Is anyone really going to Pinstripe Bowl?
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You don't get out much do you?
Awful matchup
Mediocre regular season
Expensive place to visit
Cold Weather
Small alumni base
Recipe for disaster
Everyone I know was going to go if they went to Nashville. Nobody is going to NYC.
Mediocre regular season
Expensive place to visit
Cold Weather
Small alumni base
Recipe for disaster
Everyone I know was going to go if they went to Nashville. Nobody is going to NYC.
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?
I have a free ticket to the game. I sit on the front row, "My couch". I don't have to worry about travel arrangements, or the weather. Besides, even if I wanted to go to the game, the boss would have other ideas.
While I think Iowa attendance will be low, people are more on to this with every passing year, that the tix the university gets are simply no good. Even fairly large donors gettting the best seats the university has to offer could do better buying elsewhere. The only real advantage to buying from the University is that you're guaranteed to be around Iowa fans.
If you take a look at the setup for this game there are very few what I would consider decent seats.Having a football game at a baseball field is simply not a good idea.
Anyone else a season-ticket holder and not received any information from the school about tickets? Typically we get the auto-generated email about price, how many you can purchase, etc. I've received nothing in the last week, and that includes checking my junk-mail inbox.
<shrug>.
<shrug>.
I am guessing there are plenty of others like us. Whatever the university did with the pin activation this spring/summer has locked us out of receiving emails. I also do not have the option of buying a bowl ticket through the university website. Many of us season-ticket holders for wrestling ran into the same issue, and had to call the ticket office to order.
Attendance has been a struggle since '14. I think we are seeing 7and5itis. Bad news: it isnt a good look. Good news: I think the staff has seen this coming and is a year ahead of us in recruiting. The cold hard facts are if the product on the feild was better 7500 fans would have bought tickets, from the admin, too NY no problem, if we were 10-2ish playing a good opponent the narrative would be way different.
I would agree with that. 10-2 and a high level opponent in a high level bowl game in NYC? Fans would get behind that.
Should be a grand contest!
There are many different ways to experience NYC. I suggest you do something similar like my family is doing.
First, I am flying my faithful man-servant out a few days in advance to Teterboro where he will pick up the Rolls and drive it out to the countryside estate outside White Plains and prepare the country-house for our arrival. This saves us the stress of packing, unpacking, turning things on, etc. It would be cool to know where your estate's are located as perhaps we could arrange a Hawkeye Soire?! What say you eh' Gatsby! Ha!
This makes sense as we will be hosting some family & friends and need the kitchen stocked and provisioned and the marble buffed and the swans bathed. The Archbishop will be joining us Christmas Eve along with the Mrs.'s best friend from her Wellesley days (who happens to be married to a current US Senator thank you very much). The "Arch" and Blum both go gaga over a nice 1858 Cuvee Léonie so Jeeves needs to make those preparations are in order post-haste prior to our arrival. If that night goes late, we'll send Jeeves into the city to score some crank for us and call up Hill & Bill. Boy, that will be a gas!
Then, the Mrs. and I will have the Gulfstream fueled up and ready to depart the Islands with a direct route to the Tri-State area. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is a sight to see and I strongly encourage you to see it from the air. I'll have our pilot circle mid-town a couple times for the Mrs. to have a good see. My youngest (Archibald) loves to see the groundlings looking up at us from the streets around Rockefeller Center. He says he thinks they all look like they are trying to hand us one of their few shiny pennies and adores it. We WILL NOT be flying over the Bronx however as last time I think a rube was shooting lead at our jet. What do you guys like to flyover in your Gulfstream's?
We usually park the jet at Jack's fixed-base operator at White Plains which is just a short ride in the Rolls over to the estate. I've sat through so many General Electric share-holder meetings with Jack that he owes me this one! The only way to make that time pass faster is by playing a round or two of "Flaming Benjamin's in Your Trousers!"
