So after yesterday's Iowa - Miami of Ohio football game a gentleman was walking out of Kinnick Stadium proudly wearing ISU fan gear.
Nothing unusual about this, and as one would expect, no one was being a jerk to the guy. So he looks at me and asks what I thought about Iowa's team. I basically said it's the first game, so hard to tell. I went further (probably a mistake) and said we had some offensive line issues on the right side, defensive line issues and new safeties that needed to improve in a hurry or we could easily lose next weekend.
The guy's response?
Yeah, you're right. UNI could very well be the best football team in Iowa again this year.
Now several people overhear this, and no one does anything inappropriate to make him feel uncomfortable. But the judgement of making a comment like this in someone else's stadium, where a small percentage have been excessively drinking, and like every other fan base in America, that same small percentage is not exactly intelligent is stunning.
The guy that had him as a guest just looked at me, and seemed embarrassed.
Anyway, this thread is going to digress into name calling and other stuff. Wasn't my intent. My intent was only to point out complete lack of situational awareness. It's just the nature of fans that come to early season games, which is a different fan than the ones that sit through rain, cold weather and other uncomfortable things in November and December. It's similar to the difference in culture. Yesterday we had a targeting call. I'll bet right now you won't see that again out of our starting middle linebacker. But I'll bet LSU will have it again, and Alabama will continue to run up scores where they can. And a certain percentage of ISU fans will delude themselves that they are ISU fans, but continue to root against other teams, rather than support their team.
90/10 rule for the oil trader on here. Better buy OVX.
Nothing unusual about this, and as one would expect, no one was being a jerk to the guy. So he looks at me and asks what I thought about Iowa's team. I basically said it's the first game, so hard to tell. I went further (probably a mistake) and said we had some offensive line issues on the right side, defensive line issues and new safeties that needed to improve in a hurry or we could easily lose next weekend.
The guy's response?
Yeah, you're right. UNI could very well be the best football team in Iowa again this year.
Now several people overhear this, and no one does anything inappropriate to make him feel uncomfortable. But the judgement of making a comment like this in someone else's stadium, where a small percentage have been excessively drinking, and like every other fan base in America, that same small percentage is not exactly intelligent is stunning.
The guy that had him as a guest just looked at me, and seemed embarrassed.
Anyway, this thread is going to digress into name calling and other stuff. Wasn't my intent. My intent was only to point out complete lack of situational awareness. It's just the nature of fans that come to early season games, which is a different fan than the ones that sit through rain, cold weather and other uncomfortable things in November and December. It's similar to the difference in culture. Yesterday we had a targeting call. I'll bet right now you won't see that again out of our starting middle linebacker. But I'll bet LSU will have it again, and Alabama will continue to run up scores where they can. And a certain percentage of ISU fans will delude themselves that they are ISU fans, but continue to root against other teams, rather than support their team.
90/10 rule for the oil trader on here. Better buy OVX.
