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In what was a great defensive war, the LSU Tigers beat the Alabama Crimson Tide 9-6 in overtime to basically put them in the national championship game, that is if the Tigers win out.

The argument that Alabama should have a shot to play LSU in the BCS game is crazy..any team that doesn't have a field goal kicker and can't realize that they have 12 men in the huddle in overtime doesn't deserve anything. Especially with all of that happening at home.

Here is a video of last night's game.

Tags: alabama football, bcs championship, lsu football, sec football

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It's no secret I'm sort of cranky. Don't believe me, just look at my articles on here. Then, after you read the articles, look at some of the comments calling me a bad fan, bandwagon jumper, kitten-setter-on-firer, whatever. Actually, most of those are on the Facebook pages. But still, it's out there. But today, a reader left a great comment on my most recent article that hits right near where I'm coming from, and I felt compelled to share it here. This comes from reader JPhelps, and I really love his take on the situation, if for no other reason than his agreeing with me. Take a look.

JPhelps:

It's all about a very simple dichotomy. I'll try to break it down as best as I can. You have football fans and you have basketball fans (now, this isn't trying to say that you can't be both, I am both, as are most of you, but bear with me.) I've polled a fair share of both, people who like football better than basketball and vise versa. It's about what you would expect 90-95% in this state are basketball first, but there are some of the opposite that exist. When I ask them this one simple question, this is where I think football fans differ big time from most UK basketball and "both sport" fans in general...

WOULD YOU GIVE UP 15-20 YEARS OF BASKETBALL TO BECOME A CONTENDER IN THE SEC IN FOOTBALL?

All football fans say that they would sacrifice the next 10-20 years in basketball to get competitive enough to one day compete in football. I know... Asinine right? In horse racing, they call this throwing good money at bad money. Why on earth would I put a crisp 100 dollar bill on a horse that's 100/1 when its all but certain it may never win a title... Get my reference?

Football has 3 major problems. First, the BCS. If you lose one game and you are done with your national title aspirations. One sloppy game to rival Louisville first game and its over. Or hell, you can run the freaking gauntlet in the SEC (see Auburn with Cadillac and Ronnie Brown) and not make the championship. Second, the SEC is too freaking good to take a chance like this. With the land mines that wait to derail your championship season every game, its an absolute miracle to come out undefeated (WE ALMOST beat Auburn last year). Thirdly, and thank God for this, UK fans are basketball crazed and the basketball fans and both sport fans would roll over in their grave before they'd let the basketball team slide out of contention.

Contrast that with basketball, where we went 1-7 on the road in conference last year, but come tournament time, when the chips were down, we lost the national title game. UConn/Butler doesn't count.

And for anyone of you who thank, "But we're UK! We could let the program slide and come right back?" You honestly believe that? With as much parity as is in the system today? Really? That's like saying one day a team like Gardner Webb could come into Rupp Arena and actually beat us! Wait a second...

You got to keep fanning the flames, and a good way to look at it. What is a historically great program that let things slide and has been 15-20 years recovering. The dreaded armpit to the North.... Indiana.

I don't know about you, but for this basketball 75% Football 25% fan, I think you are crazy to throw basketball under a bus.

Hard to argue ain't it?

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Wildcat Football

Here is my official game prediction:

South Carolina 28 Kentucky 7

I hate to do it but I have a hard time believing that in a week's time, the Kentucky offense has come around. The defense will come out strong again but they will tire out from being on the field too long...leaving the fake USC opportunity to score.

I truly hope I am wrong in my prediction and will be pulling for our Wildcats!

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I've always had a strong dislike for the Gators, mostly because I know a few Florida fans that think their poo doesn't stink. See, it all started when Florida was good at basketball for two years, then Gator fans started thinking they were a basketball school and had complete domination over Kentucky. Delusional.

Therefore, from the obnoxiousness of those few fans that I know, I began to pull against Florida in every game, regardless of who they were playing.

Unfortunately, I'm not getting a strong sense that the 24 game win streak Florida football has over Kentucky is going to end, in fact I'm just going into the game hoping the Cats don't look dreadful. The rain might give the Cats a chance to keep it close...r.

I love my Cats and I'll be there tailgating all day, but I gotta say Florida 38 - Kentucky 14....Ouch! Prove me wrong boys, I'll be cheering you on either way! Go Cats!

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So yesterday I spent about 6 hours tailgating with the now infamous whistle guy. I don't know this guy personally, he was a friend of a friend at the tailgate. What I can tell you is that him, and his buddy instantly seemed like they'd be on the wild side, and at least some good entertainment.

Whistle guy did actually bust out the whistle during the tailgate on several occasions just goofing around. I remember specifically knocking the whistle out of his mouth at one point because it was driving me crazy!

Needless to say, him and his buddies headed to the game and I thought it would be the last I ever saw of him and his whistle. My how I was wrong.

The first time I heard the whistle during the game was about two plays before they actually caught him. Kentucky was on defense and as the whistle sounded, I could see the players actually ease up...this in turned led Louisville to a gain in yardage. Two plays later he blew the whistle again, this time the officials stopped play and we all saw the picture above, whistle guy getting led out of the game.

Apparently, via whistle guy's facebook page, him and his buddy actually went to jail for this action. When I saw im being led out several sections away from me, I couldn't help but laugh. I could see the big antlers on his shirt as he was lead out and I knew it was him. (he was very proud of his shirt, talked about it a lot during the tailgate).

This is all useless info, but thought I would share my story. I was not a fan of whistle guy, I think it is very dangerous for the players to hear a fake whistle, and it obviously was not giving Kentucky an advantage.

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