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Can we get rid of the ANF sticker on the helmet?
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When I saw the ANF flags on the field few weeks ago, it became wholly apparent that this is product placement and the a Farm Bureau pays mightily for it!
I have no problem with the sticker, but count me in the column of "can we make it smaller and put it in the back. Maybe like half-dollar sized. It will still garner attention, but IMO it looks a little garish as big as it is now.
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Over 97% of farms in Iowa are family owned.
https://www.iowacorn.org/about/news/no-really-iowas-farms-are-almost-entirely-family-owned/
From some one whose inlaws have a dairy farm in Iowa, I'll just say"You've got to be kidding with that". You've obviously never been on a working farm in your life.
Most of these people criticizing farmers on here have never actually been on a farm. They've driven by a few farms with nice houses and shops and just assume they all work a couple months out of the year and rake in millions of taxpayer dollars and sit back and laugh all the way to the bank. They would not last more than a week on a large farm, especially one that is in the livestock or dairy industry.
How is this any different from inheriting or taking over the family business of any other kind? Farmers still have to be really good businessmen and really good at their jobs to be able to make it work and be profitable. There are many successful farmers who are loaded, just like there are many successful small business owners who are loaded. There's no difference between the two and one is not any easier than the other. The fact is, most farmers are squarely in the middle class and trying to get by and provide for their families.
I am a pretty big lover of uniforms these days and very critical of what Iowa does in that regard.
I would keep the sticker but maybe make it a smidge smaller.
I would keep the sticker but maybe make it a smidge smaller.
I get so sick and tired of hearing this crap. I'm a geologist by profession. If people in my field stopped finding ore for mining, or fossil fuels for petroleum refinement or energy production, we all starve. Likewise for my engineer counterparts, or truck drivers, or hundreds of other professions that are tied into our society.
The only difference is we don't constantly make it out like we're the primary cog that allows the wheel of society to turn. Most educated people understand that is not the case.
Yeah I'm in the camp to take it off or put it in back. I think farmers in general are doing ok.
That will be the next ISU helmet. Goes better with cyclones, and since their fans are just a bunch of hot air!
Hayden Fry is proud of the sticker. That's good enough for me.
The success of Iowa farmers has been hard-fought with generations of work, sweat and sacrifice. Today's family farmers who make a living from the land have survived many challenges, including the Farm Crisis of the 1980s, which collapsed commodity and land prices, bankrupting thousands of Iowa farmers. Populations shifted from rural communities to larger cities as farm families lost everything. According to Emmanuel Melicher, a senior economist for the U.S. Federal Reserve, more than one-third of America's commercial farmers were in grave financial trouble. Before it hit, Iowa was home to 121,000 family farms. Nearly 20,000 went under, ending generations of farm legacy for many family farms. Nationally, the Farm Crisis claimed nearly 235,000 family farms.
Hayden Fry, the head football coach at the University of Iowa at that time, knew the Farm Crisis touched many of his players and most of the fans. He was rebuilding the Hawkeye football legacy and wanted to show the nation that the strength of his team could also be measured in their character. Never one to accept defeat, Fry quietly went to work on a game plan to raise awareness of farmers who were struggling.
In 1985, the Hawkeye football team was rated the top team in the country for several weeks during that season, won the Big Ten championship and, as such, advanced to the 1986 Rose Bowl as the league's representative.
When Fry's squad traveled to Ohio State on November 2, something new was noticed on their game-day helmet: a simple yellow circle, 2 ½ inches wide, with the letters "A-N-F" positioned immediately above the Tigerhawk on the right side of the headgear. It stood for “America Needs Farmers.” In that moment, and through the many games, many players and many wins that followed, it remains a testament to the men and women who proudly give their all to provide the nation’s diverse food supply.
Fry, who received an honorary Iowa Farm Bureau membership that year, said, "The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear."
