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ISU T-Shirt idea
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It's almost as stupid as someone getting worked up about what people get worked up about.
ANGL- America Needs Gays and Lesbians In honor of being America's third gayest city! Maybe some rainbow stickers would be more appropriate for an Iowa City based football team.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122867548&ps=cprs
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122867548&ps=cprs
I personally am not really "bent out of shape." It's not like I walk around seething about it. But that doesn't change the fact that it's about as transparent and shameless a gimmick as you'll find, from a school that does nothing for farmers and frankly, whose fan base mocks farmers pretty mercilessly.
But that's par for the course from the U of I and sadly, we've come to expect that.
I agree... We should just add it to our helmet along with the american flag, so their fan base cries about how we copied them.
This.
This thread is actually pretty funny. I've never seen an innocent "non-bent-out-of-shape" original post get blasted so often for coming off as being "bent-out-of-shape" about something.
I agree. I was impresed that Iowa first put those stickers on way back in the Fry era. And I don't mind that they brought them back. I was proud of them then and I'm proud that they have them again now. It's good to make a fine statement about farmers in a proud farm state like Iowa.
I do kind of wish that Iowa State would have thought of it first. And I'd go as far as saying that maybe we should actually unite with our in-state rivals on this good cause and put the very same "ANF" stickers on the Cyclone helmets. And maybe UNI should put them on as well.
It's fine for us to disagree with Iowa on most things but to begrudge them for supporting farmers is a little embarassing to me. Supporting farmers is one thing the two schools should be able to agree about.
I agree that the ANF sticker would be appropriate for a Cyclone helmet and was a great idea from the Hayden Fry era. The question I'm asking myself today- is this really a cause anymore? This came out during the 80's farm crisis and seems the movement to save the small to medium sized independent farmer has been decided.
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why is iowa trying to steal agriculture from us. that is our area of study and we need to put a stop to this.
I don't think anyone would understand the slam (outside of people reading this message board).
Why stop at t-shirts? Why not banners over University Blvd? Or changing to 'Iowa State University of Science and Technology and Farmers'? Or planting the many ISU fields around the area to say 'We be Farmers'.
I couldn't rep you but great idea. Iowa supports our ag-based programs and we support them in their ongoing quest to continue to be the Midwest's mecca of LGBT populations. It would also support our state's stance on the marriage issue, perfect fit!
There's nothing wrong about these posts. Why would they be banished to the cave? ANF was a political statement in support of small to medium sized farms and was appropriate to the time.
It is my view that ANGL would also be appropriate to today and in no way is it offensive to the gay/Lesbian communities...