Cyclone in Hawkeye family and soft spot for Hawkeyes now hard

[unsungbk]

I was just wondering how many people grew up in a Hawkeye family since lot of us grew up Hawkeye fans by default and secondly have some people become completely Iowa State fans. (no more Hawkeye fan when they do not play ISU)

I grew up in CR. My grandpa graduated from Iowa. Parents graduated from Iowa. Younger brother graduated from Iowa. (uncles, etc) The rest of the family defaults to Iowa. I have once cousin who graduated from Iowa State who lives out of state plus a step-brother.

Its gotten a bit more divided with the rise of ISU Athletics and the conference wars too. Hayden Fry and the string of football victories was a lifetime ago (for college athletics) and it seems a lot of Hawks are clinging to it for superiority.

My Dad is the most reasonable. The morning of the Tulsa game last year he purposely ordered the sports package on Dish (Eastern Iowa Comcast Chicago) when we visited so I could see the Hawkeye game and he was the only who who didn't complain about flipping between the two.

My brother loves the term CyClowns and I'll let that pass. I can give my grandparents a pass. (Did you live in the Quadrangle in Iowa City?)

Any one else actively putting down Iowa State makes me almost angry and I rarely get angry at sports.

Early in my college years and post-graduation (2002-2008) I still pulled for Iowa against all other schools, but a few years after graduating I've found myself totally indifferent to Iowa and its gotten to the point where I actively root against them sometimes. I first remember laughing out loud at a Hawkeye loss against Northwestern State, but that might have been more a function of hating Alford and I last remember actively watching a Hawkeye game and caring during the Ricky Stanzi run a few years ago.

Part of it is living in Bloomington, IN and my wife graduating from IU. Big 10 allegiance has shifted a bit. I think a lot of it also has to do with how a lot of Hawkeyes fans treated the possible implosion of the Big 12 by actively ridiculing Iowa State and wanting them in an athletics black hole. I know not all Hawkeyes fans wanted this, but unfortunately that's what bubbles to the top of my Facebook and twitter feeds.

To me it outside (and sometimes inside) of my family it's no longer friendly any more. It's Iowa State or Iowa no more I'll cheer for both...

 

[NobodyBeatsCy]

Hard like math, or hard like a diamond?

 

[KnappShack]

Grew up a Hawkeye fan until I went to ISU

I had a burning hatred of all things black and gold for a long time, but I've finally become completely apathetic to Iowa. I don't follow their athletic teams in any way. I can't tell you anything about their squads. I know they are in the Big Ten, but not much else now

They are dead to me

 

[unsungbk]

Hard like math, or hard like a diamond?

Like diamond....soft spot now gone is probably a better term.

I will take this a step further and say if Iowa was in the National Championship I wouldn't root against them, but I would not be sad if they lost. When I was a kid the first loss to Iowa State was sad. Bowl losses were sad. Not so much any more.

 

[pourcyne]

Thank you, I have carried some hate in my heart all day for my Squawkeye relative who is suddenly a Cyclone fan. People like that **** me off. Damned grifter.

arghh:

 

[EnhancedFujita]

I grew up with half of my family as Hawkeye fans and the other half indifferent to college sports. I never cared for Iowa, but didn't start rooting against them until I came to college at ISU. When I choose ISU, I got crap from all sides of my Hawkeye family (tavern hoks btw). And they continued to talk crap about everything, even when we were beating them in the 2000s. The last few years a few of them have come around and started rooting for ISU. I don't know what to do with this because I dislike the Hawkeyes so much. For the time being I've just gone back to indifferent with the Hawkeyes around family, but deep in my heart I still hate them.

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

My dad is one of 17 kids. 16 of the 17 families are die hard Hawkeyes. 7 of the siblings never went to college, two are doctors, five have business degrees, my dad and two brothers went to ISU for engineering. The two that went to ISU drive me nuts because they do nothing but trash ISU. Got to a point where we stopped going to family reunions on that side because individually they were okay, but when they are all together it was non stop Hawkeye chants and ripping on us.

 

[twistedredbird]

My entire family are hawks, though none went there - some UNI, but my immediate family support ISu. It annoys me the level of smack they talk and crap they litter facebook instagram and twitter with, but when I post something very vanilla we get hazed. We always turn the cheek, but it has alienated us from spending time with them. But they are very sterotypical rural uneducated small town Tavernhawks. They have become our Christmas card family.