[HPFGU-OTChatter] Rats and Iowa wars

[Julie Holmes]

--- "ameliagoldfeesh <ameliagoldfeesh at yahoo.com>"
<ameliagoldfeesh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In my part of Iowa (formly western and now Ames) we
> only have two 
> main foes- Nebraska and the University of Iowa. 
> Both of whom we 
> defeated on battleground of ISU football this last
> year.  In fact, 
> Iowa (UI) went on to be undefeated except for ISU
> this year.  Plus 
> beating UNL is very very rare treat. *g*

Woo Hoo! I'm for *ANY* team that beats Nebraska. I
refuse to root for Nebraska under any circumstances. I
know it's totally ridiculous, but being a CU Boulder
alumni...well. It goes without saying. My father's
family is from Iowa-Denison, to be exact (home town of
Donna Reed!). My husband and I briefly lived in Omaha,
NE, from May to Aug 1, 1999, and loathed it. The heat
and humidity was just unbearable. But I did like the
fireflies in Nebraska, and the wicked thunderstorms
that came in the middle of the night. They were
absolutely spectacular-truly. And I will say that I've
never seen green grass like I did in Omaha. That
probably sounds strange, but it was so green (from all
the humidity, I'm sure) that it practically glowed.

(Of course I couldn't hang my CU flag up...I'm sure we
would have been harrassed. Football is practically the
state religion there-Nebraska, that is). 

~Julie

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