What happens out in the lots, stays out in the lots.
Since there weren’t any just atrocious moments from referees this last week,this week’s Zebra Report will just discuss things we see every week that frustrate me greatly. So let’s start with everyone’s favorite topic. What the fuck is a catch in the NFL? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines catch as “ to use your hands to […]
I had my little, Herky-heart broken last Saturday in the loss to NDSU at Kinnick. Coming off an exciting 2015 season, the Hawks appeared to have their arrows all pointed in the right direction for the first time since 2009. With key players on both sides of the ball back, Iowa seemed to have genuine […]
College football was ridiculous fun last weekend, wasn’t it? There were surprising results all over the place, with Louisville cementing their place at the top of the polls with a dominant performance against Florida State that saw the #2 team in the country going down by 43 points, Houston finally finding a way to end […]
There’s no wasted motion here in the AFP showcase, so let’s get down to brass tacks. Two weeks into the 2016 season, we’re starting to get a good idea about who is going to pay dividends and who is [poop emoji] [cry emoji]. Top-5 Players Who Deserve a Firm Butt Slap 1 – CJ Anderson […]
Author’s note: For this article I will be speaking in regards to college football , but the same message applies in all sports. Refs get a bad rap. Every sports fan here can probably remember a game when they felt their favorite team was slighted by a bad call. A bad call so erroneous that […]
A look ahead at the last five years of Cyclone Football and the necessary culture change ahead.
Natalie Imbruglia had a song called “Torn” when I was a boy turning into a young man. She was gorgeous, the song was catchy, and I was…figuring things out about the world. We’ll leave it at that before it gets inappropriate. Anyway, I am torn. The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Bison of North Dakota State […]
Dez Bryant, Odell Beckham Jr, Adrian Peterson – all seemingly missing from the field last week.
I was a former intramural referee in college, which I highly recommend to any college student or future college student reading this. Seriously, it’s a fun, easy job that pays decent. I take great pride in my ability to critique officials based on my five years of reffing sports at the collegiate intramural level. So […]
It was another enthralling Thursday night matchup in mid-November. The NFL neglected all color blind people (8% of men and 0.5% of women) by making the Jets and the Bills wear these: No, it wasn’t early Christmas. It was the NFL Color Rush uniforms. And our poor color blind friends were not too happy about […]