Johnson County I-Club Breakfast

Over 600 Hawkeye fans attended the Johnson County I-Club breakfast Friday morning. This home game ritual, which has gone on for over 35 years has people waiting in line as early as 3am in order to get a seat close to the head table and listen to Head Football Coach, Kirk Ferentz. Members of the Hawkeye Marching Band and Spirit Groups were on hand as well as first year football players and University of Iowa President, Sally Mason, who introduced the "Head" Hawk.

Johnson County I-Club Breakfast

A Hawkeye tradition in the Johnson County I-Club Breakfast which is held each Friday morning prior to every Iowa Football home game. Typically the largest crowds are for the first game of the season, Homecoming and the last game of the season.

This morning over 500 people jammed into the ballroom at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel in Iowa City to listen to the Hawkeye Marching Band, watch the Iowa Spirit Squads perform and of course hear what Head Coach Kirk Ferentz had to say about the Maine Black Bears. This is game one of two of the Kirk Ferentz Reunion Tour this year. Kirk's first head coaching job was in Orono, ME for the University of Maine. He also spent a year as a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh, an opponent in three weeks.

I had the opportunity to sit at a table with the Snells, originally from Ida Grove, where the retired father currently lives and his son, now in Iowa City. Truly great people who follow the Hawks at home and occasionally on the road as well as the bowl game. Their seats are in Kinnick's South End Zone and they each told me they truly love sitting there.

Game time approaches...