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Legends Series: Dan McCarney reflects on his life and Iowa State Football

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Dan McCarney.

A name that any college football fan in the land between two rivers knows very well.

The 68-year-old McCarney currently lives in Sarasota, Florida, which is just under 1,500 miles away from where McCarney grew the football program from dormancy at Iowa State University.

“We’ve had a home down here for 21 years,” McCarney said. “We miss the people of Iowa, they’re incredible, phenomenal people, but we sure as hell don’t miss the winters.”

McCarney and six fellow Iowa players, Bobby Elliott, Jimmy McNulty, Dave Butler, John Speaker, Brandt Yocom, and Rick Penney, are part of a group of gentlemen known as the “Magnificent Seven”.