Support MGoBlog: buy stuff at Amazon

Kentucky goes Sparty

46 posts / 0 new
Login or register to post comments
Last post
April 8th, 2014 at 3:15 PM
#1
Cold War
Joined: 01/15/2012
MGoPoints: -3537
Kentucky goes Sparty

 

Not surprised these fanbases have something in common.

Arrests made, couch fires in Lexington after Kentucky loss

Police in Lexington used tear gas to control rowdy fans and several couch fires were lit in the streets after Kentucky fell to Connecticut in the NCAA basketball championship final.

Government official Susan Straub, said at least 17 couch fires were lit overnight in the State Street area of Lexington and there were 18 injuries, most of them minor and treated at the scene. She confirmed seven arrests but had no further details in releasing a statement early Tuesday...

http://msn.foxsports.com/college-basketball/story/official-couch-fires-arrests-after-kentucky-loss-uconn-ncaa-tournament-040814

 

 

Top
Tags:

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
April 8th, 2014 at 3:18 PM
#2
LordGrantham
LordGrantham's picture
Joined: 01/01/2014
MGoPoints: 15404
I just don't understand the

I just don't understand the whole couch burning thing.  When I get really angry, I have no desire to watch fabric slowly burn.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:44 PM
(Reply to #2) #3
The Batman
The Batman's picture
Joined: 04/07/2014
MGoPoints: 418
Some men

want more than that. They want to watch the world burn.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:54 PM
(Reply to #15) #4
creelymonk10
creelymonk10's picture
Joined: 12/04/2009
MGoPoints: 10621
I thought Alfred said that one?

I thought Alfred said that one?

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:01 PM
(Reply to #15) #5
ijohnb
Joined: 09/21/2009
MGoPoints: 51937
You're

creeping me out a little now The Batman.  Can you confirm just once for me that you know you are not actually Batman?   After that this whole thing will be cool.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:10 PM
(Reply to #24) #6
TIMMMAAY
TIMMMAAY's picture
Joined: 09/08/2008
MGoPoints: 41397
Why so serious?

Why so serious?

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:59 PM
(Reply to #15) #7
Mocha Cub
Mocha Cub's picture
Joined: 11/17/2013
MGoPoints: 20627
(No subject)

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:39 PM
(Reply to #33) #8
oriental andrew
oriental andrew's picture
Joined: 06/30/2008
MGoPoints: 19806
hey

you can't blame us.  We didn't start the fire.  And that fire down below in Lexington looks pretty serious.  Let this be a lesson to you college kids - don't play with fire.  Seriously, though, how do we sit when our couches are burning?  I don't know, man...

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:49 PM
(Reply to #2) #9
MGlobules
Joined: 11/17/2008
MGoPoints: 16429
Considering all the chemicals they use

to finish most of those fabrics. . . there may be some two-headed and three-fingered little Wildcats and Spartans running around in years to come. 

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:18 PM
(Reply to #18) #10
MGoChippewa
Joined: 01/06/2011
MGoPoints: 6339
Those Wildcats

probably already exist.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:16 PM
(Reply to #2) #11
MGoGrendel
MGoGrendel's picture
Joined: 01/21/2013
MGoPoints: 30211
There's a young Sparty at work

He's new to the office and I asked him (after learning his school) if he ever burned a couch. He said: "no, but I did burn a pillow." Said it with a straight face and everything.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:20 PM
#12
GoWings2008
GoWings2008's picture
Joined: 01/26/2011
MGoPoints: 48654
I suppose

its better than getting into a fight or throwing bricks at windows, but still...I don't get it either. 

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:28 PM
(Reply to #4) #13
Here2CWoodson
Here2CWoodson's picture
Joined: 11/16/2011
MGoPoints: 2291
Derek the RA is not going to

Derek the RA is not going to be happy if his students were involved.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:32 PM
(Reply to #5) #14
LordGrantham
LordGrantham's picture
Joined: 01/01/2014
MGoPoints: 15404
I think he might Saab.

I think he might Saab.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:19 PM
(Reply to #4) #15
getsome
Joined: 09/07/2013
MGoPoints: 4230
ever been to storrs?  theres

ever been to storrs?  theres absolutely nothing there, ill never be shocked how some those mutants decide to spend their time

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:32 PM
#16
rob f
rob f's picture
Joined: 11/11/2010
MGoPoints: 76819
Slippery slope for Kentucky

First the couches get torched, next the school's AD trades in their familiar Blue and White colors for Baylor-like Green and Gold uniformz.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:30 PM
#17
UMxWolverines
UMxWolverines's picture
Joined: 03/01/2009
MGoPoints: 33497
Glass houses

http://www.annarbor.com/news/several-fires-set-in-ann-arbor-after-michig...

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:35 PM
(Reply to #7) #18
LordGrantham
LordGrantham's picture
Joined: 01/01/2014
MGoPoints: 15404
Yes, but we only had 9.  And

Yes, but we only had 9.  And we didn't flip cars.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:31 PM
#19
LSAClassOf2000
LSAClassOf2000's picture
Joined: 01/07/2011
MGoPoints: 81431
That's Impressive...

The part of me that works for a company that provides the thing which supplies what some students put through a window in Storrs is impressed. I mean, you would have to tug pretty hard to get the lugs and connectors in some of these installations to go  ....

