RoughRider loses bowl game bet

The funny thing is Nick Saracino hates the Missouri Tigers.

"I mean, I don't really hate Mizzou," the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders winger corrected. "I just don't follow them."

There might truly be some hate there now. When Iowa's football beat the Tigers in Tuesday night's Insight Bowl, Saracino lost a bet with housing parent Bob Orr of Walford that forced him to walk around a northwest Cedar Rapids neighborhood for an hour with a sign that read "This Missouri Boy Loves the Hawks!" on the front and "Yes, I Lost A Bet" on the back.

Had Missouri beaten Iowa, Saracino would have gotten a day off with pay from his part-time job at John's Automotive Service, which Orr owns.

"I heard Iowa got all those (player) suspensions, so I was like 'All right. This is awesome ...,'" said Saracino, a first-year player from St. Louis. "Then The Gazette shows up to take my picture, and I'm like 'OK, this is a joke. This is all a big joke right now.'"

Source Media Group's Liz Martin took a photo of Saracino paying off his debt to Orr along Johnson Avenue, where John's Automotive Service is located.