Why the University of Kentucky wins at Basketball and loses at Football.

[Stone Angel]

There is the four point play if your are fouled on the three point shot and make it plus the free-throw.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Yankees, Carpetbaggers, winners...it's all the same.

Reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw in Chapel Hill last summer: "Yankees 1, Rebels 0. Halftime."

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw in Chapel Hill last summer: "Yankees 1, Rebels 0. Halftime."

That's a hockey score, and no self-respecting "South-Will-Rise-Againer" is a hockey fan. It should be "Yankees 6, Rebels 0. Halftime." It's pretty funny, really.

NOTE: I'm from Kentucky, but Kentucky isn't really the South, especially the two biggest cities, which is where I lived all my life. So I'm just observing, not making a personal statement.

 

[Michael Morris]

I've always heard it said that Louisville is the northernmost southern city, and Lexington is the southernmost northern city - or something like that.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I've always heard it said that Louisville is the northernmost southern city, and Lexington is the southernmost northern city - or something like that.

I actually always found Lexington to be, if anything, more southern than Louisville. It's (literally) more pastoral, given the surrounding horse farms. It's more laid back, and much less of a "real" city than Louisville ... if it weren't for UK, Lexington wouldn't be much more than a mid-sized town.

I still maintain that neither of them is truly southern, though. Even the rural parts of Kentucky have more in common with, for example, rural Indiana or Appalachian Pennsylvania than they do with Tennessee and other truly southern states. Parts of Kentucky are seriously redneck, but redneck and southern aren't synonyms. They just overlap quite a bit.

 

[drothgery]

That's a hockey score, and no self-respecting "South-Will-Rise-Againer" is a hockey fan.

NHL teams in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Tampa, Dallas, and Miami suggest otherwise...

 

[Jeff Wilder]

NHL teams in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Tampa, Dallas, and Miami suggest otherwise...

Actually, they don't. There's a difference between a hockey fan who happens to live in the South and, as I said, a South-Againer.

 

[reveal]

Actually, they don't. There's a difference between a hockey fan who happens to live in the South and, as I said, a South-Againer.

If it don't involve a car, number 3 and turnin' left, it ain't a sport!

 

[wingsandsword]

I'm a lifelong Kentuckian, born in Louisville and raised in Lexington, heck I'm even posting this from on-campus at UK, so I can certainly say this:

Lexington is the farthest north Southern city, and Louisville is the farthest south Northern City. Kentucky is part of the south, it's a unique part of the south that's slightly intermixed with a few elements of the midwest and north, but Kentuckians still consider themselves Southerners.

University of Kentucky Basketball is the unofficial state religion (right behind Southern Baptist), and the sheer fact that we haven't won a NCAA Basketball championship in 7 years is making people very irate. Never mind that we win the SEC title virtually every year, never mind we've got a program that most schools would kill for; a true sports dynasty. There are serious grumbles of discontent that we haven't won it all in almost a decade!

And yes, no true Southerner is a hockey fan, the NHL franchises in the south are to pacify the northerners who live here. Anyway, the NHL is mostly a technicality now, who knows if they'll ever play again?

 

[Krieg]

University of Kentucky Basketball is the unofficial state religion (right behind Southern Baptist), and the sheer fact that we haven't won a NCAA Basketball championship in 7 years is making people very irate. Never mind that we win the SEC title virtually every year, never mind we've got a program that most schools would kill for; a true sports dynasty. There are serious grumbles of discontent that we haven't won it all in almost a decade!

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