Your first Iowa game? Your kids's?

Xerxes said:
I was 6. Michigan St, 1985 in Kinnick. I will probably never see Iowa win a national championship but at least I can say I saw them in person when they were ranked #1 in the nation. I remember having really good seats on about the 40 yard line but it being very difficult to see the field over the people ahead of me and having to sit on my Dad's shoulders.
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This was my first game too. My sons first game was a nice win northern Iowa. 2 blocked fg
 
1971 homecoming. I was seven and my future brother-in-law took the family. My second older brother was in the band. Went to some sort of homecoming rally and saw the band the evening before and the homecoming parade. The band used to horse around a lot back then. Was that usual, or just that time period?

We sat in the bleachers in the south end. (somewhere around that) I do remember Iowa scored three points. I swear they ran the ball out of bounds fifty times with little or no gain, must have run the ball a thousand yards sideways.

Saw the band and Highlanders at halftime. Quite a few Highlanders back then. (At least in my memory) The band would rock up and down on toes and heals as the highlanders played. (I don't think they did it the whole time, just one song.)
 
We all have a story, but I think mine is a pretty good one.

I grew up less than an hour from Iowa City, and my best friend had relatives who worked for the U of I. As such, they got tickets from time to time. We're talking 70s here. I was lucky enough to see some great basketball games as a young teen in the old fieldhouse.

But my first Iowa football game, and perhaps the defining moment that made me a Hawk forever..was a good one. Iowa vs Mich St in 1972. My best friend and his Dad invited me to go with them. This was deep in the dark ages.. bad teams, losing seasons. We drove to Iowa City, walked to Iowa Stadium,and had great 40 yard line seats. Just as we sat down....I watched Nile Kinnick's Father walk to center field and acknowledge the crowd as it was announced that Iowa stadium...would here-to-fore be known as Kinnick Stadium.

Not bad for a first game.
 
My first game was the 1981 MSU game when Iowa clinched a Rose Bowl spot. I was 20 years old. Tickets were 11.00. Four of us went and three came home. Rushed the field and never saw one of the guys again. I lived 240 miles from Iowa City. He arrived by bus 3 days later. No cell phones back then.
 
Me: Well, my parents never took us to football or hoops games and I grew up in Sioux City, opposite side of the state.. So we just watched on TV. That said, I have to admit I didn't make it to my first football game until Iowa/LSU in the 2005 Cap1 Bowl, the year I moved to FL. Nice first game to attend. :) ALMOST went with my brother to Iowa/MSU in 2000, the game where Iowa snapped their long losing streak, which would've been my first, but the weather sucked that day so we decided not to drive to IC.

First hoops game, IIRC, was Iowa/Michigan in 2001. Disappointing loss to a then cellar-dwelling Michigan program.

Kids: Don't have any. :p

Now that I live in FL, the only Hawk games I ever make it to are FL bowl games.
 
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1977Hawkeye said:
Me: Well, my parents never took us to football or hoops games and I grew up in Sioux City, opposite side of the state.. So we just watched on TV. That said, I have to admit I didn't make it to my first football game until Iowa/LSU in the 2005 Cap1 Bowl, the year I moved to FL. Nice first game to attend. :) ALMOST went with my brother to Iowa/MSU in 2000, the game where Iowa snapped their long losing streak, which would've been my first, but the weather sucked that day so we decided not to drive to IC.

First hoops game, IIRC, was Iowa/Michigan in 2001. Disappointing loss to a then cellar-dwelling Michigan program.

Kids: Don't have any. :p

Now that I live in FL, the only Hawk games I ever make it to are FL bowl games.
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That you know of...or admit to having....:)
 
Mine was 63-20 in Ames. Timmy D had almost 200 yds and 3 TDs (one was Dwight Clark-esque in the back of the endzone).
 
My first game, I believe, was the 1982 Rose Bowl. Folks planned a trip to Cali to visit family long before anyone thought Iowa would do a thing that year. We met a tour group from Meeechigan which had bought RB tickets and planned the trip before the season ever started. My father and I got the tickets for a good price, sat in the fourth row and enjoyed the Wolverines cheering on their conference brothers. Hawks got thumped, but it was still the highlight of the trip. Remember it better than Disney or Universal. Andre Tippet was a BEAST.

Growing up we went to wrestling meets, it was cheaper and Dan Gable had teams that were unreal.

As to the kiddos, they are all under four and it's 500 miles to IC. We'll get there, when it is the right time and they know how to enjoy a game.
 
HawkPrdatr40 said:
My first was 1985 #1 Iowa v #2 Michigan and obviously will never forget still have the ticket stub.

As far as my kids I couldn't tell you.
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That was my sons first game.We went on the field for about a minute then got the hell out of there.
My first game was when Penn St came to town ( not sure of the year) with Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris.I think around 1969-1970
 
Wasn't our first game... but maybe most fun w/ 10 yr old daughter... row 3 North End Zone, band was there then, pom pom girls, Hawks up close coming onto the field, sunny - lots to keep her happy! Best part - in middle of 3rd quarter she asks, "Hey, dad - I thought we were playing Indiana? What team in 'Randle-El'? Hawks win 42-28, but Antwaan R-E was a 1 man crew...
 
My first game was in the mid-late 1950's , I was maybe 6-7 and the hawks beat Northwestern, I think, I just remember how many people there were there and how big the stadium was and in my mind how little the players looked from way up in the stands.

I took my son first when he was about 5-6 in early 90's and I think the hawks had a 42-0 lead at halftime over maybe Akron. my son was ready to leave at 35-0 but we stayed so he could watch the band at halftime and we left early in the 3rd qtr.

He is a hawk nut now and has been since 1994. My daughter went in early 90s and she likes to watch them but not a diehard.
 
I was 12 when I went to my first Hawkeye game in 1980. The Hawks lost to Illinois and we froze all afternoon, but that was the start of many Hawk games both at Kinnick and on the road. Our oldest daughter has been to several games - first one was 2001 against Penn St. Our youngest daughter hasn't been to Kinnick yet.
 
Very first game: 1981 Iowa vs. Nebraska. Best part of the day? After the game, my dad says to me " Come on, I'll show you how to **** off a Nebraska fan."
 
DrKnipe said:
My first Iowa game was a drubbing at home vs Illinios. Jeff George gave us a whoopin', like 31-9.
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No, that was MY first Hawkeye football game, and we lost 31-7 ... and I was sitting with my Illini-alum, still-lives-in-Champaign aunt :[
 
First college football game was Colorado at Indiana in 1970. First Hawks game was Hawks at NW in, I believe, 1972. Saw them at NW again in 1975. The Hawks sucked then, but NW was into its full-blown downswing by then.

First game as a student was ISU at Kinnick in 1980 (boy, THAT was a brutal season). Last game at Kinnick was against Miami/FL, Labor Day weekend, 1992. Last Hawks game "in person" was Cap One Bowl.
 
linus19 said:
I was 12 when I went to my first Hawkeye game in 1980. The Hawks lost to Illinois and we froze all afternoon, but that was the start of many Hawk games both at Kinnick and on the road. Our oldest daughter has been to several games - first one was 2001 against Penn St. Our youngest daughter hasn't been to Kinnick yet.
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That Illinois game sucked, although the Hawks did start to get an offense going. I believe we actually ran the Statue of Liberty AGAIN in that game (ran it two plays in a row earlier that year against Arizona, it didn't help much).
 
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