¡Bienvenido a Hamsterdam! Si Will Ferrell puede aprender español para unpapel en una película, entonces se puede gestionar por una noche, verdad? Así que aquí está, la primera Hamsterdam íntegramente español. Tener en él, usetedes.
Exact text with the **. Would that be an alright sign to take to Hilton? He will most likely be seeing Carter in the second round and a win over Carter should boost him up to 2 at least, depending on the poll maybe one. Carter is 1 on intermat 3 on awn 1 on D1CW....Anyways, appropriate? I am stealing the idea from one of the threads I was watching and after tony got a big win someone was just like "Tony F**king Ramos.
Someone please inform me what song plays when he comes out at Carver. I love it but don't know what song it is. Its kinda that like jive one not rock or rap and you almost think its weird to hear. It's like a smooth....I need to knowww.
I need a few more words so I am going to pretend like this is me talking about the content of this post when I am not at all.
• Where you’re from, where you’re currently living
• How you became a Hawkeye fan, and/or your favorite Hawkeye athlete/ team, favorite game
• Your favorite soccer team ( if you have one) or any other sports teams that you follow
• Favorite kind of booze (if applicable), Music, Movies/TV shows, Books, etc. Feel free to include any other tidbits about yourself.
I’ll start. My name is Ben, I’m 22, an unemployed chef/cook (so much for having 2 degrees) looking for work. Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, although I spent 6 months last year living in Montana, and in all likelihood am headed back that way in the next few months.
I was born into the Hawkeye Family, as you can tell from my avatar, my favorite player is Tim Dwight, namely because he’s the only player from the 90s that I remember. My favorite season was 2002; my favorite game was the 2005 Capital One Bowl, mostly because I was there.
I am also a huge soccer fan, specifically Chelsea, as noted above.
Alcohol is kind of a passion of mine, especially wine (mostly Pinot Noir), whiskey (especially bourbon), and of course beer.
I’ve been on a classic country kick for a while; Waylon, Willie, Dwight, etc. I also enjoy the more current Jamey Johnson, Mumford and Sons and Euforquestra. My current favorite movies is/are Tombstone/Wyatt Erp. I have too many favorite TV shows to list, and don’t read enough to have a favorite book.
Go crazy folks.
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For those of you who were unable to make it to Saturday's game, it was a pretty special day. Some of you had said things about the commemorative program being sold out, so I scanned the cover. If you haven't read the articles on the history of the players from the 86-87 team, head on over to Hawkcentral http://hawkcentral.com/2012/01/28/iowas-run-to-no-1-where-are-players-on-the-1986-87-team-now/ and Dochterman's page http://thegazette.com/category/blogs/docs-office/ and check them out. It's really great stuff, and some of the Hawkcentral stuff was included in the program.
One of my earliest (and fondest) childhood memories was of a family vacation when I was about 5 years old. My parents, brother, and I went to Iowa City. Dad wanted to take us to Carver, but, being it was the summer, it was locked. A custodian let us in and allowed us to go all the way down onto the floor. Even at that age, I knew it was someplace special. ( I'm sure my brother's enthusiasm might have had something to do with it too). Similarly to what ICHawk had to say in his Fanpost, Iowa Basketball needs to be there for the 5-year old boys (and girls) out there too.
The 86-87 team was the first team I remember watching on TV with my Dad. I was five when they played. My Dad had never been to a game at Carver. It was a spur of the moment trip (we bought tickets on Stubhub on Friday morning), and we decided to make the six hour drive to Iowa City. Seeing my childhood heroes was going to be totally worth it.
OOOOOOHHHHH YEEEEAAAAHHHH. There's a new Mayor up in here. Somebody to help get these posts up more regularly and to keep all you loyal BHGPers entertained. And that somebody is... not me. It's Mexican't. Technically, we'll be sharing the duties (and the next Ham'dam you see will probably be authored by him), but the truth is I'm simply not cool enough to be Mayor, I'm more of a Comptroller. But just like in a real city, you'll be needing both of us to run this place.
