The Best Sports Tradition Ever: The Hawkeye Wave

October 7, 2026

Every Iowa home football game has a moment that has nothing to do with football. And it might be the best tradition in all of sports.

At the end of the first quarter, more than 70,000 fans turn away from the field and wave to the children and families watching from the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

A reminder that they are not alone. And thousands of people are rooting for them.

 

 

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