I couldn't (and didn't) say it better

sports tripe

ESPN.com’s Pat Forde – late of The Courier-Journal – sums up the UK-U of L rivalry probably better than anyone I’ve read for a while.

I imagine that only living here for several years as Pat did can engrain fully into a writer how deeply pathological and incurable the rivalry is, no matter what a Courier poll says. Polls have shown that figure skating is the most popular sport in America. Un-uh.

Our blood feud seems somewhat civil to outsiders, I think, because we HAVE to live together – we don’t have the state-line tidiness of Ohio State/Michigan or Texas/Oklahoma. And whether we like it or not, the rest of the country views us all as hilljacks – even if you live in the Highlands, mister – and we are bound by that common derision.

But the fever runs deep.