-Line that stopped the run, it was a great day, but again we felt somewhat lucky. Beating UCLA made us think that maybe we would be a good team, and there was a faint hope that maybe we could beat Michigan. When it happened there was bedlam in Iowa City. Going into the final game against MSU, I remember signs saying that "The Eyes Have It" meaning if both the Hawkeyes and Buckeyes both won we would be going to the Rose Bowl. When it happened the stands cleared onto the field, the goal posts came down, nobody wanted to leave. The unthinkable had happened, the doomat of the Big Ten had won. Nobody except Michigan and OSU had been to the Rose Bowl from the Big Ten since MSU in the sixties. Even though there was some snow that day, I don't remember ever being cold. Certainly one of the happiest moments of my Hawkeye Life.
 




We moved from IC to St. Louis in August of 1985 when my parents finished their MBA's and were at my grandparent's house in Waverly for Thanksgiving. As a 5 year old, I have no memory of 1-2 game day, but my aunt and uncle were the first to have a VCR, they brought it to Thanksgiving with one tape, IA-Michigan.

I remember watching the game all weekend, over, and over, and over.
 


Nice read I was at 82 Rose Bowl as a 12 year old kid and still a memory will never forget. I was also in attendance when Long went around right end against MSU and when Iowa beat UM as the #1 team in the country.

It is a part of our lives and it is what makes Iowa football so spacial. My father and I are both Iowa alumni and have attended games since I was 10 together and it is so much a part of my life and lots of great memories for sure.
 




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