{"id":11276,"date":"2019-08-30T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2019-08-29T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:58:27","slug":"a-weekend-to-root-for-the-redhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-weekend-to-root-for-the-redhawks\/","title":{"rendered":"A weekend to root for the Redhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football? Football!<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s Week 1 for high school and college football seasons.<\/p>\n

North Tama (preview here<\/a>) is expected to do well this year. This time, the team had a full offseason with one coach; Mr. McDermott unretired in 2018 when the previous coach jumped ship to become an assistant at Iowa’s newest megaschool.<\/a><\/p>\n

ISU is playing UNI, again, but this time the game was optioned for national coverage and this could be the first opening-weekend 11 AM Saturday kickoff.<\/p>\n

And the Hawkeyes are playing Miami, not the Miami that nearly upset Florida last week on a drive consisting mostly of pass interference calls, but the other Miami, in Ohio. That team is the RedHawks, with a capital H, something that has caused occasional consternation for those of us who have to remind people that North Tama doesn’t do that.<\/p>\n

This is the fifth time Iowa has played Miami (OH). The MAC school is the only non-power-conference team that Iowa has done a 2-for-1 home series with. The game was played there in 2002 (Iowa won). There was an almost-qualifier five years later, when Northern Illinois’ side of a 2-for-1 was played at Soldier Field<\/a>\u00a0(Iowa won).<\/p>\n

But since then, and especially now that the Big Ten plays nine conference games, Iowa ONLY pays for have-nots\/lessers\/poors to visit Kinnick Stadium. This is a stark contrast to certain other teams that do home-and-homes and then\u00a0lose in double overtime at the Glass Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go Redhawks, and go RedHawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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