You wanna play throwbacks, Northwestern? Then we're sending the King of Throwbacks.
In 1994, after one of his trademark destructions of Big Ten doormat Northwestern, Iowa coach Hayden Fry told Northwestern coach Gary Barnett, "I hope we didn't hurt any of your boys too bad." It was a genuine moment of concern for an outmatched opponent that had just lost by 36.
Barnett, as he was wont to do, lost his mind over the comment and declared that Iowa would become a rival of Northwestern. He instilled in his team a hatred of the Hawkeyes that, by all accounts, extended far past the mild affront he had been party to.