For those of you prospective students who are interested in college football, I have a challenge for you.  Turn on tomorrow’s Iowa game against Wisconsin.  DO IT!  Sit there with your friends, your parents, your girlfriend, your teacher, your coach, whoever.

While you are watching pay close attention to what is being chanted on every Wisconsin third down.  DO IT!

What I want you to be paying attention to is the roarous chant for Norm Parker.

The challenge: try not to get the chills.

Norm Parker, Iowa’s defensive coordinator is in the hospital and is in some pretty serious stuff.  So what do Iowa fans do to show their love and respect for the wiley D-coordinator?  We will be chanting his name not only to remind our guys who this one is for, but we will be chanting to show Norm how much we miss seeing him on the sidelines.

It’s the Iowa way baby!

Here is the email that went out to the entire student body, alumni, and fans:

A movement has started to try to get everyone in the stadium this Saturday to scream and chant “Norm” on every Wisconsin third down. Bring signs and do whatever is necessary to get the entire stadium rocking.

The idea is to do this in honor of Norm Parker who as you probably know, has been hospitalized more then once and is in a serious battle with his diabetes. My understanding is he already lost his foot. If you watched the post game last week it looked like Ferentz had tears in his eyes after the game when Parker was mentioned. These two are huge friends. Norm has not been coaching.

Can you imagine how pumped up the defense will get if the entire stadium is rocking with a Norm chant. A ton of signs would also be great. Those of us watching on TV want to see the signs, hear the crowd and listen to the announcers explain what is going on.

Go to work guys and lets make this happen. Lets watch the power of viral marketing. Tell others to keep passing this message on. I posted this on facebook linking to an event request and suggest you do the same.

NORM, NORM, NORMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!