Georgia Tech vs. Iowa in Orange Bowl
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 7, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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And people laugh at our mascot?
It's official. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will match up against the Iowa Hawkeyes in Miami. More thoughts on this later (maybe on a day when I don't have a final exam). But for now: Check out BlackHeartGoldPants for Iowa football information. And also, what do you think about the Hawkeyes? Surprised or disappointed? Any other BCS bowl thoughts?
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'Afraid'
Is not in CPJ’s vocabulary
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by chrisinindy on Dec 7, 2009 7:53 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
As an Iowan living in Tampa.
I’ll be there. So will thousands upon thousands of my Black and Gold friends. Miami is ours.
+1
In Mascot mode of the old NCAA games, The Hawkeye used to get Ace Ventura’d (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfZ3R4Q0m0) up and down the field…sign of many things to come
Are you a LION or a GAZELLE?
Literally the first 14 seconds of that clip...
…is Jim Carrey making out with Courtney Cox in Land Shark Stadium. Is THAT what happens to Herkey? I’m goin to Miami!
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 8, 2009 1:31 AM EST up reply actions
If I were from Atlanta
I’d live in Miami, because even living in Miami you have less chance of getting murdered than Atlanta.
I check cheddar like a food inspector
by SpanishJohnny on Dec 7, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
Said the guy
in…Indiana? Woof, I’ve made the drive to Indianapolis several times, and Indiana makes Iowa look like the freaking Rocky Mountains.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 7, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
In general
I’d rather be from Iowa than Georgia anyway. Don’t get me started on all the Atlanta transplants down here. You are not represented well.
So, let's talk football:
From a very vague and ignorant understanding of Tech football this year, you are capable of running for roughly 18 miles of yardage, but have trouble hitting the broadside of a barn with a football.
Accurate assessment? I admit to watching all of about 30 seconds of Tech football this season…and that was on a TV across the bar from where I was sitting on Saturday night.
Iowa has had issues with mobile QB’s this season…and that’s an understatement. With a month to prepare, I like our chances to come up with a game plan to slow down the running game, and hopefully force Nesbitt to throw the ball a whole bunch.
Thoughts?
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You really haven't watched Tech football
Even if you manage to “slow down the running game”, you almost assuredly won’t “force Nesbitt to throw the ball a whole bunch”.
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein
going with the old “take a knee” strategy eh? We’ll just put Angerer in on offense, it worked in Waterboy.
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by SpanishJohnny on Dec 7, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
nah
CPJ will just find a new way to run the ball never invented before
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 7, 2009 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
WF we def need a girls of Iowa spread
Maker's Mark--nectar of the gods...
by chrisinindy on Dec 7, 2009 12:26 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Way ahead of you chris
workin on it
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 7, 2009 12:29 PM EST up reply actions
good man
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by chrisinindy on Dec 7, 2009 12:57 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Quick Version
If you have trouble with mobile QBs, you’ll have trouble with our offense. Not because Nesbitt is a speed demon, because he’s not, but because the guys that support him are.
Here’s our offense in a nutshell:
3 yards, 4 yards, 15 yards, 1 yard, 3 yards, 8 yards, -2 yards, 9 yards, 8 yards, 1 yard, OMG he threw it to a 6’5" guy with a 61" vertical!!!!!
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Please do forget about the Tech passing game
so Bey Bey can burn you deep a couple times
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The pass defense is the strength of our defense
So I’m not to concerned about getting burned deep. Not saying it won’t happen, but Spivey and Sash absolutely destroy passing offenses.
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They may well stop any passing,
but the problem is that Tech runs so much the DC moves the safeties in to help stop the run, and then our 6’3" and 6’4" wide receivers get man coverage. The corners have been watching the receivers block the whole game, but the next thing they know they are down the field.
Nesbitt isn’t the most accurate passer in the world, except that one wicked pass to Hill, but he gets it close enough.
Wrong school.
and wrong conference.
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For your reference:
Please use any of the following stereotypes when discussing your upcoming match-up with the Idaho Herkeyes:
1.) There is no electricity in the state, we’ve not heard of this concept you speak of called “shoes”, and we all grow corn
2.) I’m my own grandpa, my familty tree makes a few u-turns
3.) Did I mention corn? Its pretty cool…
Abiding by these stereotypes will make it all the easier when we say “Fuck you, We’re Iowa!”
http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2009/10/29/1106527/the-season-of-fuck-you-were-iowa
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Dec 7, 2009 11:56 AM EST reply actions
Also
you’ll want to repeatedly make light of the fact that you are much more athletic and faster than we are, because you’re from the SEC, er, the South, and everyone knows that Southern football teams can run circles around us slow pasty fat farmer kids from the Midwest.
