Luckily, there was a silver lining to the awful football the Chiefs served up. Really, it was more like a black and gold lining. Certainly no orange in it, that much I know.
See, the football weekend included my first trip to Iowa City to watch the Hawkeyes battle my alma mater Syracuse Orange. For years, my Iowa friends told me how terrific the gameday experience is in the land of corn (with all due respect to Nebraska, I saw much more corn this weekend than in my three trips to see the Huskers combined).
Oh, those Hawks know how to party.
Thankfully, Syracuse found a way to actually top the shenanigans of the Chiefs by directing a 35-0 train wreck inside Kinnick Stadium. Outside of the three hours I was forced beyond my will to watch Greg Robinson turn a once proud program into orange dog food, the weekend was one of the great sporting experiences of my life.
Best kept secret in the Midwest: The girls in Iowa are beautiful. I am now thoroughly convinced Iowa is like Narnia for ugly guys. Friday night was a black and gold zoo downtown, in which the classic college town beer prices remain intact. Two-dollars per pitcher? Thats tip on the Plaza.
The downtown (which was like Westport on a Jay Gibbons subscription) crawled all night with revelers, although the Orange faithful was few and far between. This is understandable since Appalachian State has been frantically trying to schedule us for 2008.
To the bar-goers of the Sports Column, Martinis and the Union, thanks for the orange shots. From what I remember, I really enjoyed those places (and Pierre Pierce didnt even try to mug me).
We were treated with oodles of hospitality, especially from Crazy Pete, who I met in the cab Friday night and demanded we join his tailgate 5:30a the next day. Considering it was a 7:07pm kickoff, I felt that could be jumping the gun a little.
Nonetheless, after a breakfast of grilled pork tenderloin and eggs at the Hamburg Inn (outstanding, by the way), we finally made our way over to Crazy Petes tailgate.
We showed up at 1:00p and of course, this was unacceptable by the standards of Crazy Pete (although by that time I think Pete was making bracelets reading: What Would Ferentz Do?).
We hit up three different tailgates and even found an Iowa fan who wanted to take pictures of my Cuse is in the House t-shirt from the 1996 Final Four and matching orange Air Force Ones (clearly, the best the Cuse would look all night).
Kinnick was a fantastic place to watch the game, the crowd was loud and into it the entire night and Herkey the Hawk seemed pretty cool. I did take issue with the 8-year-old kid behind us who kept telling me Syracuse sucked. Little did he know, this was not exactly news.
The Great Orange Disaster was followed by a trip back downtown and a visit to the Gyro cart, which after a 35-0 demolition was the perfect late night tourniquet.
The weekend was a success, even if my Orange were treated like new kids in the prison yard. Plus, I even made my presence felt on national TV. After halftime, Coach Robinson was being interviewed by the Big 10 Network near our section.
I felt it was my duty to begin a -FIIIIRE GREGGGG- chant and lo and behold it worked. Most of the Syracuse section followed suit and hopefully A.D. Daryl Gross was watching in the press box.
Iowa on gameday was one of the best sporting experiences of my life. Next time we might even score.
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Luckily, there was a silver lining to the awful football the Chiefs served up. Really, it was more like a black and gold lining. Certainly no orange in it, that much I know.
