[CornFed]

Awwwww!  Isn't that cute?  They have certainly embraced their Hawkeyes.  I have to say, my Iowa friends are uniformly modest in their aspirations for their team.  Some might give the impression they are trying to sandbag me, but I've known them too long.

I don't know, CT, how old your friends are, but I have observed that the tendency to woof decreases inversely to the age of the individual.  Not a perfect correlation, but an observable trend in my experience. 

I was never much for yapping my jaws, even when I was younger.  My childhood heroes were Chip Hilton (was it Lurck who recognized this reference?) and Bart Starr.  It is why I love Kevin Hogan and Christian McCaffery and nearly all the Stanford players.  Muhammed Ali changed all that, and in the case of The Greatest, it was pretty fun.  No so, if you're just talking with friends and family and they go into hammer mode.  ;)

Society has just evolved and trash talk and various forms of braggadocio are much more acceptable in all areas of our world these days.  But another part of it is that my older friends remember some past Rose Bowl experiences that, even without woofing, provided substantial grounds for embarrassment for Iowa fans.

[CornFed]

Awwwww!  Isn't that cute?  They have certainly embraced their Hawkeyes.  I have to say, my Iowa friends are uniformly modest in their aspirations for their team.  Some might give the impression they are trying to sandbag me, but I've known them too long.

I don't know, CT, how old your friends are, but I have observed that the tendency to woof decreases inversely to the age of the individual.  Not a perfect correlation, but an observable trend in my experience. 

I was never much for yapping my jaws, even when I was younger.  My childhood heroes were Chip Hilton (was it Lurck who recognized this reference?) and Bart Starr.  It is why I love Kevin Hogan and Christian McCaffery and nearly all the Stanford players.  Muhammed Ali changed all that, and in the case of The Greatest, it was pretty fun.  No so, if you're just talking with friends and family and they go into hammer mode.  ;)

Society has just evolved and trash talk and various forms of braggadocio are much more acceptable in all areas of our world these days.  But another part of it is that my older friends remember some past Rose Bowl experiences that, even without woofing, provided substantial grounds for embarrassment for Iowa fans.