12-12-2015, 04:28 PM
No. I wasn't really an Iowa fan growing up. My sympathies were probably more w/ Iowa State, since my dad went there. But I didn't really root for either passionately. I was a bit more of a Husker hater, because that was long enough in the past that they were in their glory years and, living in western Iowa, there were a lot of bandwagon Husker fans around. It is bad enough to be an obnoxious fan of your in-state school. It is pitiful to be a fan of a neighboring state's flagship team when you didn't even go there. Pitiful.
So, when I got to Stanford in the Fall of 1970, I was a pretty clean slate as far as college football goes. Plunkett and Vataha and The Thunder Chickens proceeded to draw a masterpiece on that slate. The design has pretty much gotten more and more beautiful over the years. The Buddy years and Walt Harris years, in retrospect, were the struggles that proved the journey is epic.  :D
So, when I got to Stanford in the Fall of 1970, I was a pretty clean slate as far as college football goes. Plunkett and Vataha and The Thunder Chickens proceeded to draw a masterpiece on that slate. The design has pretty much gotten more and more beautiful over the years. The Buddy years and Walt Harris years, in retrospect, were the struggles that proved the journey is epic.  :D
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