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Beatle Bum

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Lost In FL

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Maybe we should share how our various fandoms came about.
MIne:
UK - Just born and raised into it. Parents were long time season ticket holders to UK football, and Dad took me to a couple of games a year starting in about 1976 or 77. I went to UK and never missed a game, football or basketball while I was there. When I graduated in '93, i got my own set of season tickets and have had them ever since.

Reds - Started as a kid in the 70's when I'd go visit my grandpa and we'd sit in the back den filled with the smoke from his no filter Pall Mall's watching the Big Red Machine. Watching Rose, Seaver, Bench, Foster, Perez, Morgan, Griffey, then on to guys like Driessen, Oester, Soto and others. Being a UK football fan has helped me cope with their decades of futility (outside of that 1990 season)

49ers - I wasn't a huge NFL fan as a little kid, but I had an uncle, My Dad's youngest sibling, who back around 1980 built a custom motorcycle from the ground up and then rode it all the way to California where he would end up living. He got a job with the San Francisco examiner in their printing department. then after they won their first Super Bowl that I watched with my Dad, My uncle Mike sent ME, not my Dad, the whole special edition newspaper that the Examiner put out for the game. That made me a Niner's fan from that day on. My Dad was always a Steeler's fan. My Uncle passed away last year from the same Colon Cancer my Dad passed away from in 2018.

Can't say I have a favorite NBA team. I don't watch NBA.
When I first got into sports, the cowboys and staubach were the thing. but lived in indiana and went to several Pacers games. was at one game in the 70s, where 3 wild women flashed the crowd and were escorted out. Seared into my memory... was awesome. Instantly a Pacer fan...

I was a mild UK hoops fan because my stepdad. I got to the UK UL game in Pitinos first season. Instant fan. was incredible environment. Was lightly recruited for football and one game Alfred Rawls took me into the locker room afterwards to celebrate. Was too cool. Got to talk to several players. DJ Johnson iIRC? ABout a hit he made on a WR against IU. Would def be targeting now. good memories.
 

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HymanKaplan

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When I first got into sports, the cowboys and staubach were the thing. but lived in indiana and went to several Pacers games. was at one game in the 70s, where 3 wild women flashed the crowd and were escorted out. Seared into my memory... was awesome. Instantly a Pacer fan...

I was a mild UK hoops fan because my stepdad. I got to the UK UL game in Pitinos first season. Instant fan. was incredible environment. Was lightly recruited for football and one game Alfred Rawls took me into the locker room afterwards to celebrate. Was too cool. Got to talk to several players. DJ Johnson iIRC? ABout a hit he made on a WR against IU. Would def be targeting now. good memories.

Mad respect for an Alfred Rawls mention. A "perhaps" largely forgotten, but outstanding ( 1000 yard rusher in 1989) player.

I was stationed in Germany at the time. Every two weeks, I would get a package in the mail from my Dad, which contained, among other things, VCR tapes that he had recorded UK Football and Basketball games on. Kentucky had a very "Kentucky" season (6-5), but Rawls was a real bright spot. Fun to watch that guy. Fast as lightning (broke Herschel Walker's 100m HS record IIRC)
 

Beatle Bum

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Of course they are waving another country's flag (Venezuela). It's such a great place that you illegally entered into the US to get away from it. These people are invaders. Pure and simple. Deport them all now or face the consequences in time.
Any one out turf who would wave a Venezuelan flag in allegiance with the Venezuelan government or as a symbol of what the US should be is either brain dead or paid to be the fool.
 

CatinIL

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I guess a pretty good case could be made that UK football fans' loyalty (showing up, year after year, disproportionally so, given the "product") might have, in fact, HURT them, if it developed a "take them for granted" they'll keep coming, for the most part, win or lose culture up in the ivory tower.

Sort of like Chicago Cubs ownership did for decade after decade.
F the Cubs…just wanted to put that out there.
 

LineSkiCat14

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Oh mercy.

Im not following much of the UK football debate. But I do find it interesting and surprising that now we are in the NIL era, and some conference re-alignment is settled, that its the Big10 who looks like the powerhouse. Maybe the SEC is just sort of in a transition period. But those big10 schools got a lot of money to throw around.
 

BlueVelvetFog

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Really?!

Every time we go to Florida since I moved here, wearing something UK. Over 30 years. Used to run into UK fans everywhere from Chicago to Orlando back then.
My reasons are totally football-related. It's just too embarrassing. Honestly, I haven't watched a UK basketball game in over 25 years, so in the rare event, I would run into somebody from the south and wants to talk basketball, I'd have to phone a friend or ask the audience.

Nothimg against UK bb, I just never cared much for the sport itself.

I probably have a kindred spirit with Miss St fans. Long winters and renewed hope for spring practice
 
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HymanKaplan

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Which of you Central KY peeps are going to the "Lexington Bad Boys" try outs? :ROFLMAO:
I posted in the thread, and said that part of me wishes it wasn't a parody, because I'd have loved to show up with a grill, cooler, and bullhorn, so I could tailgate and heckle.

I mean, at the risk of facing the Bad Boys "wrath" LOL
 
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Im not following much of the UK football debate. But I do find it interesting and surprising that now we are in the NIL era, and some conference re-alignment is settled, that its the Big10 who looks like the powerhouse. Maybe the SEC is just sort of in a transition period. But those big10 schools got a lot of money to throw around.

Big ten is spending crazy money. At the top, they have the best teams hands down because theyre spending the most hands down.

The SEC is a war week in and week out, but only Texas schools have the money to compete at the top.
 

HymanKaplan

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I am fairly certain this might touch off widespread violence, if it is changed.

Although it is absolutely the correct decision if we truly live in a colorblind democracy, I don’t think the SCOTUS judges have the guts to do it.

Doing the right thing can never be "mitigated" because some idiots might throw a temper tantrum. That behavior is, well, what creates adults that throw temper tantrums.
 

trueblujr

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Well IU is in the Big10. It’s not like that league isn’t at or very near the same level as the SEC. Granted IU’s schedule was fairly easy by Big 10 standards last season too. It was like us if our schedule avoided Bama, UGA, Texas, LSU, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Turn to envy.
Turn to run away.
Turn to badmouthing UK because of their inferiority complex
 

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Incredible.

White kids are subjected to being taught white guilt, white hate all day, every day in the public school system and not a peep from any politician. No one running to their aid to stop it in the classroom but gotta make sure this group can’t have anyone know any factual thing about them or criticize them.

Straight up, if you’re still clueless about who rules you and the active war against whites and Christians in the west then you’re dumb.


Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation making California the first state in the nation to establish a statewide “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” to oversee all K–12 public schools.

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HymanKaplan

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Im not following much of the UK football debate. But I do find it interesting and surprising that now we are in the NIL era, and some conference re-alignment is settled, that its the Big10 who looks like the powerhouse. Maybe the SEC is just sort of in a transition period. But those big10 schools got a lot of money to throw around.

Meh, in spite of the last two CFB champions coming from the BIG10, it's not that close, overall, to the SEC. Michigan (who along with OSU form the two flagships of the conference) isn't even ranked. IU is the second highest ranked BIG10 team. And while IU is a remarkable story, victories over Old Dominion, Kennesaw St. , Indiana St., Illinois, Iowa, and Oregon doesn't JUMP off the page at you. The SEC has 10 teams in the Top 25, and 9 of those are ranked 17 or higher (including half of the Top 10)

The depth of REALLY good teams in the SEC is peerless IMO. I mean, essentially 2/3rds of the league is ranked LOL...