ISU Fans: How many of you have had BAD interactions with Hawk fans?

[intrepid27]

Not terrible events, but living in Eastern Iowa I am amazed at the number of Hawk fans that will go out of their way to make a negative remark to someone wearing ISU gear. Like walking around in a store or at a restaurant. I kind of get it if you are engaged in a casual conversation but these people just walk up, spout some crap and keep walking.

When you try to engage you quickly realize that are typically just tee shirt fans that know little about the Hawkeyes. I used to have an employee that literally wore a Hawkeye shirt 90 % of the time and could not name 5 other schools in the Big 10. That is typically the kind that says something.

 

[Triggermv]

Yes I know that every fan base has bad fans. And yes I know that not all Hawkeye fans are bad fans. I'm just wondering if a majority of Cyclone fans have had bad fan encounters with Iowa fans?

All the time. However, in their defense, the ones who ACTUALLY went to the University of Iowa tend to be not quite so bad and actually even pretty decent a lot of times. The problem is you've got a greater chance of finding a unicorn within the state of Iowa than actually finding a Hawkeye grad. Most of their alumni base pretty much comes from Chicago and then goes right back there after school. You've got a much better chance of finding one there than here. Makes us all proud a bunch of our in-state tax dollars goes to funding all these out-of-state turdburgers.

 

[RClone]

My story below also happened in northeast Iowa. Some of the most negative encounters happen on that side of the state.

 

[JM4CY]

Ive told this story before on here I think but I practically got locked in a locker and scorned as a kid for wearing a Troy jersey to school. That pretty much sealed it. I always and forever will hate Iowa with a the fire of 1,000 suns.

 

[davegilbertson]

I attended ISU/Iowa game (must've been Flynn at QB), believe I was sitting with UofI friends in or near the UofI student section. Guy a few rows up was being horrible. Don't recall what now years later. I squirted a bit of my water bottle in his face and it shut him up. I'm still kind of stunned that didn't end up with me getting jumped.

Also very hostile interactions after ISU wins when Iowa State hosted in 2001 and in Iowa City in 2002. 2001 friends who were coming to stay with us, ended up leaving they were so pissed off then in Iowa City having things thrown at us, beer and some hard objects after ISU comeback.

Most of my friends who are Iowa fans are reasonable and went on to be doctors. Friendly ribbing, but nothing horrible.

Other worst encounters were when partying in CF (my hometown) with UNI folks wearing ISU gear.

 

[Frak]

I haven't been to IC in a long time, but the last time I did, we got full beer cans and raw hamburger thrown at us for walking across a parking lot. Not saying a word, just walking across a lot with ISU gear on. A beer can actually hit a hawk fan while he was passing us and then he wanted to fight as if we actually threw it. I tried to explain that physics made that impossible unless we had some kind of boomerang beer can, but he was too drunk to get it.

2019 in Ames, there was a drunk outside of the south gate running his mouth and wanting to fight. I'm sure someone ended up popping him, but we weren't going to get dragged into that just before kickoff. Also in 2019, during one of the delays, there was a guy getting into it in the tailgate across from us. Cyclone fan promptly got up, put him in a sleeper hold and left the guy laying on the asphalt. He got up a couple minutes later and walked away.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Never wear any cyclone gear to a wal mart. Too many stories to list.

 

[cytor]

I thank God every day that I don't have 1 single friend that likes the Hoks.

I do agree though about wearing ISU gear and the douches come out of the woodwork to say something. They know nothing about civility. They make themselves quite hateable.

 

[Lineup]

just knowing one is a bad experience

 

[davegilbertson]

oh actually forgot I attended the last game in Iowa City in 2018. Casually walking to our vehicle some young buck was behind us taunting, very clearly trying to start a physical altercation. Just hit him with the ignore treatment, as I've found that confounds the overly aggressive personalities.

 

[Clonefan32]

All the time. However, in their defense, the ones who ACTUALLY went to the University of Iowa tend to be not quite so bad and actually even pretty decent a lot of times. The problem is you've got a greater chance of finding a unicorn within the state of Iowa than actually finding a Hawkeye grad. Most of their alumni base pretty much comes from Chicago and then goes right back there after school. You've got a much better chance of finding one there than here. Makes us all proud a bunch of our in-state tax dollars goes to funding all these out-of-state turdburgers.

I think this is my biggest trigger with Iowa fans. I know some who went to Iowa, and some who are legitimate fans despite not going to Iowa. I have no issue with that, and the ones I know personally are fine to talk to. The problem becomes some of the loud-mouthed yokels that you know have never been to a game that love to wear their circa 2000 Iowa hoodie and talk ****.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

My story below also happened in northeast Iowa. Some of the most negative encounters happen on that side of the state.

