Clay Travis of Foxsports.com says Kentucky and West Virginia will be “the dumbest Sweet 16 game” of all time.
According to Travis, the Wildcats and Mountaineers have two of the dumbest, backwoods fan bases in college basketball.
Here’s an excerpt of his article:
Tomorrow Kentucky and West Virginia will play in a Sweet 16 match-up pitting the two dumbest fan bases to ever compete for a spot in the Elite 8. (Kentucky and West Virginia also combined to play the dumbest fan base match-up in the round of 32 and the Elite 8. Someone in the NCAA selection committee actually has a sense of humor.) Needless to say, this game is special for Outkick readers. Astute readers of our 10 dumbest fan base rankings have been pelting me on social media all week to take notice of this rare gift from the basketball gods. No Sweet 16 game has ever had more dumb fans commenting at once.
Given that neither team ever commits a foul, the refs are “h8ers,” the rest of the country is “jelus” of both teams and “your gay” if you don’t see why, I’d encourage all of you with a decent knowledge of it’s vs. its to log on to Facebook and Twitter and enjoy the festivities come Thursday night. This game will be like Woodstock for dumb people, a modern day Hatfields vs. McCoys. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if someone gets killed over a block charge call in the border regions between these two states.
How often is it that two teams meet in the Sweet 16 and both universities enact more stringent couch burning regulations in advance of the game?
Both of them!
Basketball is life, y’all.
Of course, basketball isn’t really life if you have anything better going on in your life, but we’re talking about people from West Virginia and Kentucky. They really don’t have anything better going on in their lives. Especially not now that “Breaking Bad” showed everyone in the entire country how to make high-quality meth. You try buying a bunch of sudafed at the gas station these days. Just try. Cops will swoop you up faster than when you steal camouflage West Virginia or Kentucky gear at the local Wal Mart.
That’s fast.
Kentucky is Outkick’s second dumbest fan base and West Virginia is Outkick’s eighth dumbest fan base. It’s a match made in stupid basketball fan heaven, a chance for both fan bases to get upset and once more call me gay, racist, and demand that I be fired for accurately calling them dumb. Personally, I just take it as further evidence that God reads Outkick and likes to make all of us happy.
But it’s not just me saying these fans are dumb, Kentucky has recently been ranked as the fourth dumbest overall state. West Virginia? Well, West Virginia was ranked the dumbest overall state, with just 17.3 percent of the population having a bachelor degree. Who do the dumbest fans in each state all flock to support? Not Louisville or Marshall, nope. These are front running losers in life who have to pick teams that win. Otherwise their nonexistent self esteem will move into negative territories. It’s C-A-T-S vs. The Mountaineers for dumb basketball fan supremacy. No matter who wins, there’s one certainty, the final score for both teams will be higher than the IQs of their average fans.
