The greatest tradition in college football started as a two-sentence Facebook post from a fan in Anita, Iowa.
In February 2017, the University of Iowa opened a new children's hospital directly across the street from Kinnick Stadium. It ended up costing $392 million, and on the 12th floor there's a press box where young patients can watch games through the glass. Krista Young kept seeing photos of those kids looking down at the field, so she typed a quick thought into a fan page called Hawkeye Heaven. What if the whole stadium turned around and waved at them after the first quarter?
Her idea had a coordination problem. A wave at a hospital only works if 70,000 people do it in the same moment. A few hundred scattered arms would just look strange. So the page's founder, Levi Thompson, posted a reminder to its 100,000 followers every single Sunday from June until the opener. He was manufacturing common knowledge, getting an entire fanbase to believe everyone else would turn around too.
On September 2, 2017, Iowa hosted Wyoming. The first quarter ended scoreless, the clock hit zero, and 70,585 people stood up, turned their backs on the game, and waved at a building.
Nine seasons later it hasn't missed a home game. Opposing players wave. Opposing coaches wave. On Saturday the entire officiating crew stopped mid-game and raised their caps at the glass.
Nurses on the 12th floor describe the same scene after every wave. The windows are covered in tiny handprints.
The hospital cost $392 million to build. The reason the whole country knows it exists cost two sentences.
Minnesota's head coach just launched himself into a mob of his own players at full sprint. P.J. Fleck crowd-surfs after every win, today's was his 100th, and the mania took 15 years to build. It started with the worst thing that can happen to a person.
In February 2011, Fleck's infant son Colt died of a heart condition. Fleck was a 30-year-old receivers coach at the time. He came up with a phrase to get himself out of bed. Row the boat. Your back faces the future, you can't see what's coming, all you control is the oar.
Two years later Western Michigan made him the youngest head coach in the FBS. He went 1-11 his first season and people laughed at the boat stuff. By 2016 the same program went 13-0 and made the Cotton Bowl.
When Minnesota hired him away in 2017, there was a catch. Western Michigan had trademarked "Row the Boat." The school owned the legal rights to the phrase he created for his son. Fleck paid them $50,000 out of his own pocket, structured as a scholarship for a walk-on player, to take the words with him.
Nine years of rowing later, today happened. Minnesota beat #24 Michigan 20-14, took back the Little Brown Jug for the first time since 2014, and beat them at home for the first time in 49 years. 51,012 fans stormed the field.
So yes, the man flies into that pile looking slightly unhinged. He knows better than anyone in that locker room that you don't get to choose which days are the good ones. You just keep rowing until one shows up.
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