I agree. I will never forgive my Dad for moving our family out of central Iowa to northeast Iowa when I was 4 years old. Of course I am old enough to make decisions about where I live now, and I chose Dubuque, IA of all places

 

[isucyfan]

Like others here, I grew up outnumbered by hawk fans probably 100-1 in my school. One of my fondest memories from elementary school actually came when I lost a bet with an obnoxious Hawk fan. I think it was a $5 bet, which was a lot back then as a kid. I was a bitter loser, so I raided my change bank and paid it off in pennies. I loaded them into a little box and gave it to him in the hallway when he was at his locker. He proceeded to fumble the box like he was Ronnie Harmon in the Rose Bowl, and the 500 pennies rolled everywhere, and of course I offered no help in picking them up. Best bet I ever lost.

 

[Statefan10]

Visited Kinnick for the first time when I was in 4th grade for the ISU-Iowa game. Our family was walking from a tailgate to the stadium and we had a drunk Hawkeye fan yell at my parents they raised us the wrong way and then harassed my older sister and me and even put his hands on my sister. My older cousin who was going to the U of I at the time essentially stopped my dad from doing something very stupid and hurting this guy.

My freshman year at ISU (2014), I was walking from Kinnick to a party after being at the game and we'd just won on a Cole Netten field goal. I got a full beer can hurled at me from a guy in the back of a pickup and it hit me in the side of the head. Probably should've gotten stitches but I was too happy (and quite intoxicated) to care lol.

My personal friends and family that are Iowa fans are perfectly fine though.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Like others here, I grew up outnumbered by hawk fans probably 100-1 in my school. One of my fondest memories from elementary school actually came when I lost a bet with an obnoxious Hawk fan. I think it was a $5 bet, which was a lot back then as a kid. I was a bitter loser, so I raided my change bank and paid it off in pennies. I loaded them into a little box and gave it to him in the hallway when he was at his locker. He proceeded to fumble the box like he was Ronnie Harmon in the Rose Bowl, and the 500 pennies rolled everywhere, and of course I offered no help in picking them up. Best bet I ever lost.

I think this is my favorite story in this thread so far. Ironically enough, I also did this with one of the more obnoxious Hawk fans I went to school with. We were usually pretty good about paying up until his senior year, which was the 23-3 game. He did not pay up that year. I honestly had no means with which to make him pay either, considering I was so outnumbered and his Hawk buddies all had his back. The SOB still owes me $5 to this day

 

[CysRage]

I had a buddy get his truck window with an ISU issued parking sticker shattered. Most people would write it off as a one off, bad luck incident but the ******** left a note that said “**** State, Go Hawks!”.

When out of state hokroaches have to make their presence known if anyone in the area is wearing Iowa State. Walking around Epcot we had a family yell “Go Hawks!” at us across the park. I really don’t get the insecurity hak fans have.

 

[2020cy]

You need to be more specific, bad interactions when I’m ordering at McDonald’s or just in general?

 

[dmg89]

All the time. However, in their defense, the ones who ACTUALLY went to the University of Iowa tend to be not quite so bad and actually even pretty decent a lot of times. The problem is you've got a greater chance of finding a unicorn within the state of Iowa than actually finding a Hawkeye grad. Most of their alumni base pretty much comes from Chicago and then goes right back there after school. You've got a much better chance of finding one there than here. Makes us all proud a bunch of our in-state tax dollars goes to funding all these out-of-state turdburgers.

I don't understand why this narrative is always brought up by our fanbase, as if there aren't a ton of ISU students from Chicagoland or the Twin Cities. Maybe it used to a much greater disparity, but I graduated from ISU in 2011 and there were a lot of kids from both of those places I knew. Heck, the 2020 enrollment numbers on both university sites show iowa at 60.5 % and ISU at 56.3% for Iowans. And yes, I'll acknowledge that I'm probably being oversensitive about it as a someone originally from the Chicago suburbs.

I do agree with your premise of hawkeye grads being more tolerable than the t-shirt fans.

 

[isu_oak]

I lived in Iowa City / Coralville for seven years. The worst ones were not a face-to-face interactions. Someone tried to rip off my front ISU license plate, and later someone keyed my car.

 

[cyhiphopp]

I attended ISU/Iowa game (must've been Flynn at QB), believe I was sitting with UofI friends in or near the UofI student section. Guy a few rows up was being horrible. Don't recall what now years later. I squirted a bit of my water bottle in his face and it shut him up. I'm still kind of stunned that didn't end up with me getting jumped.

Also very hostile interactions after ISU wins when Iowa State hosted in 2001 and in Iowa City in 2002. 2001 friends who were coming to stay with us, ended up leaving they were so pissed off then in Iowa City having things thrown at us, beer and some hard objects after ISU comeback.

Most of my friends who are Iowa fans are reasonable and went on to be doctors. Friendly ribbing, but nothing horrible.

Other worst encounters were when partying in CF (my hometown) with UNI folks wearing ISU gear.

Reminds me, after Seneca's big comeback in Iowa City, I was in the band and we had to walk back to our buses from the stadium past several lots full of Iowa fans. The obscenities screamed at 100 lb female flute players was incredible. They didn't yell at the bigger guys as much.
We were lucky we didn't get jumped.

That also reminds me of BANDGATE. I'm pretty sure our directors told us we would NOT be playing fights or doing chants/cheers on the march back to the bus because we knew Iowa fans were the worst. If we had done what Iowa did a few years ago at JTS, there would have been a riot.