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What Is Panther Football?
WHAT IS PANTHER FOOTBALL?
What is Panther Football? : A few weeks ago I talked to an out of
state friend. While we chatted, I kept talking about the upcoming UNI
game. Josh is not a big sports fan, and had never been to an UNI
Football game. He just could not understand my passion for
Panther Football. "What is the big deal about Panther football? That is
all I hear people talking about," he asked. Panther football is
best described as a crisp fall day with 16,000+ people chanting
U .. N . I.. Panther football is seeing a 9 month old at the game
dressed in purple and gold and thinking, "If I had only been so
lucky...". Panther football is the 60 year old from Sioux City who
drives 6 hours every Saturday to park his RV in somebody's yard and
tailgate all day until the game. Panther football is wearing a purple
and gold shirt in Iowa City or Ames, Iowaand having somebody stick their head out of a car at a stoplight and scream "GO PANTHERS!" Panther football is knowing at the tender age of 5 that the Cyclones or Hawkeyes are vicious evildoers to be hated, but having no idea why. Panther football is a guy like
Bryce Paup, who walks onto the team, leaves to star in the NFL
but was SO DAMN NICE that nobody can begrudge him for it. Panther football is having one of your starting offensive lineman graduate to go to business school! Panther football is the little purple and gold flags waving off of every car antenna caravaning up and down I-80 and I-380 every Saturday on their way to Cedar Falls. Panther football is the white top of UNI-DOME and the turf on the field with the smell in the air of some kind of meat barbecuing in the parking lot that will soon be put on a stick and sold to a tanked undergrad who can no longer speak as they are hoarse from screaming from the front row of the student section. Panther football is 12 weeks of getting up at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings, drinking bloody marys and eating a
bowl of chili on 23rd Avenue before the sun comes up. Panther football is
being anywhere in Cedar Falls on a Saturday afternoon and hearing a dull
roar come through the air and thinking, "Hmmm, we must've scored".
Panther football is not being able to get up and make it to your 8:00
a.m. class Monday through Friday, but managing to be in your favorite
Cedar Falls parking lot with a cold beer in hand before 6:00 a.m. on
Saturday . Panther football is sitting in UNI-DOME with your out of
state friend and have him turn to you and scream through the roar of
the crowd, "I've never seen anything like this before. It's amazing."
No, it's Panther Football. GO PANTHERS!!!!!
What is Panther Football? : A few weeks ago I talked to an out of
state friend. While we chatted, I kept talking about the upcoming UNI
game. Josh is not a big sports fan, and had never been to an UNI
Football game. He just could not understand my passion for
Panther Football. "What is the big deal about Panther football? That is
all I hear people talking about," he asked. Panther football is
best described as a crisp fall day with 16,000+ people chanting
U .. N . I.. Panther football is seeing a 9 month old at the game
dressed in purple and gold and thinking, "If I had only been so
lucky...". Panther football is the 60 year old from Sioux City who
drives 6 hours every Saturday to park his RV in somebody's yard and
tailgate all day until the game. Panther football is wearing a purple
and gold shirt in Iowa City or Ames, Iowaand having somebody stick their head out of a car at a stoplight and scream "GO PANTHERS!" Panther football is knowing at the tender age of 5 that the Cyclones or Hawkeyes are vicious evildoers to be hated, but having no idea why. Panther football is a guy like
Bryce Paup, who walks onto the team, leaves to star in the NFL
but was SO DAMN NICE that nobody can begrudge him for it. Panther football is having one of your starting offensive lineman graduate to go to business school! Panther football is the little purple and gold flags waving off of every car antenna caravaning up and down I-80 and I-380 every Saturday on their way to Cedar Falls. Panther football is the white top of UNI-DOME and the turf on the field with the smell in the air of some kind of meat barbecuing in the parking lot that will soon be put on a stick and sold to a tanked undergrad who can no longer speak as they are hoarse from screaming from the front row of the student section. Panther football is 12 weeks of getting up at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings, drinking bloody marys and eating a
bowl of chili on 23rd Avenue before the sun comes up. Panther football is
being anywhere in Cedar Falls on a Saturday afternoon and hearing a dull
roar come through the air and thinking, "Hmmm, we must've scored".
Panther football is not being able to get up and make it to your 8:00
a.m. class Monday through Friday, but managing to be in your favorite
Cedar Falls parking lot with a cold beer in hand before 6:00 a.m. on
Saturday . Panther football is sitting in UNI-DOME with your out of
state friend and have him turn to you and scream through the roar of
the crowd, "I've never seen anything like this before. It's amazing."
No, it's Panther Football. GO PANTHERS!!!!!
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