A Decent Hawk fan!

Prone2Clone · 04-18-2008, 08:53 PM

I know one decent Hawk fan. Might be able to stretch it to two if I really give they guy the benefit of the doubt. The rest I know are knobs. And the female ones might be the worst.

Cyclone62 · 04-18-2008, 09:12 PM

At lunch today, a few people were talking about Iowa football in the teacher's lounge, and I made a remark like "I know that Iowa likes to have privacy at Kinnick, but those shooting guard tower renovations are a little much for me." The response I got was "Yea, too many of our kids (students) have been recruited lately." I have to admit, that was a pretty good recovery.

bmuff · 04-18-2008, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by istatefan

I, briefly, dated an Iowa fan a few years ago and was told that rooting for EIU wasn't like having an "excorcism" and that it was actually quite "easy".

I'm sure it IS easy. That's why every trailer park living, Old Milwaukee drinking, Marlboro Red smoking idiot in the state has a polyester hawkeye jacket and spends Saturdays in the local pub yelling "go hawks". A majority of their fans couldn't even say who their starting QB or PG will be next fall (or last fall for that matter). They just know that the next hawk game is another reason to sit in the bar all day and get drunk.

Phaedrus · 04-19-2008, 01:12 AM

I don't buy the 1% spoils it for the other 99% stuff.

I'd say 67% of Hawk Fans (at least) are arrogant and condescending toward Iowa State. And they honestly think they're doing us a "favor" by not being openly abusive.

Doublespeak is interesting, especially when practiced by the arrogant and ignorant.

SouthernHawk · 04-19-2008, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I don't buy the 1% spoils it for the other 99% stuff.

I'd say 67% of Hawk Fans (at least) are arrogant and condescending toward Iowa State. And they honestly think they're doing us a "favor" by not being openly abusive.

Doublespeak is interesting, especially when practiced by the arrogant and ignorant.

Here's the thing.

Some people use what team a person is a fan of to judge their personality. It's like a new form of racism.

I understand hating a fan base - that's cool. But I've never got this loathing people have for one another simply because of the team they cheer for. "OMG, look at that ____ fan, I bet they live in a trailer and are the scum of the earth!"

It's fun to joke about that sort of thing from time to time, but comments people make (not just on message boards) can really make a person wonder.

Being a fan of a team doesn't make you a good/bad person, which is something I think people fail to realize.

redrocker · 04-19-2008, 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by SouthernHawk

Here's the thing.

Some people use what team a person is a fan of to judge their personality. It's like a new form of racism.

I understand hating a fan base - that's cool. But I've never got this loathing people have for one another simply because of the team they cheer for. "OMG, look at that ____ fan, I bet they live in a trailer and are the scum of the earth!"

It's fun to joke about that sort of thing from time to time, but comments people make (not just on message boards) can really make a person wonder.

Being a fan of a team doesn't make you a good/bad person, which is something I think people fail to realize.

I agree with you on that. I am guilty of it myself. But it is like that everywhere. I am sure it gets worse in some parts of the country.

Phaedrus · 04-19-2008, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by SouthernHawk

Here's the thing.

Some people use what team a person is a fan of to judge their personality. It's like a new form of racism.

I understand hating a fan base - that's cool. But I've never got this loathing people have for one another simply because of the team they cheer for. "OMG, look at that ____ fan, I bet they live in a trailer and are the scum of the earth!"

It's fun to joke about that sort of thing from time to time, but comments people make (not just on message boards) can really make a person wonder.

Being a fan of a team doesn't make you a good/bad person, which is something I think people fail to realize.

I agree. I used to not hate Hawk Fans. But I came to hate them and their team by the multiple years of abuse/arrogance/condescending attitudes. I've become a lot like the "bitter enders" at the end of the American Civil War.

I work out with a Hawk fan, who is a thoroughly decent guy, (all the way in Germany, of all places!!!) but in principle, their fan base has earned my derision for them.

Cyclonepride · 04-19-2008, 07:06 AM

Hawk fans are kind of like teenagers. Pretty decent one on one, but they turn into complete morons when found in large groups.

CycloneErik · 04-19-2008, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Cyclonepride

Hawk fans are kind of like teenagers. Pretty decent one on one, but they turn into complete morons when found in large groups.

That would mean that their basketball fans must be OK, then!

Phaedrus · 04-19-2008, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneErik

That would mean that their basketball fans must be OK, then!

Great point, sir!!!!

SouthernHawk · 04-19-2008, 11:59 AM

I guess I should have mentioned that northern fanbases really don't "hate" eachother.

I forgot about the Oklahoma fan who ripped a Texas fan's jewels open.

DJKHawk · 04-20-2008, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by CycloneErik

That would mean that their basketball fans must be OK, then!

I will admit that this made me laugh.