Favorite Cyclone Memory

[gocy444]

So I'm bored at work and all I can think about is Saturday so I thought I'd brag about my favorite Cyclone memory as well as hear yours.

While the Oklahoma State game still feels like a dream I'll always have one day that stood out.

My dad works as a manager for a construction company in Ames and they ended up hiring Austin Flynn over the summer for a part time gig back in like 2006. He got to know Austin a bit over the next few months and managed to plan a surprise birthday gift for me. He told me on a Saturday morning that we needed to go to Ames to buy our parking passes for the year to tailgate so I tagged along not thinking anything of it. When we showed up to Jack Trice a van full of all my friends pulled up next to us and told me to walk towards the stadium. Austin Flynn had gotten Bret Meyer, R.J. Sumrall, Ryan Baum and Aaron Brandt (I think that was everyone) to come play me and my friends in touch football in Jack Trice.

Needless to say my 8th grad self at the time was stunned. We played for a good hour and afterwards they signed a bunch of gear and footballs for us and took some photos. That day was the best day in my Cyclone life. I literally got to play with football with all my idols at the time in Jack Trice. I don't know if any of those guys even remember it, but that was probably the best birthday I've ever had. They didn't need to spend a perfectly good Saturday playing football against a bunch of 8th grade football players.

Sorry for the cool story, bro, moment. Let's hear yours!

 

[cyclonpediaJoe]

Mine was in 2014 when Naz hit the buzzer beater to force overtime against Oklahoma State. I remember 1 minute earlier being so bummed out and had already started to process the loss. Such an awesome game.

 

[ClonesFTW]

2011, being on the field after Oklahoma State win.

 

[3GenClone]

Going with my dad to witness Seneca Wallace beat Nebraska in 2002. That was the first time I had ever witnessed fans rush the field at Jack Trice.

 

[ajk4st8]

When I was 15 years old Iowa State had lost to Iowa 15 straight times. I grew up in Eastern Iowa.

NOTHING will ever beat the feeling of being at Kinnick Stadium in 1998 when the streak ended.

 

[peteypie]

Mine was in 2014 when Naz hit the buzzer beater to force overtime against Oklahoma State. I remember 1 minute earlier being so bummed out and had already started to process the loss. Such an awesome game.

I don't get to too many games, but I share your feelings as I was at that one. Hilton went from somber to an explosion in a second!

 

[StratCY]

Watching Darren Davis run all over Iowa in 1999. It was my first Iowa State game, went with my dad and sat in the SW hill.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I helped carry goalposts to Lake Laverne during the win over Nebraska in '92.

 

[Playboi Carti]

2015 big 12 tournament. Nothing better than beating KU for a championship.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Mine was in 2014 when Naz hit the buzzer beater to force overtime against Oklahoma State. I remember 1 minute earlier being so bummed out and had already started to process the loss. Such an awesome game.

This is my basketball memory too except I was at the game in Stillwater. When Naz hit that three to send it into 3OT you could just feel all the momentum swift to the cyclones. Plus after the game Fred shouted up to my college friends and me thanking us for coming down.

 

[dawgpound]

Football against Oklahoma State 2011 easily. The amount of pure joy I felt after that and being there is like nothing else. Basketball would definitely be 2015 Big 12 ship over KU. I was there, and watching KU fans pout is very satisfying.

 

[CycloneBob]

Triple ot basketball win against the hoks when lafester went off for over 50 points - Jonny Orr era.

 

[Clonefan32]

Football

2011 Oklahoma State game is the obvious answer, but I'll also put in a vote for the 2002 game against FSU. Even though the loss, and the circumstances surrounding the loss, stunk, that comeback was awesome and it was a fun game to have been at.
Basketball

Nothing will top the KC experience in 2015. However, the other one near the top of my list would be senior night 2014 with Naz's three.

 

[NenoFone]

Be hard pressed to name my absolute favorite, one of my earliest, 1976 Nebraska game, while in the Marching Band.

 

[NorthCyd]

1. 2011 OSU win

2. TTech 2002- Seneca pulls off "the run". To really enjoy that game you have to put it in context of where we were at that time. That was the apex of that season and we just had an amazing time during and after that game. It seemed like something really special was possible. We all know where it went from there.

3.The Colorado "Tornado" game - Just a different vibe than any game I've ever been to. It was a blast. The place erupted on Big Play Curvey run back.

4.Iowa 23-3

 

[Raymeus]

2011 v. Okla. State. I was a contractor in Afghanistan. The game was on AFN. We were 9.5 hours ahead, so the game started around 4 AM. I was going nuts, waking up everybody around me in the process.

 

[CyGuy5]

Oklahoma State in 2011. To be there and witness the comeback and then run onto the field after Woody took it in is one of the greatest moments I've been apart of at a sporting event.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Too many great moments to name one, so I'll just say my favorite part of being a Cyclone was singing the Alma Mater after football games in the marching band.

 

[MeanDean]

Football: 1978 31-0 win at the Lyle Clinic. Hugging every cute coed in ISU gear afterwards. Fun times for a nerdy engineer type.

Basketball: Double overtime win at Hilton over Iowa's twin towers (Payne and Stokes) after Barry Stevens and/or Ron Harris fouled out. Loved Terrance Allen ever since. Probably remembering some of the details wrong. But it was the first win over IA in the Orr era. Kind of made the state grudgingly realize the ISU rise to respectability was reality. I'm sure it was a January game. Very cold drive up and back.

 

[beentherebefore]

The first game I ever attended was the first game ever at JTS. I attended with my dad, and for years, that was my favorite memory. Now it is the first time my son was able to attend a game at JTS with me.