Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
I’m not even mad about this, it’s kind of funny.
Last year, Florida fans put together the #UKHateWeek Twitter campaign leading up to their game against the Cats in Lexington only to be walloped by 20 points. This year, they’re at it again. Here’s a sampling of their top #UKHateWeek tweets, with a little bit of commentary, just because I can’t help it:
Hey Cats, just one title this century? That’s cute. #UKHateWeek #Gators
— GatorsFirst.com (@gatorsfirst) February 11, 2013
Sigh. Let’s not go there. 8 > 2. Hey Gators, just two titles ever? That’s really cute.
Once again BBN, it’s not hard. Your large number of draft picks have been flops. UF’s tend to be productive players. #UKHateWeek
— MBK Rowdies Prez (@MBKRowdiesPrez) February 12, 2013
By my count, Kentucky has 21 players currently in the NBA. Florida has 11:
Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards)
Matt Bonner (San Antonio Spurs)
Corey Brewer (Denver Nuggets)
Udonis Haslem (Miami Heat)
Al Horford (Atlanta Hawks)
David Lee (Golden State Warriors)
Vernon Macklin (Detroit Pistons)
Mike Miller (Miami Heat)
Joakim Noah (Chicago Bulls)
Chandler Parsons (Houston Rockets)
Marreese Speights (Cleveland Cavaliers)
This is close, but from top to bottom, I think you have to give the edge to the Cats. Florida’s best are Horford, Noah, Bonner, Beal, Haslem, and yes, David Lee. Kentucky’s best (up for debate) are Rondo, Wall, Knight, Cousins, Prince, Davis, MKG, Patterson, Bledsoe, Meeks…I could go on and on, but you get the point. Ex-Cats > Ex-Gators.
If two Kentucky grads get married, are they still cousins? #UKHateWeek #UFvsUK #RivalryWeek
— Broadway Joe ✈ (@JOEYD1) February 12, 2013
How original, an incest joke.
Colonel Sanders wasn’t even a real Colonel. #UKHateWeek
— Sean Taasan (@staasan) February 12, 2013
Yes, he was just an honorary colonel, named such by Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon in 1935, but I bet you still eat his chicken.
Dear @ashleyjudd, I rooted for the villain in “Kiss the Girls”. #UKHateWeek
— Sterling Gould (@MoreCredible) February 12, 2013
That’s just kind of rude. What did Ashley do to you except provide decent action/adventure/thriller movies in the late 90′s?
Bourbon is simply cheap whiskey. Don’t drink cheap whiskey. #UKHateWeek
— Hail Florida Hail (@HailFloridaHail) February 12, 2013
Oh dear, he sealed his fate on this one.
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February 12th, 2013 at 1:07 pm
What’s funny about their incest jokes is that Florida is the most backwards redneck place on the earth and it’s not even close. The most screwed up stuff happens in Florida. Check Fark.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Bourbon is just cheap whisky? That’s funny **takes a sip of 20yr Pappy Van Winkle**
February 12th, 2013 at 1:10 pm
crossed the line with the bourbon comment.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Someone please show these to the players right before the game!
February 12th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
David Lee is one of the best Gator alums. He is an All-Star.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Ms Thompson – as a whole UK NBA guys win out because of pure volume, but the best Gator in the NBA is David Lee he’s been a 20 / 10 guy for the better part of a decade. NOt sure how you omitted him from your “Florida’s best” list.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Anyone have any 20 year Pappy?!? If you do hold on to it
February 12th, 2013 at 1:17 pm
David lee is definitely the best ex Florida player in the NBA right now. And Matt Bonner is definitely not in the top 5. And soon Anthony Davis will be better than all of them.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
suprised you missed David Lee TT.
Have to say, the UF players have done better in the NBA so far. But I think it has to do w/ how long they’ve been there. Most of UK’s players are in their first thru third years and are must getting established. In a couple more years the numbers will be ridiculous, and Bledsoe, Wall, Cousins and Davis will be allstars.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:19 pm
At least some of these were pretty funny. Hateweek comments from the loosier and dirty bird fans were, fittingly, much less witty.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:20 pm
TT may not be watching a lot of NBA thus the oversight and rankings. I will cut her some slack though as she is the best contributor on the site.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Not gonna lie. The helicopter one is pretty funny.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Also, Yeah Ill give Florida the nod on current successful NBA players.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Not including Lee was an oversight on my part, but yes, I will admit, I don’t watch as much NBA as I should. Very much prefer college ball.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
It is the state of Florida’s fault that GW Bush was president at all. If that state doesn’t screw up so bad, Al Gore would have been president, and honestly the Republican Party would be stronger today, but the extreme right ran it into the ground.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
The kid in the flat top picture looks like Gilbert Grape’s little brother.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Florida fans were done after that first picture….. “I photoshpped it on my 10 gigaflop processor in my parents basement when I was hopped up on mountain dew… good times!” And a fan named “Sterling Gould” should be rooting for the Florida debate or chess teams….really?….
February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
#9 Have you forgotten about T. Prince. He has been pretty successful in Detroit and oh yeah, he was also on the U.S.A. team. How many gators have done that?
