"Do you consider the Nov.4 trip to Iowa a trap game?"
That 11W reader poll early last year sounded ominous. To make matters spookier, it ran the morning after Valentine's Day, which everyone knows is the ultimate trap holiday. Out of the 1,142 votes cast, 53% of you said no - the November trip to Iowa was not going to be a trap game.
You all had your reasons. Comments ranged from "hostile road trips cannot be trap games, bro" to "this is a trap question, bro." The minority 47 percenters who urged caution pleaded that a visit way out to the central time zone sandwiched between two home games, one with the defending conference champ - scheduled to be a high-profile aLtErNaTe uNiFoRmZ™ showcase no less - and the other with The Program That Made Sad Urban Eating Pizza On a Golf Cart into a Meme could only be seen as a traaaaaaaaap.