Friday OT #2 - On the Road Again
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Best football away game - WVU. I went in 2013, which was our first trip to Morgantown. That was the game where we were down 31-10 and came from behind to win. I was with my cousin and my buddy, and my cousin was wildly underdressed, we were all pretty drunk, and it was really cold. ISU was getting their ass kicked, and we wanted to go out to the Morgantown bars after the game. So we leave and walk back to our hotel to clean up and warm up.
We put the game on the hotel, and ISU starts mounting a comeback. The Kick 6 Iron Bowl is happening at the same time and my one buddy wanted to watch that, because he was totally convinced we wouldn't come back. So I hop in the elevator to run over to the Applebee's sharing a parking lot to have a beer and watch the game. As I leave the hotel, WVU scores again. So I turn around and go back to the room, still following on my phone. I see the Kick 6 live. Then I see ISU score again, so we all committed to the end of the game and watched OT in the Morgantown Applebee's. Then we went downtown and celebrated.
But the whole trip was amazing. WVU fans were incredibly hospitable. We got to town on Friday afternoon, and had lunch at a sports bar while watching Iowa/Nebraska. When we got up to leave, we found some locals had paid for our beers. This happened everywhere. Friday night, downtown at a sports bar that had karaoke, we got up on stage in our ISU gear and sang "Country Roads". We got a standing ovation and didn't pay for another drink that night.
Saturday AM at the grocery store, some guy sees our ISU gear and goes running across the store to invite us to his tailgate. So once we bundled up for the day, we headed for his tailgate. We got stopped by so many people on the way to thank us for coming, give us moonshine and food, that it took us 4 hours to get to his spot.
I would HIGHLY recommend the trip. Morgantown's beautiful as well.
We put the game on the hotel, and ISU starts mounting a comeback. The Kick 6 Iron Bowl is happening at the same time and my one buddy wanted to watch that, because he was totally convinced we wouldn't come back. So I hop in the elevator to run over to the Applebee's sharing a parking lot to have a beer and watch the game. As I leave the hotel, WVU scores again. So I turn around and go back to the room, still following on my phone. I see the Kick 6 live. Then I see ISU score again, so we all committed to the end of the game and watched OT in the Morgantown Applebee's. Then we went downtown and celebrated.
But the whole trip was amazing. WVU fans were incredibly hospitable. We got to town on Friday afternoon, and had lunch at a sports bar while watching Iowa/Nebraska. When we got up to leave, we found some locals had paid for our beers. This happened everywhere. Friday night, downtown at a sports bar that had karaoke, we got up on stage in our ISU gear and sang "Country Roads". We got a standing ovation and didn't pay for another drink that night.
Saturday AM at the grocery store, some guy sees our ISU gear and goes running across the store to invite us to his tailgate. So once we bundled up for the day, we headed for his tailgate. We got stopped by so many people on the way to thank us for coming, give us moonshine and food, that it took us 4 hours to get to his spot.
I would HIGHLY recommend the trip. Morgantown's beautiful as well.
I was at that game. The bad part of playing them on Thanksgiving weekend was the trees had all lost their leaves so it just seemed depressing. If you get the chance to go to a game earlier in the year it's so much prettier when the trees all have their leaves.
The only chance I'd get to see them earlier is if we start playing Week 0 conference games (which I'd be all for) or basically anytime during what's normally the non-conference schedule.
We were part of the mass caravan to Kansas City on Saturday morning, 15 March 2014.
We watched the game against KU from our living room, and about 2 seconds after the screaming stopped, I was online getting tickets for the next day. We scored tickets in the 11th row near center court. There were about 25 Baylor fans in the joint and one of them was sitting next to me. He was pretty cocky for most of the game (and with good reason). Baylor was basically kicking us all over the court. I kept saying "there's plenty of game left" but he wasn't having any of it.
Then we moved into the last few minutes and ISU went on a huge run, finished the game with a win. It was SOOOO much fun! Baylor dude kind of slunk out of there while we celebrated after the game, watching the trophy celebration and net-cutting. Nail-biter game, but the good guys took it all.
We watched the game against KU from our living room, and about 2 seconds after the screaming stopped, I was online getting tickets for the next day. We scored tickets in the 11th row near center court. There were about 25 Baylor fans in the joint and one of them was sitting next to me. He was pretty cocky for most of the game (and with good reason). Baylor was basically kicking us all over the court. I kept saying "there's plenty of game left" but he wasn't having any of it.
Then we moved into the last few minutes and ISU went on a huge run, finished the game with a win. It was SOOOO much fun! Baylor dude kind of slunk out of there while we celebrated after the game, watching the trophy celebration and net-cutting. Nail-biter game, but the good guys took it all.
The best sports experience of my life was the 2015 Big 12 tournament. We had all session passes for like $200, but if ISU had lost at any point prior to the championship, we'd have been stuck trying to deal them off.
We had Thursday night through Sunday AM booked up the hill from the Plaza, and that whole weekend was a 3 day bender of absolutely wild and thrilling basketball, too much meat, and way too much booze. Every day we'd dink around in the morning and eventually end up at Kelly's for awhile before cabbing to P&L for a little bit before the game. After each game, you'd celebrate at P&L for awhile and then head back to Kelly's to end the night with some pizza from Joe's by the slice.
Thursday and Friday nights it felt like you wanted to win just to keep the party rolling. To be there in KC on Day 1 and watch the town swell with more and more Cyclone fans each day was something else, too. The weather was fantastic that year on top of it, and the whole thing was just ******* magical.
I haven't been back since and I almost don't want to because I don't think it can possibly live up to that.