Mexican't is your cool-as-a-cucumber, says-the-right-things Tommy Carcetti type. I'm a less presentable, back-room guy they keep away from the masses, basically I'm Norman Wilson. I guess that would make Ross the retiring Bunny Colvin, which is a pretty cool guy to be. I'm now jealous. So anyway, if you liked Ross's Hamsterdam posts (and you should, because Ross rawks), you'll love Mexican't's posts that will generally be more of the same: current and interesting internet memes, youtube videos, and Archer references to kick off your conversations. But I am not very internet-savvy and not very current on cultural norms, so I suspect I'll be doing some quick interesting thoughts on whatever books I'm currently reading (Basque history & St. Patrick), whatever music currently moves me (James Brown), or whatever months-old internet meme I just found out about (Shit Girls Say). I hope to accomplish a miniature version of a poor man's "10 reasons why Iowa will lose to..." that Stoops pulls off so eloquently.
Here's the overall plan: Mexican't and myself will be putting up new Hamsterdam posts roughly every other day and bumping the most recent one to the top every night for all of you denizens to go crazy. We hope that more regularity also helps to clean up the streets of BHGP with a quick "Take it to Hamsterdam" when things get a little off-topic. Yes, we're just as guilty of this as you are. But the Mayor and the Comptroller of Hamsterdam want this place to thrive.
So to recap:
1) More Hamsterdam posts, more regularly
2) This is RossWB:
3) This is The Mexican't:
4) This is therealCatnuts:
5) We would greatly appreciate your help finding for us this lovely young lady:
(photos credit to wikipedia)
There it is friends, from the University of Iowa official Twitter account:
Did you know this was the #1 song on the charts twenty years ago?
Seriously.
Here's your Hamsterdam open thread for the evening and beyond. The usual rules of open threading apply: no links to illegal online streams, no porn, no religion, no politics, no slurs, no douchebaggery.
I was 10 years old, and it was important.
During the 1986-87 basketball season, I hugged my radio when Jim Zabel told me to, and I kissed it when he told me to. See, I recorded the radio broadcast of the games on cassette. I would re-listen to the close games, and on nights when I had to go to bed right after the game, I would let the recording keep going and listen to the post-game interviews the next day.
I ran around the house whooping and hollering when Kevin Gamble’s shot went in against Oklahoma. When Iowa went up big in the first half against UNLV, I couldn’t contain myself. Neither could Zabel (when could he ever?). At halftime I was jumping up and down saying “We’re going to the Final Four! We’re going to the Final Four!” I was devastated when it didn’t happen.
I hadn’t really forgotten about any of those emotions I had, but they really came flooding back on Saturday afternoon. Seeing all of those guys reminded me of how important it had been to me back then. The ovation the team and especially Dr. Tom received was outstanding, and it had me holding back some tears.
I was struck by some of these notions on Saturday, and thinking about them since, and I really felt the need to share them here. The past few years, it hasn’t been important. And I find that incredibly sad. Not for a lot of the reasons that we all know are problematic, like loss of revenue. But for the 10 year old boys out there. This sounds incredibly schmaltzy and cheesy and whatever other word you want to describe it. But those guys that were in Carver on Saturday were heroes for so many kids in Iowa 25 years ago.
I was so happy to see the current team take in the history right before their very eyes. I so badly want Iowa Basketball to be relevant again, important again, and I think it’s invaluable to make that impression on the players we have now. I believe Fran McCaffery is the guy to turn this around, and we’re starting to see it. People can bicker over the student section, and where to put the band. But part of the success of the program is having kids look at these players and see them as heroes, and they need to know that. I think they got a taste of it Saturday afternoon.
I’m 35 years old, and it is important.
In which provided me one of the greatest sports memories of my life. I was 11 then but I still have memories of that team and specifically that NCAA tournament run. I won't talk about UNLV but that entire game is on the Internet somewhere.
Kevin Gamble hits the game winner and gets Iowa to the 1987 Elite 8 (via 1987Hawkeyes)
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