On the absence of "Kentucky Hate Day"

The facebook thing was funny. Everything else was just stupid and weak. The Turckey Hunter piece crossed the line for me.

I’m all for trash talk, but be creative/funny/knowledgeable. KSR tried too hard, didn’t know when to quit when they were ahead, and embarassed themselves.

“What a laid-back, rational guy focused completely on supporting the home team and not at all distracted or consumed by feelings of ill-will towards that team’s arch-rival. A man truly worthy of envy in the worst possible way.”

Go Cards.

Neither is the entire Halloween Express makeup aisle on his face.

It’s so truly obvious how much they do not care about UL.

And that’s fine by me. Contribute to our program. We like that.

that it will suffice to just say… “Amen, Mike”

…reek of hypocrisy. They are like fat chicks that fart. No one wants to be around that rotten egg smell.

I wonder why UL ayhletics is the #1 most profitable program in the country. Much of it has to do with apparel and souvenirs.

The idiot that wrote that at KSR speaks out of both sides of his tooth. One breath he says UL fans don’t matter and in the next breath he says the Cards are in for a beat down. I thought we didn’t warrant enough attention to get a beat down. I don’t hate yewahkay. I just don’t have one ounce of respect for their fans and their retarded university administration. Brainfart and Todd are the laughing stock of the college world.

GO CARDS!!!! BEAT Purdue

Both fanbases have their extreme fans, in this situation it doesn’t matter whose the kettle and who is the pot. It is a rivalry and that is what makes it special. With that said GO CARDS!

When people in Lexingotn ask me how I can go to UK and cheer about U of L. I had to listen to so many of these people growing up that I couldn’t help but become a die-hard U of L fan that will never ever switch. I really like the institution of UK, and I’m proud to go to school here, but god I can’t stand their fans. These people wonder how anyone could cheer for U of L?

I ask how could you not?

are in full fledge this weekend in Louisville.

I will be at the game with my dad, who doesn’t hate UK as much as I do, but I would never have a “hate day”

That’s pathetic. I hope we beat them bad.

GO CARDS!!!!!

Forgive me for bringing politics into the discussion. The only reason KSR gets under my skin is the fact that majority of the UK fans I afiliate with use the same banal arguments/insults that they read on KSR. However, it does reinforce my belief that these UK fans are incapable of organizing a rational thought on their own. On the subject of Louisville Hate Day, most of the “intelligent” posts yesterday were completely hypocritical. John Wilkinson’s post is filled with them. Most of his observations of Louisville fans (line-beards, fat, Affliction shirts, ugly girls, “a glorified sense of entitlement normally reserved for narcissists and teenage girls”, etc.) could easily be made after working at a bar in Lexington. I, unfortunately, worked at one of these establishments. I do have to agree with him that “The Ville” is a facepalm moment, but no more than wearing denim jerseys (see 1996 Kentucky Basketball) or horse-racing silks (see last few years of Kentucky Basketball) while representing your state on a national stage.

Which means my odds of being killed in real life just increased 58-fold.

Matt Jones was at the Karen Sypher Trial every day.

A quote by Clayton Bigsby, a blind black white supremacist played by Dave Chappelle. If you have not seen that skit – youtube it and watch it. The humor is in the irony.

The same theme rings true in regard to the posts written yesterday on KSR. There were sweeping generalizations about UofL fans that could be easily applied to UK fans as well. This point was well stated by Mike and so no further comment is really needed by me.

However, making broad sweeping generalizations of a fan base are something I enjoy doing, so here we go:

UK fans – Upon arriving at my first UK-UofL game in 2003 in Lexington, I thought I had arrived at the wrong place. Here I was, wearing a T shirt and Jeans, prepared to tailgate for the game and everywhere I looked, there were 18-24 year old kids wearing the standard UK fratastic uniform. 1. Suit w/ bow tie (preferably seersucker) 2. Belt that bears your initials (is belt theft really an issue?) and 3. sunglasses (obviously not to wear, but just to hang around your neck using a neoprene neck strap)
I felt as if I had just arrived at an upscale restaurant and felt that at any moment, someone would offer me a sportscoat while telling me that “i might feel more comfortable in this.” Not only the did the country club tailgaters not seemingly discuss or care about the game, it seemed as if their main goal was to be as pretentious as humanly possible. They succeeded.

