We started brining in a water bottle and a bag of M&Ms. Saves a bunch of money and doesn't make me angry at volunteers.
Edit- I'm always amazed how the men's room line is longer than then womens line
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We started brining in a water bottle and a bag of M&Ms. Saves a bunch of money and doesn't make me angry at volunteers.
Edit- I'm always amazed how the men's room line is longer than then womens line
Same here, Lincoln way was jammed up bad. I couldn't even get over to go north on university. That was my first time experiencing that leaving C1/C2. Were they directing vehicles from the lots to the West on Beach and then to Lincoln Way?
Speaking of parking. I got to Ames at 830 and drove by the grass lots south of the stadium where I park and hardly any vehicles parked. I thought cool till I rounded the corner at the stop light!!!! You had to snake your way up this hill through a parking lot and back down the hill and then into the grass lot to park. They were filling one lot at a time and then opening the next one when that one got full. It took 1 hour and 10 minutes to park after I rounded the corner at the stop light. Open all the grass lots up at once you idiots to get the vehicles off the streets. I'm sure they all got full. And would have been a lot less congested on the streets.
Had no issues getting out of C2 onto University and on out from there. We are VERY pleased with the traffic changes at Mortensen and 30 this year that keeps things moving. Generally 10 minutes or less from starting the car to being on 30 east.
I drove by the lots on University shortly after 9am and the lines on the roads were surprisingly long. I wondered what was the problem getting them into the lots. Don't know why they do things in such bone-headed ways sometimes.
ISU sold handtowels, gold of course, for Danny Mac's 1st game against Ohio U.....Of course I bought one for my wife and me and lot of other people bought them also....The stadium looked great when the team came on the field with everyone who had a towel waving their towel...
How come those nice people down in manhattan NOT....can always come up with a winning coach.....remember billy bob snyder wanted the ISU job and we turned him down, I assume because he was a Choke Eye Coach....Worst decision in over 100 years...and so billybobsnyder went to the Lil Apple and the rest is history.....
No longer allowed to turn left from Mortensen to University and I think turning right may even be blocked as well. The lights at 30 are also solid green with traffic blocked from coming back towards the stadium on University. Basically it is a much smoother traffic flow. As I said we have yet to spend more than 10 minutes from pulling out of C1/C2 to being on 30 east.
My kid has very little interest in watching the actual game, but has a massive interest in cotton candy, popcorn, etc.
Give him a protein bar? At a football game? We aren't animals.
Going to games with my old man was always a time to eat and drink junk food until you got sick. It was a blast and provided some amazing memories.
Well said. ISU is losing money, and taking the shine off of the game day experience, by not holding Levy accountable in running JTS concessions. It should be "easy" for fans to spend their money, not "hard."
We usually go down Lincoln Way and out via old 30. Last Saturday we had to stop by Menard's on our way home, so we chose to take Lincoln Way out to Dayton then double back, figuring we would avoid the bulk of the traffic that way. When we left Menard's and got back to Dayton, we were not allowed to access 30 from there. They had a cop blocking the on-ramp. Even with that ramp blocked, the traffic was just crawling on 30. We ended up going back north on Dayton and east on old 30.
Yeah they have had that ramp closed for a few years now. Thanks to the highway 100 extension in CR we can be in CR before the call in show gets over. In a few years when more parts of 30 are made to be four lane we might even get it down to close to an hour and a half trip one way!
It is staffed by volunteers that are working for a formal non-profit that is certified through the Treasury. The university and the vendors have far less overhead cost and the non-profits have a very solid fund raising revenue split.
I have a Tulsa towel from the 2012 Liberty Bowl. By the time I decided I wanted one and went back, they were out of ISU towels, so I took what I could get! lol. Too Soon? Absolutely, positively the worst live experience as a Cyclone fan. I am still annoyed that ISU fans showed up like they did and were treated to a dud of a game. That was the last straw for me in the Paul Rhoads Era. I do still have the Tulsa towel though! An odd souvenir, but at least it has a story.
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Because there's probably 2 or even 4x as many men at a college football game yet equal numbers of bathrooms