Why is Kinnick Stadium considered historic?

[VeloClone]

It's not, it's just a ********

Am I the only one counting asterisks in this post? My interpretation is the last 4 letters are "hole".

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Repeatedly calling a place historic implies that something special happened there over the years since its construction. Wonder what that would be.....
The Wave, maybe?

Why bring up "The Wave?" It is well documented that Iowa State fans hate sick children...

 

[herbicide]

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

 

[VeloClone]

There are outhouses in the UK and Europe that are twice as old as Kinnick and no one goes out of their way to designate them historic.

If you say something enough people may start believing it is true. - Herbicide beat me to the punch on this sentiment.

 

[YeahBuddy]

I and follow up asking, when was it 75 years old. Usually get a blank stare, either due to lack of math skills, or not knowing (basic) info on a historical site.

My first year as a student at Iowa, 2004, was the 75th season of football in the stadium. That is the first time I remember it being referred to as Historic Kinnick Stadium.

 

[isufbcurt]

Am I the only one counting asterisks in this post? My interpretation is the last 4 letters are "hole".

poophole

 

[Isualum13]

Maybe the historic is only referring to Kinnick himself. And they named the stadium after Historic Kinnick. Just so Hok fans could call their stadium historic.
Or is that too big a stretch?

 

[SCyclone]

Oh, come on....think of all the unbelievably fantastic things that have happened there....


(crickets)

 

[Farnsworth]

It's just like how every small town in Iowa calls their dumpy rundown main street "historic downtown".

 

[BCClone]

Repeatedly calling a place historic implies that something special happened there over the years since its construction. Wonder what that would be.....
The Wave, maybe?

Conception of many little hawks.

 

[Derpycy]

poophole

Does this really bother clone fans this much?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Does this really bother clone fans this much?

Bother? No.

Amuse? Absolutely.

 

[intrepid27]

It is actually a typo that nobody has corrected. It was originally Hysteric Kinnick Stadium. Even the dictionary example fits Hawk fans.

hys·ter·ic
həˈsterik/
noun

1. 1.
   informal
   a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction.
   "the child has been seized with regular fits of hysterics at bedtime"
   synonyms: hysteria, wildness, feverishness, irrationality, frenzy, loss of control, delirium, derangement, mania
   "a fit of hysterics"

 

[BCClone]

My first year as a student at Iowa, 2004, was the 75th season of football in the stadium. That is the first time I remember it being referred to as Historic Kinnick Stadium.

Did they cancel a season? Wiki said 1929 so 75th season would have been 2003, or was the Iowa AD bad at math?

 

[jdoggivjc]

Repeatedly calling a place historic implies that something special happened there over the years since its construction. Wonder what that would be.....
The Wave, maybe?

I was thinking the hive mind spelling lessons...

I...O...W...A...

Good - Hok fans can spell the word Iowa when there’s around 70k of them in one place and a flag is being waved in their face.

 

[CarlHungus]

So does this mean I can refer to my balls as historic when I turn 75?

 

[CyCrazy]

Because mouth breathing hok fans say it is. Nothing more nothing less.

 

[VeloClone]

poophole

Yeah, I figured with hole, everyone could figure out which verboten word preceded it.

I agree.

 

[Derpycy]

Bother? No.

Amuse? Absolutely.

I get a much different interpretation when reading this thread. Based on what is being posted here, the only possible stadium of historical significance would be the first stadium named after an African-American.

I guess I am not sold that anyone outside of the isu fan base would see it this way.

 

[BCClone]

I get a much different interpretation when reading this thread. Based on what is being posted here, the only possible stadium of historical significance would be the first stadium named after an African-American.

I guess I am not sold that anyone outside of the isu’s fan base would see it this way.

This is because we know that hawk trolls have poor reading comprehension skills. If you need it explained better, we could direct you to your old alternative school teacher.