*Game Thread* Iowa State 9/5

[cydave]

Re: *Game Thread* Iowa State 9/5

It's funny if you know how the ISU fanbase operates. They care deeply about Nebraska, and considered Nebraska a "rival." Nebraska, on the other hand, doesn't give one flaming rip about Iowa State.

It's more of the fact that everybody hates Nebraska unless you're a Nebraska fan. There is nothing to like about their fan base or team. 99% of the nation got excited last night seeing BYU win on a last second TD.

[Gocats15]

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I have never seen a school bring the conference affiliate flags out for the pre-game band performance, and then place them front and center for presentation.

I've never seen a school show the league logo as the slate before replays, or make the logo a permanent fixture in both scoreboards.

I've never seen any team put "rivals" memorabilia in their suites.

You might note I didn't talk about the flags on the building, because everyone does do that. All the rest is unusual.

I'll give them credit though. They found a way to keep the tiger hawk out of their halftime performance, so they've shown improvement over time there. It was pretty funny hearing them all get so excited over the end of the Nebraska game.

The conference logo thing is big now in the power 5 conferences ever since the recent changes in those conferences. Now each team has a sort of conference pride, and feels the need to display the logo everywhere possible. The big 10, 12, and sec networks have a lot to do with this. It looks odd, but it is what it is. I mean, our uniforms have the valley logo on them front and center. It appears we went back to the oversized patch on the jerseys instead of the subtle football logo you could barely noticed. If this patch is the same on our purple jerseys with a white background, it'll look awful.

[Mudrafan]

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keep in mind, the clowns (squaks of late as well) have nothing to root for with their own teams. As a result, they broaden the scope & start pounding their chest about being part of such a powerful conference. It makes them feel better about themselves. In other words, they think they are great...just by association. In reality, they are fodder for the rest of the conference.

[95UNIGRAD]

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The Panther growl is not silly. At all.

...and...Chippewa goes the way of 9year and other posters like him, who previously passed themselves off as at least dual fans, but are now revealed to be UNI fans only if their preferred team sucks or isn't on that day.

Funny how the claws come out when "another" of their favorite teams happens to be playing the Panthers.

[95UNIGRAD]

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It's more of the fact that everybody hates Nebraska unless you're a Nebraska fan. There is nothing to like about their fan base or team. 99% of the nation got excited last night seeing BYU win on a last second TD.

There are zero people in the country outside of Nebraska fans who didn't smile at that ending.

[95UNIGRAD]

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other fanbases make fun of UNI's garage door entrance, but I like it

people make fun of the I-O-W-A cheer in Kinnick, but I'm rather jealous considering UNI crowds can't seem to manage an organized cheer if their lives depended on it.

They used to. Somewhere between Terry Allen and now, complete apathy has settled in as far as filling the place, staying past halftime, and getting involved. Oh, to have the dome atmosphere from the early 90s again...damn, that was fun.

[wretched]

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For what it's worth I get being proud of your conference. I rooted for NDSU vs Montana a week ago because of conference affiliation and will always root for Valley teams in non conference games and playoffs!

Love the growl and garage door, but do wish bands were afforded more opporunity during the games.

As for the game, I am a Johnny come lately so don't want to go all preachy but it was the offensive staff's 1st game, and they had control of it but the int on the screen changed the course of the game. UNI was taking it in to go up 14-0. The play before the pick from where I was sitting I though a ISU LB made a great play as the UNI RB almost broke lose for what would have maybe been a TD or at least a big gainer down close to the goaline. The disappointing thing is that some of the same problems remain and the O never answered after getting hit in the face. They folded which was the most disappointing to me.

I also think ISU will win some games but who knows, we do know their staff couldn't afford another loss to UNI so there was no overlooking this game.

Our D will keep us in every game! Special teams will get worked out and hopefully the O will figure it out!

[GonzoCat]

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Well, that game sucked. How lucky we are that we only have to witness a game like that once every 3 years or so on average. Not that we don't lose games every year, but that we perform so poorly and lose so convincingly. Offense, special teams, and coaching all very poor job last night. Defense held out as long as humanly possible with the opponent starting every drive inside our 40 seemingly.

Most disappointing aspect was we all led ourselves to believe we were going to see a new look offense that may or may not be successful, but that was at least going to be exciting to watch and not so predictable and awful. Nope, same old same old for the most part. No passing game, poor line play, bad play calling.

When I got done cussing the tv and kicking the invisible dog, I took a moment to relect. We Panther fans are just so unaccustomed to this kind of game, that is why we take it so hard. Imagine being an ISU fan and having to put up with that kind of beat down almost every game for the last 100 seasons or so. God bless em, I don't know how they do it. I don't think I would be able to stay a loyal fan of such a team.

I don't know when things will get better for us Panthers, but I know they will, and probably a lot sooner than it feels like right now.

[Gocats15]

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Nah, we're obviously terrified of doing anything that might upset the band.

I'm glad that we spent thousands of dollars and gave them most of the lower level seats last night so that they could not play anything pre-game or during the game. But hey, they got to play one song with the Iowa State band and the fight song.

And with my band complaint, this thread has gone full PN.

