Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Edition

[Cardinal2001]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

I was shocked to see a few people wearing Hawkeye stuff at the game too.

There's always one. There was at the Emerald Coast Classic, our family was laughing about it.

 

[Clonefan94]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

The latter probably picked tickets up at a shelter or soup kitchen.

No, they just got Denver confused with Des Moines, since they both start with D, when the initial tickets went up for sale.

 

[HFCS]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

They had given double T's earlier in the game for that, so a senior should know better. Not sure I agree with the call at that time, but he shouldn't have taken the chance.

Non-ISU fans I watched the game with didn't like the T...but to me it's essential and English is just a moron for doing it.

What kind of precedent does it set that a player can go up to an opposing team's coach/bench and say whatever he wants? It would be inviting brawls.

 

[NoCreativity]

While I was working yesterday the wife was getting hammed in downtown Des Moines, and she said her group of friends were drinking at a bar with some Nebraska basketball fans they met that were from one of the Dakotas. Yeah you read that correctly. Nebraska basketball has fans, I'm shocked too. Anyway, my wife, who can't resist any chance to poke fun at Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas fans, asked them if they were lost, since Nebraska didn't even sniff the tourney this year. They were good sports about it, though, and said they were in town because they just like to watch good basketball (which doesn't make sense coming from Nebrasketball fan but okay fine). The Dakotans said Des Moines is an underrated venue for the tourney and paid for a few of their drinks. I guess the moral of the story is, Dakota people are nice, and ask for vacation time before everyone else in your office takes it off so you can also join in on the shenanigans.

Wow, classy, way to represent Des Moines.

 

[Cardinal2001]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

Non-ISU fans I watched the game with didn't like the T...but to me it's essential and English is just a moron for doing it.

What kind of precedent does it set that a player can go up to an opposing team's coach/bench and say whatever he wants? It would be inviting brawls.

I think it really depends on what was said. I also don't think Prohm reacts the way he did to a "shut up" comment. Someone isn't telling the whole story.

A little trash talk doesn't hurt anyone, and I don't think that it was a "little shut up" comment.

 

[HFCS]

While I was working yesterday the wife was getting hammed in downtown Des Moines, and she said her group of friends were drinking at a bar with some Nebraska basketball fans they met that were from one of the Dakotas. Yeah you read that correctly. Nebraska basketball has fans, I'm shocked too. Anyway, my wife, who can't resist any chance to poke fun at Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas fans, asked them if they were lost, since Nebraska didn't even sniff the tourney this year. They were good sports about it, though, and said they were in town because they just like to watch good basketball (which doesn't make sense coming from Nebrasketball fan but okay fine). The Dakotans said Des Moines is an underrated venue for the tourney and paid for a few of their drinks. I guess the moral of the story is, Dakota people are nice, and ask for vacation time before everyone else in your office takes it off so you can also join in on the shenanigans.

I'm sorry man, but this story is in Loch Ness Monster or UFO abduction territory. I mean maybe it happened, but I'm gonna need some hard evidence.

 

[Cardinal2001]

Wow, classy, way to represent Des Moines.

Sounds like typical bar talk to me. I do that, too. Most people are good sports.

 

[MNCyGuy]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

D bags at ESPN just said the game was in doubt until that call. Sure it was. That one point did it.

I don't know if I necessarily disagree with that. I still think we would have won, but they were making it interesting down the stretch and then after that call is when Iona really fell apart.

 

[BoxsterCy]

No way that technical was called at that point in the game if there was not an f-bomb in there. Also the double-T earlier just "might" have given the guys some notice to the level of BS the refs were going to put up with.

 

[cycopath25]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

There was these three guys like in their late 40's wearing KU stuff cheering against us . They were dang annoying .... Even my 6 year old son turned and gave them a look. I was shocked to see a few people wearing Hawkeye stuff at the game too.

I am never shocked to see people wearing Iowa Hawkeye gear at ISU events. Those people are the worst. Saw several in Denver yesterday.

 

[Cardinal2001]

Re: Sounds from the Crowd Today - Denver Addition

I am never shocked to see people wearing Iowa Hawkeye gear at ISU events. Those people are the worst. Saw several in Denver yesterday.

Good to see that tradition is still alive. I don't think it will ever go away.

 

[JohnnyFive]

I'm sorry man, but this story is in Loch Ness Monster or UFO abduction territory. I mean maybe it happened, but I'm gonna need some hard evidence.

When she got home I told her I didn't believe her that Nebrasketball fans were a real thing. Meeting a real leprechaun on St Paddy's Day would have been more believable.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I thought the whole "Iowa State Cardinals" thing was a myth?

That we were just "Ames" back then, with cardinal and gold as colors, though never referred to as if we had the same nickname as a baseball team in St. Louis or at the University of Louisville?

Then the whole Northwestern game happen, and we got the Cyclone moniker.

Cy the Cardinal, in reference to our color because our nickname is rather hard to personify in a costume, came about much later, right?

 

[Cardinal2001]

I thought it was the Colorado football game that sealed it, when we had a real tornado at the game!

 

[BoxsterCy]

I thought the whole "Iowa State Cardinals" thing was a myth?