Mother will want to see the children upon our arrival and we will have the Bell Copter bring her from the Hampton's over and land on the west-lawn probably. The west-lawn is easiest for Jeeves to help Mother in her wheelchair over to the Carriage House where Jeeves will have prepared the hors d' oeuvres. I'm guessing it will just be the Baluga again, sigh
My faithful man-servant sure has been complaining much too much this past summer regarding arriving guests on the hilly east-lawn. Perhaps I should scold him again and remind him about his family's indenturednous (lousy Scot's). Balderdash! The heating oil may need to be turned off one of these nippy winter nights to the upper carriage house I suppose! .
On gameday, the Admiral (Mrs.'s Father) will come over and we will take the Bell Copter over to Yankee Stadium. Heritage Field across the street from the Stadium is an easy landing space. In the winter, they usually hold some sort of Winter Festival there for the local bourgeois children to throw snow at each other. HA - there will be throwing there that day but it will NOT be the likes of frozen water! Instead, George has arranged for security (surely his regular Mercenaries, one of whom tried to swoon the Mrs. in his Humvee) to throw any children who come near the field away from our graces and back to the shadowy slums where they belong! It is a big field, does anyone else need to park your auto-gyro's there? I can ask a favor for a fellow alum
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After the contest we shall celebrate the Hawkeyes victory back at the estate with a grand party. I think the children has requested a Ms. Swift to sing (I think Jeeves was working with Ms. Honeybottom (my Secretary) to arrange that? Which vocalists do you like to hire for your party's?
The next day it will be time for Jeeve's to prepare the country house for the winter. The Almanac says there will be one or two good Nor'Easters this season. We will keep the aircraft there for the season for maintenance.
Then it gets hard, we'll Yellow Cab it to Newark and I think we are on the 2PM United flight back to Nice.
Again, this is how my family will handle the "hustle & bustle" of the big city. Just wanted to give some solid advice.
Yours Faithfully,
Jeeves (obo my master, Mr. Dragon)
There are many different ways to experience NYC. I suggest you do something similar like my family is doing.
First, I am flying my faithful man-servant out a few days in advance to Teterboro where he will pick up the Rolls and drive it out to the countryside estate outside White Plains and prepare the country-house for our arrival. This saves us the stress of packing, unpacking, turning things on, etc. It would be cool to know where your estate's are located as perhaps we could arrange a Hawkeye Soire?! What say you eh' Gatsby! Ha!
This makes sense as we will be hosting some family & friends and need the kitchen stocked and provisioned and the marble buffed and the swans bathed. The Archbishop will be joining us Christmas Eve along with the Mrs.'s best friend from her Wellesley days (who happens to be married to a current US Senator thank you very much). The "Arch" and Blum both go gaga over a nice 1858 Cuvee Léonie so Jeeves needs to make those preparations are in order post-haste prior to our arrival. If that night goes late, we'll send Jeeves into the city to score some crank for us and call up Hill & Bill. Boy, that will be a gas!
Then, the Mrs. and I will have the Gulfstream fueled up and ready to depart the Islands with a direct route to the Tri-State area. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is a sight to see and I strongly encourage you to see it from the air. I'll have our pilot circle mid-town a couple times for the Mrs. to have a good see. My youngest (Archibald) loves to see the groundlings looking up at us from the streets around Rockefeller Center. He says he thinks they all look like they are trying to hand us one of their few shiny pennies and adores it. We WILL NOT be flying over the Bronx however as last time I think a rube was shooting lead at our jet. What do you guys like to flyover in your Gulfstream's?
We usually park the jet at Jack's fixed-base operator at White Plains which is just a short ride in the Rolls over to the estate. I've sat through so many General Electric share-holder meetings with Jack that he owes me this one! The only way to make that time pass faster is by playing a round or two of "Flaming Benjamin's in Your Trousers!"
Mother will want to see the children upon our arrival and we will have the Bell Copter bring her from the Hampton's over and land on the west-lawn probably. The west-lawn is easiest for Jeeves to help Mother in her wheelchair over to the Carriage House where Jeeves will have prepared the hors d' oeuvres. I'm guessing it will just be the Baluga again, sigh
My faithful man-servant sure has been complaining much too much this past summer regarding arriving guests on the hilly east-lawn. Perhaps I should scold him again and remind him about his family's indenturednous (lousy Scot's). Balderdash! The heating oil may need to be turned off one of these nippy winter nights to the upper carriage house I suppose! .
