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Current ISU student and son of two parents who met at ISU whom have been married for 20 years.

Haven't missed a home football game since 2002 and love ISU to the bone.

My favorite however (as false as this may sound) My buddy and I got in a fight with 2 nebraska fans before the game the year we drubbed them at home. We proceeded to knock the crap out of them and the cops showed up. My buddy and I were 15 and 16 respectively and the nebby fans were both 24. The cops just laughed at the nebby fans and let us on our merry way.
 
FarmClone said:
Current ISU student and son of two parents who met at ISU whom have been married for 20 years.

Haven't missed a home football game since 2002 and love ISU to the bone.

My favorite however (as false as this may sound) My buddy and I got in a fight with 2 nebraska fans before the game the year we drubbed them at home. We proceeded to knock the crap out of them and the cops showed up. My buddy and I were 15 and 16 respectively and the nebby fans were both 24. The cops just laughed at the nebby fans and let us on our merry way.
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:biglaugh::biglaugh:

Shame on me, right?
I wish that I could say that I have been as loyal a football fan as you obviously are. I will remember your altercation with the Nebraska fans, everytime I see you post.
Thanks for sharing.

GO CYCLONES:yes:
 
I know it sounds crazy but its the honest truth. Welcome to cyclone nation glad to have you here.
 
Balrog said:
Excellent.
Can we all expect some real wrestling insight from you, or have you been contributing all along, ........ and it is my bad?
Congratulations on your degree.
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Unfortunately no. I know wrestling and enjoy watching, but I never wrestled in High School. I never got into it and took after the large, burly side of our family, not the short scrappy side.
 
jonnayspades09 said:
i was a freshman in highschool "concordia kansas" i just started dateing my daughters mother and we where over at her perants house and they where watching a ku basketball game and of they are your tipical ku fans vocal and their team can do no wrong. i didnt want to root for ku just so happens the team they where playing was iowa state so to **** them off i rooted for iowa state as loud as i could... im pretty sure iowa state won that game too ****** them off so bad... all of my moms side of the family lives up near the mason city area where i spent tons of summers and winter vacation... i stuck with it and now i watch every isu game i can here in kansas thank god for espn3 and justintv.... have a cyclone tattoo on my leg and consider myself the biggest isu fan in kansas...
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Thank you for sharing this with us 09.
That is an interesting way to become a fan of any team. Cheer for the team that makes everyone else mad!
It works for me.
The tat shows some serious allegiance.
Everytime you post from now on, I'll visualize the KU/ISU basketball battle and the tatoo. If I remember correctly, that could have been the game when Holloway knocked down a huge three towards the end to secure the win.
GO CYCLONES
 
Was a walkon linebacker who earned a scholarship and played mostly special teams. Still keep in contact with the current coaches and a couple of the coaches no longer here that I played for. I wear my ISU tatoo on my right shoulder proudly. I played from 97-02.
 
Balrog said:
So I guess it isn't a stretch that your parents were huge fans??!?
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My dad went to Vet school, and my mom also went to Iowa State (they knew each other well before that.) I also have 3 older brothers who were all Iowa State fans, and have probably the greatest influence on me being an Iowa State fan.
 
Rubbed shoulders with Jamie Pollard on a GSB sponsored committee for two years. He couldn't be a more cordial guy and wrote a heckuva letter of recommendation.

Worked for Jake Sullivan coming out of college.

Still have my 1993-1994 ISU Basketball yearbook that Fred Hoiberg signed for me because I sent him a letter when he was in school telling him that he was my favorite player.

Good friends with punt returner "Miller Time".
 
Iastfan112 said:
My first game when I was 8 was one of the earliest usages of overtime to break a tie in NCAA history(ISU vs. Wyoming 1996), it is also probably the only time in NCAA history that a team chose to take the ball first. Been hooked on the Cyclones ever since, still have the stub somewhere in my parents house.
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Actually McCarney didn't choose to take the ball first. He chose the end they would play on hoping to get an advantage from the crowd with the south end zone bleachers. Wyoming then got to choose O or D first. Still a boneheaded move. It was actually the very first NCAA overtime game under the new rules. I remember very clearly being there for that little piece of history. :sad:

I became a Cyclone fan when my brother transferred from the University of No Intelligence to ISU. It is scary how old I was before I knew Iowa State even existed growing up in Hawk country. I was given a little Cy (walking Cy with orthopedic shoes) sticker and I had no idea what school it stood for. I went through junior high and high school being one of just a handfull of Cyclone fans in the whole school. You certainly learn to grow a thick skin as well as a deep hatred for arrogant Hawk fans.