That we were just "Ames" back then, with cardinal and gold as colors, though never referred to as if we had the same nickname as a baseball team in St. Louis or at the University of Louisville?

Then the whole Northwestern game happen, and we got the Cyclone moniker.

Cy the Cardinal, in reference to our color because our nickname is rather hard to personify in a costume, came about much later, right?

You have it right.

http://www.cyclonelife.net/2013/10/why-is-cy-a-cardinal-if-we-are-the-cyclones/

Many people often say, “Why is the mascot a bird if it’s the Iowa State ‘Cyclones’?!â€


Well, let me drop a little knowledge on you…


Iowa State University has been known as the Cyclones since 1895 after the Chicago Tribune claimed the Northwestern football team had been “struck by a cycloneâ€. Iowa State Cyclones has since been the name for over 100 years!


In 1954, members of Iowa State’s Pep Council decided that Iowa State needed a mascot to represent the college. As you can imagine a cyclone would be hard to make into a mascot, and after they realized this they decided they needed to come up with something else. They landed on having a cardinal as the mascot because of Iowa State’s colors of Cardinal and Gold! The Pep Council then had a contest to come up with a name for the new mascot. There were 17 entries for the name ‘Cy’, and Wilma Beckman Ohlsen, of Ames, was given credit for being the first one to submit the name ‘Cy’! Collegiate Manufacturing then produced the first Cy, who was 8ft tall, and cost $200! Cy made his debut at Homecoming on October 16, 1954! Thus, our beloved Cy has been around ever since! He has gone through a few makeovers over the years, and now looks more fierce than ever!

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

No way that technical was called at that point in the game if there was not an f-bomb in there. Also the double-T earlier just "might" have given the guys some notice to the level of BS the refs were going to put up with.

A slightly different telling of the incident here. Scroll to the end http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...caa-tournament-takeaways-iona-gaels/81938408/

 

[everyyard]

Any good sights or sounds today from the game? Or even the DSM games?

My favorite personal ones from today...

Two guys behind us were Colorado State fans just there to enjoy a day of good basketball. They were... interesting.

-Early in the game one of the guys asks the other "Iowa State travels pretty well. Do they sell out their games?" The other guy "Do you even watch college basketball?"
-At one point during the game one of the guys touches my shoulder and asks "So Hilton Coliseum is named after the Hotel Chain right? That must be good money, wish we had that."
-Towards the end of the game they ask me how the Cardinal and the Cyclone are related. I tell the story about beating Northwestern long ago when we were the Cardinals and blah blah blah. The other guy didnt hear me and asked the guy I told to tell him the story again, and he told him "Something about other teams called the Cardinals complaining and making them change their team". to which he replied "Oh, that would have probably been Louisville. Damn they always get their way"
-They were very complimentary of ISU overall and talked about how they loved watching Eustachy at ISU and like him now

Good times. Good times. Tournaments are always great to get different perspectives.

Except we were never the cardinals. The story makes a lot more sense when you see that we went from Ames to the Cyclones with the Chicago story. The "Cardinal" thing was added when mascots were becoming (1950's?) a thing and we needed something besides a tornado.

 

[carvers4math]

English is basically stupid for saying anything that could put that look on Steve Prohm's face right in front of the scorer's table. Officials will hear it for sure and so will the fans. Some five-year old probably just expanded their vocabulary.

 

[19clone91]

Yah I saw a few Iowa fans. But the KU fans everywhere bothered me even more. There were a few hundred of them at the game yesterday...

 

[NebraskaCyclone]

While I was working yesterday the wife was getting hammed in downtown Des Moines, and she said her group of friends were drinking at a bar with some Nebraska basketball fans they met that were from one of the Dakotas. Yeah you read that correctly. Nebraska basketball has fans, I'm shocked too. Anyway, my wife, who can't resist any chance to poke fun at Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas fans, asked them if they were lost, since Nebraska didn't even sniff the tourney this year. They were good sports about it, though, and said they were in town because they just like to watch good basketball (which doesn't make sense coming from Nebrasketball fan but okay fine). The Dakotans said Des Moines is an underrated venue for the tourney and paid for a few of their drinks. I guess the moral of the story is, Dakota people are nice, and ask for vacation time before everyone else in your office takes it off so you can also join in on the shenanigans.

Let's don't get crazy. A lot of Husker football fans become Creighton or Kansas fans during the bball season. Occasionally you come across a real fan. They love talk about the glory of the Piakowski years, which I'm ok talking about just for reliving the old Big 8 days. They are lame supporters though. A few years ago when they made a run and made it to the dance (still haven't won a first round game) they had some excitement going on, but still couldn't shake their lameness. For example they were playing in a new arena that year for first time, Pinnacle Bank Arena. They were playing well at home and started referring to it as "Pinnacle Bank Arena Magic." I was ripping everyone for that, not original, not even easy to stay.

Another thing here that is how little they care about basketball in general. The entire nation loves these two days of the tournament. Most around here could care less...and they think of themselves as the norm. I work at the state capitol and the block all sports related content from the web in March and first week of April to "save bandwidth and ensure state workers remain productive". (Which is ironic as most around here would say "they don't care") Anyway I guarantee if the college bowl season was during the legislative session they would not block anything.