The success of Iowa farmers has been hard-fought with generations of work, sweat and sacrifice. Today's family farmers who make a living from the land have survived many challenges, including the Farm Crisis of the 1980s, which collapsed commodity and land prices, bankrupting thousands of Iowa farmers. Populations shifted from rural communities to larger cities as farm families lost everything. According to Emmanuel Melicher, a senior economist for the U.S. Federal Reserve, more than one-third of America's commercial farmers were in grave financial trouble. Before it hit, Iowa was home to 121,000 family farms. Nearly 20,000 went under, ending generations of farm legacy for many family farms. Nationally, the Farm Crisis claimed nearly 235,000 family farms.
Hayden Fry, the head football coach at the University of Iowa at that time, knew the Farm Crisis touched many of his players and most of the fans. He was rebuilding the Hawkeye football legacy and wanted to show the nation that the strength of his team could also be measured in their character. Never one to accept defeat, Fry quietly went to work on a game plan to raise awareness of farmers who were struggling.
In 1985, the Hawkeye football team was rated the top team in the country for several weeks during that season, won the Big Ten championship and, as such, advanced to the 1986 Rose Bowl as the league's representative.
When Fry's squad traveled to Ohio State on November 2, something new was noticed on their game-day helmet: a simple yellow circle, 2 ½ inches wide, with the letters "A-N-F" positioned immediately above the Tigerhawk on the right side of the headgear. It stood for “America Needs Farmers.” In that moment, and through the many games, many players and many wins that followed, it remains a testament to the men and women who proudly give their all to provide the nation’s diverse food supply.
Fry, who received an honorary Iowa Farm Bureau membership that year, said, "The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear."
Sorry but ISU uses the pig based upon the stench that comes out of Ames and Nubs uses the ear of corn stuck up their @$$ dating back to the nineties.
We need farmers to feed us and provide hot daughter's to date. And yes, I'd like to see the ANF sticker moved to the back of the helmet.
I HATE FAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other people work hard too...............
And the gov doesn't come to the aid of other businessmen.
QUIT BUYING ETHENOL FOR YOUR CARS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other people work hard too...............
And the gov doesn't come to the aid of other businessmen.
QUIT BUYING ETHENOL FOR YOUR CARS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should wipe that name off the stadium too. I think something more like "Kum and Go Field at Mediacom Stadium in the Pioneer Seed Corn Athletic Complex" seems more appropriate...
I like the idea of the stickers, but the fact is they clutter up what would otherwise be one of the best helmets in football.
I'd be in favor of making it smaller, and moving it to the back of the helmet. Or, make it a patch on the jersey.
If we really want to raise awareness for farmers, we could do a much better job. (After all, you never hear TV announcers talk about the ANF stickers anymore.) What I would do is designate one game a year as the "ANF" game. For that game only, we will remove the Tiger Hawk completely, and replace it with a large "ANF" sticker. Coaches could follow suit with some kind of ANF apparel on the sidelines. Special ANF shirts could be sold to fans for the game. Better yet, make the Nebraska game the "ANF Bowl" every year. Both teams could sport the ANF logo (in their own colors). Ditch the "Heroes Trophy," and replace it with the "ANF Trophy." If we really wanted to raise awareness for farmers and farm families, this would be the way to do it.
I'd be in favor of making it smaller, and moving it to the back of the helmet. Or, make it a patch on the jersey.
If we really want to raise awareness for farmers, we could do a much better job. (After all, you never hear TV announcers talk about the ANF stickers anymore.) What I would do is designate one game a year as the "ANF" game. For that game only, we will remove the Tiger Hawk completely, and replace it with a large "ANF" sticker. Coaches could follow suit with some kind of ANF apparel on the sidelines. Special ANF shirts could be sold to fans for the game. Better yet, make the Nebraska game the "ANF Bowl" every year. Both teams could sport the ANF logo (in their own colors). Ditch the "Heroes Trophy," and replace it with the "ANF Trophy." If we really wanted to raise awareness for farmers and farm families, this would be the way to do it.
