Obligatory "Is Iowa a Rival" Thread

[dvdcrr]

Taking on Iowa as a rival just feels wrong.  It would be like joining a toddler in a serious tug of war over a cheeto under the "kids table" at Thanksgiving. 

[knapplc]

Every year we deal with these chumps they become more and more a rival. Walking in the door, day one of the Big Ten, no - we were not rivals.

 

But we've got some years under our belts together. And we don't like each other. And that's not likely to change.

 

If Nebraska starts winning against them again, it's 100% on.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[CAHusker]

OMG!  Who cares, fine, yes we are rivals.  We need to get our s#!t together, once that happens we can start talking about rivalries and so on.  

 

Sorry, just tired of seeing this. 

[BigRedBuster]

12 minutes ago, CAHusker said:

OMG!  Who cares, fine, yes we are rivals.  We need to get our s#!t together, once that happens we can start talking about rivalries and so on.  

 

Sorry, just tired of seeing this. 

Gosh sorry.

 

I posted it because it's a pretty cool read.  Especially when you get back to the really old articles on the games.  The writing style over the years has changed so much.  There's a pretty cool history between the two teams.

[hskrfan4life]

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[Undone]

Quote

Buster's article said:

"A game of football will be played at the base ball park at 3 p.m. Thanksgiving day. The contesting teams will be the State University of Nebraska eleven and the state university of Iowa eleven," The World-Herald wrote."

 

Geez...so many things in that sentence nobody says anymore.

Our "eleven" and their "eleven." What, did teams sometimes play with less/more?? And maybe we could have been The State University of Nebraska and tried to trademark the word "the."

[knapplc]

2 minutes ago, hskrfan4life said:

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Found Mike Scheafer's HuskerBoard account.

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

7 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

Geez...so many things in that sentence nobody says anymore.

Our "eleven" and their "eleven." What, did teams sometimes play with less/more?? And maybe we could have been The State University of Nebraska and tried to trademark the word "the."

Quote

 

IOWA CITY, Iowa — With 14 points against them and no more than seven minutes remaining, Prof. Oscar Solem’s humble Hawkeyes, reckless in their desperation, began to throw the football all over Iowa field Saturday afternoon, and finally their frantic maneuvers came within one point of earning them a tie with the Cornhuskers.

In fact, they were legislated out of a stalemate, for after Halfback Joe Laws had snatched a pass from General George Teyro for the 11 yards needed to make the first touchdown, Halfback Joe Laws executed a perfect goal from placement. But Umpire Hedges detected holding in the Hawkeye line.

This nullified the successful boot and set the Iowans back 15 yards. Halfback Laws tried again, but the distance was too great.

 

Read more: https://dataomaha.com/huskers/history/game/1932-11-5-iowa#ixzz66JujGNxc

[CAHusker]

50 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Gosh sorry.

 

I posted it because it's a pretty cool read.  Especially when you get back to the really old articles on the games.  The writing style over the years has changed so much.  There's a pretty cool history between the two teams.

 

  I was trying to be funny more than anything.  Its not a problem to have this discussion, and you know what, if I don't like it, I don't have to click on it and read it. 

 

 

[Roundball Shaman]

knapplc: “Nobody had to convince other fans that Oklahoma was a rival.”

 

This is a mostly a generational thing.

 

Older Husker fans know that Oklahoma was THE game of games. Many younger fans who didn’t directly experience that convince themselves that Iowa is a good rival opponent.

 

The matchup with Oklahoma was like buying a Mercedes. The matchup with Iowa is like picking out the best car on a used car lot. Yes, they’re both cars, but that’s where the comparison ends.

 

Nebraska was force-fed Iowa as the big last seasonal game. There wasn’t much choice in the matter. Need to make the best of it and get bragging rights over the Missouri River.

 

Back in the day, a bit of shine would have come off that Oklahoma game if there was to be a conference championship game yet to follow in those days. But there wasn’t, so it was beat the Sooners then prepare for a good bowl game.
 

[n.e.husker]

Sure seems to be heading that direction and im ok with it. Both teams and fan bases dont like eachother based on former player, current player quotes and also opposing fans visiting eachother’s boards.

Hopefully we can win this friday and get that cute trophy back in our hands and string a few more together after.

 

cheers to good tough game 

GBR

[UniversalMartin]

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Ray, your chatting

[Moiraine]

6 hours ago, n.e.husker said:

Sure seems to be heading that direction and im ok with it.

 

 

Seems to be heading in the opposite direction to me. We have to start beating them sometimes.

[Huskers Way]

There's really not enough history between us to call it a rivalry - after all, we only played them six times from 1947 through 2010 - a double home and home from 1979 through 1982 and a home and home in 1999 and 2000 - for most of my life, Iowa was really a non-factor.  At best I would say they are basically what Colorado used to be to us (but with less history) - Colorado wasn't really a rival to us, they were just the team in the Big 8 we most disliked - that's probably what Iowa is to us right now.