I hate the Iowa Hawkeyes

We like to think our sports memories can explain a lot about us as people. My life is surely more enriched/has been shaped by having experienced Tony Gwynn’s World Series home run at Yankee Stadium in 1998, Kawhi Leonard’s dominance in the 2014 NBA Finals, and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat walking away with the Intercontinental Championship at Wrestlemania III; “Macho Man” Randy Savage receiving well-earned comeuppance for smashing Steamboat’s larynx with the ring bell mere weeks earlier (SMH)! More realistic, and more formative for this Aztecs/San Diego sports fan, was the 1986 Holiday Bowl.

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