I had never watched an Iowa State game on purpose until last week when I agreed to “commentate” on the Cyclones-Hawkeyes annual squabble in Iowa City on Playback. The game delivered in spades from a content perspective.
I didn’t mention it on the broadcast, but the game held special meaning to me because my friend, a former running back for Iowa State, was being kept alive by a ventilator in an ICU five miles away after being sucker punched during a Labor Day argument on High Street.
His siste…