Obligatory "Is Iowa a Rival" Thread

[Red Five]

 I would agree it's laughable but for one thing, it's very apparent that many fans in the B1G want us gone. Does that correlate to B1G faculty and admins... who knows but when prominent, albeit useless, former players now in large media positions call for it, well..... makes me wonder enough that I do think Rhule's task is bigger than we as fans might think. Hope not but in this crazy day and age who knows what's really happening behind the curtains.  

 

[ZRod]

Northwestern will get kicked out of the Big Ten before Nebraska.

Yeah right! Their Chicago's B1G team bro!

 

[Lorewarn]

 I would agree it's laughable but for one thing, it's very apparent that many fans in the B1G want us gone. 

That's not apparent at all.

According to what? A few dozen people with twitter accounts? 

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

Yeah right! Their Chicago's B1G team bro!

They aren't in Chicago and you will run into more Iowa and Michigan alumni than anything in Chicago 

 

[gobiggergoredder]

They aren't in Chicago and you will run into more Iowa and Michigan alumni than anything in Chicago 

At Burger King?

 

[runningblind]

Plus.........

• We have a national football brand.  Yeah it sucks right now, but it's not dead.
  
• Top 20 basketball attendance
  
• Going to be 80,000+ in a stadium to watch a volleyball game.  The most to ever watch ANY womens event ever is 90,000 (Women's world cup)
  
• In general, top notch facilities for most sports.
  

This is just stupid.

Seriously.  We are very wanted.  If football gets rolling, we are a giant cash cow.

 

[knapplc]

we are a giant ... cow

Look, hey. We're going to the gym. This hurts.

 

[ZRod]

They aren't in Chicago and you will run into more Iowa and Michigan alumni than anything in Chicago 

It's part of Chicagoland, and that phrase has been Northwestern's ad campaign in the past.

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

It's part of Chicagoland, and that phrase has been Northwestern's ad campaign in the past.

What's Chicagoland??

 

[ZRod]

What's Chicagoland??

Metro Chicago...

 

[knapplc]

What's Chicagoland??

This.

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

Metro Chicago...

I was just messing with you.  I grew up in "Chicagoland".  If you left Ryan field at NW and drove to the Sears/Willis tower and I left my house where I grew up at the same time we would most likely arrive at the same time.  I would just be coming from a different state.  

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

This.

Thanks.  Although this map extends a little too south into Indiana.  Nobody considers anything past Lowell Chicagoland. 

 

[Gage County]

State of confusion?

 

[knapplc]

the Sears/Willis tower

My favorite line from the river tour guide:

It's spelled W-I-L-L-I-S, but it's pronounced 'Sears.'