**2026 Iowa Football Season Thread**

[brantshawks]

1:30. They're just making times up now.

No, it's always been a time.

 

[Monster]

No, it's always been a time.

Twice.

 

[Fletch]

Twice.

Pretty sure it’s been 1:30 more than twice.

 

[Monster]

Helping each other.

 

[Stu Beagle]

Feels like we haven’t been on BTN in forever. I don’t think I’ve hardly watched any game on that channel this year either

 

[The Dad]

Feels like we haven’t been on BTN in forever. I don’t think I’ve hardly watched any game on that channel this year either

I feel like it’s basically the Rutgers Network at this point.

 

[Stomper15]

 

[Stu Beagle]

Did IL not just prove they are much better than Neb?

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

Did IL not just prove they are much better than Neb?

not really

 

[Billy Butters]

1:30. They're just making times up now.

BTN has had some weird game times this year and it makes sense to get some viewers while all other games in the normal time slots are at halftime or transitioning between games. No other reason to flip over to most the garbage games on BTN otherwise.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

And with just two games they can kind of make up their own broadcast windows

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

And with just two games they can kind of make up their own broadcast windows

UR mom has a huge broadcast window

 

[cloudhawk]

Bam

 

[ChipHilton]

1:30. They're just making times up now.

That's Good Ol' Days time- until they changed it to 1:00 in the 70s.

WHO 70s 1:00 Saturdays:

12:30- Hayden Fry Show (Coors Beer, Capitol Carpets, Ottilee Seeds, Amana Dealers of Iowa)
12:45- Hawkeye Preview (Blue Flame Gas, Iowa Ford Dealers))
12:55 Play-by-Play with Jim Zabel and Forest Evashevski (Pester Derby Stations, Northwestern Bell, Am Federal Savings, Ass. Grocers of Iowa)
3:40- WHO NewsRadio (Viking Window Specialists)
3:45- Evy's Wrap-Up (Life Investors)
4:00- Score Parade (Bodin Van Dorn-The Leather Shoe, Triple F Feeds)
5:00- Locker Room Review (Continental Western Insurance)
5:20- Football Final (Triple F Feeds)
5:45- Press Box Reports with Jim Zabel and Bump Elliott (Hamms Beer)
6:10- Hayden Fry News Conference (a new addition in 1980 or 81, but maybe didn't last) Capitol Carpet Dealers
Sound-Off began in 1982

TV could have changed some times for the three(3) 70s TV games.

Penn State- 1971
Iowa State- 1977 (Have seen '77 Purdue listed, but I didn't see it and do remember listening on the radio at the laundromat by Pagliai's and being pissed)
Purdue- 1978

 

[brantshawks]

Chip, if you did that all from memory, I'm actually pretty worried about the fact that I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

 

[BBK]

Chip, if you did that all from memory, I'm actually pretty worried about the fact that I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

Weiners?

 

[brantshawks]

Cock de jour.

 

[KitKatApples]

 

[Laplace]

Didn't the local stations air a repeat of the games really late night? I seem to remember that right before the station sign off for the night with the national anthem.

 

[BBK]

Didn't the local stations air a repeat of the games really late night? I seem to remember that right before the station sign off for the night with the national anthem.

Not sure

 

[ChipHilton]

Chip, if you did that all from memory, I'm actually pretty worried about the fact that I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

I just had a couple of old programs for the game time stuff. I do also remember what I had for lunch yesterday, however. (Sardines and oranges!)

Didn't the local stations air a repeat of the games really late night? I seem to remember that right before the station sign off for the night with the national anthem.

Yeah, WHO has done it forever. I lost more transistor radio batteries by falling asleep to the (rare) games that were won or just for halftime leads or waiting for the second half touchdowns in the (many) losses. Sometime in the late 80s, videos with Gene Clausen and Mike Cilek mikeside would air on TV late Saturday nights. Not sure how often it happened, though.

 

[newsbreaker]

Didn't the local stations air a repeat of the games really late night? I seem to remember that right before the station sign off for the night with the national anthem.

WHO started doing it in the 60s, because servicemen overseas could (hypothetically, but often actually), pick it up.

 

[Kerky]

I just had a couple of old programs for the game time stuff. I do also remember what I had for lunch yesterday, however. (Sardines and oranges!)




Yeah, WHO has done it forever. I lost more transistor radio batteries by falling asleep to the (rare) games that were won or just for halftime leads or waiting for the second half touchdowns in the (many) losses. Sometime in the late 80s, videos with Gene Clausen and Mike Cilek mikeside would air on TV late Saturday nights. Not sure how often it happened, though.

I remember back in the early 90s being on a business trip to do a physical inventory in Cincinnati area and being able to listen to the blowtorch at night for a night game out west I think. That station really did carry the a long ways at night in the right conditions.

 

[ChipHilton]

I remember back in the early 90s being on a business trip to do a physical inventory in Cincinnati area and being able to listen to the blowtorch at night for a night game out west I think. That station really did carry the a long ways at night in the right conditions.

Zabel always claimed it was heard in California if you were in the right spot. There was a guy from Guernsey, WY who would call in to SoundOff, but he would have to drive out of his valley and listen on a hill.

 

[jandj]

A HS buddy of mine went to grad school at the University of Texas in Austin and he told me he could go out to his car at night and pick up games in the early 90s.

 

[hawkchick79]

Dad (my dad, not The Dad) could get WHO sometimes on clear nights down in Huntsville in the 70s.

 

[jbincr]

Zabel always claimed it was heard in California if you were in the right spot. There was a guy from Guernsey, WY who would call in to SoundOff, but he would have to drive out of his valley and listen on a hill.

I moved to the Bay Area in 1982 and could pick up Hawkeye basketball night games on WHO if I drove up Sandhill Road west of Palo Alto.

 

[The Dad]

On a clear night in the foothills on the north side of Phoenix (Glendale) in the early ‘00s I’d get in my car and listen to your moms moan as I fucked the shit out of them.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

On a clear night in the foothills on the north side of Phoenix (Glendale) in the early ‘00s I’d get in my car and listen to your moms moan as I fucked the shit out of them.

so you and the messdawg were living in the same place at the same time and now there’s all sort of gay rights. Coincidence?

 

[The Dad]

so you and the messdawg were living in the same place at the same time and now there’s all sort of gay rights. Coincidence?

There are still all sorts of gay wrongs too though.