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**jdoggivjc** · 12-13-2007, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by redrocker

1995 Super Bowl 29

or am I missing the joke?

You're right, my mind blanked out on that year. But then again, it was such an underwhelming performance by them that they MADE the Super Bowl but apparently didn't show up for it...

**Omaha Cy** · 12-13-2007, 04:05 PM

wow this thread takes me back. i can remember(or else im just delusional in the head) watching cyclone game re-airs on sunday nights after the news on channel 5.
This woulda been late 80's. They were terrible for sure in those days. Sounds like Criner had a few decent things going for him before Walden

**Omaha Cy** · 12-13-2007, 04:10 PM

I stand corrected. checked some jim walden pages and saw a 5-6 and 6-5 record in 88/89. guess they werent as bad as i remembered.

**Knownothing** · 12-13-2007, 04:35 PM

It's just at that time that OU and Nebraska and Colorado were so good that they would beat us by 50 to 60 points. We could beat KU, KSU, and Missouir some years. Iowa Beat us every year. So we would have 4 losses going into the season. We would pick up 1 or 2 with a crap team. So we would end up with 5-6 wins a year. Just because you won 6 games back then did not mean anything. No bowl for a team with 6 wins. You had to earn the bowls back then. oh year and Jeff Braswell got screwed. I will say that every time I speak of the olden days. The guy was nails though. His senor season he lead the team out of the locker room and on to the field every game. Even though he knew he would never strap on the helmet again. jeff Braswell rules.

**wesley_w** · 12-13-2007, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by redrocker

I plan on it. I want to head out and get some after pictures of some areas, showing the then and now. Believe it or not, Ebay is a great place to get old photos from around town. I just save them on my computer. Although you can do alot of searching everywhere else.

redrocker, have you ever heard of Farwell Brown?? He is kind of Ames unofficial historian, and there is a room in the public library with all the stuff he donated. He worked at the DOT for many years and has been retired for quite a while. Anyway, he has TONS of photos and other stuff, as well as writings, that you might be interested in.
You'll come up with alot of interesting stuff...for instance, the house you moved from used to be a driving range!!

**wesley_w** · 12-13-2007, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Knownothing

We could beat KU, KSU, and Missouir some years. Iowa Beat us every year.

Knownothing, do you remember the Kansas State coach, and I think it was Jim Dickey, who redshirted his entire senior class one year and basically trashed the season, but the next year they went to a bowl? They were always the doormat of the conference except that one year!!! And they returned to doormat the next year after the bowl and he was fired.