Obligatory "Is Iowa a Rival" Thread

Is Iowa a Rivalry for Nebraska?

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grapevine7 said:
Four points.  One, a rivalry game will definitely help Nebraska.  OSU-UM, OU-UT, FSU-UF, AL-AU, UW-WSU, and so on.  Even ND, a national program, seemingly above the rivalry fray, has USC as their big game.  Nebraska does not need the rivalry to excel, but it definitely helps.
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In all of the halftime breaks of other games, ESPN dedicated maybe 10 seconds showing the NU-IA highlights and I think it was just the last field goal.  I don't think Fox mentioned our game at all.  Meanwhile, for the past week I've seen Fox advertise "the game" ad nauseam.  This is free advertisement for the school.  I'm not sure NU-IA will garner as much attention as both need to be good and the game means playing for the West title.  Rivalries definitely help.

 
I still don't see a need for a rivalry game..If we had trouble selling out our stadium, it might have been useful to help the fans want to see the game in person, but we seem to be stuck with full stadiums even after horrid coaching.

Maybe if we start winning our division on a regular basis and then end up playing the same team in the CCG every year with each team trading victories somewhat equally, one might develop naturally, but these forced fake rivalries kinda suck.

 
HUSKER 37 said:
I still don't see a need for a rivalry game..If we had trouble selling out our stadium, it might have been useful to help the fans want to see the game in person, but we seem to be stuck with full stadiums even after horrid coaching.

Maybe if we start winning our division on a regular basis and then end up playing the same team in the CCG every year with each team trading victories somewhat equally, one might develop naturally, but these forced fake rivalries kinda suck.
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Maybe some people are able to see them as a rival in spite of the conference trying to make one.....instead of because of it. 

 
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The difference between Iowa and Nebraska isn't how relevant or irrelevant we both are or have been.  The difference is I have yet to hear another conference foe's fanbase, or any football fan in general, say anything nice about Iowa.  I remember going to the Michigan game in 2012 and a nice UM fan next to me told me "Good luck on the rest of the year. Please beat the crap out of Iowa, they are the worst."

 
These people are just blindly salty and literally have nothing to offer except being dicks to Husker fans.

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man eating mastodon said:
Actually they have a Heisman winner in Kinnick, they named a stadium  after him and also claim a Natty from I believe in the  50s.Nothing modern era  but they do.
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Nope - we don't claim it.  It is on the NCAA books as a shared National Championship since that was one of the recognized polls of that era - but no.

 
@Redux Iowa has been the better team 4 years running, no question about it.  I think the saltiness comes from a realization that the tides are turning. My best man is a hawk who went to school at NU. We have a group text of 5 skers and him and he was a bit put off that we all shrugged off this year and immediately said we are coming in 2019.  He wanted some validation/acknowledgment for the last 4 years and not to move on so fast. He wouldn't admit it but I know he is trying to hold on while he can.

 
runningblind said:
@Redux Iowa has been the better team 4 years running, no question about it.  I think the saltiness comes from a realization that the tides are turning. My best man is a hawk who went to school at NU. We have a group text of 5 skers and him and he was a bit put off that we all shrugged off this year and immediately said we are coming in 2019.  He wanted some validation/acknowledgment for the last 4 years and not to move on so fast. He wouldn't admit it but I know he is trying to hold on while he can.
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I suppose it could be because I got so used to Nebraska losing this season, but the loss to Iowa hardly bothered me at all and I think it’s because I know they’ll always be the same Iowa and this will be the worst season we have until Frost retires and we were tied with 3 seconds left. 

I even meandered over to one of their forums yesterday to see their take and the gloating didn’t bother me at all. Normally I would never do that. 

 
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Is that Jeremy Renner? I don't really understand A) why you'd use such a weird picture of him and B) what he has to do with nebraska or iowa? 

 
ColoradoHusk said:
I am not a super hero movie guy, but doesn't he play "Hawkeye"?
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Yep. I'm a little more confused about Gabrielle Union, if that's who the lower right is. I know she's a Nebraska fan (alum?), but a weird inclusion.

Also "a rivalry like no other" is pretty bold at this point. The biggest point of tension I can recall is that Iowa band member claiming our players didn't participate in the children's hospital wave. Wherever you place Iowa/Nebraska personally on a rivalry scale, it does not stand out in any way.

 
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