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View Poll Results: What's your background? | |
Cyclone from birth
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Matured and am now a Clone
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Still confused
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07-17-2007, 03:49 PM
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#16 | | Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ames
Posts: 824
Credits: 787,241 NFL: Vikings NBA: Jazz MLB: Twins | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
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07-17-2007, 03:52 PM
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#17 | | Speechless
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Grimes, IA
Posts: 22,782
Credits: 5,419,925 NFL: Cowboys | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Similar story to cycloneworld. Grew up a Hawk. Went to ISU yet planned to still be an Iowa fan. Converted almost immediately...never looked back.
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07-17-2007, 03:53 PM
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#18 | | All-Star
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Carroll, IA
Posts: 1,197
Credits: 1,002,871 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Growing up in eastern Iowa, I was basically brainwashed into being a Hawkeye. But, my dad grew up around Ames and always rooted for the Cyclones. When I decided to go to Iowa State, I switched allegiances and never looked back. I'm now proudly "influencing" my own sons as to the ways of the "good side." (But my 4-year old will antagonize me once in a while about the Hawks - just to get under my skin )
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07-17-2007, 03:55 PM
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#19 | | Pro
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ankeny
Posts: 2,042
Credits: 1,933,342 Year: 1997 Degree: BS Civil Engr NFL: Patriots NBA: Bulls MLB: Yankees | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Originally Posted by brianhos  When I was born... growing up in Ames did not leave many options. I second that!!
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07-17-2007, 03:56 PM
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#20 | | All-Star
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Superior, CO
Posts: 1,026
Credits: 916,131 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
grew up a huge Iowa fan living within an hour of IC and being brainwashed by my family and the CR Gazette propoganda... but went to ISU b/c of my major. After a year of internal turmoil over who to root for, I turned clone to the bone and said goodbye to the hawks forever in my 2nd yr at ISU (1994)... sounds like quite a few Clones on here grew up Iowa fans... glad to see I'm not alone!
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07-17-2007, 03:58 PM
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#21 | | Addict
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Eldridge, IA
Posts: 9,379
Credits: 1,529,817 Year: 2003 NFL: Falcons NBA: Magic MLB: Twins | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
I'm originally from Long Island, New York, and moved to Davenport when I was 5. No one in Long Island really cares about college sports (especially my dad), so I was a fresh slate. I was easily converted to an Iowa fan. This lasted up until I started looking for colleges. I was undecided whether I wanted to be an architect or an engineer (I'm neither now, btw). Iowa didn't offer those courses. Iowa State did. I applied to Iowa State and got my acceptance letter. That didn't quite do it for me - I decided to switch allegiances the day after the ISU-Iowa football game in '97 (I wanted to cheer for the winning side of the football rivalry one last time - little did I know a couple of years later we'd win 5 straight and 6 of 9). What made the switch REALLY easy was the performance of the basketball team that year - the first time I cheered for ISU over Iowa in anything. Never looked back.
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07-17-2007, 04:11 PM
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#22 | | Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ames
Posts: 824
Credits: 787,241 NFL: Vikings NBA: Jazz MLB: Twins | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Originally Posted by frontrangeclone grew up a huge Iowa fan living within an hour of IC and being brainwashed by my family and the CR Gazette propoganda... Sadly, that really is the best way to describe the Gazette's Iowa and ISU coverage.
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07-17-2007, 04:12 PM
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#23 | | Bench Warmer
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: West Des Moines, IA
Posts: 263
Credits: 994,774 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Both parents are ISU grads, two uncles, one aunt, so Iowa was never discussed at the dinner table or at family reunions.
Never really followed the hawks until I moved to southeast Iowa during my high school years, but we still drove by Iowa City to go to Ames to watch games.
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07-17-2007, 04:13 PM
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#24 | | Bench Warmer
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Clive
Posts: 345
Credits: 921,466 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Since I was born, although I had many family "friends" try to convert me for years, which I think only cemented feelings further, as the calm and highly intelligent Cyclone fans knew that if I was to be one of them, it would be natural. Plus I hate following the crowd and everyone is a hawkeye.
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07-17-2007, 04:16 PM
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#25 | | Addict
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: To the right of center
Posts: 7,060
Credits: 1,029,905 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
I think I might have eight or nine. I was over in Iowa City with my dad, and he was going to buy me either a Hawk hat or a Cyclone hat. I liked the Cyclone one, and soon after started following their games. I don't remember the hiring of Johnny Orr as coach, but I remember that his first teams were the ones that hooked me for good. |
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07-17-2007, 04:27 PM
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#26 | | All-Star
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,228
Credits: 1,157,493 NBA: Celtics MLB: Cardinals | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
I've been a Clone Fan since I saw Dave Hoppman and Tom Vaughn play against Dennis Claridge and Bob Brown in October 1962 in Lincoln.NE.
I was a high school senior at the time and sat in the south (wooden)bleachers and ticket cost $2.50.
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07-17-2007, 04:45 PM
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#27 | | Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 807
Credits: 840,697 Year: 1993 Degree: Poli Sci NFL: Broncos NBA: Lakers MLB: Rockies | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Like many people who have responded to this thread, I grew up a big Hawkeye fan. I lived in Cedar Rapids, and my family had season tickets to Iowa football and basketball. I always casually rooted for Iowa State when they weren't playing Iowa, but I never followed them all that closely. When it came time to go to college, I chose Iowa State because I thought I wanted to be an engineer. (Though that didn't last long...  )
I'll admit that I had some mixed emotions my freshman year when Iowa State and Iowa played. After years of being an Iowa fan, it was hard for me to allow another team to supplant the Hawks as my favorite team. But I loved my experience at Iowa State so much, that Iowa State slowly but surely rose to the top. By my sophomore year, there was no question that Iowa State was my favorite team. The Cyclones have been solidly entrenched there ever since.  | | | |
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07-17-2007, 04:51 PM
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#28 | | Cabin Boy
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 5,589
Credits: 754,266 | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Originally Posted by sdsmith4 and now I go to Iowa State and am a Sports Information Intern back in Lincoln, NE at Nebraska Wesleyan right now, lol. That's funny. I've always been a Cyclone fan myself and when I was a sports reporter at an Illinois school, our Girls Basketball team was playing Iowa State. I tried getting the SID to get me on the bus to travel with the team so I could go watch them play ISU. He wouldn't let me because he knew I was a huge fan of the 'Clones.
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07-17-2007, 04:53 PM
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#29 | | "Big Tuna"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 8,969
Credits: 4,708,372 Year: DNG NFL: Cowboys NBA: Suns MLB: Royals | Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
I have been a season ticket holder before I was one years old. Interestingly, I have been eating at TacoTime just as long. 
-keep.
EDIT: born and raised in Eastern Iowa.
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07-17-2007, 05:12 PM
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#30 | | Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Iowa City
Posts: 680
Credits: 296,659 |  Re: I became a Cyclone when? | |
Originally Posted by sdsmith4 I go to Iowa State and am a Sports Information Intern back in Lincoln, NE at Nebraska Wesleyan right now, lol. My two finalists coming out of high school were ISU (close & cheap) and Nebraska Wesleyan (to attempt a continuance of my multi-sport career). I wisely chose ISU...
My hometown in central Iowa (Baxter) was full of diehard Hawk fans, few to none of whom ever attended UI. We're talking the "bad" Hawk fans here; need I say more? I didn't like ISU so much as I loathed the hometown Hawk fans; my decision was completed upon enrollment at ISU! Parents weekend of my freshman year the Towers sponsored a window painting contest and the winner was sixth floor of Wallace with the message "Eat sh!t & die Hawk b@stards". That about sums it up for me... |
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