Where does Hooker's OSU interception rank ....

[chodehawk]

My recollection of the 80's/90's is not as good as yours. Go ahead and list a couple hundred to refresh my memory.

Merton Hanks FG block of Wyoming
Sedrick Shaw spinning TD vs Texas Tech
Rodgers to Cross TD against OSU 91
Sedrick Shaw's first-ever KO return
Houghtlin x about 4
Dwight scolding OSU in 96 x3 or 4
Danan Hughes TD - Big House, 91

There's 12 or 13 off the top of my head.

'Preciate ya.

 

[KuwaitHawk]

Speaking of Danan Hughes, two words - ‘snow angel’.

 

[ichawk24]

Hooker's pick 6 was easily the best play of that game. Polecat was a lot of fun, JJ's picks were great, but Hooker set the tone for perhaps the most surprising Kinnick game in a long long time.

 

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

There have been so many great plays in the history of Iowa football going back to Nile Kinnick's senior year in 1939. Naturally, we tend to remember the most recent ones, and especially the ones we saw ourselves, either in person or on TV. So like every other "greatest" list, it's an impossible task.

For instance, I wasn't there, but I can imagine what a thrill it was to be in Iowa Stadium when Nile Kinnick bulldozed in for a touchdown and then drop-kicked the PAT to beat national power Notre Dame 7-6. In fact, one newspaper headline put it succinctly: "Kinnick-7, Notre Dame-6!"

And I wasn't there in 1956 when Kenny Ploen fired the long TD pass to left end Jim Gibbons that would end up beating No. 6 Ohio State 6-0, stopping the Buckeyes' Big Ten record winning streak at 17. (Iowa went on to end the season the following week with a 48-8 demolition of No. 3 Notre Dame in Iowa Stadium. The Hawkeyes then claimed their first outright Big Ten title since 1922.)

There have been many great moments in Iowa football history, and there will be many more. And those are the things that make sports so great, the ability to think back and relive those thrills. I'm looking forward to adding some more to the file in 2018.

 

[dandh]

Craziest one I've ever seen in person was when the Hawks blocked two field goals on consecutive snaps versus UNI. Only time it's been done, iirc.

 

[bagdropper]

The irony of the Hooker TD was I'd bet half the viewers really weren't even paying full attention to the game yet.

When it happened, I was more or less settling into "assuming the position", aka...

Settling into my "game chair", with the game on the TV, my laptop in front of me with the 3 different sites pulled up for game chatter, and my cell phone for texting back and forth with a couple buddies.

Unfortunately, my cell phone hot spotting plan to watch the game online (at my cabin on the banks of the Mississippi in NE Iowa), I couldn't get a consistent enough signal to steam video to the TV. Posting on internet however was working.

I missed watching the ENTIRE OSU game live last year, listened to it on the radio. Once things started rolling to where I knew we had ourselves a ball game, I didn't want to jinx it.


My greatest joy out of the whole game for me was watching non-Iowa site game threads...the Rivals Soundoff board, OTE, and an Ohio State site's game threads were incredibly entertaining. Each of them started off slow, OSU fans kept posting "second half", etc until the late 1st half TD's.

Then the nation started showing up in the threads and the OSU posters' moods swung from "no need to worry" to "fire Urban Meyer" from late 2nd quarter to the halftime festivities and then the 3rd quarter.

It for me was the "best Iowa football game internet explosion" ever IMHO...I barely posted in the thread here. If you want a good laugh and have some time on your hands, try to find game threads on that game. They're astoundingly hilarious.

 

[hawk halen]

For the fellow geezers:

1974 vs. UCLA...25-yard screen pass touchdown by Mark Fetter which propelled us to the 21-10 upset. Bob Commings' first home game as head coach.

1977 vs. Iowa State...77-yard touchdown run by Dennis Mosley which immediately answered a punt return TD by ISU. First game after a 43 year layoff in the series. Hawks win 12-10.

1981 vs. Michigan State...whatever play was being run when Art Schlichter scored the late touchdown in Ann Arbor and Rev. Bob announced that Ohio State had upset Michigan. We clinch the Rose Bowl berth with a 36-7 win.

 

[wyldhawk9]

The irony of the Hooker TD was I'd bet half the viewers really weren't even paying full attention to the game yet.

When it happened, I was more or less settling into "assuming the position", aka...

Settling into my "game chair", with the game on the TV, my laptop in front of me with the 3 different sites pulled up for game chatter, and my cell phone for texting back and forth with a couple buddies.

Unfortunately, my cell phone hot spotting plan to watch the game online (at my cabin on the banks of the Mississippi in NE Iowa), I couldn't get a consistent enough signal to steam video to the TV. Posting on internet however was working.

I missed watching the ENTIRE OSU game live last year, listened to it on the radio. Once things started rolling to where I knew we had ourselves a ball game, I didn't want to jinx it.


My greatest joy out of the whole game for me was watching non-Iowa site game threads...the Rivals Soundoff board, OTE, and an Ohio State site's game threads were incredibly entertaining. Each of them started off slow, OSU fans kept posting "second half", etc until the late 1st half TD's.

Then the nation started showing up in the threads and the OSU posters' moods swung from "no need to worry" to "fire Urban Meyer" from late 2nd quarter to the halftime festivities and then the 3rd quarter.

It for me was the "best Iowa football game internet explosion" ever IMHO...I barely posted in the thread here. If you want a good laugh and have some time on your hands, try to find game threads on that game. They're astoundingly hilarious.

Do you happen to have a link to one? I'll check over on bucknuts and see if I can dig one up.

Found it: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/Board/121/Contents/Osu-vs-Iowa-Game-Thread-109929870/
Not as entertaining as I hoped.

 

[timinatoria]

Speaking of Hooker’s TD....

That almost has to be the quickest score in Iowa Football history right? It took 8 seconds. You can’t run a KO back in 8 seconds. You can’t run an 80 yard play from scrimmage (after a touchback) in 8 seconds.

The only way is if we ever recovered a fumble on an opening kickoff for a TD, and I can’t ever recall that happening.

 

[nu2u]

Merton Hanks FG block of Wyoming

If that is the first play "off the top of your head" as an example of 278 Iowa football plays more thrilling than Amani Hooker's INT and return TD against No. 6 Ohio State, I wonder where on that long list of more thrilling plays John Derby's clutch tackle of Blaise Bryant for a 2 yard loss on 3rd and 1 versus Iowa State in 1990 ranks?

 

[funnyfletcher]

Marshall Koehn field goal vs Pitt was big, too. It wasn’t against a big opponent, but what a finish!

 

[iahawks10]

I think Sash’s lateral to Hyde was even better than Hyde’s pick 6 in the Insight Bowl.

Yep Sash/Hyde’s pick 6 against MSU was a lot better of a play. Hyde’s Insight Bowl was definitely bigger (given the moment).

Sash’s pinball pick 6 against Indiana would be up there for me.

“Trick or Treat Iowa City”

 

[theiacowtipper]

For me the kick in 1985 will always be special. I was stationed at Fort Campbell KY and we were out on maneuvers. No chance of catching the game live on the radio. Once nightfall came, I was able to tune in the 100,000 watt blowtorch that was WHO and catch the replay. I listened to it as if it were live while the rest of you were celebrating.

 

[Parker D]

For me, Hooker's INT wasn't that exciting at the time, because I figured that it meant we'd lose 51-7 instead of 51-0. Looking back, however, it has a much different feel.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Longest pass play in Kinnick Stadium history. And as a TE to catch a 1 yard pass on the 6 and then run 94 yards and not get caught til the goal line... that was awesome.

His little hurdle didn't hurt in the "cool" department, either!

 

[hawkeyebob62]

For me, Hooker's INT wasn't that exciting at the time, because I figured that it meant we'd lose 51-7 instead of 51-0. Looking back, however, it has a much different feel.

Yep. When my wife asked, "What happened?!", I answered, "We led Ohio State for about two minutes today"

 

[here_for_the_hawkeyes]

The pick-6 vs. Indiana in '09
Wadley's TD against ISU '17

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

The pick-6 vs. Indiana in '09
Wadley's TD against ISU '17

Forgot about that 09 Indiana game. Iowa was dead in the water. Kinnick came unhinged on the TD pass to DJK that put them up in the 4th

 

[buckymel]

Not a single play vs Wisconsin? And I thought y'all hate us.
I'm gonna guess you know which play vs Iowa I have in mind if I were to do a list of fav Wisconsin plays.

 

[BigOHawk]

On of my all time favorite plays. Plain and simple, Ricky Stanzi was a winner.

Great playcall. During Hawk timeout, they changed the play to Moeaki going in motion and then singling up McNutt on the outside.

 

[chiphawk59]

Not a single play vs Wisconsin? And I thought y'all hate us.
I'm gonna guess you know which play vs Iowa I have in mind if I were to do a list of fav Wisconsin plays.

Don't remember what year but Nate Kaeding wagging his finger and laughing at Barry Alvarez during a timeout right before he kicked the game winner at Camp Randall. Does that do it for you buckymel?