When they built the new children's hospital in Iowa City, they put a window on the 12th floor. It looks directly into Kinnick Stadium. So a fan named Krista Young had an idea and posted it on a Facebook page called Hawkeye Heaven. What if, at the end of the first quarter, everybody turned around and waved at the kids. That was 2017. They have done it at every home game since. Here is what it actually looks like. The first quarter ends. The scoreboard tells people it is time. And then roughly 70,000 people in that stadium turn their backs to the field, face the hospital, and wave. Not just the fans. The Iowa Hawkeyes players wave. The coaches wave. The officials wave. The people working concessions wave. And so does the other team. Opposing players, opposing coaches, opposing fans who drove in from another state to root against Iowa, all of them turn around and wave at a building full of sick children. Up on the 12th floor, the kids and their families are at the glass waving back. Some of them are in wheelchairs. Some of them are holding signs. Some of them are too sick to be down there and this is the closest they will get to a game. The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital treats kids with cancer, with heart conditions, with things that keep a family living in a hospital room for months at a time. Families come in from all over the state and end up staying far longer than anybody told them they would. For those families, Saturday in the fall means 70,000 strangers stop what they are doing and look at your kid. It won a national award the first year they did it, which is nice but is not the point. The point is the detail nobody planned. From 2017 to 2022 the same song played during the wave. Then they changed it, and now the music is chosen by that game's Kid Captain, a patient the program honors each week. So the song the stadium hears is picked by a child in that hospital. Think about what a 9 year old picks when somebody tells them 70,000 people are going to hear their song. Iowa does not win every game. Kinnick can be a miserable place to watch football on a cold November afternoon, and Iowa fans will tell you that themselves, at length. But for about 60 seconds at the end of the first quarter, the entire building agrees on something. It cost nothing. Nobody had to donate anything. A fan posted an idea on Facebook, a hospital happened to have a window in the right place, and now it is the best minute in college football. Every stadium in America has a hospital somewhere near it. Iowa just decided to look. For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap