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Offline SZonian

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How social media spawned football's coolest new tradition
« on: December 10, 2017, 01:15:51 pm »



It all started with a Facebook post this past May.

Krista Young was browsing "Hawkeye Heaven," a Facebook page for fans of University of Iowa athletics, when she had an idea.

She had seen pictures online of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, which opened its new facility earlier this year just a stone's throw from Kinnick Stadium, where the Iowa Hawkeyes play football. The new hospital towers over the east side of the stadium, sporting a birds-eye view of the action below from its 12th floor "press box" -- a space where young patients and their families can take in the excitement of Iowa football.

Her idea was simple: During each game, fans in Kinnick Stadium would turn and wave to the children looking on through the hospital windows above.

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Re: How social media spawned football's coolest new tradition
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2017, 04:43:57 pm »
Pretty cool, but I like it better when they play my song.
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Re: How social media spawned football's coolest new tradition
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2017, 04:51:29 pm »
Nice.   
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Re: How social media spawned football's coolest new tradition
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2017, 11:41:32 pm »
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Re: How social media spawned football's coolest new tradition
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2017, 12:52:38 am »
This is the best story of the entire college football season.
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