The famous showdown profiled in a feature article by Sports Illustrated:
Iowa PBS adds 1987 Iowa vs ISU dual to YouTube
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Chiapparelli had one hell of a match in the finals that year I believe. I watched that late scramble several times over the years and I'm still amazed how he didn't give up any points. Clutch performance!
Nice. As part of a message about the Gibbons documentary, I recently appealed to my state reps that IPTV make their wrestling content digital and available to the public. Thus, I’m taking full credit for this.
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He was my submission wrestling coach about 20 something years ago. Him and Zap. As much of freakish animal as he was on the mat, he is so friendly and easy going off the mat. Absolute hammer.
Lol. This is iptv giving Gibby the finger.
But thank you for the letter. You missed your calling as a lobbyist
Great meet. Both teams very well coached. Brought back lots of great memories. Thank you for posting.
Mitch Kelly would rather throw ya than know ya
Late January, but I was totally kidding. I don’t even think my email was read.
Thanks, Chief (& others who have helped). More than excited to watch the old matches. Lots of great memories.
The sport lost a great one when Mike Allen stepped away as a referee and again, when he left as director of officials.
I am so glad we have the current out-of-bounds rules in effect. That one rule change has made a dramatic improvement in my opinion.
Spooner laid all the groundwork…My Tweet probably had them saying “Will these people please go away!?”
Watching those old duals also reminded me how quick the whistles blew for stalemates and stalling back in those days. Holy cow, seemed like the ref might blow the whistle if you had a pinning chance but took longer than 6 seconds to get the pin.
Hate to tell you, but I heard through the grapevine that it might be the second documentary in the series. The dual Lewis blew out his elbow and Lou was exhausted from almost winning by fall seven times and got caught
Another thing I noticed that many might not pick up on is how quickly they started wrestling again after going out of bounds.
A lot of times when I’m watching I will hit the “15 second advance“ button once they go out of bounds. In today’s meets that will typically put me a couple seconds ahead of when they start wrestling again. In these old ones, I miss some of the action.
So essentially it went from about 10 seconds whistle out of bounds to whistle restarting the action to about 20 seconds in today’s meets. I thought that was an interesting and possibly unnoticed change.
I am little embarrassed to admit this but when watching these videos, it sure didn't feel like I was watching footage from such a long time ago. Though I don't feel old, this may simply be showing my age. Sure, the hair styles were hilarious & some of the clothing/glasses funny but once you're lost in the wrestling, not so much. Credit may go to IPTV and the digitalization process but I was surprised it didn't "feel" more old.
Awesome viewing and absolutely great wrestling. Like others have mentioned, Rico was my favorite. Also, love how the Hawks amped up the crowd before/after matches.
Awesome viewing and absolutely great wrestling. Like others have mentioned, Rico was my favorite. Also, love how the Hawks amped up the crowd before/after matches.