We had Thursday night through Sunday AM booked up the hill from the Plaza, and that whole weekend was a 3 day bender of absolutely wild and thrilling basketball, too much meat, and way too much booze. Every day we'd dink around in the morning and eventually end up at Kelly's for awhile before cabbing to P&L for a little bit before the game. After each game, you'd celebrate at P&L for awhile and then head back to Kelly's to end the night with some pizza from Joe's by the slice.
Thursday and Friday nights it felt like you wanted to win just to keep the party rolling. To be there in KC on Day 1 and watch the town swell with more and more Cyclone fans each day was something else, too. The weather was fantastic that year on top of it, and the whole thing was just ******* magical.
I haven't been back since and I almost don't want to because I don't think it can possibly live up to that.
I went with my Dad and two of my sisters to the ncaa in San Antonio in 2014 (I think). Drove from Des Moines to Kansas City Wednesday night—-pretty sure we listened to Iowa lose a play in game that night, but I might be misremembering. Drove from Kansas City to San Antonio on Thursday.
Ended up with low seats near the Iowa State bench that 1st game and I’ll never forget the look on Hoiberg’s face when the trainer came to tell him about Georges. The blood just drained out of it.
Left the arena right after the late game against UNC. Drove as far as we could that night and ended up right at a random hotel along the Oklahoma/Texas border at the same time another group of Iowa State fans arrived.
It was a crazy amount of driving in just s few days, but a really really fun time.
Ended up with low seats near the Iowa State bench that 1st game and I’ll never forget the look on Hoiberg’s face when the trainer came to tell him about Georges. The blood just drained out of it.
Left the arena right after the late game against UNC. Drove as far as we could that night and ended up right at a random hotel along the Oklahoma/Texas border at the same time another group of Iowa State fans arrived.
It was a crazy amount of driving in just s few days, but a really really fun time.
My fave was the Insight.com bowl in Phoenix in 2000. Loads of ISU fans. Drank the bars dry after the game.
We were on a Caribbean cruise that year. It sailed out of Galveston, and it was spring break for most of the Texas school districts so we had a spit-ton of Texans on that cruise. We caught the end of the UT-ISU game on the TV in our cabin, so of COURSE we immediately put on Cyclone gear for the rest of the day. We made sure to watch the entire championship game. My sister & BIL were in our cabin with us, watching the game. We were supposed to be heading for dinner to meet up with Texas sis, who is a Longhorn. The end of that game was sooooooo slow. Sis & BIL kept saying game over, ISU has it in the bag, let's get to dinner. NOPE NOPE NOPITY NOPE. I'm a Cyclone. The game isn't over until the final buzzer sounds, and that game was way too close to call it before it was over.
After we won, we went to dinner still wearing ISU tshirts. Surprisingly enough, a number of Texas peeps congratulated us on our way to our table. Guess they CAN be gracious in defeat...or maybe it's just the shared hatred of KU?
I've been to SO many ISU road/bowl/neutral site games.
The CPR team that beat UT in Austin was maybe the wildest post game fun I've ever had.
The CPR team that beat UT in Austin was maybe the wildest post game fun I've ever had.
I don't recall spending a dime that night. Texas fans rightfully get a lot of ****, but they were very hospitable.
That pre game BBQ was epic too.
That was when we beat Pitt, right? My now wife, a friend and I drove down and had a blast! Met Alice Cooper and hung out at his bar where he played several sets at a New Years Eve party.
Another memorable trip was when 3 roommates, 2 girlfriends and I on all-nighter, low budget, booze cruise to the Metrodome to watch Cyclones beat Ron Harper's Miami OH team in OT. I thought we robbed a house for gas money to make it home but turned out it was one of my roommates parent's place! To this day, if I think about that game after 6 pm I have a difficult time sleeping that night!
Do you remember the woman sleeping in the back of her pick up in a wooden box with a snake? She had parked at that tailgate the night before and was supposed to be the entertainment. Or something.
(Blacked out friend's face for privacy)
Had a friend put the snake around his neck:
Waco...woof. At least in 2010 or so. Worked for the team and we stayed at an old travel lodge type Best Western right along 35. Team, cheerleaders and staff got inside rooms but us student staff got the motel style rooms outside. Was a fun night that we did stuff we probably shouldn't have but that town is interesting.
Pinstripe was fun but wasted a TON of time driving to/from the practice site on Long Island.
One of the first things I used my pilots license was to fly and my wife from Wichita to Stillwater for a football game. Yeah it was only a two hour drive but why do that when you can fly-in and get a shuttle for like $10 to/from the airport. I imagine they have fixed the road by now but that road from the Stillwater airport to town was quite possible the worst I have ever been. The people that drove us joked "the most dangerous part of flying here is getting to/form the airport".
I want to do a tour and get to the places I have not been.
Pinstripe was fun but wasted a TON of time driving to/from the practice site on Long Island.
One of the first things I used my pilots license was to fly and my wife from Wichita to Stillwater for a football game. Yeah it was only a two hour drive but why do that when you can fly-in and get a shuttle for like $10 to/from the airport. I imagine they have fixed the road by now but that road from the Stillwater airport to town was quite possible the worst I have ever been. The people that drove us joked "the most dangerous part of flying here is getting to/form the airport".
I want to do a tour and get to the places I have not been.
Top ones are going to Cincinnati to watch ISU wbb upset UCONN, and first trip to Arizona for ISU's first bowl win.
While not a out of state road trip the trip to Iowa City for 2002 fball comeback.
While not a out of state road trip the trip to Iowa City for 2002 fball comeback.