Will there be a meltdown if we lose to Rutgers?

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There's always a meltdown after a loss. Not unique to Iowa fans and not anywhere near the meltdowns by other fan bases.

It's what separates people like us from the "casuals." We are the 1% who bleed in school colors and that's the result. It's fun and harmless unless it migrates into social media attacks, threats, etc.

When I explain the difference between super hardcore college FB fans I do it like this...

It's like Rubik's Cube.

99% of people have picked one up in their lives, played with it for 10 minutes or 30 seconds, and then it gets tossed in the back of the closet till we find it 7 years later and mess with it for another 30 seconds. But then you have the other 1% prodigy kids on YouTube traveling to competitions, who form clubs, practice 6 hours a day, and go absolutely bonkers in the quest for the next world record which currently sits at 3.08 seconds.

That's the difference between us and the rest of the college football fan-world. And I'm good with it. We are the 1%.

Doug Stanhope is one of my favorite comics and he does a bit about how stupid football is when you think about it, how he's a big fan, and even though it's stupid, "it's my stupid." Everyone has to have their own stupid and this is ours.

Honestly when you think about football in the grand scheme of things we're all stupid. Lets be real. At one point most of us have had season tickets and spent a good amount of time traveling to games, or simply watching them from home, not to mention the countless hours we think about the games or chat on here about them. Then when you think about it. It's a 60 minute game that generally takes a little over 3 hours with maybe 10-15 minutes of actual playing time each game.

In the grand scheme of things were spending all this time, emotion, and money as diehards of a team that is actually getting after it for a total of maybe 3 hours and 15 minutes of actual in game minutes a season. Does anyone else find that depressing LOL.

Edit: I'll add that half of that time has recently been spent suffering through one poor offensive performance after another.