2018 Season-Opening BOAF

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Another season is upon us. Will 2018 be the year the Hawks build upon the successes of 2017 and take another step forward to challenge for the Big Ten West? Or will graduation, injury, suspensions, etc. take their toll and pull the rug out from under the season practically before it begins? The only way to know is to play the games. And as KF is fond of saying, when Iowa has its best years, usually there are a few great stories that emerge from unexpected sources. So here’s a list of the likely suspects whose stories may make or break Iowa Football 2018.

Jackson Subbert
Jack Kallenberger
Jack Koerner
James Elliott (*) – Composer who put nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner” to music in 1870
Elliott Gould
Ellie Goulding
Ron Hagerthy (*) – Played geologist who was captured by Elly May Clampett and informed the family their swamp full of oil was worth millions in pilot episode of “Beverly Hillbillies”
Ron Howard
Howard Hughes
Hugh Grant
Irwin Jacobs(*)– Businessman who purchased the outstanding customer credit accounts during the bankruptcy liquidation of former W.T. Grants stores in 1976.
Kevin Pollack (*) – Played Jacob Goldman in Grumpy/Grumpier Old Men movies.
Kevin Love
Kevin Sorbo
Catherine Helbert (*) – Associate Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris
Catherine Bell
Catherine Bach
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chuck Robbins (*)– Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, which in 2009 acquired Richards-Zeta Business Intellilgence, Inc.
Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*) – Character on Nickelodeon’s “Sam & Cat”, who in episode 25 of Season 1, founded her own new holiday called ‘Yay Day’.
Bobby Valentine
Bobby Boucher
Helen Ball (*) – Asst. Commissioner for Professionalism, Metropolitan Police, London, UK…whose patrol officers are famously referred to as “bobbies”
Lonzo Ball
LiAngelo Ball
Lavar Ball
Lavar Burton
LaVar Arrington
Helen White (*) – Drunk driver who crashed into South Carolina politician Katie Arrington in June
Betty White
Lorenzo White
Ed Charbonneau (*)– Artist who produced the murals for Fat Lorenzo’s restaurants in Twin Cities
Geoff Palmer (*) – Founder of GHP Management, owner/developer of The Lorenzo Apartments in Los Angeles.
Geoff Cook
Dane Cook
Peter Cook
Connor Cook
Marv Cook
James Cook
James Baker
Vin Baker
Anita Baker
Dusty Baker
Kathy Baker
Hobey Baker

And who better to follow all of those cooks and bakers than….FAT OPRAH!

Go Hawks!

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

So as to not muck up the original post, here's how the BOAF works, for those of you who don't know or maybe just forgot.

BOAF stands for Birds of a Feather. It's a "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" type of game. The list consists of a bunch of names that go in a specific order. Most of the names follow each other based on some obvious commonality such as spelling or pronunciation (i.e. Bob Smith - Bob Duncan - Duncan Hines...etc.)
But then occasionally along comes a name that has nothing obvious in common with the name above it. HOWEVER, there is something connecting them...some deep, hidden connection...and those are marked with an (*).

The (*) are the ones you have to figure out. But there's a catch. While there may be numerous valid connections between the (*) names and the ones above them, there is only one RIGHT answer. And that is whatever was in Ol' Doodle's noggin when the list was constructed.

Doodle will do his best to monitor the thread and post when people come up with the correct responses.

Oh, and finally (and perhaps most importantly), the BOAF must be completed with all the right answers by no later than kickoff of Saturday's game in order to maximize the BOAF karma points for the Hawks.

Hints will begin on Friday for any (*) that remain unsolved.

Okay......GO!

 

[Wasnt-drunk-didnt-troll]

You are a good man doodle.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Catherine Zeta Jones starred in High Fidelity with Tim Robbins

 

[lonestar50]

Kevin Sorbo
Catherine Helbert (*)

Catherine Helbert teaches at Sorbonne University

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Catherine Helbert is an author and a professor at Sorbo(nne) Universite’ ?

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Kevin Sorbo
Catherine Helbert (*)

Catherine Helbert teaches at Sorbonne University

Nice. Beat me to it

 

[LAhawkeye]

Lorenzo White
Ed Charbonneau (*)

Ed Charbonneau painted nearly the entire inside and outside of the restaurant Fat Lorenzo's in Minneapolis with more than 5800 sq.ft. of murals.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Irwin Jacobs(*)
Kevin Pollack (*)

Kevin Pollack played Jacob Goldman in the Grumpy Old Men movies.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Catherine Zeta Jones starred in High Fidelity with Tim Robbins

Nice. Incorrect, but nice.

 

[GarryO37]

BobbyBoucher
Helen Ball (*)

Bobby Boucher’s mother was named Helen.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Nice. Incorrect, but nice.

Figured that was too simple. Not very Doodle-like.

