FB: American Rivers Conference

[Alfredeneumann]

Some highlights from my collections:

- Autographed baseballs from Ryne Sandberg, Ron Santo, Kerry Wood, Bob Feller, Stan Musial, Tommy LaSorda, and Bill Madlock (each signed in person)

- Autographed Titans mini helmet from Jeff Fisher

- "Running on Empty" album cover autographed by Jackson Browne

- Original "Kennedy for President" poster from the 1960 campaign

- Vintage concert posters promoting everyone from Johnny Cash to Bruce Springsteen to "The Day the Music Died"

- A modest collection of programs/media guides from various sporting events I've attended (D3 wrestling nationals, NCAA Tournament basketball games, College World Series, various Iowa State Tournaments, etc)

You didn't get Ditka to sign ANYTHING?

[sportsknight]

Some highlights from my collections:

- Autographed baseballs from Ryne Sandberg, Ron Santo, Kerry Wood, Bob Feller, Stan Musial, Tommy LaSorda, and Bill Madlock (each signed in person)

- Autographed Titans mini helmet from Jeff Fisher

- "Running on Empty" album cover autographed by Jackson Browne

- Original "Kennedy for President" poster from the 1960 campaign

- Vintage concert posters promoting everyone from Johnny Cash to Bruce Springsteen to "The Day the Music Died"

- A modest collection of programs/media guides from various sporting events I've attended (D3 wrestling nationals, NCAA Tournament basketball games, College World Series, various Iowa State Tournaments, etc)

You didn't get Ditka to sign ANYTHING?

Took a picture with him.  Have also had my picture taken with VP Joe Biden and RFK Jr. among others.

[desertgator]

I've always collected stuff.  I grew up on the Superstation out of Atlanta and of course adopted the Braves as my team. (Ironically they drafted me out of high school) Dale Murphy was always my favorite and along with Johnny Bench my hero.  Last summer I was making rounds with my son to some camps and at Colorado I walk up to a fellow sitting at a table to ask if there is a store close by and as he starts to turn his head I quickly relaize it's John Elway.  He walks to the store with me and I get about 40 minutes of one on one time.  We talk mostly about our kids and our sports heroes.  Pretty cool.  We leave there and are at BYU and a guy comes running up and it's Steve Young.  He stops and talks to us (mostly my younger son) and then jogs over and talks with the kids attending camp.  Next is my favorite.  We are at ASU and this guys walks by loaded with cups of water and I say, "Dale Murphy?"  He says, "yep" let me drop these waters off and I'll be right back.  A few minutes later I get a tap on the back and he hangs out with me for about an hour.  His son is a receiver and my son is a QB and is throwing to him.  The coolest part was we were just proud dads talking about the challenges of raising children and wondering how we got to the places we were so quickly.  Like Purple Heys though my treasures are the things I've accumulated coaching through the years.  I have a picture of our team kneeling in prayer before a game.  I love that picture.  I have my daughters cross country and track conference champion medals.  The first two in her schools history as a D1 school.  Things like that. What wonderful memories.  I have memories of the greatest football game ever.  We beat our rival on a two point conversion late in the game that we put in a few plays before we scored so we wouldn't have to call timeout and alert them to what we were doing.  For a lot of those boys they became young men that day.  You could see it in their eyes.  When I walked into the huddle they were focused, they believed in each other, and they understood what it was to be a team that was not going to be denied. To win, they were going to have to take it, it wouldn't be given.  Isn't that the best kind!  That's what makes us get on these boards and celebrate this game and these kids who are living dreams.

[DBQ1965]

The Sporting News College Football '09 issue is out ... and their D3 pre-season rankings are:

1.  Wisconsin-Whtewater
2.  Mount Union
3.  St. John's (Minn)
4.  Mary Hardin-Baylor
5.  Delaware Valley
6.  Rowan
7.  Hardin-Simmons
8.  North Central
9.  Wartburg
10. Wabash

Central didn't make the Top 25, but is mentioned as a team to watch .... the Nov. 7 Central @ Wartburg game as a game to watch ... and Central's Klurtis Brondyke (punter) as a pre-season All-American.

[Willie University]

I wasn't too much of a collector.  Like most kids I had a baseball card collection.  Every year I would get the St. Louis Cardinals team set.  When my family was moving up to Iowa from St. Louis my dad and I moved up first when he started his new job and I started school and my mom stayed in St. Louis until our house sold.  While she had the house to herself for 3 months she  decided to clean it out and threw away my baseball card collection.  She thought that was for little boys and no one would want it, didn't even put them in the garage sale we had.  I couldn't believe it when she told me that. 