Just like Florida 2004, LSU 2005, and South Carolina 2009.
Not to say that it won’t be a good, close game (which I fully expect it to be; GT’s triple option is a holy terror but one that our D is fairly well built to stop), but expectations of blowouts based on vacuous notions of superior speed and athleticism tend to sting when the baseball bat of reality clubs them upside the head.
I doubt you'll get an talk of a blow out here
were Tech fans…we take nothing sports related for granted
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What about pigs?
Don’t you also have a lot of pigs in EOhway?
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 7, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
We do.
But there’s also many fewer Confederate flags…up here we call that a “wash”.
by fossilhawk on Dec 7, 2009 12:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Not true
I had the pleasure of spending a couple weeks in Iowa (it will be detailed in a post before the game) and I saw more confederate flags there than my entire teenage life in Forsyth County.
BTW, your casinos suck for giving out lame-ass tokens instead of cash. Oh, and thanks for not serving any alcohol there, too. That made it so much more enjoyable when I lost at the 50 cent (?)Blackjack table.
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by chrisinindy on Dec 7, 2009 1:02 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
See, you missed what was going on there.
Winfield brought up a silly stereotype about Iowa (i.e. that we have many pigs). I responded in kind with a silly stereotype about Georgia (i.e. that many people fly Confederate flags.
Re: the casinos, I have no idea where you went to, but alcohol gets served at most casinos in these parts. Get yourself to a facility near a decent-sized town (Prairie Meadows near Des Moines, for example), and I’d expect you to have a much better experience.
Forsyth County?
the land of overpriced lake homes and beautiful farm pastures transmuted into McMansion-filled subdivisions. Nice. You probably have never seen a black person either…isn’t that the whitest county in the entire south?
"I think it's safe to say our concerns are many." -- Kirk Ferentz
Forsyth County
“Forbes.com named it as the 13th wealthiest county in the United States for 2008, and the wealthiest county in the state of Georgia.” – wikipedia (aka source of all truth)
Now let me explain to you the difference between an apple and an orange. Yes, there are dumb hicks in Iowa who inexplicably have confederate flag stickers in the back window of their trucks, but you won’t find many of those people in West Des Moines (insert demographically richest area of Iowa here).
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Dec 7, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
Back to the non-seriousness...
yet still topical: “Its county seat is Cumming.” Great or greatest sentence in all of the history of the Intertubes? discuss…
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Dec 7, 2009 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
the bars in Cumming have a good time with their city name let me tell ya
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 7, 2009 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
We have our own Cumming actually
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumming,_Iowa
There’s an apple orchard there.
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by SpanishJohnny on Dec 7, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
And the pinicile of the defintion of irony.
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A-ha!
There you have the error of your argument:
FC may now be a haven of rich folk, but when I was there…….so was Hosea Williams—twice! You buncha young-uns…
Anyway, the point is that there was a rally on the square there every Saturday, which was most backwoods thing I had ever seen until I saw this.
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I thought it was two men
but Winfield reminded me that’s what the women look like in the Midwest.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
As opposed to...
Also, I thought your children were supposed to be hornets… that’s one bizarre looking spider-child there.
/O'keefe'd
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Dec 7, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
REACH!
No comparison to these guys obviously goofing off and your dudes in an obvious passionate liplock.
That’s not even apples and oranges, its cocaine and waffles.
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somebody cue up MIss Tigerhawk nipples
Luck is probability taken personally, clutch is probability attributed to individuals.
Yep.
Because allowing whomever wants to declare their love for each other in public is definitely something to be scorned.
Don’t get me wrong, I get the joke…I just find it unfunny.
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I blame the guy in the background wearing the Iowa State shirt
That means that the picture was shot in Ames. They like that sort of thing up there, and, you know, when in Rome.
Aw, dude, "that sort of thing?"
Using homosexuality as an implied diss? I love all the stuff you post, and I know you’re joking here, but we just called them on that and it’s not the way to rep the only state outside of New England with legal marriage equality. Plus which, everybody knows Iowa City is twice as liberal as Ames will ever think about being.
But back to the main point we can all agree on….GO HAWKS!
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 7, 2009 6:38 PM EST up reply actions
It was the obvious joke, really
but you’re right, it’s not exactly the way to rep the state to outsiders.
It might be the way to rep Ames, but not the state altogether*.
Note: as full disclosure, I do support the gay marriage decision, and I have no problem with men kissing men. However, I’m not above making occasional crude and offensive jokes, especially if they’re disparaging of Iowa State. Apologies to all concerned.
Ach,
I didn’t mean to be a dick about it. As a displaced Iowan I’m always overly concerned about the state rep, and in this case it made me blow an innocent joke out of proportion. My sense of humor wouldn’t exist without offensive jokes, so, cheers mate.
Reinterpretation still at State’s expense: They’re pretty behind the times up in Lames, so we have to remind them what century it is and what state they live in when we grace them with our presence every other year.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 8, 2009 12:55 AM EST up reply actions
This discussion
Says a lot about Iowa.
We digressed all the way from posting crappy pics of each others teams to you guys apologizing to each other for…I’m not really sure what.
We’ve debated a lotta stuff on this board, but I can say with confidence that the acceptance of male making out is not one of em.
Way to kill a great discussion, Iowa. And you wonder why the rest of the world calls you freaks.
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by chrisinindy on Dec 8, 2009 7:13 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
You're just uncomfortable with the discussion
because, deep in the recesses of your mind, those “feelings” you have scare you. Don’t get me wrong, if the only options for companionship of the opposite sex were the women of Tech, I’d question my sexuality as well. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Things to see in Iowa
There are many great things to see in Iowa.
First among them is the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend.
A close second is Albert, the World’s Largest Bull, in Audubon. He’s got gigantic concrete balls.
Then there’s the “”http://www.thom.org/gallery/statues/IARSussriverside/" >Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk", just a few miles south of Iowa City.
Don’t forget the World’s Largest Coffee Pot in Stanton.
In Dyersville, the Farm Toy Capital of the World, you’ll find not only the National Farm Toy Museum but the Field of Dreams Movie Site.
The World’s Largest Strawberry is in Strawberry Point, oddly enough.
The house that Grant Wood used in the background of American Gothic is in Eldon. Also in Eldon is a Windmill Museum. As you drive around Iowa, you’ll discover that the whole state is a windmill museum.
There’s plenty more, like the birthplace of John Wayne (in Madison County, where the Bridges are), and a replica of the Little Mermaid statue, and the place where Buddy Holly died, and an axe grown into a tree, but I am tired of typing.
OK, there’s a washing machine museum, and a religious colony famous for microwave ovens and all-you-can-eat restaurants.
Don't forget
Tulip time in Pella!
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Of course!
The tulips along the public rights of way in Pella are impressive, as is the massive display in front of the window factory. And don’t forget all the cute little windmills!
Have the numbers of friendly people and grumps in Readlyn changed lately? The numbers stayed the same between my 1998 and 2002 visits.
I almost forgot the world’s ugliest Pocahontas statue in Pocahontas, Iowa.
Well, Pella was a huge rival of my town when I was growing up.
So I have no love lost for that city, though it is quite lovely during Tulip Time. And those signs are fantastic…sadly, I’ve never been through Readlyn. Which is pretty amazing to be honest.
Now, the Pocahontas status on the other hand, I’ve driven by many, many times. I went to college in Storm Lake, IA (at the prestigious Buena Vista University), and had many friends from that part of the state. The first time I saw it I was just stunned at how awful that thing really is.
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by MissouriHawk on Dec 8, 2009 10:01 AM EST up reply actions
Well, one doesn't go TO Readlyn
One passes by. I’m pretty sure the sign is on State Highway 3.
The best Bald Eagle watching I’ve ever experienced was at Lock and Dam #11, just north of Lyons, Iowa, which is now pretty much the north end of Clinton. I watched them from the Illinois side, just north of Hudson, but I just now discovered on Google Maps that that area of Iowa is called Eagle Point Park, so maybe they are visible from that side, too.
I saw dozens of eagles. It was amazing. And we are coming up on prime eagle season.
Interesting
I feel like my home country has been invaded by a bunch of really, really nice people. Am I in an episode of V?
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
Maybe a different version.
Because we aren’t lizards underneath. We’re BIRDS!!!!
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Fuck you, We're Iowa!
That better?
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Dec 8, 2009 10:12 AM EST up reply actions
That just makes me laught right there.
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Dec 8, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
Actually
I am revoking what I commented here as I just finished reading the next post up and I think you guys have some uga fans posing as Iowa fans. Please keep your trolls on a proper leash.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
I haven't seen pantherhawk's name yet
that’s the troll I’ll warn you about
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 8, 2009 7:46 PM EST up reply actions
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