 

[GarryO37]

LaVarArrington
Helen White(*)

Katie Arrington, a South Carolina Republican candidate, was the passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a wreck. A woman named Helen White died in this accident.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Ed Charbonneau (*)
Geoff Palmer (*)

Ed Charbonneau is an artist in the Twin Cities, Geoff Palmer is the real estate developer of the Da Vinci Apartments in downtown LA.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Ed Charbonneau (*)
Geoff Palmer (*)

Ed Charbonneau is an artist in the Twin Cities, Geoff Palmer is the real estate developer of the Da Vinci Apartments in downtown LA.

(* insert "on the right track" gif here*)

 

[LAhawkeye]

I'm sure this isn't it but it's too good not to give it a shot...

Jack Koerner
James Elliott (*)

Jack Koerner plays for the Iowa Hawkeyes who's fans sing "In Heaven there is no Beer" after wins... James Elliott is a former member of the band "Bear in Heaven"

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

I'm sure this isn't it but it's too good not to give it a shot...

Jack Koerner
James Elliott (*)

Jack Koerner plays for the Iowa Hawkeyes who's fans sing "In Heaven there is no Beer" after wins... James Elliott is a former member of the band "Bear in Heaven"

YEEEEE......nope.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I cant remember what Bobby "majored in" but I know he took a psych class and Helen Ball is a psych professor at Duke.

This one is bothering me... I also don't like Bobby for blocking that kick against Iowa.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Jack Koerner
James Elliott (*)

Jack Koerner's high school coach was Tom Wilson. James Elliott is head of the public law department at Wilson Solicitors.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chuck Robbins (*)

Chuck Robbins is the CEO of Cisco, whose social media manager, Tim Washer, appeared in a T-Mobile commercial with Catherine Zeta Jones.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

As always, some really entertaining, interesting answers with fun twists and turns to them. The last few may be incorrect, but the creativity is impressive!

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chuck Robbins (*)

Chuck Robbins is the CEO of Cisco, whose social media manager, Tim Washer, appeared in a T-Mobile commercial with Catherine Zeta Jones.

Once more you're sooo close.

 

[GarryO37]

Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*)

Jack Valentine Woolams was an original test pilot for the XS-1, 46-062 rocket plane. This same plane was used by Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier on Oct 14th 1947.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chuck Robbins (*)

Chuck Robbins is the CEO of Cisco, which acquired the Richard-Zeta Building Intelligence company in 2009.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Ed Charbonneau (*)
Geoff Palmer (*)

How about this... Ed Charbonneau is an artist, and Geoff Palmer is a member of the board of trustees for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*)

Jack Valentine Woolams was an original test pilot for the XS-1, 46-062 rocket plane. This same plane was used by Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier on Oct 14th 1947.

This is fantastic. Wrong....but fantastic.

 

[DutchyFunStar]

Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*)

Yeager's birthday is on Valentines eve...

 

[LBlindHawk]

Hugh Grant
Irwin Jacobs(*)


Irwin L. Jacobs purchased the accounts receivable of the bankrupt W T Grant stores.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...6060ea3/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b34a81cd9c9b

 

[hexumhawk]

*Ed Charbonneau
*Geoff Palmer designed buildings in downtown LA in 2001, one of which was called the Lorenzo; Fat Lorenzo murals created by Charbonneau

 

[DutchyFunStar]

Hugh Grant
Irwin Jacobs(*)

Jacobs founded the tele-comm giant Qualcomm while Grant was a central figure in the Daily Mail phone hacking scandle

 

[anon_gjzkhykcp9iuj]

Too much time on your hands.

 

[Johnsoda123]

Too much time on your hands.

Styx songs For $100 Alex.

 

[lonestar50]

Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*)

Chuck Yeager married Victoria Scott D'Angelo, Cat Valentine a character on the show Victorious

 

[GarryO37]

Ellie Goulding
Ron Hagerthy (*)

Ron Hagerthy was an actor who played in the movie Titanic (1953) with an actress by the name of Ivis Goulding.

 

[GarryO37]

Hugh Grant
Irwin Jacobs(*)

Hugh Davies is the director of La Jolla Museum in San Diego. The largest donor to the museum was Irwin Jacobs.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Some excellent sleuthing folks. Only 4 left, and still 3+ days until kickoff.

 

[LAhawkeye]

Ron Hagerthy played the geologist on the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies - "The Clampetts Strike Oil". One of the Clampetts was, of course, Ellie May.

 

[CJBauer]

Chuck Yeager
Cat Valentine (*)

Cat Valentine a character on Victorious played by Ariana Grande wore Converse Chuck Taylor shoes...

 

[LAhawkeye]

Jack Koerner
James Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott played on a "Legends of Folk" album with Spider John Koerner.

 

[StallmanCurse]

OK, my first ever crack at this...

Jack Koerner
James Elliott (*)

Jack Koerner's HS coach was Tom Wilson. Thomas Wilson is a co-owner of copyright to a work titled, "The Weeping Willow," along with Lawrence James Elliott and Bruce Sudano.