It's almost football season, and that means the SSSBlog will be living and dying each Saturday with the Univ. of Iowa Hawkeye football team. During my time in Iowa City they went 3-8, 3-8, 5-6, 5-6, and 2-9 ... ah, those were the good old days. But the past three years they've finished in the top ten nationally, and last year in their last game they beat defending champion L.S.U. on January 1 with a last second, 60-yard plus TD pass on a semi-broken play, something that just doesn't happen to the Hawkeyes.
So you see, the karma is probably used up.
They're ranked No. 11 in the country in the preseason A.P. poll. They will probably pull what we refer to as a "Squawk" -- be just good enough to make you hope that maybe, just maybe, the Rose Bowl is there for the taking, then die miserably, horribly, pathetically, painfully in a key game.
Still, we love them.
Go Hawks.
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Do the eyes have it? Maybe the Hawkeyes's fortunes would have turned out better if the person who named them had been willing to go whole hawk.
... Grumpelstilskin
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