Avg age of this board?
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am 72 and ukrainehawk thats the best post that I have read in a long time. Bingo..Thanks...
63 for this geezer, played the game, been going since to big time college games since 1974 at Tennessee, then 1982 at Iowa. 2 great schools, conferences and venues. Fans at Tennessee are more pissy since they regularly get clocked by Florida and Alabama.
I had the pleasure of playing pickup BB games with Vince at the Robert A. Lee rec center back in the day. Helluva player but an even better guy. Needless to say I'm getting to be an old fart. I'll be 54 next month.
I'll be 67 on Dec 7th. Glad to see there are a few more folks who remember the Gary Snooks, Paul Krause's, John Niland's and others from the 50's and 60's. I didn't really turn into a fan until the famous Playboy Magazine photograph of Snook, et al (my parents were a bit radical and had a subscription to Playboy) right before the fall.
At 33 years old my earliest Iowa football memories are of Matt Rodgers and Nick Bell taking the team to the 1991 Rose Bowl. I learned early how to deal with disappointment, but I always look forward to the next game/season.
I agree with not calling out players by name. I don't mind if someone says our WR's need to stop dropping ball. These are college kids and they don't need to be singled out.
I am 53 which is old enough to know that our loss to NDSU was not as bad as our 2014 win against Ball State.
61. Have seen many highs and lows of Iowa fb. I have learned that other teams have coaches and players that try very hard to win games. We were defeated by a very good team that should not have been able to beat Iowa. But it happened.
I couldn't care much less about a National Championship. I want to win the B1G. Still within reach.
I couldn't care much less about a National Championship. I want to win the B1G. Still within reach.
So far I believe I'll take the cake or prize at 86. A fan since 1947.
The comments here are mostly from thoughtful rabid fan
so just overlook the worst,GO HAWKS!
I'm 77 and could have sworn the only one older than me was the hills. Or dirt. But some on this board are! I feel young again!
50 here. I have seen worse meltdowns, and there will be more! It's a message board and posters want to bitch about posters bitching? Priceless! And I will add, if there is ever a day when its ok to lose to a FBS school, especially with the players we had returning. They should shut the whole thing down.
44 but wonder why the footage of the classic Rob H game winner vs Michigan looks like they should've had leather helmets on. Good Lord, that was like 7 seasons ago, wasn't it?
[QUOTE="ukrainehawk, post: 3621973, member: 7198
I was at the game Saturday - but I didn't get angry- it just hurts. Hurts me, hurts for us, hurts for the players, hurts for the coaches, hurts for their families; but strangely enough, mixed in with all that pain is a little quiet joy for those North Dakota kids, coaches and families, and what they put in their collective memories and hearts forever.
Maybe age matters.[/QUOTE]
My kids tell me that "I'm old as dirt" and I'm only 57. To be truthful I was sooo pissed off at the coaches for the play calling at the end of the game that I could have chewed nails. I will also say that I did not even think about how the ndsu players, coaches and family felt after the game until I read this. I fell that with age there comes an understanding of how one should handle their hurt or as I was being pissed off and message boards are just one way to do that.
I was at the game Saturday - but I didn't get angry- it just hurts. Hurts me, hurts for us, hurts for the players, hurts for the coaches, hurts for their families; but strangely enough, mixed in with all that pain is a little quiet joy for those North Dakota kids, coaches and families, and what they put in their collective memories and hearts forever.
Maybe age matters.[/QUOTE]
My kids tell me that "I'm old as dirt" and I'm only 57. To be truthful I was sooo pissed off at the coaches for the play calling at the end of the game that I could have chewed nails. I will also say that I did not even think about how the ndsu players, coaches and family felt after the game until I read this. I fell that with age there comes an understanding of how one should handle their hurt or as I was being pissed off and message boards are just one way to do that.
What's really bad is twitter. Just reading some of the local medias posts reporting on the game some of the fan posts call for the coaches to be fired and expect recruits to decommit. Just all snide remarks. How productive to the cause of Iowa football is that. All the while there are recruits posting and reading that shit. You go and read some of these jackwagons profiles and they are "life long Hawk fans". Luckly 99% of the kids coming in are level headed enough to blow these comments off.
I'm 81 and soon to be 82. My advice to you is when someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, you should reply, "How soon do you need to know".