Likewise, I'm sure if you attempted to sit in my seat you'd fail.
Anyway, at issue here is the need for a sticker and not whether the farmer himself is necessary.
Iowa farmers are not feeding the world. People do not eat field corn or soy beans.
Farm policy promotes corn and beans, and big ag lobbies Congress and state legislatures to find a market. That is where Hog Confinements and Ethanol come in. Dirty water and polluted lakes and streams comes with it. I have no bone to pick with how people make a living, but I am a bit tired of Iowa being stereotyped as being a giant corn field with lots of pigs as well. ANF perpetuates that stereotype.
Farm policy promotes corn and beans, and big ag lobbies Congress and state legislatures to find a market. That is where Hog Confinements and Ethanol come in. Dirty water and polluted lakes and streams comes with it. I have no bone to pick with how people make a living, but I am a bit tired of Iowa being stereotyped as being a giant corn field with lots of pigs as well. ANF perpetuates that stereotype.
That was a great publicity plow for a few years more than 30 years ago. We're not even an ag/tech school-that's Iowa A&T up in Ames. It clutters the helmet. I'd go all black with a tiger hawk on one side and the player's number on the other, and nothing else.
Iowa sells a lot of corn to Mexico. Due to poor relations and with the future of Nafta in doubt, Mexico is already looking to replace the corn it buys from the U.S. Hope you farmers have a plan b. Canada hates us too.
I agree about the stereotype. When I was in politics people from out of state would want me to bring hay bales and an wagons into the ballroom of a 35 story hotel in the middle of downtown Des Moines. At a party at the Temple for Performing Arts, also downtown, a reporter from the east coast complained about not seeing any cows. I don't know if she was dumb (this was an east coast political reporter after all) or trying to be a wise ass, but she asked me where were the cows in Des Moines. We were standing next to an hors d'oeuvres buffet so I just said, right in those chafing pans.
America does need farmers but Hawkeye helmets don't need that logo.
So you're saying the Mexicans are so dumb they will pay more than market value to import corn from a non-American supplier?
That will no longer be the case if Trump is successful with a border tax.
I HATE FAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other people work hard too...............
And the gov doesn't come to the aid of other businessmen.
QUIT BUYING ETHENOL FOR YOUR CARS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Move to California
Kurt, does your sarcasm meter need fresh batteries?
Lol, umm I think maybe it does
Iowan born and bred living in CA. Still have cousins farming in Iowa. California feeds the nation, not Iowa. Half of all fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the country come from CA. And a whopping share of dairy and livestock. I assume your comment is a political one.
Lmfao, yeah using a unsustainable and completely unfair water rights system. California wouldn’t be producing a third of what it does without massive irrigation projects that drain the Colorado river basin dry. I say we turn it off for a few years.
But all that aside, what is exactly the point here. Last I checked, California still used farms to create all that produce you mentioned.....so yeah farmers. Nobody was arguing that America only needed Iowa farmers.
Edit: Beef from anywhere outside of a select few midwestern States tastes like shoe leather...
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America needs zookeepers. Without someone to scrub the elephant's ass, Lucy breaks out of the zoo looking for a nice, soft lawn, and there are a lot of zoos.
I have a few degrees so I think I can hang.
Every single professional you listed needs to eat. Every person needs to eat. Unless you can grow all your food yourself, you rely on agriculture.
Even those that can manage to be self sustaining enjoy things they can’t produce. And there are very very few people who can do that, but guess what most who can are? You guessed it .. farmers. I am sorry you just cannot accept these things, a bias such as yours is unfortunate. Good luck if there’s ever food shortages where you live sir. I'm heading back home to Iowa with the wife and kids ASAP if that ever happens.
Btw, most well educated people learned in college that prior to the industrial revolution the primary drivers of advances in society were the development of modern organized agricultural practices.
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