Now, does this describe all UK fans? No. Do i have a flat billed hat and chin strap? No. Did it feel good to let some hate out of my heart? Yes. Do I think we are going to win on Saturday? I sure as shit hope so.

First forum with a post by someone who’s avatar shows off their actual line beard loses.

on the hateration from the UK fans is clear. They know – deep down they KNOW – that things are about to turn against them. Badly. And probably for years to come. That’s football. Then they also know – THEY KNOW – that Calipari is a crooked jackass and a ticking time-bomb for their basketball program. Just having a guy with his kind of unethical basketball past has to make them vividly relive the Sutton debacle. Deep down, they know they’re living constantly on the verge of another chapter in their embarrassing past.

And I understand, so no hard feelings, just thought it might be a way to put an end to some of the “hate”, on both sides.

I think Pitino hit the nail on the head when he said that Louisville fans have more than basketball (and by extension, any sport) in their lives, insinuating that Kentucky fans do not. I think we showed with the “Least cool person of the year” competition that we have more interest in our own program than UK’s when we easily voted for Kragthorpe over Calipari. Especially considering that Calipari has arguably done more directly to infuriate the fanbase than Kragthorpe over the past year, and as several people have pointed out, Kragthorpe was actually doing us a favor by having a terrible season and getting fired.

Most people aren’t saying it, but I will. The common UK fan argument is that Louisville fans are jealous of UK for their success that we haven’t been able to muster. But I think it’s the other way around. I think UK fans are suffering from not just jealousy, but fear. There’s no doubt that we’ve had more success in both football and basketball over the past decade, and they resent that. Like an “older brother” who was held back a grade and is now in the same grade as their more popular “little brother,” you can see them screaming “Hey! Remember me!? I was awesome last year!”

Now, in all fairness, for one reason or another, we haven’t been able to quite get over the hump in either sport. Since our Final Four, we’ve been good, but have yet to taste a final or even another semifinal, and that’s disappointing. And then, of course, there’s Kragthorpe, which took a championship-caliber team and turned it into a joke in a span of 3 weeks. But we’ve never really gone away and have refused to fade into obscurity like other one-hit wonder teams. Pitino has refocused his recruiting efforts and looks to be getting us back to championship form, and Charlie Strong has already turned us back to the right path with a higher-rated recruiting class in one offseason than UK’s coveted Rich Brooks ever had. And there’s where the fear comes in. Again, using the “little brother” reference, UK fans are worried that we’re about to overtake them for good, and that people are going to start ignoring “older brother” for the more exciting “little brother.” As much as it hurts to say, there’s no doubt that UK has the state’s mindshare right now, but I think you’re already starting to see that change for the next generation, and it has UK fans worried.

Now for a story. The other day, I headed out to my Uncle’s farm in Hart county to do some work. This is so deep in the heart of Big Blue Nation that you can’t drive a mile without seeing a UK flag or some other form of paraphernalia. These are the types of people whose lives revolve around church, farming, and Kentucky basketball. And yet, on my way home, I see a house in the midst of a large farm, typical of the area. But what’s this I see on their front porch? A Louisville Cardinals flag, flying high. This is something that you would be shot for doing in the “good ole days,” and yet, there it was.

Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, UK fans are worried. They’re scared. Calipari is a product of the fear of being overtaken, as is the common comment of “I don’t care if we have a championship revoked, we still won it.” That is why things like “Louisville hate day” exist.

Sure it’s frustrating now, but it’s a sign of a glorious future.

As close as you come to putting the right words to the Louisville fan’s most frustrating constant, it still feels like the same old grinding of teeth (I spent four years in Lexington, nothing suffered more than my molars). I think the more appropriate response would have been just that picture and the caption, “We don’t want to be this guy.”

basically saying you guys have more class then those guys at ksr but as your article goes on, you start doing the exact same shit they were doing…lol uk fans think they are better then louisville fans and louisville fans think they are better then uk fans … period it will always be like that so i say who really cares about who said or did what, at 3:30pm tomorrow the shit talking ends and the fun begins

Fuck. Why didn’t someone tell me this before?

Back to the drawing board.