‘Living the dream’: How Kernels and Hawkeyes batboy Jon Tieg has emerged as an Eastern Iowa icon - The Daily Iowan

‘Living the dream’: How Kernels and Hawkeyes batboy Jon Tieg has emerged as an Eastern Iowa icon - The Daily Iowan

As he lay on his deathbed in December 1920, legendary Notre Dame football player George Gipp allegedly uttered one of the most signature phrases in sports history.  “Win just one for the Gipper,” he told head coach Knute Rockne.  Rockne later used the speech as motivation for an upset victory over Army in 1928, and the line has earned a place in sports lore ever since.  One-hundred years later, a spinoff of the speech made its way to the cornfie…