Calling all Maniacs!!!!!

[panther2317]

Ok...

Seriously, who wouldn't want to go to the Auburn-LSU game in Death Valley??? That's not the point. I'm a football fan too, I know what atmosphere is all about. Hell, I'd rather have been in Hattiesburg last weekend instead of painting my cupboards in my house, but that wasn't an option. But when I was in college, I went to the UNI games. They were guys I went to class with, hung out with, worked with during the summer and it was MY SCHOOL. Does the concept of "SCHOOL SPIRIT" escape you totally? Furthermore, I worked TWO jobs all year long in college and found a way to be at most UNI football games and ALL basketball games as well. We're talking about UNI and Iowa here, not LSU and Auburn. You want to add other great games into the mix to take the focus off of the fact you don't support football at your institution.

AND FINALLY, if you're going to be a member of the media, you're not going to be a "fan" of any schools anymore. You should be FAIR and IMPARTIAL in the way you report the sports news. If that's not possible for you, then you shouldn't be in the media. Unless your name is Zabel, you don't make a living being a "fan" in the media as a talk show guy.

Listen to Deace in Des Moines sometime, he's a Michigan fan, but talks about Iowa and Iowa State because he knows what gets good ratings.

I'm not saying UNI all the time either, but you are in Cedar Falls, not Iowa City.

[tcondon]

Panther, I think we are saying the same thing in some regards. Calling me out everytime that I make a post is something that is not called for. I said nothing earlier in this thread about the situation and you call me out like you do everytime I try to post something on this board.

The reason that I go to Iowa games is because I have been a fan all my life, and I will continue to be. I went to school at Iowa for a short time, but transferred to UNI for academics. I know you don't understand how that can be, as I have tried to explain it to you, but I didn't come here to the Panthers, I came here to the University of Northern Iowa. I will continue to support the teams when I can during the winter, I will continue to go to basketball games and a few football games a year. But I am not going to give up my favorite 6 Saturday's a year.

If you think that I am not fair and impartial, then you haven't listened to my show very often. I try as hard as I can to stay down the middle. When I give analysis of a game and talk about a game before hand, I am not a homer that says Iowa or UNI is going to win because they are teams that I root for. Deace also runs his Michigan propaganda at times, but not very often because we are in Iowa. Around this area, no matter what you say, their are more Hawkeye fans than Panther fans. So I cater to not only UNI fans, but also Iowa fans. During footblal season, I get 3 to 4 times as many calls about Iowa than UNI. In the preseason I received more phone calls wanting to talk about Iowa than UNI. So I am going with what the audience wants to talk about.

We're going to have to agree to disagree, but lets stop the constant attacks each time that somebody makes a post. I

[Marc Wigim]

Does anyone remember last year when the Northern Iowa printed a huge write-up on the Iowa/Arizona State football game? Remember the reaction? Students were confused as to why this makes the UNI Sports section in the campus newspaper. The Northern Iowan hasn't done that since.

Just goes to show that I think that we here at PN aren't by ourselves in this crusade.