My UK's Victory!!!

I am indeed a diehard University of Kentucky's basketball fan. As the saying among the UK fans goes, "I bleed blue!" I was never exposed to basketball before when I was back home in Malaysia. Well, blame it on the broadcasting stations that never exposed the Malaysians sports fans to basketball. I never understood the game before. Never knew how it's played and never understood why there are only 5 men playing against each other in the court. But ever since I've been here, my love for basketball grew fonder each day. Being married to a basketball fanatic fan, developed my understanding about basketball. I never could understand what the hype was all about of College basketball. I thought to myself, "heck, these players are not even paid to play. Why are they busting their asses in court to win a mere title? They just get scholarships. Big whoop!!!" Now I know. Kentucky is indeed a basketball state. Basketball is like a religion here. We have 2 teams that are among the best in the nation.

Now let me begin about the great rivalry between Universtiy of Kentucky and University of Louisville. This has been a tradition for a very long time. The intensity, the heat and the enmity between these colleges are known nationwide. I don't know much about soccer, but to paint a picture of the rivalry, well, it's almost like Manchester United and Arsenal, if you will. The fans get really emotional, not to mention obnoxious amont themselves. It doesn't matter which team makes it to the Final Eight, Final Four or even the Final. What matters within the Kentuckians is who wins between these two. Who gets beat up, that's all that matters to us.

Basketball season is one of the best seasons in a year. It's almost as "big" as Halloween or even Christmas. Everywhere you go, you'll see fans in blue (Kentucky) or red (Louisville). Not being biased, but UK fans travel everywhere just to see their team play, even to Hawaii!!! It was reported that today's attendance was 24,432!!!!!!!!! Mostly UK fans. Damn! I wish I was there. Too bad Ashley Judd wasn't here today. She did go to the game against North Carolina few weeks back. Ashley Judd's the biggest fan as she went to UK to study.

The intensity at my work between the UofL and UK fans is great. Although there are more UofL fans compared to the UK fans. In my group, there are 5 UK fans including me. But for some reason, I'm the one who always gets picked on by the UofL fans. Just because I'm the most passionate about my team. What the f*** ever! I have the UK flag, UK magnet and UK soft toy in my cube. I don't give a hoot what other people think, it's my f***in' cube. I can put whatever the f*** I want! There's one particular person in my group who's always giving me a hard time when it comes to UK. I was told the reason why I was an easy target for her to pick on is because I was the most passionate UK fan and I'm easily bothered and whatever that's said about UK, gets to me!

Word of the day is, OVERRATED!!!! The game started off good by the players. The fans were all revved up because this is THE game!!! The fans stood the entire game cheering and roaring. Pitino (UofL's coach) made a fool of himself by stepping into the court yelling at the Ref. Idiot! He got a Technical foul for that. What an idiot! I know he was trying to motivate his players but he didn't have to be like a clown. Final score was 73 to 61!!! And everybody predicted that we'd lose just because we played bad last week against Indiana University (IU). Boy, that was an utter humiliation. I was at that game when UK lost to IU by over 20 points. I went with my husband and my brother in law. We traveled for 2 hours and beat the cold just to be embarassed. UofL played an angry team today. I guess that was part of the reason why they lost today. After the Indiana debacle, UK got down to business. UofL was ranked fourth in the country!!! Like I said, OVERRATED!!!!! Their best player didn't step up to his plate today.

Rajon Rondo, who's wearing the #4 jersey for UK was the star of this game today. He scored a career high 25!!! He's originally from Louisville. He wanted to play for UofL but Pitino was stupid enough not to pay much attention to Rondo's talent. His infatuation with Sebastian Telfair led him to hold off on taking a commitment from Rondo. When Telfair turned pro instead of coming to school, Pitino wound up with neither. Rondo felt second best and said, "screw it! you don't want me bad enough. I'm going to UK" and so he did. It was a blessing not only to Tubby but the entire UK fans! I adore this young boy. His moves....his talents...his wittiness....simply indescribable! Even Orbzut, the Polish player played extremely well today. He usually seems lost game after game. I'm gonna try to get Rondo's autograph next year during Derby Classics where all the rookies play together. I know it's just a wishful thinking but I'm hoping he'll stay another season and not go Pro. It seems rather impossible but hey, like I said, it's just a wishful thinking.

We were cheering the entire game and so was Ryan, my 23month old boy! He clapped, he jumped, he screamed throughout the game. That's right! I'm training him to be a diehard fan early!! Who knows, he might have the interest to play basketball someday!!!

So Santa, thanks for giving me one of the best Christmas gift ever!!! I couldn't ask for more. I got tickets to watch UK play against Iona next week. I hope that UK will have another break. I am well aware of the impending tough games, but for now, leave me the f*** alone. Let me celebrate this victory and stay the f*** outta my face!

To sum it all up, yes, I am indeed a diehard UK fan!!!! Merry Christmas, y'all! Be safe! Peace out! I'm out!