Speaking of bands, did anyone see Kansas States yesterday? They formed a jay hawk on the field and had what they claimed was a "spaceship" ram into its beak/mouth until the jay hawk got destroyed. It looked so bad on TV, there's videos everywhere

[UNIChippewa]

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...and...Chippewa goes the way of 9year and other posters like him, who previously passed themselves off as at least dual fans, but are now revealed to be UNI fans only if their preferred team sucks or isn't on that day.

Funny how the claws come out when "another" of their favorite teams happens to be playing the Panthers.

Wow. You are really a dumb, simple-minded individual, aren't you?

You honestly feel that because I don't slobber over the Panther growl means that my "claws" are coming out? Good God, that is stupid.

Go f*ck yourself. F*ck yourself hard, and then go blow it out your a$$.

I'll put my Panther fan bona fides up against yours anytime, champ. I contribute yearly to the Panther Scholarship Fund, I drove halfway across the state of Colorado a couple of years ago to watch the football team play Northern Colorado, and I plan on driving down to Albuquerque during basketball season in December. Not to mention that I went to Oklahoma City during the Sweet 16 season and intentionally timed a trip back to Iowa the following basketball season specifically so I could see them play in the McLeod Center.

This belief that you can't be a true Panther fan if you're a "dual fan" or that you don't hate either Iowa or Iowa State so much that you want to dump kerosene on their coaching staffs and then light a match on them is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen online, and I think that attitude speaks volumes about those who believe it.

One more time for the cheap seats....F*ck you.

[panther1]

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Wow. You are really a dumb, simple-minded individual, aren't you?

You honestly feel that because I don't slobber over the Panther growl means that my "claws" are coming out? Good God, that is stupid.

Go f*ck yourself. F*ck yourself hard, and then go blow it out your a$$.

I'll put my Panther fan bona fides up against yours anytime, champ. I contribute yearly to the Panther Scholarship Fund, I drove halfway across the state of Colorado a couple of years ago to watch the football team play Northern Colorado, and I plan on driving down to Albuquerque during basketball season in December. Not to mention that I went to Oklahoma City during the Sweet 16 season and intentionally timed a trip back to Iowa the following basketball season specifically so I could see them play in the McLeod Center.

This belief that you can't be a true Panther fan if you're a "dual fan" or that you don't hate either Iowa or Iowa State so much that you want to dump kerosene on their coaching staffs and then light a match on them is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen online, and I think that attitude speaks volumes about those who believe it.

One more time for the cheap seats....F*ck you.

Calm down. Step away from the ledge. Put the weapon down. Deep breaths. It will be ok. A person on a message board disagreed with you, if it doesn't happen occasionally you are doing something wrong.

[UNIChippewa]

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Calm down. Step away from the ledge. Put the weapon down. Deep breaths. It will be ok. A person on a message board disagreed with you, if it doesn't happen occasionally you are doing something wrong.

I will admit it was quite a strong response, but few things, if any, in the online world get my blood boiling more quickly than to be told that I'm not a true Panther fan because I happen to be a dual fan and/or don't think that dropping an atom bomb on a fully packed Cyclone Stadium or Kinnick Field would be a very nice thing to do.

The poster I lit up didn't disagree with me. That I can handle without dropping an F bomb or two. He did accuse me of not being a true Panther fan, and I will most definitely respond forcefully to that kind of insipid, ridiculous bullsh!t.

If anything, I was cheering for UNI last night. Despite the occasional struggles over the past few seasons, UNI football has given me much more to cheer about than ISU football.

[ProwlingPanther]

I will admit it was quite a strong response, but few things, if any, in the online world get my blood boiling more quickly than to be told that I'm not a true Panther fan because I happen to be a dual fan and/or don't think that dropping an atom bomb on a fully packed Cyclone Stadium or Kinnick Field would be a very nice thing to do.

The poster I lit up didn't disagree with me. That I can handle without dropping an F bomb or two. He did accuse me of not being a true Panther fan, and I will most definitely respond forcefully to that kind of insipid, ridiculous bullsh!t.

If anything, I was cheering for UNI last night. Despite the occasional struggles over the past few seasons, UNI football has given me much more to cheer about than ISU football.

Challenging one's Panther Fandom ranks up there with being told you play ball like a girl.

[Cap'n Cat]

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They used to. Somewhere between Terry Allen and now, complete apathy has settled in as far as filling the place, staying past halftime, and getting involved. Oh, to have the dome atmosphere from the early 90s again...damn, that was fun.

Victims of our own success.

[Kyle]

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Unless UNI's own Game Day operations staff has taken out the silly Panther growl out of the Dome, I really don't think UNI has any leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing other teams atmosphere.

Yep, sounds like I was right with my not willing to adapt Dad analogy.

UNI isn't criticizing ISU's game day operations. I am. And both have a ton of improving to do. But the big difference between the two, is ISU has approximately 20x the resources to put together a top notch atmosphere. They have a brand new sound system, massive high def video boards, shiny new facilities, and a multi-million dollar lighting system. UNI has, well, almost none of that. The fact you are even able to draw comparisons should be embarrassing to ISU. ISU should never, ever, be on UNI's level. But they are, and have been for the better part of two decades.

Despite the grand canyon size gap in the tools/resources available to each school, UNI's game day operations is still far less corny and amateur than ISU's. And the worst part is it appears (as evidences by your reaction) ISU fan's don't even think anything is broken. It's like watching Charles Brown taunt the ISU DB's when we are losing by three touchdowns. All you can do is shake your head and put your palm to your face.