Embarrassing Iowa fans

[kwik44]

The bottleneck had nothing to do with "different" people attending the game. The exact same thing happened against Pitt. It's because the redesigned restrooms from when they did the renovation on the East and West concourses were F^%ked up beyond all belief. You had 20,000 people that had been drinking all day long waiting in line to take a piss, 20,000 people with their voucher coupons waiting in line for free food, and both sets of lines backup on, intersect with, and interfere directly with the other 30,000 people that just want to get to their seats.

Blame the design of the remodeled Kinnick and the idiots in charge of gameday operations, not these phantom "new fans", who don't exist, BTW. Go ahead and take a look at our attendance for every game this year.

While agree with everything you said, I still believe it was a culmination of both.

The blank stares while looking down at their tickets were a plenty.
Where I sit, it used to be an established base of season ticket holders. This year it was mostly single game tickets to the right of us & behind. I saw characters like never before this year, and it was frustrating at times dealing with them.
I enjoy the rejuvenated interest that comes with a good season, just not some of the baggage that goes with it.

 

[theIowaHawk]

The bottleneck had nothing to do with "different" people attending the game. The exact same thing happened against Pitt. It's because the redesigned restrooms from when they did the renovation on the East and West concourses were F^%ked up beyond all belief. You had 20,000 people that had been drinking all day long waiting in line to take a piss, 20,000 people with their voucher coupons waiting in line for free food, and both sets of lines backup on, intersect with, and interfere directly with the other 30,000 people that just want to get to their seats.

Blame the design of the remodeled Kinnick and the idiots in charge of gameday operations, not these phantom "new fans", who don't exist, BTW. Go ahead and take a look at our attendance for every game this year.

Absolutely, completely false. I've been to every game, minus one, since 2000, including Pitt and it was nothing like that.

Attendance? You missed the point entirely. The 10k plus "new" fans who came to Minnesota were not the fans who dropped tickets last year, they were "new", many of whom were wrestling fans not used to being there.

 

[hawkedoff]

I watched the two people standing that the op is talking about. They were jerks for sure but the idiots behind them made it worse. The woman was incredibly drunk and should have been arrested twice for assault. Security did nothing. The guy was lucky the standing guy didn't have a short fuse. He was a big dude and would have ended him pretty easily. The reason they kept standing was the behavior of the two idiots that should be referred to as drunky and loud mouthed. She could barely stand and secure did a really really bad job. Loudmouth decided to a start screaming at the couple immediately at the start of the game. Drunky pushed him twice and there water on the guys girlfriend. This was done in front of security and in front of the entire section. Initially people were yelling at them to sit down but realized quickly they didn't want to be associated with drunky and loudmouth.

Both were wrong but I think the couple would have likely sat down if the idiots hadn't screamed at them and turned it into a grudge situation.

I will admit I left early. The team didn't show up to play so why should I stay exactly? Some mythical show of support? The fans did their part. The team did not. That has nothing to do with winning by the way.

The band was obnoxious and after reading about them more the president of Stanford should apologize or be gone. Maybe both. Go read why they were banned from away games this year

 

[ICHawk95]

I was siting on the divide between Iowa and Stanford fans. From an hour before the game through today, Stanford fans have shown themselves to be complete aholes.

Getting into the stadium was ridiculous. People were shoving and pushing. Some 50 year old chick in front of me loudly proclaimed it was the fault of all of the Iowa fans who had never been there before. When an Iowa fan told her she was rude, the surrounding Stanford fans ganged up in the Iowa person telling her she should grow a sense of humor. Then they started shoving her around in the mass of people. Really cool.

In our section, we had a Stanford fan who started screaming at an elderly couple and had to be escorted from the stadium. The jerk next to me was riding me all game about the score even though I said absolutely nothing to him the entire game.

On the plane home, a Stanford fan heckled me as I walked past her.

They were jerks, top to bottom and had we beaten them by 30 points, my opinion wouldn't have changed a bit.

 

[Herkmeister]

Guy, I understand if you can't read. Sometimes it takes people a few times to read a piece of writing and fully understand it. I would suggest this strategy to you.

Man, you're testy!!! Just curious but are you kind of a control freak? He was just messing with you a little.

