{"id":10208,"date":"2018-08-21T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T06:36:08","slug":"when-thanos-comes-for-your-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/when-thanos-comes-for-your-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"When Thanos comes for your football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISU booth in the Varied Industries Building had, as always, football schedule posters for fans.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cyclones.com\/images\/2018\/4\/12\/football_poster.png\">This is the largest version I can find online.<\/a> A few things about it jumped out. It wasn&#8217;t the issue of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/matt-campbell-is-tim-cook\/\">this year&#8217;s upcoming outfits<\/a>, because in fact the uniform on the poster is NOT the style unleashed this summer. The poster&#8217;s uniform has &#8220;Iowa State&#8221; across the front while the actual outfits inexplicably <em>don&#8217;t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule at the bottom has the opponent logos and game dates in gray. In the real product, it&#8217;s even lighter than the graphic. WHO KEEPS THINKING IT&#8217;S A GOOD IDEA TO PUT TEXT IN GRAY???<\/p>\n<p>But the other thing was that the football player, in what I presume was an effort to convey intensity, looked more like someone in the early stages of the climax of a certain blockbuster&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQbW05wRyc4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, the date-stamp of the web address indicates the poster was released before the movie (and would also explain the old uniform). It&#8217;s probably just a coincidence, but a really weird one.<\/p>\n<p>(On a related note, the dark tone and bleed of reds and blacks did NOT translate well to a JPEG version of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cyclones.com\/images\/2017\/10\/30\/WBB_SCHEDULE_POSTER.JPG\">last season&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball poster<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ISU booth in the Varied Industries Building had, as always, football schedule posters for fans.\u00a0This is the largest version I can find online. A few things about it jumped out. It wasn&#8217;t the issue of\u00a0this year&#8217;s upcoming outfits, because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/when-thanos-comes-for-your-football-team\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}