Pitino & Laettner Mock The Shot

UK fan base loses it.

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Ha!

The commercial idea is funny. What is funnier is that those blog readers are now boycotting vitamin water.

by Dais on Feb 26, 2009 10:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I find the idea of this commercial insulting, Dais, not as a UK fan, but as a UofL fan.
It is dismissive to the seriousness of that loss, does offend the UK bretheren, might offend some UK players who suffered that loss, and offends me…if we suffer a life changing loss at the buzzer this year, well, then can we look forward to Coach Pitino feeding at the commercial teat in ten or twelve years?
So with a little wink, and a little nod, Pitino can put away his demons while simultaneously hearing a little sweet
“Ka Ching.”
How droll.
Not cute, Rick, not cute at all.
The Grant Hill out of bonds play was Boner City.
Theoldman’s tally of “Great College Coaches Who Are Not Assholes” may have been reduced by one.
Flashy White Sunday Suit and all.

by Roz on Feb 26, 2009 11:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Doesn't take much to rile up idiots...

by frankpos on Feb 26, 2009 12:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Just Curious and Full Disclosure

Although I am not native born to The Commonwealth, and therefore could never be President of The Commonwealth, I am curious about how UofL fans felt about the Laettner/Grant Hill game. Did the particular ill will toward your in-state rival supercede your general hate for Duke (Duke, being a proxy for evil empires such at the Yankees, the Cowboys, etc). Or, on the other hand, did your birth in the Blue Grass state tip your allegiance to UK even as you still hated them all the more?

I have only rooted for Louisville since 1975 when I saw all those long, soft, Junior Bridgeman parachutes go swish through the netting against Wooden and UCLA in the national semi-finals. From Way out. All three pointers today, hell, maybe FOUR pointers.

My poison of choice on that long ago Saturday?

I rooted my ass off for Kentucky.

by Roz on Feb 26, 2009 1:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ive never NEVER ever rooted for UK

Never have and NEVER will…My favorite teams are Louisville and whoever is playing UK.

I think this vitamin water commercial is funny. Funnier still is the reaction among the blue bloods…

by twistedwedge on Feb 26, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Twist

Could you please be more clear whether you rooted for UK that day? :)

Hey, I’m off to Sam The Beer Man for a case of Theakston’s Old Peculier Ale

by Roz on Feb 26, 2009 4:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think it's funny.

If something like that happens to us, Pitino is absolutely cleared to make a commercial about it 17 years later. That’s practically a full generation. Everybody that saw that game is now an ADULT, whether or not they act like it. Get over it. The best way to get over something is to find the humor in it.

UK fans: Quit acting butthurt and get over it. This man took you to two national championships in a row and set you up for a third one. For every historic play, there’s a team on the other end that hates it. Life moves on. It’s not like Pitino left the next year and your team went 6-6 and missed a bowl…

Oh, look what I did there.

by CARD_G6 on Feb 26, 2009 8:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I will never root for UK

And I have virtually no feelings for Duke positive or negative.
I love college basketball. I love UofL sports. If we lose a game in that fashion I will be crushed, but would be able to joke about it at some point the next basketball season. I always enjoy your posts, Roz, but I can’t agree with you on this one. I can’t imagine a basketball game I would describe as “life changing.”

by Dais on Feb 26, 2009 9:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Dais, Roz was joshing about "life -changing" ..... but ya know, some single games--even incredible moments--

do change the draft status & $$$ of many a later flop player

and also dramatically affect the lives of many fans—-The Original Dream Game changed a few lives—including mine. The 1980 and 1986 champ games certainly did for those players. And the fans…well, Freedom Hall was never full before the 80’s—but it’s been standing room only since—in spite of several down years.

But, to answer Roz’s original question: You have to understand the dynamics of that UK team- to understand why I—a die-hard UK hater—ended up rooting hard at the end for UK to win.

That team was composed of many Kentucky-born boys who had hung in there with UK during the scandal that gutted the team under Eddie Sutton. Kinda like the IU scrubs now. But then a 38 yr old Rick Pitino came form the Knicks and molded this scrub team into an instant winner, and amazingly guided them into the duel with Duke.

It was hard not to root for such a story—being a native Louisvillian and Kentuckian. And it was hard not to grudgingly appreciate the brilliance of one of the new lions—Pitino—even as he beat the snot out of Denny.

That was one of the only games I have rooted for UK since the 70’s…

by frankpos on Feb 26, 2009 11:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You Saved

What little face I have left.
Frank, I heard, somewhere along the line, as we hack our way through life’s jungle, that there would be 26 flavors.
That’s why I asked the question, and I was surprised at not only the uniformity of the response, but of the relative ambivalence toward the Blue Devils. By the time of that game I had already stored enough venom (The ACC Tournament itself posing as a template for what the old game was all about, it’s winner, the winner of the tourny, the winner of the pageant) that it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to root for them.
I know I can’t bleed the same exact color as you guys, but that loss hurt me a lot. Yeah, “Get a life,” “Move on, for Christ”s sake,"
and “It’s years ago,” are all appropriate and “right,” but, (character flaw #1420) you are dealing with a German/Irish “European American” here (this country’s new minority group) who holds grudges and whose head moves from east to west in a disbelieveing "no, "everytime I see Hill take the ball out unhectored by a defenseman.

Hey man, Happy Friday. In a few hours you’ll have things all your own way.

Roz

by Roz on Feb 27, 2009 7:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Your Time Of The Year Now, Frank

Hoops peaking, Masters soon, then the first Saturday in May.
I wonder who will play the part of the unbeatable Big Brown this year? You know the pundits will pick somebody out.
I wonder if Lunardi does the Derby?

by Roz on Feb 27, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, my nostrils start to flare

even more

by frankpos on Feb 27, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't want you to "agree" or "disagree"

Can’t do that with an emotion. Just wanted to know how you and everybody felt, and you told me. Wanted to know
how in-staters felt about Petino doing the commercial and who you guys rooted for in that game back in the early nineties.
And you told me.
Thanks.
“Life changing” was hyperbole, of course, and you are right to call me on it. I do, in my heart of hearts, find it difficult to comprehend how a basketball fan of your caliber would have “no feelings for Duke positive or negative.”
But that’s what makes this oblate spheroid spin.
Now, Sir Dais, I’ll have at a pint of that “Ole Peculier.”

Have a great Friday.

by Roz on Feb 26, 2009 10:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs