{"id":6621,"date":"2015-10-02T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2015-09-27T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T05:35:20","slug":"the-new-view-from-section-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-new-view-from-section-o\/","title":{"rendered":"The new view from Section O"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 18, 2011, I got a discounted ticket for the Iowa State-Oklahoma State game, with no expectation of a close matchup. I was proven very, very wrong.<\/a>\u00a0It turned out to be the high point of the Paul Rhoads era. That ticket was in Section O of Jack Trice Stadium.<\/p>\n

This year, ISU opened its long-muttered-about South End Zone expansion. As part of that, the entire east side of the stadium was re-numbered and re-lettered.<\/a> These assignments had not changed since the stadium opened in 1975.<\/p>\n

I do not think that should have happened, for continuity reasons just like my four-year-old (!) blog post has run into. The new addition does flow seamlessly around to connect the sides of the stadium \u2014 so well, in fact, that I hit the wrong stairwell a couple times. But the sections could have been numbered and lettered SA, SB, S1, S2, etc., and cleared up past and future confusion.<\/p>\n

Now Section O is the south-east-side top section closest to the “End Zone Club”. Here’s what it looked like from a new camera when Iowa was pinned against its own end zone and C.J. Beathard was tackled to set up a third-and-21 from the 6. (The very next play was a 48-yard pass.)<\/p>\n

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If ISU loses to Kansas, or even while ISU is playing Kansas, let’s just say there may be plenty of room for people in that section to stretch their legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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