 

[Desmond King]

Absolutely, completely false. I've been to every game, minus one, since 2000, including Pitt and it was nothing like that.

Well I've been to every game since 1988, and I can safely say that you're an idiot.

I thought I was going to die before the Pitt game. Felt like I was in one of those English soccer crushes that kill a hundred people.

Had absolutely no issue prior to the Minnesota game. Just because you didn't personally experience it, doesn't mean that it didn't happen, moron.

 

[Desmond King]

Attendance? You missed the point entirely. The 10k plus "new" fans who came to Minnesota were not the fans who dropped tickets last year, they were "new", many of whom were wrestling fans not used to being there.

You think that 10,000 people showed up for Minnesota that had never been to a football game at Iowa before, and that our "wrestling" fanbase is somehow composed of a dramatically different number of people that don't follow the football team, especially since the football game didn't sell out until a week before, and the wrestling meet was announced months in advance?

Fvcking dumbass.

 

[HobbieHawk]

I'm sure this is just a biased view from my section (17), but some of our fans were embarrassing.
1. Booing the stanford band for mocking us : they obviously wanted that reaction and we gave it to them. If you were offended, then you were taking them too seriously. Just a bunch of liberal, drunk whack jobs trying to get under our skin and it apparently worked.
2. Standing during the game. I will stand for 10 hours straight to watch the hawks, but when your collective section is sitting, it becomes a problem when Joe blow and his girlfriend are the only ones standing and they happen to be 2 rows in front of you. Obviously, during important downs is a different story. I would love to just stand, too, but I am conscious of those behind me and considerate.
3. It's pretty embarrassing when I have to call out a woman in front of me for standing while trying to "catch up "with an old friend while the hawks are driving down the field in the 2nd quarter (on our end, nonetheless! )
4. This is even more particular, but the idiot next to us was booing everything in sight (stanford band, rose bowl hall of fame class, saying "f shaw, f the refs, etc.) It made us want to move sections.
5. Leaving the game early. To each their own, but I can't see leaving the rose bowl early because you're disgusted and want to go to a bar or back to the car to tailgate. I'll have plenty of times to do that back in Iowa if I want.


I'm sure I have a biased view based on my section, but I was disgusted and embarrassed, at times.

You're supposed to change the tampon from time to time

 

[NashvilleHawk]

We stayed until the very end and absorbed every second of that atmosphere.
If you went to the game with a T-shirt, it was chilly for you in the second half.
I thought at least 2/3rds of the Iowa fans stayed until the very end, despite the game being over, much sooner.

 

[kwik44]

You think that 10,000 people showed up for Minnesota that had never been to a football game at Iowa before, and that our "wrestling" fanbase is somehow composed of a dramatically different number of people that don't follow the football team, especially since the football game didn't sell out until a week before, and the wrestling meet was announced months in advance?

Fvcking dumbass.

Those wrestling fans follow Iowa football, but don't attend games often. Not saying every wrestling fan, but a number have not attended a football game in Kinnick.

There is definitely a unique breed that you can find at the wrestling meets.

Some that I knew on the day of the Minnesota game said they were here for the wrestling and have never been to a game at Kinnick. These were guys in their late 50's.

 

[Desmond King]

Those wrestling fans follow Iowa football, but don't attend games often. Not saying every wrestling fan, but a number have not attended a football game in Kinnick.

There is definitely a unique breed that you can find at the wrestling meets.

Some that I knew on the day of the Minnesota game said they were here for the wrestling and have never been to a game at Kinnick. These were guys in their late 50's.

A handful, maybe, but 10,000, not a chance. And that wouldn't explain why the game remained a non-sellout for MONTHS after the wrestling meet was announced and had already sold tens of thousands of tickets. Clearly the "bandwagon" percentage of the football fanbase was waiting to see how well the team would do before deciding to commit to tickets for another game. It is likely that the added attraction of the wrestling meet increased attention on the football game, but certainly not to the extent that thousands of people that have never been to a game before decided to just hop on board at the last second.

There are not 10,000 people living within driving distance of Kinnick that would consider attending a game and haven't yet. Those people just don't exist. In case people haven't noticed, the population in this area of the country isn't exactly increasing, and people just don't wake up one day deciding to become Iowa football fans if they haven't been before. That's not how these things work.

