Sorry if this has been discussed before but does anyone know the backstory on why iowa was in the movie? Such a great scene, minus the blocked kick.. 
Iowa Hawkeye references in movies and tv shows
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Alvin Mack regrets meeting the Hawkeyes
There’s a scene in season 2 of The Sopranos when they’re in the betting parlor and Furio asks if Chris likes Iowa with the points.
Iowa’s pretty well represented in Hollywood. Lots of Writers Workshop alumni in Tinseltown.
Iowa’s pretty well represented in Hollywood. Lots of Writers Workshop alumni in Tinseltown.
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Some schools are not afraid to let movies use their brand. I know some colleges would not let the Waterboy use their brand if they lost.
Flick is right on - plus a bunch of producers, directors and writers from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop too.
The Screaming Eagles of Minnesota State played Iowa in a bowl game on Coach.
That was a classic.
The creator/main writer of that show went to Iowa! I was in Hillcrest (Near North 100s, by the corner door) when they were filming some exterior transition shots of "students" walking around, and was told to keep my blinds down for the shoot.
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They got killed. As in, 70-7 or something. The Fox got Fry’d.
Can’t Buy Me Love. Bobby was a big star in southern California high school football. But, at Iowa, he was just a freshman trying to make it. Earn your spot, Bob. lol
Team got sick and coach fox gave them a great pep talk only to have them get crushed by iowa.
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FWIW: Wife was re-watching The Gilmore Girls, season 6, and she noticed a scene at the Yale student newspaper that had a bunch of clippings on the wall, and the one most clearly visible next to the actor was a front page from The Daily Iowan with a black tiger hawk above the nameplate. Always fun to see that stuff.
Saved By The Bell. A.C. Slater was offered a full wrestling scholarship to Iowa. He had turmoil in his life though. This made the decision a difficult one. Among other problems, his girlfriend Jessi Spano was a pill popping feminist with A.C.’s balls soldered to her chastity belt. Tough times at Slater Hall.
So very tough!
So very tough!
when I was a little kid, and I used to watch Happy Days...... I always thought the pennant hanging at Arnold's said Iowa. My Dad would always have to correct me and tell me it said Iona. I think it was black and gold and that is what gave me the most confusion.
Kinda cool but i hate to be associated with Hollywood whatsoever
EdTV with Mcconaughey shows a group of college girls at University of Iowa that regularly tuned into the show.
The classic 1999 film "Whiteboyz" features a scene at the original Fieldhouse bar in Iowa City's ped mall where the protagonists get into a fracas over an attempt to sell imitation illicit narcotics to unsuspecting collegiate scholars. Brilliant cinema.
Tom whats-his-name, (he is from Iowa and was married to Rosanne Barr), had a short lived show which he had Iowa Hawkeye gear all over the set. The show only lasted a short time and was cancelled.
I saw on the last season of The Ranch, Iowa football was on in the background of Maggie’s bar. It was Stanzi wearing the throwbacks. I’m assuming that’s an Ashton Kutcher deal.
In the original Fright Night, the cup he pulled the pencil out of to stab the vampire was an Iowa Hawkeyes cup.
Glory Road Iowa vs Texas Western
They shot a house party scene for that movie in Bettendorf and gave small parts to a few local girls. What a terrible movie.
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Complacency, not enough athletes, lack of an elite PG. I’m done with this team
The best part of this scene was that it was a pulling OG that ended Alvin's career. Even in the movies, our O-line wrecks people.
Also, in the remake of the movie The Crazies, when actor Timothy Olyphant is at the gas station the commercial over the loud speakers is telling people to get their Iowa Hawkeyes season tickets today.
Furthermore, in the movie Major League, Ricky Vaughn's final scene of coming out the bullpen to the crowd going crazy singing wild thing, there's a fan on the third base line at or near the front row wearing a Hawkeyes football jersey.
1. In True Romance there is an Iowa football game on a TV in the background.
2. In (at least) one of the Air Bud movies, the school's fight song is On Iowa.
And, slightly OT: In The Big Chill, the big game is Michigan-Michigan State. People just assume it is Ohio State-Michigan. It isn't.
And even further OT (hope I'm not ruining the thread). Bill Walton is in Ghostbusters.
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/bi...usters-appearance-confounding-dave-pasch.html
2. In (at least) one of the Air Bud movies, the school's fight song is On Iowa.
And, slightly OT: In The Big Chill, the big game is Michigan-Michigan State. People just assume it is Ohio State-Michigan. It isn't.
And even further OT (hope I'm not ruining the thread). Bill Walton is in Ghostbusters.
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/bi...usters-appearance-confounding-dave-pasch.html
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I hit a HR in high school on the field the opening scene took place. Cool story I know. It took place in Lenox.
Watched it again earlier this week and it was even better than I remembered. Deserved an Oscar and it should be on the AFI Top 100.
Iowa got beat by Ohio St I believe on November 5, 1955 when Biff turned on his car to listen to scores and compare it to the Sports Almanac on Back to the Future 2.
The casting in that movie is the best I’ve ever seen for a football film. Those actors looked and moved like real Power 5 college football players. The film even had cameos! When Lattimer tried to rape the petite young lady at the house party, it wasn’t Andrew Bryniarski in the scene. It was Christian Peter. The director really wanted to “sell” the sexual violence to the audience. So, they went out and hired the best.
Never Back Down. Several Iowa references including wearing Iowa t-shirts and discussing Dan Gable. Definitely on my top five list with the Godlfather. Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Big Short, and Shawshank
