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Feelgood Story about PSU Fans

October 1, 2009 Penn State Football

We Nittany Lions fans all need something uplifting after that rough, rainy Saturday night loss to Iowa. Drozz of Glasses of Joe unearthed an article in the Daily Iowan that does the trick for me. Read it here.

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Some Random Thoughts about Iowa

September 29, 2009 Penn State Football

Waterloo, Iowa is a town with a population of about two-thirds of a full house at Beaver Stadium. It is subject to devastating floods when the Cedar River swells. I guess that’s why they call it Waterloo: water representing the floods and loo being British slang for toilet, which brings us to the Nittany Lions’ performance at their own Waterloo last Saturday night.

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Corn, Hogs, and Eye of Hawk

September 24, 2009 Penn State Football

Come Saturday evening, there’ll be some kinda hoedown in the whitened out confines of Beaver Stadium, as the almost-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) come to town to square off with the #5 Nittany Lions (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) in the first conference game of the season.

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Turn About

October 7, 2007 Penn State Football

The Nittany Lions (4-2, 1-2 Big Ten) came out looking like they have looked in every game this year, with the exception that they were Scott free. However, against a crappy Iowa defense, they figured out that they could win this game, and they woke up midway through the second quarter instead of waiting for the second half. For a while, it looked like the predictions of final scores to rival the notorious 6-4 Iowa win of the 2004 season would come true. (My prediction was 9-6; I saw some others like 3-2 and, hilariously, 1-0). However, Penn State prevailed authoritatively, whipping hapless Iowa 27-7.

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