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:36 PM
(Reply to #27) #20
BlueTimesTwo
BlueTimesTwo's picture
Joined: 06/30/2008
MGoPoints: 3440
As it turns out, even

As it turns out, even motivated Vandals are not very good at sports.

http://www.govandals.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=10352

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 8:31 PM
(Reply to #8) #21
Midtown Wolverine
Midtown Wolverine's picture
Joined: 09/01/2009
MGoPoints: 5678
My bet is on the concrete

My bet is on the concrete giving way, if we're taking odds on this. 

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:32 PM
#22
umjgheitma
umjgheitma's picture
Joined: 12/02/2008
MGoPoints: 2042
Seems appropriate

If Derek was right and we're just cheering for a bunch of laundry then watching fabric slowly burn seems like an appropriate response. For those unaware of this reference please follow Ace on twitter

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:40 PM
#23
Flying Dutchman
Flying Dutchman's picture
Joined: 09/16/2009
MGoPoints: 4389
Where the hell do you sit

Where the hell do you sit when all the couches have been torched?

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:12 PM
(Reply to #13) #24
TIMMMAAY
TIMMMAAY's picture
Joined: 09/08/2008
MGoPoints: 41397
I hear coolers can be

I hear coolers can be multi-use items. 

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:43 PM
#25
trueblueintexas
trueblueintexas's picture
Joined: 11/10/2008
MGoPoints: 14479
There has to be some form of

There has to be some form of social convention change that dictates only one of the teams fan bases is allowed to riot.  One team won, and the other lost. They should not get to have the same celebration!!!

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:57 PM
(Reply to #14) #26
Evil Empire
Evil Empire's picture
Joined: 07/29/2008
MGoPoints: 9049
The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.

I'm finishing my coffee.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:46 PM
#27
Darker Blue
Darker Blue's picture
Joined: 10/30/2011
MGoPoints: 23319
I'd smash some windows and

I'd smash some windows and flip some cars and punch some nuns if it meant that Chad Lindsay was going to play football at Michigan.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:49 PM
(Reply to #16) #28
The Batman
The Batman's picture
Joined: 04/07/2014
MGoPoints: 418
I'd chew

you up, miscreant.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:20 PM
(Reply to #16) #29
MGoGrendel
MGoGrendel's picture
Joined: 01/21/2013
MGoPoints: 30211
Darker Blue has a man crush

on Chad Lindsay! Just wait 'till he gets on campus.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:52 PM
#30
bronxblue
Joined: 11/22/2008
MGoPoints: 59263
Seems completely appropriate

Seems completely appropriate when your basketball team loses a game.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:54 PM
#31
aplatypus
Joined: 11/02/2013
MGoPoints: 1735
If Michigan had won it all

there would be riots on campus in Ann Arbor too. 

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 3:55 PM
#32
LSAClassOf2000
LSAClassOf2000's picture
Joined: 01/07/2011
MGoPoints: 81431
If It Is True...

If Derek's room has been discovered, I assume we're talking about something like this by now...

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:13 PM
#33
Perkis-Size Me
Joined: 11/30/2011
MGoPoints: 40829
Had Michigan won it all last

Had Michigan won it all last year I have no doubt that Ann Arbor would've burned to the ground by the next morning. And this is all Kentucky has. They're the perennial SEC football doormat, so its hard for me to blame them.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:24 PM
#34
DerrickWaltonSr
DerrickWaltonSr's picture
Joined: 03/06/2014
MGoPoints: 110
A couple guys in my house

A couple guys in my house burned a couch for the hell of it last summer in AA (trust me, it wasn't a popular decision). Can't say it was anything special and the firefighters sure don't come with smiles and presents.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:26 PM
#35
samdrussBLUE
samdrussBLUE's picture
Joined: 01/21/2012
MGoPoints: 15374
Dude!! We lit shit on fire

Dude!! We lit shit on fire last year- more than once

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:53 PM
#36
Lampuki22
Lampuki22's picture
Joined: 09/16/2009
MGoPoints: 7229
Thought

You were going to say their football team was doing PEDs.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 4:56 PM
#37
haletothevickters
Joined: 07/14/2008
MGoPoints: 356
Alcohol and

Alcohol and testosterone...bad combo.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:26 PM
#38
Tater
Tater's picture
Joined: 08/13/2008
MGoPoints: 30564
Dream matchup

The dream matchup of couch burning: Sparty vs WVU.  Incidentally, one of the more popular WVU fan blogs is called "We Must Ignite this Couch."  Honest.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 5:43 PM
#39
Eastside Maize
Eastside Maize's picture
Joined: 06/09/2013
MGoPoints: 26661
Furniture shrieked

'' I'm a loveseat not a couch!''

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 6:20 PM
#40
jtmc33
Joined: 04/15/2009
MGoPoints: 8865
Kentucky is the new Arizona

Kentucky is the new Arizona which was the new West Virginia which was the new Michigan State.

But Sparty will always be the original.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 6:40 PM
#41
VamosAzul
Joined: 11/05/2010
MGoPoints: 738
Lets be honest...

We all burned a couch or three after the national championship game last year... Why? Because lighting stuff on fire (when absent of injury) is lots of fun. That's why.

Top
April 8th, 2014 at 10:11 PM
#42
Silverware
Silverware's picture
Joined: 08/03/2009
MGoPoints: 377
Worst fans ever...

UK fans are the worst I have expierenced at a live sporting event.  Yes, worse than OSU or Sparty....

Top
April 9th, 2014 at 1:11 AM
(Reply to #45) #43
BlueinLansing
BlueinLansing's picture
Joined: 09/01/2009
MGoPoints: 16425
seconded

by someone in the building with Michigan/Kentucky.  "they're assholes"

Top
Theme provided by Roopletheme; sidebars adapted from Chris Murphy.