On gameday, the Admiral (Mrs.'s Father) will come over and we will take the Bell Copter over to Yankee Stadium. Heritage Field across the street from the Stadium is an easy landing space. In the winter, they usually hold some sort of Winter Festival there for the local bourgeois children to throw snow at each other. HA - there will be throwing there that day but it will NOT be the likes of frozen water! Instead, George has arranged for security (surely his regular Mercenaries, one of whom tried to swoon the Mrs. in his Humvee) to throw any children who come near the field away from our graces and back to the shadowy slums where they belong! It is a big field, does anyone else need to park your auto-gyro's there? I can ask a favor for a fellow alum
!After the contest we shall celebrate the Hawkeyes victory back at the estate with a grand party. I think the children has requested a Ms. Swift to sing (I think Jeeves was working with Ms. Honeybottom (my Secretary) to arrange that? Which vocalists do you like to hire for your party's?
The next day it will be time for Jeeve's to prepare the country house for the winter. The Almanac says there will be one or two good Nor'Easters this season. We will keep the aircraft there for the season for maintenance.
Then it gets hard, we'll Yellow Cab it to Newark and I think we are on the 2PM United flight back to Nice.
Again, this is how my family will handle the "hustle & bustle" of the big city. Just wanted to give some solid advice.
Yours Faithfully,
Jeeves (obo my master, Mr. Dragon)
I would imagine the Iowa crowd will be similar to the Iowa crowd for the Rutgers game last year. And that was in decent weather.
Somebody pee on your Cheerios?Personally do not see one thing he did wrong so where should Iowa have gone?Certainly not to Nashville over a 9-3 Northwestern team that beat Iowa so where prey tell?
Spare me the "where we deserve" argument please. Second tier bowl games are not about who deserves them, they are about how to maximize host city revenue (as they should be). And, like I'm the only one here who thinks the Hawks deserved something better than "NYC" in December. Delany has a Gold Chip in the Iowa faithful and rather than let a "free market" determine which fan base a city decides to invite, he protects NU like a good homer, and rat-wholed us in NYC thinking he gets to tell us where we spend our vacation dollars. And you like it? Child please!
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So don't go you really think he is telling anyone where to spend their $$$$?Good God.
Seriously?!? You think Delany is a Northwestern homer? LOL ...
Does the shoe fit on the other foot? Would you be cool with a 7-5 Michigan team being slotted for a bowl ahead of a 9-3 Iowa team that beat them in the regular season?
Seriously...And, while I am not saying I would like it, but I would understand it, if Michigan brought more fans to the game than Iowa would. Maybe not that big of a difference, but Iowa has dropped to lower bowls for similar reasons.
Well Yes, for the 1,000 or so loyal Iowa polar bears (plus 2,500 administrative tickets / hotel rooms and restaurant revenue) plus the remainder of the 7,500 ticket allotment that go unpurchased. All of the revenue for this was by Delany's influence/design the minute he called the Holiday bowl and any others to influence who they selected.
Temperature in Nashville today-41 degrees
Temperature in NYC today-45 degrees
Temperature in NYC today-45 degrees
Should be a grand contest!
There are many different ways to experience NYC. I suggest you do something similar like my family is doing.
First, I am flying my faithful man-servant out a few days in advance to Teterboro where he will pick up the Rolls and drive it out to the countryside estate outside White Plains and prepare the country-house for our arrival. This saves us the stress of packing, unpacking, turning things on, etc. It would be cool to know where your estate's are located as perhaps we could arrange a Hawkeye Soire?! What say you eh' Gatsby! Ha!
This makes sense as we will be hosting some family & friends and need the kitchen stocked and provisioned and the marble buffed and the swans bathed. The Archbishop will be joining us Christmas Eve along with the Mrs.'s best friend from her Wellesley days (who happens to be married to a current US Senator thank you very much). The "Arch" and Blum both go gaga over a nice 1858 Cuvee Léonie so Jeeves needs to make those preparations are in order post-haste prior to our arrival. If that night goes late, we'll send Jeeves into the city to score some crank for us and call up Hill & Bill. Boy, that will be a gas!
