Week Two...

Are there any big games this week?

Just kidding. Unless you have been living under a rock you know that this is the week of the big game. Iowa State vs. iowa. If you can't tell I am a little biased, however I believe I have a good view of both sides. The last week has been interesting for both teams. Iowa State had a player arrested, and with true Cyclone fashion he is no longer a Cyclone. Some hawk fans are all excited that one of our guys got arrested, he was arrested once and was kicked off the team...the way it should be. Oh and he has also never played so you have no advantage off of this incident. On the iowa front one of their players has been having some health problems, to the extent he has even been in the hospital some this week. There are numerous rumors about what the problem is some say it is a heart problem and some say it is a thyroid problem, either way my prayers are with the kid I wouldn't wish anything like that on my enemy. The rumors are that he will likely miss the game this week...likely is too open ended for me to completely believe. The guy was one of their best players and arguably the best player between the two teams. However his hole in the offensive line may make it a little easier for us to stop the run game, then again it is our defense so that will be interesting.

Overall I believe the key to Iowa State winning the game will be them stopping the run and isolating moeaki (sp?). If we do this I believe are offense and special teams are good enough to put points up on the board to BEAT THE HAWKS!!!

On another hand don't be that fan. Don't be the stupid idiot that just cares about how he thinks his team is the best freaking thing on earth, cause even if your rated #1 it's just a game. If ISU loses people will heckle me like no other. Go ahead but I would rather not win this game and find out more weaknesses in our team. On that note, my prediction is ISU 27 iowa 18. Stay safe. GO CYCLONES!!! BEAT THE HAWKS!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Week One...

Well...week one of the College Football season is officially in the books. There were some surprises, some scares, and outcomes you would expect. This is the best part of college football. You have to come every week and play your heart out for the school that you love to have success.

I will start off with my Iowa State Cyclones! So we played the North Dakota State Bison, they have only been in the FCS for a couple of years now but have already scared several Division I schools, I believe coming into this game they were 1-3 against D 1 schools and the losses were never by more than a touchdown or something like that. It was an overall good game. We were able to find some strengths and weaknesses while not completely showing everything that we have. The defense needs some work, the biggest thing is there is no major leader however this seems to be slowly changing as they forced NDSU to kick several times with their backs against the wall, and force a couple of turnovers. The offense looked very good and had a few things to iron out.

I was also able to attend the iowa vs uni game this past Saturday. It was an interesting game and I learned a rule I didn't know existed. A caller to a post game radio show put it seemingly perfectly "iowa came to scrimmage and uni came to play". Or at least that's how it seems. UNI kicked Iowa around for a good part of the day, especially on the line which is iowa coach Kirk Ferentz pride and joy. The game came down to a a last second field goal by uni with them trailing by one. The first kick was blocked...however it didn't cross the line and was recovered by UNI. Since it was only first down they could attempt another kick, with the same result however it went past the line and was recovered by the hawks. Now I don't care who you are or how good you think the blocks were the UNI kicker hadn't been getting the kicks up from contact all day, every single kick would barely make it over the line so it was almost a waiting game for a kick to get blocked. Overall Mike Hlas put it perfect in his column on Sunday with the headline of "A game the better team didn't win".

In terms of upsets need we say more than the Oklahoma Sooners getting upset by BYU. You can partially blame this on Sam Bradford being taken out due to an injury early in the game, however mostly on just out right good play by both sides that ultimately ended up with a BYU upset win. By the way if you haven't heard I believe Bradford is out indefinately due to some kind of shoulder injury. I still think that the sooners have a chance to give Texas a run for their money and possibly battle for a Big 12 Title and maybe even a chance at the Rose Bowl which is the BCS Championship game this year.

On another note...IT'S IOWA WEEK!!! Which mostly means we play eiu and well I do as little school work as possible, speaking of which I have a paper to write...better get on that. Anyway I hope you all come to the game or watch it on TV and cheer on your favorite team, but PLEASE don't act like a stupid fan and ruin it for the rest of us. Yes it's a great rivalry arguably one of the best in college football but you don't have to be a stupid fan. Go ahead support your school but see the game, if your team sucked at something freaking admit it and be a good fan, not one with your head up your ass thinking that your team is the best damn thing to walk the earth, if your Florida or USC or Texas then you have that right...almost. I know everyone has those kinds of fans but please but the beer down and talk rationally and truly about what happened on that field. Please stay safe as well, the last thing I want to hear about is some drunk mistake that hurts or possibly kills someone. Thank you and use your head...most importantly...GO STATE!!!! BEAT THE HAWKS!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Today...

Is the day we have all been waiting for, it's football season! The team has been practicing for a month now and are more than ready to start hit some guys that aren't on their own team. We have been throw some troubled times but we just have to remember the words of arguably the best football coach ever. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." Vince Lombardi. It's go time.

If you can't tell I am pumped, we have the chance to surprise a lot of people this year. Every single game on our schedule is very winnable. We have been beaten up and knocked down. Now it's time to stand up as Cyclone Nation and prove who we are and we are not to be forgotten. It's time to kick some bison ass back to Fargo. GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Senator Kennedy

I have never been extremely interested in politics, to the extent of until the last election in which I was able to vote I had basically no interest in it and did not care. The name Kennedy is almost synonomous with politics, the extent of my knowledge of the Kennedy's was that a couple of them were shot and the whole family was involved in the government. That being said all I can't tell you what Senator Ted Kennedy has done over his tenure as a Senator. I have heard he stood up for a lot of reform and such things and that he has also killed someone and never served any time. Most of that happened before I was born or even in elementary school, so I am not here to debate and rant on those things.

I got on KCRG.com and read their story which was very good and respectful (I believe it was an AP story). Sadly I scrolled down and looked at the comments expecting some people to be saying RIP and such things, those people were there however they were in the minority. The majority of the people were saying things about how he killed some girl and never served time and that he never really did anything. I understand all that he is a politician, a public figure not everyone is going to like him. However there were several more people that took it to the next level and talked about wanting the video that accompanied the story to be a video of him "swirling around the toilet and taking his last breath and get sucked down into hell" or something very close to that. This just completely DISGUSTS me! Are you searious? How sick and demented do you have to be to take pleasure in watching ANYBODY die!? You people are absolutely disgusting and one of the reasons why our culture is so messed up. Grow up!

I am praying for the Kennedy family for all they have been through and for these sick people. GO CYCLONES!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Studying?

School has started again and of course this means studying and doing homework. So far it's not too bad...however it's only the second day of school. I am supposed to be doing some reading on the United State Constitution to discuss in my Political Science class tomorrow, not very exciting so I am delaying that. Other than that everything is going very well.

Marching band is going tremendously well and I can't wait for next Thursday (September 3rd) for our first game against NDSU. So far we have all of our pregame show on the field and half of our first half time show. The excitement is building as we start a new era in Cyclone football! I have also decided to change the name of my blog to "True and Valiant" my favorite words in the Iowa State alma mater "The Bells of Iowa State".

I am still taking opinions and such on the podcast that a friend and I may be starting. Other than that I hope everyone including all my friends are having a great start to the school year, if you haven't started yet safe travels and good luck to everyone, I want to see you on Labor day weekend! GO CYCLONES!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Summer is...

Coming to an end. In just eight days I move in and band camp starts. However I have already been in Ames for almost a week now, even though I have been going back and forth from home, the farm, and Ankeny. I normally wouldn't do this much driving and traveling but...I have not gotten less than 31mpg on a tank and the highest I have gotten is 42mpg, for some reason I have started to like driving more. Anywho, football practice is going well and they team shows a lot of promise for better days to come in Cyclone football, not to mention the entire athletics department.

I was going to update with a rant on the Marion Police Department...but it was summer and I got busy and forgot, now I have decided it wasn't a very good rant and is no longer relevant. I promise to have more rant's though.

A friend and I have somewhat decided to start a podcast where basically you can e-mail us with basically anything you want to hear us talk about/discuss/hear our point of view and we will. We have not yet decided on a name or anything so I will let you know when we do that and when we start. Does this sound good or interesting? Something you would want to listen too? let me know please! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!

Vacation Update 2

Okay so as you can see from the previous post I am writing this on the way back from my trip to Colorado. This one was with my family. Last year my mom and dad went out to Estes Park for a week while I was in school and my sister was working. They loved it and we decided to go back this year. We stayed at a friend’s condo in Estes; right behind the condo was fall’s river. If you have ever been to the mountains their rivers are the sizes of our creeks with (depending on the time of year) maybe five times the water flow.
We were set to leave on Saturday afternoon after my sister got off work, well I woke up with a sore throat went to the doctor and was told I probably had strep throat. We decided to not leave until Sunday morning and drove all the way out that day. I had been to the west side of the Rockies before for white water rafting; I fell in love with the Estes area immediately. In case you don’t know Estes Park is right outside of Rocky Mountain National Park, needless to say it is an absolutely beautiful area; again if you have never been there GO!
The park has some amazing hikes for any level of fitness, however I do highly suggest going in the morning before the trails get too crowded especially if you love the outdoors and the peacefulness, my dad and I went for hikes three days and were there around 8 and it was perfect. Friday morning my dad and I went fly fishing in the park as well. We hired a guide from a local shop and it was a great experience, he was very helpful and taught us how to properly fly fish. I only caught two fish (a brown, and a greenback cut throat) and my dad caught a cut throat but didn’t know it and it got away. The rivers were quite hard to fish due to the warm weather they have had lately that is rapidly melting the snow melt from higher up in the mountains and glaciers; they have also had an abnormally high amount of rain which raised the rivers even higher and faster. My mom and sister went on a horseback ride Friday morning as well and said it was great.
Downtown Estes Park is an old style with a bunch of different shops and stuff. There are also several great restraunts ranging from American, to Chinese, to Italian. There is also a river walk through downtown along the falls and then the Big Thompson Rivers which meet in downtown. I was able to take a lot of pictures on my phone and parents camera which I will put on facebook when I get the chance.
We left Estes on Friday afternoon and went down to Loveland for the night and stayed with my mom’s aunt and uncle. We went out to dinner to with my mom’s cousins and their family, I didn’t even know these people existed so that was kind of awkward and weird. We are now on our way back (I am writing this on Saturday afternoon the 27th as we get into Iowa).
I will have another update later this week on some rants I have so look for that one. Have a great week! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!