Here at Kentucky, we like to win. So naturally, a lot of fans were disappointed that the Big Blue Nation went 0 for 4 at last night’s ESPY Awards.
But good news-it doesn’t matter! ESPYs presenter Bill Maher can vouch for that:[INDENT]
Of all the award shows, the ESPYs has to be the dumbest award show there is. First of all, award shows in general are sort of silly and ridiculous and we all know they’re just for creating publicity. At least it makes some sort of sense within that framework to have an awards show for movies, or television, because there is no way with those to know which is the best. But when we’re talking about sports – [I]they actually play the game[/I]. We don’t have to give an award to the best team. We know who the best team is – they’ve already won! That’s the great thing about sports, there’s a built-in objective mechanism by which we can ascertain who the winners are. But no, you have to win a second time in a tuxedo, and a spokesmodel has to hand you a trophy; that’s what’s important.
—[URL=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher”]Bill Maher[/URL] (ESPYs presenter) in the book [I]Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the Secret World of ESPN[/I] (pg. 322-323)
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So there you have it, folks. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a National Championship trophy than one of those weird-looking globe things any day.
We are the champions, my friends. Go Cats![INDENT]
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