The kids aren't alright
by Mike Rutherford on Dec 1, 2009 11:23 PM EST
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PrintI, for one, find our in-state rival's obsession with defacement of midcourt logos of the avian variety to be quite troubling...also douchey...and chotchy...and lame...y.
I don't blame the kids. At least not until they're nine. If you're nine and you have the gumption to look me directly in the eyes, then you better have the gumption to step outside and dance.
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Tell ya what
You guys round up around 12,000 U of L fans, and we’ll let you rent out Rupp and have your kids stomp on our floor. And your mascot can put newspapers down on half-court and squat. We’re one big basketball family, and you guys sure loved filling up Rupp back in 2007.
But in return, we get to rent out your new place to entertain our guests. What’s fair is fair. Deal?
by TheFakeGimelMartinez on Dec 1, 2009 11:34 PM EST reply actions
fuck no
this defaming of the cardinal thing has gone too far, and if you all think you can even touch the arena to spread your ass filthery there then you can suck a railroad spike.
The defaming of the cardinal
made me LOL. I would be more insulted if they didn’t pull these types of hijinks.
yeah we loved filling rupp in '07
but I dont recall anyone disrespecting your logo, court, or anything else for that matter.
Fuck UK and that slimy used car salesman of a coach
by twistedwedge on Dec 2, 2009 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t remember the Cards or their fans doing anything disrespectful in Rupp in 2007.
Anyway, you guys continue to do what you want as you always have done, and you will continue to be viewed as a classless school as you always have been. If UK fans wonder why they don’t get the respect that UNC gets you all should just look in the mirror.
"This season has been everything most of us feared it would be[.]"
Mike Rutherford, Card Chronicle
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All this disrespect lately tells me one thing...
Kitty cat nation must still be sore from the ass-beatings the Ville have dealt you the past two years.
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Sad Sick Pathetic
Typical of the mindset. Always always pervert them when they’re young. Harder to de-program.
Go Cards!
my dad had me programmed from birth to be a UK fan.
But look at me now. I’m king of the world!
DocCardsFan
The 'Ville, KY
Dammit iPhone.
Anyway, my mom did the same thing. But I was able to rise up and overcome that oppression, and I pray for the souls of other young ones being programmed to fall into the UK trap.
by CARD_G6 on Dec 2, 2009 5:46 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I briefly got wrote out of my grandfather's will by attending UofL.
True story.
(He added me back in after Pitino was hired my Sophomore year, lolpapaw.)
by Remote Cardinal on Dec 3, 2009 11:30 AM EST up reply actions
That's hilarious
Only in the Commonwealth
by Mike Rutherford on Dec 3, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
lulz
I wouldn’t have beaten the shit out of those kids if i was there whether they’re under the age or 8 or not… seriously. I would have beaten them into submission. Their dad also neglected to mention that he’s white trash.
by Cockslapthecats on Dec 2, 2009 12:31 AM EST reply actions
This is low
even for UK fans. It’d be one thing if were were getting ready to play a game against each other, but it’s something else entirely when it’s these kids and at a practice. Just goes to show what a slick talking coach and an over ranking does to a team and fan base. Hope they’re ready for a 2-3 game losing streak.
by REALISTICCARDSFAN on Dec 2, 2009 12:43 AM EST reply actions
does any other state school do this?
I understand the reasons why it could benefit UK. Just wondering if this happens anywhere else.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Dec 2, 2009 1:13 AM EST reply actions
It's a rivalry
kind of classless for sure but also kind of silly to be mad about I am sure the parents put them up to it. Now if it’s an opposing player doing that then yeah get him…
UL Football Fan/UK Basketball Fan ~ Okinawa, Japan
by The White Mandingo on Dec 2, 2009 3:45 AM EST reply actions
Hilljacks in training
There wasn’t one report of UL doing anything to the UK logo or talking crap about UK when we played there. The team went there to play basketball. It’s obvious Twitterpari and the rest of the UK fanbase is obsessed with Louisville.
White Mandingo
Your boys did it as well. Harrleson and Cousins did it and Saint Patterson did it as well. So your players did it, your little kids did it, and even your mascot did it. It’s kind of like my buddy inviting me over to his house for dinner and I walk in and punch his girl in the face
by Cambroni Cardinals on Dec 2, 2009 8:52 AM EST reply actions
I agree then pretty classless if true
UL Football Fan/UK Basketball Fan ~ Okinawa, Japan
by The White Mandingo on Dec 2, 2009 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
This kind of redneck shit goes back well before most Card fans on this board were born
U of L fans barely ever get into Rupp—when we have, we’ve never done anything like that. We’ve never done that in ANY arena we have been in.