Then, the Mrs. and I will have the Gulfstream fueled up and ready to depart the Islands with a direct route to the Tri-State area. The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is a sight to see and I strongly encourage you to see it from the air. I'll have our pilot circle mid-town a couple times for the Mrs. to have a good see. My youngest (Archibald) loves to see the groundlings looking up at us from the streets around Rockefeller Center. He says he thinks they all look like they are trying to hand us one of their few shiny pennies and adores it. We WILL NOT be flying over the Bronx however as last time I think a rube was shooting lead at our jet. What do you guys like to flyover in your Gulfstream's?
We usually park the jet at Jack's fixed-base operator at White Plains which is just a short ride in the Rolls over to the estate. I've sat through so many General Electric share-holder meetings with Jack that he owes me this one! The only way to make that time pass faster is by playing a round or two of "Flaming Benjamin's in Your Trousers!"
Mother will want to see the children upon our arrival and we will have the Bell Copter bring her from the Hampton's over and land on the west-lawn probably. The west-lawn is easiest for Jeeves to help Mother in her wheelchair over to the Carriage House where Jeeves will have prepared the hors d' oeuvres. I'm guessing it will just be the Baluga again, sigh
My faithful man-servant sure has been complaining much too much this past summer regarding arriving guests on the hilly east-lawn. Perhaps I should scold him again and remind him about his family's indenturednous (lousy Scot's). Balderdash! The heating oil may need to be turned off one of these nippy winter nights to the upper carriage house I suppose! .
On gameday, the Admiral (Mrs.'s Father) will come over and we will take the Bell Copter over to Yankee Stadium. Heritage Field across the street from the Stadium is an easy landing space. In the winter, they usually hold some sort of Winter Festival there for the local bourgeois children to throw snow at each other. HA - there will be throwing there that day but it will NOT be the likes of frozen water! Instead, George has arranged for security (surely his regular Mercenaries, one of whom tried to swoon the Mrs. in his Humvee) to throw any children who come near the field away from our graces and back to the shadowy slums where they belong! It is a big field, does anyone else need to park your auto-gyro's there? I can ask a favor for a fellow alum
After the contest we shall celebrate the Hawkeyes victory back at the estate with a grand party. I think the children has requested a Ms. Swift to sing (I think Jeeves was working with Ms. Honeybottom (my Secretary) to arrange that? Which vocalists do you like to hire for your party's?
The next day it will be time for Jeeve's to prepare the country house for the winter. The Almanac says there will be one or two good Nor'Easters this season. We will keep the aircraft there for the season for maintenance.
Then it gets hard, we'll Yellow Cab it to Newark and I think we are on the 2PM United flight back to Nice.
Again, this is how my family will handle the "hustle & bustle" of the big city. Just wanted to give some solid advice.
Yours Faithfully,
Jeeves (obo my master, Mr. Dragon)
Thr 27th just came into the 14 day forecast obviously these numbers can be wrong. December 27th high NY,NY 43 f low 35..... Nashville 60 f low 50.
Spare me your "rat-wholing" argument, whatever the hell that is. Iowa didn't earn, nor deserves anything better than they got. They earned then Pinstripe, fair and square. Mediocre 7-5 record (which shouldn't get any team a bowl game), boring and unimaginative offense, and weekly inconsistency earned Iowa exactly what they got.
I'm not saying we deserved better, but Urban Meyer would probably like you to explain that boring and unimaginative offense.
I looked at the ancilliary events(Huddle,etc). The Huddle is being held in a bar across the street from the stadium. Last year besides the Huddle various colleges held receptions at the official hotel. We went to the business school reception. This year I have not received any email about a reception being held. Last season during the Rutgers game huddle was held in a ballroom in a hotel in Times Square(was fun). Now its down to a bar.
This is the huddle location. Where do I sign up?!?
Have a feeling bar capacity won’t be in jeopardy
Have a feeling bar capacity won’t be in jeopardy
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