Cy the Cyclone
Starter
Went to Scheels in Des Moines last week with $80 worth of gift cards and a desire to update my Husker Gear wardrobe and the place was a gold mine. Husker shirts, hats, jerseys…you name it, they had it. Looked around for a little while to see how the rest of the Big 12 and other area schools were represented…to get a pulse on what teams “sell” in central Iowa.
The place was loaded with Hawkeye stuff…They had just got a big load of orange jumpsuits in with “property of Johnson County Jail” stenciled on the back and were busily putting those up on the racks in the Hawkeye section of the store. ISU didn’t have quite as big of an area…they had to share with the rest of the Big 12, probably because the people in Des Moines are elitist snobs who look down on the Big 12 as barbaric…
Once in the Big 12 area, I noticed that the Cyclones and the Huskers were about equally represented…about 70% of the floor space was dedicated to both teams indicating that the Huskers are a big seller here in Central Iowa. Of the other Big 12 teams…Texas, for some inexplicable reason, had a couple of racks of stuff…there was one lonely rack of Jayhawk crap standing off in one dusty, seldom visited except by the mentally handicapped corner…and someone had put a couple of obviously mis-shipped MU shirts way up on a top shelf where nobody could reach them...as if anybody wanted to.
While I was looking, I asked a guy who was stocking some shelves where I could find some Kansas State gear…he told me I could probably find some in Kansas. Then I asked him about Baylor. He rolled his eyes and told me they didn’t have any Baylor stuff either and why didn’t I go buy a Celtics jacket and he would get me a yellow highliter so I could spell out Baylor on it all by myself. Finally I asked him about Colorado and he said they ran out of toilet paper and had to use their CU gear for hygienic purposes…
I ended up buying a new Husker sweatshirt, a windbreaker and a long-sleeve t-shirt and as I was leaving, I paid a visit to the rest room so I could honor the Buffs. All in all…a good day to be a Husker fan. Remember Scheels when you’re looking for your gear.
The place was loaded with Hawkeye stuff…They had just got a big load of orange jumpsuits in with “property of Johnson County Jail” stenciled on the back and were busily putting those up on the racks in the Hawkeye section of the store. ISU didn’t have quite as big of an area…they had to share with the rest of the Big 12, probably because the people in Des Moines are elitist snobs who look down on the Big 12 as barbaric…
Once in the Big 12 area, I noticed that the Cyclones and the Huskers were about equally represented…about 70% of the floor space was dedicated to both teams indicating that the Huskers are a big seller here in Central Iowa. Of the other Big 12 teams…Texas, for some inexplicable reason, had a couple of racks of stuff…there was one lonely rack of Jayhawk crap standing off in one dusty, seldom visited except by the mentally handicapped corner…and someone had put a couple of obviously mis-shipped MU shirts way up on a top shelf where nobody could reach them...as if anybody wanted to.
While I was looking, I asked a guy who was stocking some shelves where I could find some Kansas State gear…he told me I could probably find some in Kansas. Then I asked him about Baylor. He rolled his eyes and told me they didn’t have any Baylor stuff either and why didn’t I go buy a Celtics jacket and he would get me a yellow highliter so I could spell out Baylor on it all by myself. Finally I asked him about Colorado and he said they ran out of toilet paper and had to use their CU gear for hygienic purposes…
I ended up buying a new Husker sweatshirt, a windbreaker and a long-sleeve t-shirt and as I was leaving, I paid a visit to the rest room so I could honor the Buffs. All in all…a good day to be a Husker fan. Remember Scheels when you’re looking for your gear.