Older U of L fans like me—and Linda and Oldman— we KNOW what it felt like when UK refused to even play us in any sports. We know the racial slurs and daily condescension from friends/relatives in a Louisville that was then 80% UK fans. You think it’s bad today—HA!
Most younger Card fans just “kinda” dislike UK a lot— most are not really even sure why—just that it’s a “rivalry.” They do not fully understand the history of the derision and -yes, HATE- that UK felt when they finally had to play us—and then lost in the Original Dream Game. They do not fully understand or appreciate how U of L is far, far different that UK.
Those Card oldsters like myself KNOW. And we will NEVER forget. And this redneck display makes me want to strangle the first person I see wearing Blue today.
I HATE UK
I feel like UK hate for Louisville goes deeper than anything sports related
I feel like they hate us more for what we represent – urban, diverse, forward-thinking – than anything that truly relates to sports. The city of Louisville itself is an aberration to the general mindset and nature of the state.
I don’t hate UK. I am annoyed by UK fans and their ignorance related to sports and life in general. Granted, exceptions exist and I’m speaking in generalities, but that’s how I see things in general.
Their hate for us will grow even more when/if we hire a black coach who beats them every year. And when Joker Phillips doesn’t win on a consistent basis, they’ll run him out of town, even though no one wins with UK football on a consistent basis.
Yes, Centre , you are close to the mark. It goes far deeper than mere sports.
And …that’s where an on-going high level irritation (if not hatred) rests, with both sets of fans.
Violence was feared by many prior to the first Dream Game….it was a much justified fear, that was defused by the joint singing of my Old KY Home just before the game started—still one of the most emotional moments I have ever felt in sports.
Amen Frank
I’m not old enough to remember or have personally seen everything you speak of (I was 4 when the original dream game was played) but my dad has tons and tons of stories of what it was like back when UL was starting out, and i remember much of the arrogance they walked around with in the mid 90’s.
The attitude of UK fans in the 90’s is mainly why I hate the university and their fan base oh so much. I could get into the social and economic reasons i detest most of the state as well, but I don’t think there’s enough room here for that.
Let's face it, UK basketball is without class.
Their head coaching hires show it. The behavior of their fans reinforce that notion, time and time again. There’s is a program on a 15-year cycle of NCAA probation. There’s every chance that UK will end up barred from post-season play before Calipari wins a championship. It’s the way they do things and their history proves it, time and time again.
The UK numbers may be mentioned with the class acts of the basketball world, the Carolinas, Dukes, Kansas, UofL. But everyone who follows the college game knows that UK is the trailer park side of the family. And every year they prove it a little more.
theoldman
Collision course
I’m sure someone had to have said it already, but if not:
" The University of Kentucky is now on a collision course with probation and vacated games; the only variable is time."
Frank's post, by the way, is spot on.
What’s so grating about UK’s history — and believe me, I’ve seen it up close after traveling with one of their teams an entire season for a book I wrote — is the latent racism. Heck, it’s not so latent. Their fans still refer to the Cards as the “Blackbirds,” or worse. It’s all part of the unspoken legacy of Rupp. And it is palpable.
theoldman
Really?
Do they know that they only have black people on their team?
by REALISTICCARDSFAN on Dec 2, 2009 2:08 PM EST up reply actions
Oh yes, they know.
Only there’s are “black people.” They call our black players something else entirely.
theoldman
how very true --the UK racial "philosophy" has had to warp bizarrely over the yrs
when their players were all white, of course our black players were “n______”
when they got a few black players, they had the “intelligent” blacks and
they were better because the white boys’ intelligence blended so well with their intelligent
black players “athleticism” . (I’ve actually heard UK fans say they have “whiter blacks”)
Now, when they have all black players, they’re better because again they have the “intelligent” blacks " and we have the “ghetto” blacks
I love me some Frank
I didn’t grow up in Louisville, I grew up outside Jefferson County where it was about 99 to 1 in favor of UK fans growing up. for about the first 18 years of my life I was pretty much alone. I can tell you for sure though that things have changed greatly within about an hour and a half drive of Louisville in most directions.
If you're not ashamed, something's wrong with you
It’s soooo sadly ironic that the video producer uses biblical text about raising children well, while showing children taught to publicly disrespect others. So he doesn’t even get it. Nor do their parents.
I’m a parent of 3 little ones, 5 6 and 7. They are ardent Cards fans. They would NEVER act like that. I feel bad for
the other social issues those boys are probably already cursed with.
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