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Game Thread Ohio State @ Iowa, 11/04/17 @ 3:30 (ESPN)

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The closer we get to the game, the better I'm feeling about it.

I was worried coming off last Saturday and it's not a knock on Iowa. Nothing against their program. Have partied VERY hard with some Hawkeye people and I need to make it out to Kinnick. However...this is just overmatched for them in all the wrong/right areas.

The cover seems good unless some spooky stuff happens.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
The closer we get to the game, the better I'm feeling about it.

I was worried coming off last Saturday and it's not a knock on Iowa. Nothing against their program. Have partied VERY hard with some Hawkeye people and I need to make it out to Kinnick. However...this is just overmatched for them in all the wrong/right areas.

The cover seems good unless some spooky stuff happens.
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Yep. We're young, we're inconsistent, but we're also more athletic than we have been in the past. As long as those young guys don't decide to put it all together Saturday I think you guys will be fine.

But we'll play the game anyway just to make sure:cheers:
 
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OHSportsFan said:
The closer we get to the game, the better I'm feeling about it.

I was worried coming off last Saturday and it's not a knock on Iowa. Nothing against their program. Have partied VERY hard with some Hawkeye people and I need to make it out to Kinnick. However...this is just overmatched for them in all the wrong/right areas.

The cover seems good unless some spooky stuff happens.
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Speaking of the partying point, if I may continue to keep this thread positive.

I wanted to marry Ms. Vodka Sam. Ms. .341 BAC. a few years ago. My kind of girl.
 
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OhioState001 said:
Don't really want to debate it more but what do you think kids are gonna say when you stick a camera in their face and pretty much force them to answer. The one kid in the ESPN video was like "yea I guess it makes the days go by faster". not really a ringing endorsement
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Geez, you really would be better suited to be a Penn State fan.
 
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OhioState001 said:
Why should I freak out about something that shows no initiative, takes no effort, makes no difference. The kids surely don't care that people waved at them for a few seconds. I'm sure they forget 30 minutes later.

If I walk down the street and shake a random person's hand and tell them to have a nice day I will have showed more initiative,more effort and made more of a difference then this silly tradition meant to get the media to pat everyone on the back.
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Do you realize what can make the day of a 1-10 year old little boy or girl? If I smile and wave at my two girls you should see them light up. Now imagine what waves and smiles from 80k do to a kids morale, a kids attitude and how it may help them.

Will it cure them? Absolutely not. However can it lift their spirits? Your God damn right it can, and it does.

If you don't think those Iowa players don't visit there just like our boys do at OSU then you're nuts. I dont know about you but if i was a big Hawkeye fan and was in their unfortunate situation I would feel so good to see Jewel out there waving to me.

I'm kind of dumbfounded anyone could hate on this. Oh well I suppose some folks just go through life that way. I'm done discussing it but I wanted to address it once since you seem to be not joking.

Btw back to the game... if tosu forces Iowa to drive the length of the field (no turnovers and good special teams) we should be good for the cover IMO.
 
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2017/11/02/iowa-wave-through-childs-eyes/826378001/

The Iowa Wave through a child's eyes
A 6-YEAR-OLD BOY AND HIS PARENTS DRAW INSPIRATION FROM A NEW IOWA TRADITION THAT SEES FANS AT KINNICK STADIUM WAVE TO THE NEIGHBORING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

George Schroeder, USA TODAY Sports

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The moment nears. Will Kohn’s father leans over and asks: “Are you ready?” The boy nods, his gaze fixed on the scene 12 stories below. And then his eyes grow very wide.

Will is 6. This is his 295th day at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital – his 44th with a new heart. He’d been up here once before to see the fans at Kinnick Stadium wave in unison to him and the other young patients watching from the windows of the new hospital wing. This time, Will’s wave back to the crowd is bigger, more confident.

It’s a night game, so many in the crowd fire the flashes on their phone cameras: Tens of thousands points of light, aimed at the children who can’t be at the stadium.

Will hasn’t spoken in months, since he underwent a tracheotomy to help him breathe. He gets his parents’ attention by clicking his tongue, then communicates by mouthing sentences. Sometimes, a dad only needs to see his son’s eyes.

“They were huge when he saw all the lights from the cameras,” says Chris Kohn, his father. “This was his first night wave. I think it even caught him off guard.”

It’s that way for a lot of us, isn’t it? Since the Iowa wave began in September, a simple gesture has grown to mean so much.

For the fans looking up at the kids in the windows, perhaps it’s a taste of perspective. They’re attending a game. Many of the children waving back are in a fight for their lives. The message is something like: “We see you. We know you’re there. We know you’re going through a hard time. We support you.”

For the kids – and for their families – it’s something else, too, smaller and yet incredibly significant.

“A whole stadium turning and waving … it’s huge,” says Meghan Kohn, Will’s mother. “The kids just forget about their hospital life for just a few moments.”

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