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The gauntlet has been laid down. If Iowa Hawkeyes fans are to turn the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome into "Kinnick North" again this year, they’ll need to do more planning than ever to do so.

The University of Minnesota is trying to tighten the borders for the Nov. 18 season-ending Iowa-Minnesota football game at the Metrodome. If you want a ticket for that game, you also have to buy one for the North Dakota State-Minnesota game Oct. 21 in the Dome. That two-game "Gopher Gold Package" sells for $65.

But that’s not the restrictive part. To buy that package, you must be a Gophers season-ticket holder, a University of Minnesota "M" Club member, a University of Minnesota Alumni Association member or a Minnesota resident.

Until Sept. 5, anyhow. Then you can be from anywhere and buy Iowa-Minnesota tickets for $55.

Minnesota wants the Metrodome to be just the Metrodome, not "Kinnick North."

Two years ago, Iowa fans accounted for about half the crowd of 64,719 in the Hawkeyes’ 29-27 squeaker. The ratio was similar in 2002 when Iowa football lore was made before 65,184 spectators. The Hawkeyes capped a perfect Big Ten season by clobbering the Gophers, 45-21. Iowa fans toppled the goal posts in the Dome’s south end zone. That still rankles Minnesotans.

"This place today was Kinnick with a roof on it," Iowa
tight end Dallas Clark marveled after the game.

Minnesota would like some sort of a homefield advantage for this year’s Iowa game. Thus, the new ticket policy.

"Our overall goal is to fill the lower level with Minnesota fans," school athletics ticket manager Dan Teschke said Friday. "We haven’t had any restrictions in the past. This is something we’ll try for this year, then adjust and tweak in the future."

How big is the Iowa game in Minnesota? Most tickets for this year’s Michigan-Minnesota game in the Dome are selling for $50. Most seats for the two other Big Ten games there, with Penn State and Indiana the visitors, are $45. That North Dakota State game is priced at $25.

None are likely to become sellouts. Iowa-Minnesota, no matter the roadblocks to fans who live south of Albert Lea, will fill the stadium.

"We’re not trying to make any big issue out of this," Teschke said. "We’re not saying we’re keeping out Hawkeye fans. We’re just doing due diligence, and trying to do what’s right for our fans and our team. Anyone who wants to go to the game will be able to unless they wait until the bitter end."

It’s not as if Hawkeye fans can’t find friends in Minnesota to buy tickets for them. It’s not as if Iowa graduates don’t live in that state.

"It’s hard to come up with a leak-proof, foolproof system," Teschke said. "By no means do we think this is an open-and-shut system. But we think it’s worth trying."

You know what could happen, though. If Iowa has a good season going and the Minnesota game has a bearing on the Hawkeyes’ winning the Big Ten title or getting a shot at a top-flight bowl game, Iowans will flood the Land of 10,000 Lakes. If Minnesota is having yet another of its Music City Bowltype seasons, some Gopher fans will sacrifice school loyalty in exchange for selling their tickets for a profit.

Not to put any ideas in anyone’s head, but if Hawkeye fans know North Dakota State fans in Moorhead, Minn., just across the Red River of the North from the campus in Fargo, maybe some deals can be struck.

Oh, North Dakota State has been allotted 5,000 tickets for its game at the Dome. You don’t suppose Minneapolis will become ‘‘Fargo East’’ that day, do you?
 

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But that’s not the restrictive part. To buy that package, you must be a Gophers season-ticket holder, a University of Minnesota "M" Club member, a University of Minnesota Alumni Association member or a Minnesota resident.

Until Sept. 5, anyhow. Then you can be from anywhere and buy Iowa-Minnesota tickets for $55.

Minnesota wants the Metrodome to be just the Metrodome, not "Kinnick North.




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OK, then the Iowa fans can go ahead and buy the tickets that are remaining....... which will be around 30-40,000.
 

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just for this, i say we take down their goal posts again and try taking them outta the dome!!!
 
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New on Campus Stadium is in the works for the UofM Gopher football team. Ill try and find the article.
 

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viking611 said:
just for this, i say we take down their goal posts again and try taking them outta the dome!!!

They have opened up a whole can of worms by suggesting they do this.

Look for hell to break lose at this game.......mark your calendars.
 

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Fishhead said:
Look for hell to break lose at this game......
Somehow I think BOB BROOKS will be involved!!!

Cap off our undefeated season possible!:party:
 

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viking611 said:
Somehow I think BOB BROOKS will be involved!!!

Cap off our undefeated season possible!:party:

84 year old BOB BROOKS is sprinting up the stairs with sections of the goalpost!
 
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viking611 said:
MINNESOTA looking to spend mega bucks for new college stadium, new twins field, new billion dollar development for VIKINGS!!

Exciting to be living here in the upper Midwest.....love the Twins....dont know what to think about the Vikings and honestly I wish the U would have let Mason go, but Ill be cheering for them about the same as I do the Hawkeyes.....until they meet. Than all cheering is put aside. My In-Laws are from Iowa and I was born and raised and still re-side in Minnesota. :modemman:

Pubs:money8:
 
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I scratch my head for 5 months of the year Fish.......Dec...March.....I hate the Winter, but I love the spring, summer and fall. Nothing beats a fall in the Midwest on a Sat. afternoon.
 

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PublicsMoney said:
I scratch my head for 5 months of the year Fish.......Dec...March.....I hate the Winter, but I love the spring, summer and fall. Nothing beats a fall in the Midwest on a Sat. afternoon.

Having grown up 50 miles south of the MINN/IOWA border...........I hear ya on all aspects of what your saying.
 

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They'll never keep us out!!!! I wish I lived closer, I would try to get tickets and go to that game.
 

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chiefssth said:
They'll never keep us out!!!! I wish I lived closer, I would try to get tickets and go to that game.
sweeet...another HAWK fan!!! WELCOME TO THE RX, official home of the IOWA HAWKEYES!!!
 

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chiefssth said:
Glad to be here. I haven't been able to keep up with them as much since I moved to St. Louis.

VIKING611 and DOCMERCER will keep you more than in the know.

Stay tuned.
 

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