I also had a beer can collection while in elementary school.  One day, while walking home from school I found a six pack carrier and used that to hold some cans I found along the side of the road.  Before long I saw 3 police cars.  1 stopped and asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was collecting cans for my collection.  He laughed and said he figured it was something like that.  They had got a call from an elderly woman that said she saw a little boy that was drunk.  That collection is now up in our attic and I suppose could be described as a "dust collector" I don't know why my mom saw fit to save my beer can collection and not my baseball cards other than she is the furthest thing from a sports fan as you will ever see.   The good thing about that is she rarely went with my dad to Hawkeye football games, so over the years my dad and I got to see a lot of great games together. 

I love those old beer cans. Especially the ones with those dangerous "pull tops". I am sure some of your collection were those! Sometime visit the "High Life" lounge in Des Moines. GREAT 60's/70's atmosphere and some of the old beer lights will bring back memories......that and the shag carpeting! love it!

And they also serve deviled eggs, fried pickles, and bacon-wrapped tater tots which are some of my favorites on the menu!!

Willie U

[Willie University]

I wasn't too much of a collector.  Like most kids I had a baseball card collection.  Every year I would get the St. Louis Cardinals team set.  When my family was moving up to Iowa from St. Louis my dad and I moved up first when he started his new job and I started school and my mom stayed in St. Louis until our house sold.  While she had the house to herself for 3 months she  decided to clean it out and threw away my baseball card collection.  She thought that was for little boys and no one would want it, didn't even put them in the garage sale we had.  I couldn't believe it when she told me that. 

I also had a beer can collection while in elementary school.  One day, while walking home from school I found a six pack carrier and used that to hold some cans I found along the side of the road.  Before long I saw 3 police cars.  1 stopped and asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was collecting cans for my collection.  He laughed and said he figured it was something like that.  They had got a call from an elderly woman that said she saw a little boy that was drunk.  That collection is now up in our attic and I suppose could be described as a "dust collector" I don't know why my mom saw fit to save my beer can collection and not my baseball cards other than she is the furthest thing from a sports fan as you will ever see.   The good thing about that is she rarely went with my dad to Hawkeye football games, so over the years my dad and I got to see a lot of great games together. 

I love those old beer cans. Especially the ones with those dangerous "pull tops". I am sure some of your collection were those! Sometime visit the "High Life" lounge in Des Moines. GREAT 60's/70's atmosphere and some of the old beer lights will bring back memories......that and the shag carpeting! love it!

And they also serve deviled eggs, fried pickles, and bacon-wrapped tater tots which are some of my favorites on the menu!!

Willie U

I should state that I do not remember the 60's because I was born in the 70's but have seen pictures and such from the era 

[Mr. Ypsi]

I wasn't too much of a collector.  Like most kids I had a baseball card collection.  Every year I would get the St. Louis Cardinals team set.  When my family was moving up to Iowa from St. Louis my dad and I moved up first when he started his new job and I started school and my mom stayed in St. Louis until our house sold.  While she had the house to herself for 3 months she  decided to clean it out and threw away my baseball card collection.  She thought that was for little boys and no one would want it, didn't even put them in the garage sale we had.  I couldn't believe it when she told me that. 

I also had a beer can collection while in elementary school.  One day, while walking home from school I found a six pack carrier and used that to hold some cans I found along the side of the road.  Before long I saw 3 police cars.  1 stopped and asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was collecting cans for my collection.  He laughed and said he figured it was something like that.  They had got a call from an elderly woman that said she saw a little boy that was drunk.  That collection is now up in our attic and I suppose could be described as a "dust collector" I don't know why my mom saw fit to save my beer can collection and not my baseball cards other than she is the furthest thing from a sports fan as you will ever see.   The good thing about that is she rarely went with my dad to Hawkeye football games, so over the years my dad and I got to see a lot of great games together. 

I love those old beer cans. Especially the ones with those dangerous "pull tops". I am sure some of your collection were those! Sometime visit the "High Life" lounge in Des Moines. GREAT 60's/70's atmosphere and some of the old beer lights will bring back memories......that and the shag carpeting! love it!

And they also serve deviled eggs, fried pickles, and bacon-wrapped tater tots which are some of my favorites on the menu!!

Willie U

I should state that I do not remember the 60's because I was born in the 70's but have seen pictures and such from the era 

What a coincidence - I don't remember the 60s because I was in college in the 60s!

[DBQ1965]

One way to describe the 60s is to say they were the halcyon days of JFK ... the turbulent days of LBJ ... and the suspicious/paranoid/protest and upheaval days of Tricky Dick Nixon.

It was a time when many of us discovered our bliss, our destiny, our cause ... and ourselves.

Those were the days my friend ...

