What does "AHF" stand for?
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You guys.... We blew it here. We should've figured this out, called it lame and moved on. Some of you fell right into their trap and are offended by this thing.
ANF does not need to be defended.
ANF does not need to be defended.
I always love when they pan the crowd at Jack Trice during a game vs another Big12 team and you see them wearing Beat Iowa shirts. If I were a die hard Cyclone fan I would be disgusted seeing this. They seem to hate the 'Little Brother' reputation they have, yet do so many things to perpetuate it....like this AHF shirt. I'm guessing we don't see Iowa placing a 'Hawkeye State' billboard in Ames this off season.
Exactly. isu fans and AD act like little bro then get pissed when that is how they are viewed/treated.
Did you feel that way when the Kinnick crowd was panned the previous week and showed people with "Beat State" shirts? Did you feel that way when Iowa erected a "Go Hawkeyes" billboard on the way to Ames before Pollard put up the billboard in C.R.?
And how about all those people who wear the shirts that have the anagram for "I Oughtta Went to Ames"?
We were playing Illinois STATE.
Not too many years ago Iowa had Beat State shirts that list off all the 'state' schools the Hawks were playing that year. Kent, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Penn...
Also, a billboard that said "Go Cyclones" would have been perceived much differently than one that said "Cyclone State." One promotes your team to its fan base. One promotes your team to its fan base while trying to provoke the other fans in the area. Why wasn't there a "Cyclone State" billboard in DesMoines? There was a "Go Hawkeyes" one in Cedar Rapids.
I've seen a few of the beat state shirts too. Not near as many as I've seen "beat Iowa". Not even close. Each time I see one from an Iowa fan I want to punch them in the face.
Also, a big, big, big difference between "Go Hawkeyes" near Ames and "It's a Cyclone state" near Iowa city. I'm sure you see the difference.
The massive difference is the "Beat State" shirts are good for when Iowa plays:
Illinois State
Michigan State
Penn State
Ohio State
Arizona State
Ball State
Kent State
Arkansas State
Kansas State
Rational folks will get the picture. That doesn't include clone fans however.
Oh and LC or any clone fan for that matter, do you have a link on the Go Hawkeyes Billboard Iowa put up? I would love to see where that was and if it in fact was a call to purchase tickets.
Let's see if our resident "Journalist" can back up his claim.
Tick, Tock.....
Yes I don't get their fixation on this. As if anything done by the evil warlord Hayden Fry is wrong and he didn't care about farmers. At the time Hayden introduced ANF, Iowa was in its height of popularity (1985) and the team played in several high profile, nationally televised games. So it stuck.
I get that Iowa State has the agriculture program. Iowa does not. But Hayden understood the fan base and how to engage with them. Things like introducing the ANF sticker cemented forever as Iowa fans many farmers across the state.
This issue and the issue of Iowa not having "true" fans because many of the fans didn't go to the U of I continue to confuse me. Why is it a bad thing to have people who were not alums want to be fans?
The only reason isu fan is pissed that Iowa has bandwagon fans is because isu hasn't had enough success to generate bandwagon fans for themselves.
Thus their little bro syndrome has become the corner stone of the isu culture.
Not Saturday, no. Had a family situation. First ISU-Iowa game in Ames I've missed since the series was renewed.you didn't even go to Ames
ISU marketing has been ripping off Iowa stuff for years. Did you notice the child cancer patient introduction, a la Iowa's "Kid Captain" theme? I mean, no one wants to see children suffering from any disease, let alone cancer. But ISU did not treat this child (thankfully, as the ISU student health service has been dismal) nor did it have anything to do with treating this child (Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines did). Blank "partnered" with ISU to create the "Kid Captain of the Game" advertising concept but it never would have happened if UI hadn't done it first ... making the ISU-Blank mimicry look downright cynical. Of course, the "Kid Captains" at Iowa are actually treated at UI Children's Hospital. Then, too, the ISU "Kid Captain of the Game" web site is a direct ripoff of the Iowa "Kid Captain" web site. Lastly you have the ISU TV ads touting their human medical research programs ... huh? I can imagine animal science being a strength worth promoting but why would ISU choose to emphasize this part of their curriculum if not a direct assault (little brother style) on the University of Iowa?
Western Iowa is a backwater cesspool that breeds people like Steve King and Joni Ernst. Not exactly intellectual heavyweights. That explains things like this from the Cyclone fan base.
Theres something really wrong with this post. I guess I'll call it big brother syndrome because it sounds like you're screaming "MOM HES COPYING ME!!!"
something about the most prominent and intelligent Cyclone poster on here being a University of Iowa graduate makes me smile. The ISU grads are pretty easy to spot.
And according to ISU fans you are only allowed to cheer for the University from which you graduated; welcome back to the good side, Lone Clone.
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I can see I4 and Clone fan gonna cry sitting together with their red and yellow AHF shirts reading this and being pissed when they realize it stands for Admiring Hayden Fry.
Still wonder why isu and its fans are laughed at and not taken seriously? Gee beave we just don't know.
Still wonder why isu and its fans are laughed at and not taken seriously? Gee beave we just don't know.
Not to mention copying the Herky statues all over Iowa City with Iowa state cardinals all over ames. Lames
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