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When losing to Iowa State happens, you know there is a level of suck at work that only Iowa fans can understand. Huskers lost ONCE to ISU in nearly FOUR decades and needed 5 Husker fumbles to help them out.

 
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A big fire on the University of Iowa campus today. The entire student body was devastated to see the campus library burned to the ground. All three of the books were totally destroyed and even worse is the fact that two of the books hadn't even been colored in yet!

 
Has anyone else noticed WB I-80 in Iowa was paved with red asphalt? On this trip it looked a little worn or maybe they had oiled over it but when it was first put in I figured out it was Iowawegianites way of paying respect to the Big Red.

 
My dad's side of the family are from Alabama. And I mean, the sticks of Alabama. Up north in the foothills just before you get to the border with Tennessee. They are the 'three whole teeth in his head' kind of hillbillies. The 'meet your future wife at the family reunion' kind of hillbillies. They're the 'SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC' kind of hillbillies. They're the 'Look, Stump-jumping Jethro is using all three of his brain cells to talk!' kind of hillbillies. Like, some serious 'Deliverance' kind of hillbillies. I'm not proud of this. It's an embarrassing family secret.

The thing is, the worst examples of the worst kind of deep south hillbillies are a regular bunch of Stephen Hawkings compared to the average Hawkeye fan.

Truly, Iowa is the dirty, unwashed anus of America. And Hawkeye fans are the cause. I pity the poor Cyclone fans that have to live next to them.

 
Iowa fans and Nebraska fans are culturally similar. Corn belt midwesterners. Iowa fans are not the same, though. It's a lot like a pair of twins that were separated at birth and grew up in different families and neighborhoods.

Iowa fans, to me, are more similar to Badger fans, with a belligerent, foul-mouth attitude, and death-defying BAC.

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
1995 Redux said:
They make fun of us for being mediocre since our dynasty run, then ritually celebrate a realistically mediocre season ever 4-5 years amidst not good seasons.

You can't make this stuff up, they are kinda like KSux fans.
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I know people occasionally accuse me of being an Iowa homer on this board, which I most assuredly am not, but the only reason I get those accusations is because people aren't fair or rational in their assessments of Iowa's programs.

Since 2001...

Number of 11+ win seasons:

Iowa - 3

Nebraska - 0

Number of top 10 finishes:

Iowa - 4

Nebraska - 0

Number of conference championships (yes, we are all aware that these were obtained differently than the Big XII):

Iowa - 2

Nebraska - 0

Number of major bowl appearances:

Iowa - 3

Nebraska - 0

Their program operates quite differently than ours in the sense of having common 4-7 win seasons, but also has seasons sprinkled in that are better than anything we've accomplished in 15 years.
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And we still have a better overall record than them during that same time span. But congratulations to Iowa: in their best ever era and our mediocrity since the dynasty years, they've managed to "almost" win as often as us. Quite an accomplishment for a program whose "tradition" is primarily based on moral victories and never winning anything at all of significance.

We can talk about the past, and Nebraska would win that discussion handily. We can talk about the present, and even if they manage to beat our 2nd or 3rd string quarterback tomorrow or our gimpy starter, they'll still have an awe inspiring (for them) 8 wins...which is only 1 win less than Nebraska (with a loss at home to an FCS team to boot). Past or present, Iowa football is inferior.

Little brother Iowa: always trying to compare themselves to the big boys, and always coming up just short. I'd talk about how their stirring Orange Bowl victory over Georgia Tech 7 years ago (the only major bowl win they've had in about 50 years) was the stuff of legends, but I wouldn't want to live in the past like their fans clearly do.
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