Since then I became the first person in my family since my aunt in the late fifties to graduate from ISU. I met my wife (an ISU alum) in Ames. We are desperately trying to get back to Ames before our kids are infected with a Goofer virus.
 
I never attended Iowa State but, my father and his brother did.

Have been a fan since - well forever - through thick and thin! My first football game was in the early 70's vs. BYU at Clyde Williams Stadium. First wrestling meet was at Hilton vs. eiu. First Basketball game was an NIT game vs. Marquette.

Watched the last game at Clyde Williams Stadium in 1974 vs. the hucksters and the first game at Cyclone Stadium (Now Jack Trice Stadium) vs. Air Force.

Got the opprotunity to see ALL of the home games in 1976 including the win vs. the hucksters! This was the year that Mal Schmidt, All conference End 1951 and 2000 Iowa State Hall of Fame inductee (may you R.I.P.) befriended a 12 year old kid and introduced him to some real legends of the game. Met Coach Earle Bruce, Pete Taylor, Dexter Green and many more coaches and players. Also got the opprotunity to meet Barry Switzer along with Billy Sims, Tom Osborne and many other coaches and players through the years!

*on a side note: I had predicted ALL of Iowa States Football coaches after Coach Bruce left and before they were announced up to the traitor chiz-weed. Told my dad that Paul Rhoads would be our next head coach the day after the traitor went south! Had also told him that Rhoads was going to be our coach after McCarney...not psychic here - LOL
 
Alswelk said:
I'm a legacy marching band member, and my brush with greatness concerns the infamous story of the "Varsity" incident. My mom was there when it happened, so I knew the truth long before I became a member.
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Balrog said:
I am sorry. I guess I am not familiar with the "Varsity" incident. Is this something that can be told without getting into any sort of trouble? I lead a very sheltered life, I guess.
Congratulations on your legacy membership. Band members rock, and work extremely hard.

GO CYCLONES:yes:
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I'll jump in on this one.

The "Varsity" incident refers to the official name of the Marching band. The Iowa State University Cyclone Football 'Varsity' Marching Band.

The story as I heard it when I was in marching band is that, many years ago, after a game, some of the marching band members were using one of the football locker rooms to change out of their uniforms. A security guard or someone connected to the university caught them and told them that the locker room was for the Varsity only. Apparently the band members told him that they were in the 'Varsity' Maching Band. After that, the band added the 'Varsity' tag to their name.

That is the short version. Alswelk can probably give us more details but I thought I would take some of the mystery out of it.
 
brother bob said:
I never attended Iowa State but, my father and his brother did.

Have been a fan since - well forever - through thick and thin! My first football game was in the early 70's vs. BYU at Clyde Williams Stadium. First wrestling meet was at Hilton vs. eiu. First Basketball game was an NIT game vs. Marquette.

Watched the last game at Clyde Williams Stadium in 1974 vs. the hucksters and the first game at Cyclone Stadium (Now Jack Trice Stadium) vs. Air Force.

Got the opprotunity to see ALL of the home games in 1976 including the win vs. the hucksters! This was the year that Mal Schmidt, All conference End 1951 and 2000 Iowa State Hall of Fame inductee (may you R.I.P.) befriended a 12 year old kid and introduced him to some real legends of the game. Met Coach Earle Bruce, Pete Taylor, Dexter Green and many more coaches and players. Also got the opprotunity to meet Barry Switzer along with Billy Sims, Tom Osborne and many other coaches and players through the years!

*on a side note: I had predicted ALL of Iowa States Football coaches after Coach Bruce left and before they were announced up to the traitor chiz-weed. Told my dad that Paul Rhoads would be our next head coach the day after the traitor went south! Had also told him that Rhoads was going to be our coach after McCarney...not psychic here - LOL
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Lake Mills, well connected in the athletic department, perhaps you've also met Mike & Maynard Stensrud?
 
cychhosis said:
Lake Mills, well connected in the athletic department, perhaps you've also met Mike & Maynard Stensrud?
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I grew up in Hampton, but when I met and married my wife, who's from Lake Mills, I moved here. She went to school with Maynard, Mike, and their sister.

Andy and Kevin, Mike's sons, went to school with my step-son in Lake Mills. Andy took a shine to my youngest son and is still known as 'Big Andy' to this day.

I had met both Maynard and Mike during the '76 season and they were very interesting characters. I talk to both Mike and Andy on a weekly basis if not more as they both still live in Lake Mills.

