Lived in Des Moines 3-1, hyperbole much. Only factual thing you said is Des Moines is close to Ames
Historically they give each fan five years worth of shirts with the schedule on the back- that way they can find six wins within the shirts combined so they can claim they were bowl eligible- the AD tweets it out and the tornado siren goes off
Strange...I live in the Des Moines area, and I see about 3x as many Hawkeye gear than ISU. One of us isn’t telling the truth (hint: it isn’t me).
I live in WDM and see plenty of ISU shirts after they win a game, but no where near as many as Iowa on a daily basis. Also, there is no more coverage of ISU than Iowa by Register. They are both heavily covered to sell newspapers, but it is very equal.
I've lived in DSM for 23 years. I think you may be over estimating the number of ISU shirts to Iowa shirts. 3-1? Really? Now that is funny.
'Ol "Register Randy's" pieces read more like articles generated by the Iowa State sports information department.
Iowa fans wear normal clothes during the week. ISU fans wear ISU garb every single day of the week. It's weird. Hats, Polo's, coats, sweatshirts, etc, etc. This doesn't mean there are more Cy fans, it just means ISU fans have no fashion sense.
We are in Waukee, my kindergartner and 3rd grader had Iowa clothing outnumber the cyclone 5:1 in both their classes. Not sure how that adds up in the real world, but with all of my kids, I have never seen ISU apparel outnumber Iowa apparel the Friday before gameday.
I second this. I’m having three kids go through Waukee and every time the pic comes home, it’s more Iowa than Isu.
As an alumni of Iowa, I don’t ever remember getting anything asking me where I live. Is this something done today? How did they even come up with these numbers?
So he can tell which people wearing an iowa/isu shirt actually went to that school? That's pretty impressive.
There are way more Iowa fans in central iowa than isu, period.....
I looked for websites with population stats for alumni to verify ISUs claim and all I could find was the page with the chart on the ISU website. Not sure where they pulled it from. But I can guess.
I am not. I asked them to remove me years ago, we moved, and I haven’t heard from them since. Is that how they keep track of it?
This is very VERY true. Lots of Iowa fans have normal clothes. Most ISU fans just have Clown gear.
Agree. Sadly, it's a shell of its former self. They got rid of the majority of "expensive" and talented reporters ... Of course, the newspaper industry as a whole is much, much different. Now, it seems like the Register is made up of a bunch of kids in their 20s.
If they're playing to get into a bowl, maybe. If they're not going to be eligible for one win or lose, they should cancel the game.
So annoying to see Iowa, Michigan State and Ohio State gear at a frickin’ Cubs or Bears game ... it’s a Cubs/Bears game, own any other shirts?? Haha, I admire the loyalty and intensity of fandom (and envy it as an Illini fan), but it’s often used to inflate the numbers game, just as that ISU fan is doing. “I see way more Michigan gear than Illini gear in Lincoln Park, bro!” Yeah, because 1) Illinois sucks and 2) most Illini fans in Chicago don’t see that as part of their identity and proudly want to let everyone know every day.
Perhaps a little to much husker thinking in the center of the state. "Campbell is the new savor" and the like. And the once respectable stalwart pillar of sports journalism, home of the Peach, has no choice in these declinig print media days but to stoke the hype and spin their stories toward their husker-like cyclone fan base (without the winning tradition). Sad really.