February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
I’m going to fark and tweeting all of the Florida headlines I can find.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
My jaw literally dropped at the bourbon comment. Not cool and unequivocally and empirically false. I will go to war over this.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
I also know that there are more NBA championship rings on former cats than gators
February 12th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
You could also have mentioned PPat and TJones’ teammate – Chandler Parsons. He’s doing very well for a second year guy and much better than most expected. Hard to say that any of KY’s players have exceeded expectations to this point.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
UK NBA players are better than Floridas. Rondo= NBA champion….. Prince=NBA champion.. enough said!Both of whom actually were key players also
February 12th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
living around a bunch of idiot gator fans…. this about sums it up… http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g279/A007_photos/GatorsWearJeanShorts.jpg
February 12th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
22 We can’t say any of KY’s players have exceeded expectations because the expectations for UK players are already set high. Parson’s had no where to go but up, can’t say the same for UK players.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
18. Didn’t forget about TPrince. He’s had a pretty steady, but average career overall. He did get one ring and a gold medal, but never made an allstar roster. Lets see what he does this year w/ some better players around him. Will be fun to see at least one UK player start for a playoff team. (PPat has a decent shot as well.)
Overall, the UK players have generally underachieved. Bledsoe and Wall may be getting ready to break out and Cousins could be special if he ever gets his head right. But overall, the KY players… meh.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
I really enjoyed the Ashley Judd tweet.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
UF has a UK Hate Week? Who cares? It’s Florida. Don’t get me wrong, they’re a rival, but not in the same sense as UT. I have really disliked some of their players but never even bothered to worry about their bball fanbase, b/c generally it doesn’t exist.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
@ 22
Chuck Hayes, Keith Bogans, Tayshaun Prince and Rajon Rondo have all exceeded expectations for them coming out of UK.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Awww isn’t that cute. All six Florida basketball fans have twitter accounts.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:48 pm
As of 1:45pm ET, the ratio of Cat fans to Gator fans using #UKHateWeek is almost 3 to 1. Way to rally the troops, swamp dwellers.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Florida – some nice places just like Kentucky… i know they are trying to hate… but likely half these tweets are coming from people high on bath salts or being filmed for an episode of “COPS”. Douchey Florida students and grads are poor man’s Duke people. They feel entitled and elite… superior in intellect, culture, appearance and now apparently basketball passion. They are none of these, and produce for the world the likes of Bob Vila and Joe Scarborough… enough said. Football – go ahead and brag. Basketball… you are trying hard and have a good team this season, but you are no UK when it comes to basketball.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Wow. Somebody needs to teach photoshop kid how perspective works. I’ve seen more realistic perspective in MC Escher prints.
February 12th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
UK >>> Florida
Florida has always sucked and always will.
February 12th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
cheap whiskey? what a MF dumbass. I seriously hope he chokes to death on crown royal.
And the other stuff, I live down here with these jack asses, it’s a big false. Florida people have group sex with their own relatives, and the one title tweet? shut up just shut up
February 12th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Good God….Here all these Gay-tors are busting our chops when in face they had their collective asses handed to them in the Sugar Bowl? I know Uvel beat us, but they were supposed to. Little brudder smacked that Gay-tors ass like a kid getting caught with his hands in the cookie jar!
February 12th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
36- man, has KSR ever had a florida hate day? I can’t recall, but I think we should now.
February 12th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Are all these tweets supposed to be jokes? I really didn’t think any of them were too clever. BBN could do better.
February 12th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
GatorsFirst.com
A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred; abbreviated c.) is one hundred consecutive years. If you mean 1901-2000 then Ky has 7, Florida 0. If you mean 2001-2100, Ky has 1, Florida 2.
If you mean the decade 2000-2009, then Florida had 2, Kentucky 0. If you mean 2010-2020, Ky has 1, Florida 0.
February 12th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Is that a guy or a girl?
February 12th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Where’s Arnie? Say it! Say where’s Arnie?
February 12th, 2013 at 3:39 pm
These are neither funny nor clever. Is this a representative sample of UF students? Weak.
February 12th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
There are 25 states where it is legal to marry your cousin and Kentucky is not one of them. Guess which state is? Here’s a hint, they have plenty of trashy beaches to honeymoon at.
February 12th, 2013 at 4:33 pm
*35*are you talking like 1st/2d cousins or like bro/sis?
February 12th, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Just 2 players in this year’s Jordan Brand Classic? That’s cute.
5* > 2
*Not counting a potential Andrew Wiggins or Aaron Gordon
February 12th, 2013 at 5:02 pm
Rondo. Enough said.
February 12th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
44- bro and sis, and mother too. daddy watches
February 12th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
I will not even piss in Florida. The most horrific, mind numbing events and people live in Florida. Anyone remember Adam Corolla’s game he used to play on Loveline? It was called “Germany or Florida”? His theory was the most bizarre and awful things happened in either of those two places. Callers would call in with the weirdest, stupidest, sickest crimes or interactions between people and he would have to guess if it happened in Germany or Florida. It seems he never missed.
February 12th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
hey florida fans, an average of 50 people at home games now that’s cute
February 12th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
I’d take Ashley Judd over Casey Anthony any day of the week