Mike manages the lumber yard here and Andy sells insurance with his mother and is an assistant with the Lake Mills football team. Maynard is in Waseca, MN, I believe, and manages the airport. Mike doesn't like talking about football, for reasons unknown, but Andy and I talk about ISU athletics a lot.
 
I'm Batman!
Grew up by Iowa City, became an ISU fan when my 9 year older brother attended for Architecture.
Met Walden in my High School.
Flew with Johnny Orr once.
Drove the firetruck back from Iowa City in '98 and '00 after great wins.
Been to all recent bowls except Boise and second Shreveport.
Been to all three Arrowhead games.
Was in Manhattan when we came back and got bowl elligible.
Was in Hilton when the "new" Cy was introduced.
Was at Mac's house after his final game. Drove the firetruck there and picked up John Walters and his wife at the entrance to the development.
I lived in KC for 9 years and kept my FB season tickets and never missed a home game.
I'm sure there is more... :)
 
Grew up in NE but came to ISU for engineering. Walked on the wrestling team for about 2 weeks in fall of 1999, before deciding college would probably be more fun without it, not to mention easier to get an engineering degree. Also met my wife at ISU. Used to sell pop on west side of Jack Trice, I hooked your dad up with Capn for his Coke. Been to two bowl games (Houston, Phoenix). Attended most of the ISU-Nebraska games in the last ten years, including two overtime games and the upset in Lincoln last year. In person witnessed The Run, Towers Implosion, and several riots. Got hair cut at Monty's.
 
Remember going to football games with my dad in the late 70's early 80's. We would also take trips to Ames while my dad was researching his first personal computer purchase. Does anyone remember the Commodore store which was in the basement of the bank on Lincoln way, up from the campus bookstore? I remember playing space invaders on the old CBM's(Commodore Business Machine) green screen.

Go State...
 
Balrog said:
So you are a fan because you were a former student?
I wasn't a huge fan of the Cyclones until I went to ISU in the sixties and early seventies, because noone ever talked about ISU.
I am from Cedar Rapids and trust me, the Cedar Rapids Gazette never EVER talked about the Cyclones back then.
I wasn't sure there even was another University in the state until I attended ISU.

GO CYCLONES:yes:
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Yes, 76-80. I originally grew up in the Nichols/West Liberty/Muscatine area and spent my professional career in the QCs. All Dark Side all the time.

My cousin went to ISU and I went to visit the campus with his parents one weekend and decided I didn't want to work in the grocery store the rest of my life. So I signed up for 1976 as a freshman after being out of HS for 2 years. Lived in Knapp Hall (RIP) for 3 long years then off campus on Knapp Street the last 1 1/2 years.

Had FB season tickets for 2 years in the 80s. The drive and loss of whole Saturday along with the Donnie Duncan/Jim Criner melt downs just made it not worth it. I still go to a game occasionally and plan to get a 4 game pack starting next year, now that I'm retired.

My nephew (Muscatine) just told me he plans to go to ISU for engineering. I couldn't be prouder. Offered to take him to tour the campus and/or to football game next year.
 
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Interesting thread.

Both parents are EIU alums, so I am the only Cyclone fan in the family.

Went to ISU for undergrad in 2001.

Freshman year I was E. Hobbs III next door neighbor in Willow Hall; one of the nicest guys I have ever met.

My wife and I both work at ISU currently.

I have football tickets together with 7 other friends (most of them are lurkers on here) and basketball tickets for my wife and I.

I've driven to Shreveport and Houston in a 1980's conversion van with 8 other guys and a modified bucket dubbed the "Micturator 5000"
 
oh yes, and I totally forgot...I am good friends with Bill Fennelly. Met him at the Dallas Airport on his return trip to Ames after recruiting in Texas and I had been visiting my sick mother in Baton Rouge. I had seen his laptop/brief case which had the Iowa State Logo on it and struck up a conversation with him. As we boarding he hung back and waited for the line to go down...and eventully was assigned seat next to me on the flight to Des Moines. Again, we talked about lots of things, mainly family and of course Iowa State Women's basketball. Got his autograph for my dad, who is a huge Cyclone Fan because he would have never believed it if I hadn't. Since then every time I see Coach Fennelly he calls me by name and we talk often...mainly at sporting events, but none the less will always consider him a friend of mine. Did have a nice long talk with him at the Surf Ballroom this past summer for the Cyclone Tailgate Tour.
 
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