I had a girl yell at me a few years ago at the game "Beat State" then she started laughing and her friends laughed with her. Then I mentioned that I had named my ***** "State" and if she wanted to go ahead and "beat State" that I would be more than happy about it.
Iowa State Sucks
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Just smile and wave. Don't lower yourself to their idiotic level.
I usually say, Yep you're right! They have no idea how to take that.
Unfortunately in D-port, we're 50 miles from the EIU campus, so folks here can legitimately get away w/ being sheep. So you have to be a little bit more psychological here. For instance, the "ketchup and mustard" comment is big around here. That gets followed w/ something like "at least that tastes better than **** and mustard." The "what school did you go to" is ususally a good one b/c most fans even in D-port don't go to the U of I.
Then again, you can always break out the line from Napoleon Dynamite "Your mom goes to college..." and that will just incite complete quiet in the room
Then again, you can always break out the line from Napoleon Dynamite "Your mom goes to college..." and that will just incite complete quiet in the room
My ex-girlfriend's parents both went to Iowa, and her dad was a hardcore hawkeye fan. Of course, he always liked to pester me whenever possible about Iowa State.
One time he was talking about Iowa State and pointed out the fact that the Girl Scout's theme song is to the tune of Iowa State's fight song. Of course he and the other Iowa fans were laughing until I said, "Oh, it's really great that they chose Iowa State to be their role models at such a young age." After that, they all just got really quiet, as I had a nice grin on my face of course.
One time he was talking about Iowa State and pointed out the fact that the Girl Scout's theme song is to the tune of Iowa State's fight song. Of course he and the other Iowa fans were laughing until I said, "Oh, it's really great that they chose Iowa State to be their role models at such a young age." After that, they all just got really quiet, as I had a nice grin on my face of course.
My father in law is a big hawk fan, and just like the rest of them never went there, I'm not even sure he finished High School. After putting up with the ISU sucks theme for a year I started rubbing it in when ever they screw up if I happen to be stuck watching one of their games when I'm over there. The best was 2 years ago when we beat them in Football and he got up at half time, did the dishes and mowed the lawn.
Brought a chuckle in an otherwise boring work day...
Living in Iowa City, I have these conversations often, such as one with a belligerent kid in the coffee shop this AM:
hawk fan: "Iowa State sucks"
me: "Hawk fan, I take it?"
hawk fan: "d@mn straight!"
me: "Go to school there?"
hawk fan: "Yeah"
me (with sincere voice): "I'm sorry you couldn't get into a better school."
It works even better with adults who have children attending EIU; I use that one at church quite frequently...
If all else fails, point out that ISU produces socially-productive agronomists, scientists and engineers, while EIU sends forth social workers, attorneys and dentists. :wink0st:
The bad thing is my 6 year old neice even says it too me. They brain wash their young. Hopefully in the long run the kids see the light and come to Ames!!
its the law of the land in the US, stupid people are out-breeding the rest of us at an alarming rate - we have to be competant enough to convert them after they've left the nest (read: trailer park)
LOL!!! This is sooooo funny considering I just watched a movie I had never really heard of before called Idiocracy...It's a Mike Judge film thats got Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph (from SNL) in it. The premise is that they do this military cryogenetic freezing project and end up 500 years in the future and instead of civilization advancing intelligently, everyone is borderline ******** stupid from all the years of what you just mentioned happening with trailer park families having like 50 kids and the intelligent family not breeding...
just so no one gets the wrong idea, I was trailer park born & raised (for the first 10 years) - just having some fun
I am glad you said that, because like cardinal&gold I don't want any personal attacks on here, especially on trailer parks or EIU fans.
From my experience, most people that live in Davenport are lucky to graduate from high school. The ones not so lucky just float down to Buffalo.
:laugh8kb: HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!! :laugh8kb: i nearly spit out my dinner!!!
There are definitely two classes of Davenporters - The intelligent ones that are too smart to go to EIU (and end up at Iowa State, Illinois, Wisconsin, UNI). These are the fans that start out Hawkeye fans and by their Junior year in HS the intelligence starts showing through and realize they're just too smart to be a Hawkeye (like me)
The other class is those who aren't even intelligent enough to get into EIU. These are your typical Davenport Hawkeye fans and can respond to "Iowa State Sucks" with something as simple as "Your mom" and get a blank stare.
I always say that, but then they say "What's up with your logo, I didn't know a cyclone was a bird."
Which I don't really get either, why is a bird in our logo?
Originally, ISU had the nickname of the Cardinals. In 1895 they defeated a highly regarded Northwestern team. The next day the Chicago Tribune had the headline of ""Struck By A Cyclone- Iowa Cyclone Devastates Evanstontown." The Cyclone nickname stuck.
The school colors are cardinal and gold. The mascot is Cy, a cardinal, introduced in 1954. Since a cyclone was determined to be difficult to depict in costume, the cardinal was chosen in reference to the school's previous athletic nickname as well as the school colors.
EXACTLY! This also happens to be the BEST ISU-Iowa joke every... "Q: What do Cyclone & Hawkeye fans have in common? A: Neither attended the University of Iowa!" I work with A TON of Hawkeyes & this one literally shuts them up every time. When I 1st heard this joke & started making a list of all the co-workers, neighbors, etc. that DID NOT attend Iowa... & many times DID NOT attend college at all!
What makes my skin crawl more than anything is I know die hard sqwak fans that attended and graduated from ISU. Obviously the Cyclone and Hawk joke is does'nt have the same effect.