Somebody started this one last season, so I'm just continuing the tradition! The only decent memory about Iowa is that I got laid in Waterloo once!!! Go Gophers!!!!!
I also got laid in Des Moines one time! Iowa isn't all that bad! Really boring drive back to the
Twin Cities as well!! Go Gophers!! Gophers 28 Iowa 3!!!!!!!
If you're a Sprint Car fan, Knoxville Iowa is the Home of the Nationals. (and DL65).
Seriously, I lived in IA for 5 years in the 90's. I used to go watch Vikings games at this sports bar in West Des Moines (can't remember the name) - but the place had $1 chili dogs on Sunday. Can't beat that. Des Moines also has a nice minor league baseball stadium - home to the Iowa Cubs.
And if you're a wrestling fan, the Iowa State WR tournament is a great event. Whatever you might say about Iowans, they are huge wrestling fans. Two of the greatest fan reactions I've ever seen at a sporting event - watching race fans go bonkers when Richard Petty came to the Knoxville Nationals, and seeing wrestling fans go apes**t when Dan Gable showed up at the state WR tournament.
Oh - and I have to mention the Drake Relays - that stadium is a great place to watch a track meet.
The Boondocks near Williams, IA is my favorite truck top. Fortunately I no longer have any reason to drive down that barren stretch of I-35 so I haven't stopped there in years.
I remember a song on A Prairie Home Companion: "Why Iowa?"
When the explorer Zebulon Pike came in 1805,
All his soldiers went on strike soon after they arrived.
It looked like a land no one would want,
windy and flat and wide.
Without a decent restaurant, they stood and cried?
Why Iowa, why Iowa?
We could have gone anywhere, why Iowa?
Why Iowa, why Iowa?
With all of the world to choose, why Iowa?
Now that should be the third quarter song for the Iowa game...