It's the same kind of stupid thinking that leads to threads where pissed off season ticket holders say that they're going to drop tickets, and then some moron jumps in and says that they'll be plenty of other people waiting in line to buy those seats. Well, clearly there aren't. If this season has proven anything, it's that.

The Iowa fanbase has limits, and the number of people willing to shell out the money, time, and inconvenience of attending a game nowadays is a lot smaller number than people are generally willing to admit. Ten thousand empty seats per game for the first undefeated regular season in nearly 100 years proves that beyond any shadow of a doubt.

 

[kwik44]

I wasn't the poster who said all 10k were only wrestling fans. Just to state that there were more casual fans at Kinnick stadium by a fairly large amount just by what I observed.

 

[Desmond King]

I wasn't the poster who said all 10k were only wrestling fans. Just to state that there were more casual fans at Kinnick stadium by a fairly large amount just by what I observed.

You said you "knew some guys."

A fairly large amount?

Your an idiot.

 

[milehighhawkeye24]

I'm sure this is just a biased view from my section (17), but some of our fans were embarrassing.
1. Booing the stanford band for mocking us : they obviously wanted that reaction and we gave it to them. If you were offended, then you were taking them too seriously. Just a bunch of liberal, drunk whack jobs trying to get under our skin and it apparently worked.
2. Standing during the game. I will stand for 10 hours straight to watch the hawks, but when your collective section is sitting, it becomes a problem when Joe blow and his girlfriend are the only ones standing and they happen to be 2 rows in front of you. Obviously, during important downs is a different story. I would love to just stand, too, but I am conscious of those behind me and considerate.
3. It's pretty embarrassing when I have to call out a woman in front of me for standing while trying to "catch up "with an old friend while the hawks are driving down the field in the 2nd quarter (on our end, nonetheless! )
4. This is even more particular, but the idiot next to us was booing everything in sight (stanford band, rose bowl hall of fame class, saying "f shaw, f the refs, etc.) It made us want to move sections.
5. Leaving the game early. To each their own, but I can't see leaving the rose bowl early because you're disgusted and want to go to a bar or back to the car to tailgate. I'll have plenty of times to do that back in Iowa if I want.


I'm sure I have a biased view based on my section, but I was disgusted and embarrassed, at times.

Please stop going to games if you are going to be such a little bitch

 

[kwik44]

You said you "knew some guys."

A fairly large amount?

Your an idiot.

*You're (idiot, sheesh)

Interacting with? Yes, small.

Observing? I can observe as many fans as I want to observe, and it was different. Just my personal opinion.

Are you getting agitated over this topic?

 

[Desmond King]

*You're (idiot, sheesh)

Interacting with? Yes, small.

Observing? I can observe as many fans as I want to observe, and it was different. Just my personal opinion.

Are you getting agitated over this topic?

How do you "observe" people and tell that they've never been to a game before, Einstein?

 

[Grappler54]

I'm sure this is just a biased view from my section (17), but some of our fans were embarrassing.
1. Booing the stanford band for mocking us : they obviously wanted that reaction and we gave it to them. If you were offended, then you were taking them too seriously. Just a bunch of liberal, drunk whack jobs trying to get under our skin and it apparently worked.
2. Standing during the game. I will stand for 10 hours straight to watch the hawks, but when your collective section is sitting, it becomes a problem when Joe blow and his girlfriend are the only ones standing and they happen to be 2 rows in front of you. Obviously, during important downs is a different story. I would love to just stand, too, but I am conscious of those behind me and considerate.
3. It's pretty embarrassing when I have to call out a woman in front of me for standing while trying to "catch up "with an old friend while the hawks are driving down the field in the 2nd quarter (on our end, nonetheless! )
4. This is even more particular, but the idiot next to us was booing everything in sight (stanford band, rose bowl hall of fame class, saying "f shaw, f the refs, etc.) It made us want to move sections.
5. Leaving the game early. To each their own, but I can't see leaving the rose bowl early because you're disgusted and want to go to a bar or back to the car to tailgate. I'll have plenty of times to do that back in Iowa if I want.


I'm sure I have a biased view based on my section, but I was disgusted and embarrassed, at times.

Totally embarrassing ..... I would have left