Clearly, many Iowa fans were offended, but that's not really the point. The larger question is, "What is the Rose Bowl doing letting some quasi student organization run around on the field making fools of themselves, mocking the opposing school, without any kind of oversight from their own institution?" Iowa fans can laugh at themselves as much as anyone else and don't generally take themselves very seriously at all -- and if the Hawks had been up 35-0 at halftime maybe the farmer schtick would have been received a little differently, but that's beside the point. There's a certain level of decorum and respect that's expected of any marching band or any pre-game or halftime performance, and the Stanford "band" clearly fell miserably short of anything resembling respectable. It sounds like the Rose Bowl pretty much said, "Do whatever you want on the field during your 10 minutes," and it sounds like that's exactly what they did. Pathetic.