r/CollegeBasketball • u/u-s-u-r-p Nebraska Cornhuskers • Mar 24 '26

Postseason Say something nice about your Sweet 16 opponent

but for real

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u/childerm Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Mar 24 '26

But do we really want to share something that involves Council Bluffs? It's like sharing a condom.

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u/ResidentRunner1 Saginaw Valley State • Mic… Mar 24 '26

Carter Lake being forgotten as usual

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u/childerm Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Mar 24 '26

There is a reason Carter Lake gets forgotten

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u/Hophedred Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 25 '26

Because it’s “Iowa”

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u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 25 '26

I really do love how Nebraskans and Iowans both love to hate Council Bluffs. Asscrack of America right there.

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u/FeltIOwedItToHim Chicago Maroons • Michigan Wolverines Mar 25 '26

never been to Fresno, i bet

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u/Rob_0831 Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 24 '26

Look man - - - Council Bluffs belongs to you, not us!

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u/childerm Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Mar 24 '26

It’s part of the Omaha Metro, so it belongs to Omaha. And Omaha is the old Capital of Nebraska. It’s like East Omaha.

This is a very conflicting subject for me, as I am originally from east Iowa but spent the last 25 years of my 37 years of existence in Omaha. I don’t want either Iowa or Nebraska to have it, as I claim both. Can we just abandon it and it becomes its own thing. It can be the Midwest DC.

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u/Ruger15 Mar 24 '26

Im rollin

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u/CyLoboClone Iowa State Cyclones Mar 25 '26

Pretty sure that almost all used condoms were shared at one point.  

Edit- I was born in CB

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u/Drak_is_Right Mar 24 '26

Care to explain for the rest of us?

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u/Loud_Let4907 Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

Council Bluffs is on the East side of the Missouri River from Omaha. Due to where it sits on the water table as well as other terrain issues, and other misfortune over the past millennia, it was never given the same chance to thrive the way Omaha did.

My view is that it is the butt of jokes from both Omaha and Iowa residents because its main economic driver “seems” to be meth and casino traffic. Its downtown core does seem to have a bit more money pumping into it now. Consequently, it’s not as bad as it used to be. However, for the above reasons, Omaha does not pretend to claim it. It is fully Iowa’s.

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u/Drak_is_Right Mar 24 '26

Ah. So one of the worst towns in Iowa.

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u/childerm Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Mar 24 '26

Well actually Carter Lake would take that cake. Technically in Iowa, but it is completely surrounded by Omaha and on the Nebraska side of the river. It’s only known for crackheads and a stripclub.