Minnesota’s Gophers and Iowa’s Hawkeyes will renew their battle for the Floyd of Rosedale trophy on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium. And while the fight for the pig will have a big impact on each team’s bowl prospects, the game will barely make a ripple on the landscape of American pop culture.

Five years ago, it was a different story, as the Minnesota-Iowa game at the Metrodome made international headlines. But not for anything that happened on the field.

Iowa routed Tim Brewster’s Gophers 55-0 on Nov. 22, 2008, a date that will live in infamy for Brewster … and two Hawkeyes fans who earned their 15 minutes of fame thanks to their less-than-15 minute rendezvous in a Metrodome men’s room stall.

We’ll leave out the names of the protagonists to protect the innocent. There’s no need to resuscitate their moment of indiscretion. They’ve moved on with their lives.

But history will never forget the ignoble sacrifices they made that day in front of a cheering bathroom throng. That’s why we wrote a little song in tribute for the 2008 edition of the Loop Achievement Awards. And the folks at KTLK-FM made it into actual music a year later.

The Iowa not-quite-a-couple earned the 2008 Best Romantics award for their ill-fated toilet tryst, yet they never appeared at the Pioneer Press to claim their prize. Our doors, as always, remain open.

Kevin Cusick talks fantasy football, and whatever else comes up, with Bob Sansevere and “The Superstar” Mike Morris on Thursdays on Sports Radio 105 The Ticket. Follow him at twitter.com/theloopnow.