We love chicks that love football. And Carol Walden of Cedar Rapids loves football, so much so that she sat through the second half of last Saturday’s Iowa-Wisconsin game with a broken hip. Brian Urlacher must feel like such a pussy right now.
“I was hurrying back because halftime was over and I slipped in the kitchen and fell flat on my left side,” said Carol Walden.
The 71-year old woman is life-long Hawkeye fan. So dedicated, that even a trip to the hospital for a broken hip wouldn’t get in the way on Saturday.
“The doctor said you better get into the hospital and I said ok. My husband said well let’s go and I said no I have to see the Hawkeyes win,” said Walden. –KCRG, via Buster Sports
That’s a tough broad right there. Walden even insisted that her husband, Don Walden, drive her to the hospital so that she could listen to the post-game show in the car. Don, my man. I hope you realize how good you have it, sir. Video’s after the jump for your viewing pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »
Just weeks after two Bills fans were arrested for having sex in a bathroom at the stadium, a pair of Iowa fans matched the feat during the Hawkeyes’ road trip to Minnesota on Saturday.
A group of 15 onlookers were gawking at the scene by the time officers broke the couple up and wrote them misdemeanor citations.
Damn, why do cops always have to be such cock-blockers? “You can’t have sex in public.” “The court order prevents you from being on school grounds.” “Where’s the body?”
The woman, 38, was turned over to her husband. The man, 26, was turned over to his girlfriend.
Ruh roh. You know how in the game Monopoly, sometimes it’s better to spend three turns in jail instead of being out on the board landing on expensive properties? This is like that, except with domestic abuse.
(thanks to awesomely named reader Matt for the tip)
If you’re like most Americans, you either don’t have the Big Ten Network or you don’t waste your time watching it (”Minnesota versus Penn State volleyball? Janice, clear my schedule!”). So, as Every Day Should Be Saturday notes, it makes complete sense for the BTN to aggressively remove all web content that increases the visibility of their diminishing conference, such as this 35-yard touchdown run by Iowa’s Shonn Green, one of the best college running backs to get very little national recognition.
Man, I’m already excited to select him in next year’s fantasy football draft. Hey, who else wants to talk to me about fantasy football? Anyone? Hello? … Right. I’ll just check some more stats online by myself then.
There are some unpleasant goings-on in the state of Iowa these days, where U of I athletic director Gary Barta and head football coach Kirk Ferentz have been accused of trying to sweep an alleged sexual assault under the metaphorical carpet.
It's a doozy of a read, but here are the details as laid out by the mother of the victim (legal note: all of these get the "allegedly" tag): former Hawkeye players Cedric Everson and Abe Satterfield sexually assaulted a female student athlete last October. She reported it to five different university officials — including Barta and Ferentz — over the next day and a half. They encouraged her to go an "informal" route to resolve the problem in-house — with "in-house" meaning "no media or police." A month after the assault, the victim still lived three doors down from one of her assailants, and she was regularly called nice names like "whore" by members of the football team.
Whether the allegations of sexual assault are true or not, the whole thing just reeks of Jerramy Stevens. The Iowa administration's response to a possible sexual assault was about as insensitive as possible. And believe me, I think I know a thing or two about being insensitive.
I know you're probably already transfixed on the pictocube watching the majesty that is Big Ten football, but the Iowa Hawkeyes and Minnesota Golden Gophers are battling right now to see who will take home Floyd of Rosedale. Who is Floyd? Well, it seems to relieve animosity between to the 2 universities, Iowa governor Clyde Herring awarded Minnesota governor Floyd Olson a full-blooded champion pig (and brother of Blue Boy who starred with Will Rogers' in the classic film State Fair - GASP! The Blue Boy?) after the Gophers defeated the Hawkeyes in 1935. A bronze statue of the heroic swine was cast and given to the winner of the game ever since. What a magnificent tradition! As this marquee match-up between Midwestern powerhouses needed anything more.
And the Big Ten's splendid lore doesn't end there. Ohio State and Illinois play today to capture the wily Illibuck:
lly Illibuck is a wooden turtle trophy presented to the winner of the Ohio State-Illinois football game. Originally the "trophy" was a live turtle when the tradition began in 1925, picked for its long life expectancy as a symbol of the long life of the rivalry. Since the passing of the original turtle in 1927 nine wooden replica Illibucks have been carved, each with the scores from games on its back . . . Another part of the rivalry once included the smoking of the peace pipe between members of two junior honorary societies, Bucket and Dipper of Ohio State and Atius-Sachem of Illinois, which occurred at halftime. This practice has not been done for many years. -Wikipedia
I wonder when they stopped smoking the calumet? I mean on the field. I'm sure several scholars at both of these fine institutions still practice this ritual right before skipping class and devouring 4 lbs. of Taco Bell. -KD
In a thrilling contest between Big Ten powerhouses Illinois and Iowa, Kirk Ferentz's mighty Hawkeyes held on to defeat the Fightin' Illini 10-6 in a Iowa City. Oh wait, did I say thrilling? I meant coma-inducing. I guess it was interesting to watch another Big Ten team lose to a crappy opponent and more importantly, not cover the spread. If there are any shaman, priests, rabbis, or ministers out there who have a direct line to the Big Guy, please ask Him what I've done to anger Him so. Obviously, He is suspending free choice of will for the players of the games on which I place friendly wagers just to irk me. That is the only explanation - there is no way that God is a fan of the bumblebees. In other news, Ron Zook pushed a cameraman after the game - bravo sir!
Anyway, I tried to find a photo of Capt. Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce duping Lt. Col. Henry Blake (whose alma mater was Illinois) in one of his comedic schemes to represent the gravity of this loss, but this is what I found. Of course, I only researched the interwebs for 2 minutes, but my favorite episode of M*A*S*H* is on and it won't be replayed on TVLand for at least 3 hours. -KD
