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  1. On 6/23/2018 at 9:05 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

    Lets get the bad out of the way:

    were the second most popular team in Iowa, despite being the largest university, and being the university who's mission is most aligned with what drives our state.  This has created the typical Ag school inferiority complex amongst a large percentage of our fanbase.  We frequently jab at Iowa fans for not going to Iowa and shit like that.  But we're nowhere near Aggy in terms of being obsessed with the other school.  We also don't jerk off into Mason jars, beat women, create non-sense language, or fuck sheep.

    We also have a total conspiracy theory/martyr mind set.  Our history is littered with "shoulda woulda coulda" moments that featured controversial officiating.  We nearly lost our existence as an athletic department during the 2010-11 conference realignment because of a bunch of cunt schools.  Iowans in general have a mindset that the rest of the country doesn't appreciate us, and all of that bleeds into our fans' savagely booing the officials, regardless of whether the call wasn't correct.  The worst things I've publicly uttered were directed at refs during Iowa State games.  Ive noticed a lot of other fanbases, particularly KU basketball fans, hating this about us.

    The Manhattan Project happened at Iowa State as well, so I think that explains a lot of the shit luck.

     

    The good:

    We're one of the top Ag schools in the country.  Our most similar fanbases/schools are KSU and OK State, but we bury both of them academically.  We were the first school created by the Morril Act.  The university predates Ames, and at the time it was built, it wasn't literally two buildings in the middle of nowhere out on the prairie.  George Washington Carver did most of his peanut research in Ames.  The guy who designed Central Park designed our campus, and it's frequently regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country.  Ames is a typical Midwestern college town.  It's pastoral, clean, and well maintained.  It frequently makes "best places to live" lists, but is also frequently knocked as boring despite having some great bars, restaurants, and cultural venues.

    ISU is distinctly Iowan.  70% of students are Iowa natives, and frequently small town kids.  More of our alumni stay in state after graduation than any other school.  Our mission is making Iowa a better place, and we take it seriously.  Its this sense of pride that drives our notorious loyalty.  That and our Rodney Dangerfield complex.  We pack Jack Trice and Hilton because we love ISU, and we really believe we can impact the outcome. That and the party is a good time.

    Our tailgate scene is fucking wild.  It is a celebration of everything ISU.  We like to drink.  A lot.  It's ingrained in the culture of the upper Midwest.  Most Iowans claim German, Czech, or Irish backgrounds, which means booze has been bred into us for years.  We've been known to drink bars in Kansas City (and Memphis this year) dry.  It also makes us a friendly lot.  Because we feel that outsiders have either a negative opinion of Iowa, or don't even realize we exist, we go all out to make a good impression.  If you've been to a game in Ames, you know what I mean.

    We aren't much for silly traditions, because we've had pragmatism beaten into us for a century, but the one tradition that we really take pride in is the legacy of Jack Trice.  If you don't know the story, he was our first black athlete, and he played at a time when that wasn't socially accepted.  He was stomped during a fumble pile up while playing Minnesota in 1923.  Presumably due to the color of his skin.  He died of those injuries a few days later.  Jack was a hell of an athlete, a great student, and the definition of a self made man.  He was a true bad ass motherfucker.  To this day, the stadium is the only one in FBS football named after a black man.

    Loyalty, a little inferiority complex, and a lot of booze.  Every yard for ISU.

    +rep 

    Excellent self-analysis. Your second paragraph describes what my son says about living around a lot of ISU and NU fans. The NU fans irrationally blame Texas for their failings and worship Tom Osborne to a fault, while the ISU fans think the whole world is conspiring against them.  It makes talking sports difficult.

    And no, you’re nothing like aggy. 

  2. 1 hour ago, spystud13 said:

    Exactly, people swear they don’t care about Aggy, but all they can talk about is Aggy. It’s fucking embarrassing. 

    It’s hard to resist talking about a nation that is irrelevant yet insists to the extent of fabrication that they are the most relevant of all nations. 

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  3. 9 hours ago, Homesickhorn said:

    Not me, and here’s why.  I’ll preface this by saying to anyone who doesn’t know me, that I played baseball in the SEC. I really wanted a State win, because even though we were better than them, they brought the fuck you fight-back pain, and dropped it down on their opponents when it counted most. My alma mater shit the bed, giving Texas their own Super. State’s gone, so it’s pig vs beaver. I fucking hate Arkansas, it’s been bred into my soul. But I love baseball. Because of what it is, and what it did to me when I found it at age five.

    There’s an awesome metaphor, that compares baseball to life, and it’s been labeled a cliche lately.

    I played most sports, football being my favorite, but baseball being what I was best at. It’s an “individual” team sport (if that makes sense).

    I don’t know if anyone noticed, but that India piece of shit was in the dugout checking his cellphone while his team was down to FAU. The majority of his team were cheering on their teammates at the plate, but not him. That immediately caused me to hate Florida, solely due to a piece of shit who couldn’t get up for his teammates, but was too concerned for himself.

    I loved it when Tech beat them, hated watching them beat Texas, but last night, when pig kicked their asses, I was happy. Because, fuck Florida, and their coach for letting that go on in his dugout.

    I’m going to cheer for pig (gulp), because they’ve never been there before. My in state rival, just lost to Oregon State tonight, and I was cheering for them. I love the sport of baseball. I like underdogs, probably because I was one, 95% of the time. I got lucky to have guys around me that could do the job when I couldn’t, but knew I’d die trying to do the job when they couldn’t as well.

    This will be the only time I probably ever cheer for pig, but they deserve theirs.

     

    TL/dr:

    Cheering for piggy because they beat Florida who had a fucktard entitled player on their team. And that bugs me.

     

     

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    Now, give us one good reason to pull for Arkansas. 

  4. 7 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    I remember that one because it contained an outrageous element, namely the “I have a higher football IQ than all of you” line. It’s the same reason that if I were to utter the name “traveshamockery,” anyone familiar with that name would almost instantly associate it with “oh yeah, the kstate fan that wouldn’t stop bragging about Jordy Nelson.”

    What I remember most about that was the Shagsters who mocked him for predicting that a white (a point made by Shagsters, not traveshamockery) wr would torch our non-white dbs. 

  5. Blah blah blah... Vince... Young ... Scores!

    That, and when we stopped USC on 4th down (the play, not the measurement of the gift spot they got when the original spot was overruled), I immediately screamed, “We won!”  The USC fans next to us looked like they knew it, too. 

  6. My son and I were at the Arkansas game in Omaha, and I commented to him how no one anywhere near us was keeping score and how different that was from when I was a kid.  Of course, neither was I, but what made me think about it was the guy sitting to my right whose big hat was blocking my view of the pitch count on the scoreboard.

    /csb

  7. On 6/15/2018 at 11:06 AM, Huckleberry said:

    The Greatest Generation raised the Baby Boomers. Sometimes when people work their asses off and sacrifice more than nearly anyone else they overreact and shelter their children from ever having to do the same.

    Kellen Sr. is a Baby Boomer, and Kellen Jr. is a Millennial. 

  8. I traveled all over Arkansas on business back in the mid-80s to early 90s. I never had a problem with Razorback fans, although they did seem a little tense come October. I stayed in Texas that month. 

    I can say the exact same for OU fans, as Oklahoma was in my territory as well.

    College Station on the other hand....

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  9. 7 hours ago, TSipper said:

    Title IX is a weapon of war on college campuses, especially after police investigate and find no wrong doing occurred. 

     

    No one in their right mind would trust a Title IX office as their judge and jury.

    And what is this I hear about buttseks?  Are we to believe that aggy are closet homosexuals?  Because we all know that's what that means.

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