[DutchFan2004]

The collectible thing was fun till my mom cleaned it out for me after I went off to college.  I did have most of the purple people eaters cards that were signed.  My dad worked for Super Valu in Minneapolis and got to go to some camps and such with the Vikings.  I had Carl Eller, Allan Page, and Jim Marshall's cards all signed as well as Fran the Man Tarkenton.  Also brings back some good memories of games at the old Metropolitan Stadium as well.  Had some Twins like Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva signed.  Those were fun times. 

[DutchFan2004]

Grand View is sitting on a gold mine for their football program. I bet 20 kids at least leave the metro area each year thinking they are D1 material and come back home to DMACC, ISU, or Iowa to party and never play football again. GV gives them a place to play and claim a "football scholarship" and still be in a larger area.
No chance they give up their scholarship status.
I'm all for the 9 team league and would leave it at that.  Gives the IIAC much more of a chance to see where we stand nationally, or at least regionally for football.
When I played there was 11 teams in the league and I really didn't care for playing the same teams all the time.
Also I really wish all noncon games were played the first 2 weeks of the season.

I agree with the non league games being the first two weeks of the year but having a bye week at least gives some teams a chance to fill with other schools so I don't think that you would want to mandate this.  What do other think about that.  Should you have all non con games the first two weeks of the year?

[Ralph Turner]

Grand View is sitting on a gold mine for their football program. I bet 20 kids at least leave the metro area each year thinking they are D1 material and come back home to DMACC, ISU, or Iowa to party and never play football again. GV gives them a place to play and claim a "football scholarship" and still be in a larger area.
No chance they give up their scholarship status.
I'm all for the 9 team league and would leave it at that.  Gives the IIAC much more of a chance to see where we stand nationally, or at least regionally for football.
When I played there was 11 teams in the league and I really didn't care for playing the same teams all the time.
Also I really wish all noncon games were played the first 2 weeks of the season.

I agree with the non league games being the first two weeks of the year but having a bye week at least gives some teams a chance to fill with other schools so I don't think that you would want to mandate this.  What do other think about that.  Should you have all non con games the first two weeks of the year?

The real challenge with requiring all non-conference games to be scheduled in the first two weeks of the season is finding and scheduling 18 non-conference games in those two weeks, exclusively.

Please try to pencil out 9 schedules under those parameters.   

[doolittledog]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a small article about Chris Handke of Cornell signing with the Dodgers.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=247024

Rookie ball in Arizona.  Gets to come back and finish his senior year at Cornell and play basketball.  His signing bonus will pay for his senior year.  Has already been accepted to dental school at Iowa if baseball doesn't work out. 

[Kohawk Krazy]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a small article about Chris Handke of Cornell signing with the Dodgers.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=247024

Rookie ball in Arizona.  Gets to come back and finish his senior year at Cornell and play basketball.  His signing bonus will pay for his senior year.  Has already been accepted to dental school at Iowa if baseball doesn't work out. 

I didn't realize you can continue to be a College Athlete after signing a professional contract?

[doolittledog]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a small article about Chris Handke of Cornell signing with the Dodgers.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=247024

Rookie ball in Arizona.  Gets to come back and finish his senior year at Cornell and play basketball.  His signing bonus will pay for his senior year.  Has already been accepted to dental school at Iowa if baseball doesn't work out. 

I didn't realize you can continue to be a College Athlete after signing a professional contract?

Too lazy to look it up.  Something about if it's a different sport than what you are playing.  I know Iowa has had a handfull of football players over the years that played minor league baseball during the summer and then came back to campus and played football in the fall. 

There was a big stink raised a few years ago about the Colorado football player that was also an olympic snow boarder that the NCAA banned.  They banned him because he received endorsement money.  Which is against NCAA rules.  But if he had been paid to be a snow boarder it would have been ok under NCAA rules.  Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 

[Alfredeneumann]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a small article about Chris Handke of Cornell signing with the Dodgers.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=247024

Rookie ball in Arizona.  Gets to come back and finish his senior year at Cornell and play basketball.  His signing bonus will pay for his senior year.  Has already been accepted to dental school at Iowa if baseball doesn't work out. 

I didn't realize you can continue to be a College Athlete after signing a professional contract?

Too lazy to look it up.  Something about if it's a different sport than what you are playing.  I know Iowa has had a handfull of football players over the years that played minor league baseball during the summer and then came back to campus and played football in the fall. 

There was a big stink raised a few years ago about the Colorado football player that was also an olympic snow boarder that the NCAA banned.  They banned him because he received endorsement money.  Which is against NCAA rules.  But if he had been paid to be a snow boarder it would have been ok under NCAA rules.  Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 

I think it starte out as  the "Danny Ainge" rule. He played minor league baseball in the summers when he was @ BYU.

The snowboard rule was dumb but it was because it was ENDORSMENT deals he was not able to play football