Iowa tourism $7.3 Billion!!!
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You have to like the movie or at least be a baseball fan, but I absolutely love it. I was at the first MLB game they did working as a concessions volunteer for a nonprofit. There was almost nobody in line at the start of the game so we ran up into the stands to watch. Watching Kevin Costner and the players walk out of the corn to the movie theme music was one the coolest things I've ever witnessed. Grown men were openly crying. Then Tim Anderson hits a walk off two run homer into the corn in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Yankees. It was magical. But I'm a big fan of the movie. My dad introduced it to me when I was young and it came out shortly after his dad died too young, so it's a meaningful story for us.
That said, their plans to over commercialize the place is probably going to ruin what makes it special.
Edit to add: Anderson's walk off homer was the 15th in White Sox history against the Yankees. The first was Shoeless Joe in 1919. That whole night felt like it was drawn up by divine intervention. I couldn't stop smiling the entire drive home.
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I was actually with you on it being slightly underrated until I got older and really started to appreciate some of the themes of the movie, on top of all the great performances and lines in the film.
James Earl Jones is only in it for about a 1/3 of the movie, but it'll always be viewed as one of his best films/performances.
It's probably the only interesting thing that is truly unique to Iowa. Anything else of note in Iowa, another state probably has a better version.
Don't forget Mt Trashmore! That's probably there because the icebergs skipped over it
Agreed, with a slight twist. I could see an out of stater doing something here, but only after exhausting thousands of other destinations.
That's my thought as well especially around the College World Series time with sports betting allowed in Iowa and not Nebraska. The CB Casinos would be closer to Charles Schwab field than many Omaha Hotels.
Was surprised to see my state of Georgia come in at number 8. Despite it also being the 8th most-populated state, I thought it would be less.
I'm guessing stadium events and conventions in Atlanta and the city of Savannah tourist dollars are contributing heavily.
I'm guessing stadium events and conventions in Atlanta and the city of Savannah tourist dollars are contributing heavily.
I like to visit for games in Kinnick or Carver. Also the casinos can be a draw.
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On a more serious note, I was thinking about this this morning a week after the big book festival in Iowa City.
For seriousl literary people and wrestling fans - Iowa City actually is a very, very important place and worthy of a visit. It is the first UNESCO City of Literature in the United States and home to the best writer's workshop - literally hundreds of Nobel Literature and Pulitizer winners did their work their.
As for wrestling, Carver-Hawkeye is one of the absolute meccas of the sport anywhere on the globe. An Iranian cab driver I was talking to in NYC once told me Dan Gable was his hero and he hoped to visit Iowa City one day when I told him I was from Iowa - thought that was crazy.
For seriousl literary people and wrestling fans - Iowa City actually is a very, very important place and worthy of a visit. It is the first UNESCO City of Literature in the United States and home to the best writer's workshop - literally hundreds of Nobel Literature and Pulitizer winners did their work their.
As for wrestling, Carver-Hawkeye is one of the absolute meccas of the sport anywhere on the globe. An Iranian cab driver I was talking to in NYC once told me Dan Gable was his hero and he hoped to visit Iowa City one day when I told him I was from Iowa - thought that was crazy.
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