It was not new, we have done this before. It had been awhile, but we have most definitely carried the chant that long, that loud in the past.
I O W A chant
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It was not new, we have done this before. It had been awhile, but we have most definitely carried the chant that long, that loud in the past.
I'm not doubting you or trying to call you out, but I'm not able to recall other times where we went that long. Do you remember any specific instances to jog my memory? I've been to 90-95% of the home games since the mid-90's (and lots of games prior to that), but don't have any that come to mind.
Well, I was in the student section for the beginning of the Aughts, and that is where I would point. We may not have went as long as on Saturday, I never timed anything. But we have definitely went through kickoff and in to the next set of plays.
Off the top of my head? I would say the overtime loss to Michigan, night game vs. OSU, and a Wisconsin game. It certainly is rare, but this was not the first.
Edit after seeing the above post: May not have been the night game OSU, likely the one he is discussing.
I remember that, but I didn't think it lasted quite as long. My memory may be faulty on that count. It was an awesome game, but I'm still a little ticked we let them score at the end to break up the shutout.
Yeah, I think you've got a pretty good list. One common thing to note is that these games are all special circumstances (night game, rival, historically tough opponent, and/or a close game). It's nice to think that we could sustain the chant every game, but it may be asking too much to get that excited for more "average" games (i.e. most of the rest of this season).
Shit, I'm just happy to see the fans back in to it. The last few years from an energy standpoint have been tough. It was present in the first game, more so in this last one.
Don't get me wrong, the fans were ready at points last year, but it just never came together. There would be a great scoring drive (just for examples sake) and the crowd noise would be growing, and then it would die off after a non-defensive-stop, or vice versa where the D would get a big stop, crowd would buzz, then the offense sputtered. It just never had the opportunity to really get there.
This year has felt different from before the first game, and a big kudos goes out to the students who have filled their section twice now. Saturday's game, as you point out, was sort of the perfect storm: Close game, but with scoring and exciting plays (2 ints in 1st Q!), night game, came right down to the wire.
Don't get me wrong, the fans were ready at points last year, but it just never came together. There would be a great scoring drive (just for examples sake) and the crowd noise would be growing, and then it would die off after a non-defensive-stop, or vice versa where the D would get a big stop, crowd would buzz, then the offense sputtered. It just never had the opportunity to really get there.
This year has felt different from before the first game, and a big kudos goes out to the students who have filled their section twice now. Saturday's game, as you point out, was sort of the perfect storm: Close game, but with scoring and exciting plays (2 ints in 1st Q!), night game, came right down to the wire.
FWIW, a great friend of mine has been to pretty much every home game in the last 20 years. He also happened to be about 13 or so when he personally attended the 1985 Michigan game. So he's seen some great Kinnick crowds.
My question to him - "hey, has the I-O-W-A chant ever gone that long?" His answer, "never that I can remember. Pepp, it basically went organic and just kept going."
My question to him - "hey, has the I-O-W-A chant ever gone that long?" His answer, "never that I can remember. Pepp, it basically went organic and just kept going."
This is a very good point, and I agree with you. This team seems to have what it takes to get us over the hump, and I'm excited for the remaining home games, despite the lack of big name opponents.
This is my experience as well. However, the freshness of the experience and the way memories can fade do possibly have a factor in this. As theIowaHawk and ichawk24 have mentioned, there are some other games with similarly long chants. I still cling to my own belief that Saturday's was the longest.
I believe the student section is smaller now. The south end zone no longer goes to the top. I think those seats now are public.
You don't read very well . I stated several times that not every single person is yelling. In, fact, alot are not. And alot aren't constantly yelling.
Certainly not as much as they would with my proposed IOWA chant.
Yet again, you create BS so you can argue. Do you have a job? A hobby? Or do you simply just like to argue?
The above picture illustrates how big the student section was previously. Students all wear black, since they are GA. You can see that the black in the corner is all the way to the back of the south endzone. This past weekend, however, photos show that the second tier is all reserved seating, with two gold sections above the students. See below:
You think they will cheer (when they wouldn't before) because you propose it? That is the absurd part. If 1/10 werent yelling/cheering on third downs, they aren't likely to change because ICU asked.
Students are vital to the whole experience, glad to see them coming back, can't wait until they are truly back to the mid-2000s level.
Right, as RecruitingViolation demonstrated, but the Students are still filling out what they have....something they haven't done in previous years.
Here is from the gigapicture: http://gigapixel.panoramas.com/iowa/football/20150919/
http://pano.ly/1l2l
It looks to me like the sw corner is students all the way up, the next section over (yellow, 221) is not (219, 220)
221 was often empty-emptyish last few years.
We had a row empty behind us in 124 last week. (bad game to skip) Two different groups of students sat there throughout the game because they said the student section was too full and they couldn't get in. That is a great sign in my book.
