Coach Cal says "You Kentucky fans are 'crazy' "

I am so happy to know the craziest of UK basketball fans, WildcatRick.  Jeanie and I both love the guy!

The streak continues…

by Drew Franklin @ 4:28 pm. Filed under Blue Blooded Opinions





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32 Responses to “The streak continues…”

1.bluegrass7 Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:40 pm

nice! #1 …impressive. GO BIG BLUE!



2.James Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:42 pm

What a claim to fame! I can only aspire to be as great as this guy when I grow up!



3.1st Down Kentucky Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:47 pm

Stay warm this weekend, my friend!



4.SaveUofL Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:47 pm

The guy in the pic is what Drew will look like 30 years from now.



5.(Mark) Pope John Waul II Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:51 pm

Coincidentally, the ticket also represents the number of times he’s been mistaken as ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’.



“I don’t always gain weight, but when I do, I prefer Lexington. Stay hungry my friends”



6.hangin#8 Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:56 pm

All I know is that I want a sweet job like these people that camp all week. I guess I could save a week of my vacation time and camp instead of going to the beach.



7.bham Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 4:56 pm

is that the first ticket to get in line? has he gotten one before?



8.Always > U ..ofL Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

#5 …awesome.



9.skip scooper Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 5:25 pm

stay thirsty my friend



10.Catfan55 Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Sounds like alot of jealous comments!! Wishing I had ticket 0001. Congrats



11.Joker sucks Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 6:26 pm

Lots of jealous commenters on here.



Congrats to you (in the pic) for getting the #1 ticket. You are what UK basketball is all about. This younger generation of fans (that post on here) are a-holes and know nothing about anything except video games and drugs. All you young people need to go to church and maybe you’ll learn something.



GO BIG BLUE!!



12.Bluescarlett Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Wildcat Rick does it again. That’s like 9 out of the last 10 years he’s been first in line! And yes he does take time off from work every year to camp out. This man is one of the most passionate UK fans you will ever meet. Great job Rick! Some of us less fortunate UK fans can only envy you!



13.Ibleedblue Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 6:31 pm

What is sad , is he has followers who make sure he is always first . I have seen this happen year after year . Not an accomplishment if others give it to you.



14.WCN rocks! Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 6:36 pm

Rick is one of the admins at the Wildcatnation.net website. It’s a forum based website that seem like it’s been around since the birth of forum based websites aka message boards. They have a great community over there at WCN and it’s very well moderated. Alot of posters over here wouldn’t last too long over there with their personal attacks and slander. They also throw awesome before and after tailgates at the football games and if I recall correctly Rick is one of the head people that spear heads that operation. My hats off to you once again Mr Rick!



15.boozer93 Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 7:09 pm

so what day did he show up to get in line…..I’m saving my vacation for next year …..he’s in big trouble.



16.Steve from camp bbn! Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 7:23 pm

Well I got here at 9pm on Tuesday night and because of all the screwed up ways they hand out control cards ended up with 622-626 on the green side……….



17.Truth Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:26 pm

Guy should spend more time exercising and less time being a loser. Get a life tubby.



18.Real Answers Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:27 pm

#1 He doesn’t work

#2 He’s not as honest as you might think. I wouldn’t trust the guy if I were you.



19.Working man Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:43 pm

That lil card says….. unemployment check.



20.SurpriseinmyLevis Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Ten bucks says this guy lives in a trailer and drives a beat up truck. The good news is tomorrow is the first of the month. He’ll be able to make that trailer payment.



21.MHFaulkner Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:56 pm

I met Wildcat Rick years ago - one of the biggest UK fans ever, and one of the most giving and friendliest.



22.Working man Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 8:56 pm

#16.. People cut line. 1 tent will have one person in it till right before the cards are handed out… then it has 20.



#13. True… very very True. Yes he has people secure his spot. Its cheat to win!! The year he did not get #1. My friend did. They wanted to fight him and kept talking smack under their breath then were all go UK to his face! Suck it Loser.



You think he stink cause he’s camped out for days… but you then have to sit near him at the madness… he still smells that way.



23.Pop&Lock Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 9:00 pm

21) Sounds like a guy who has no life and lacks proper perspective.



24.Hitmaker Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 9:52 pm

This guy is why the rest of the country scoffs at Kentucky



25.really? Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 10:01 pm

Jesus people…perspective much?



You people are a f@#$ing joke. Grow up, get a life and be a fan of some other team.



26.little people of the world Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 10:04 pm

#17 people like you are the reason the world is so bass ackwards. If all of your shortcomings were presented so clearly obvious as outward appearance for all to see - you’d probably be easy fodder as well (scratch that “easier” fodder). I find it so very telling when someone immediately calls out another for being “fat”, “short”, “gangly”, “ugly”, “goofy” - whatever. DUH! Wow captain obvious - its amazing that someone can be so damned insecure that they really feel better by attacking one - ONE aspect of another person’s makeup simply because it is so easy to see. If you had to tattoo your IQ, gross income, job status, level of education, number of felonies and / or misdemeanors, number of sins against society and / or God, etc. on your forehead - WOW - we could probably make fun of you as well.



27.KYStout Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 10:06 pm

This thread is why I hate UL fans.



Also - the ability of ul fans to come here and post anonymously without consequences is not good.



28.Ghostofbearbryant Says:

September 30th, 2011 at 10:23 pm

What a dumbass



29.CatFanForLife Says:

October 1st, 2011 at 12:16 am

For those of you criticizing WildcatRick, you are either a) jealous b) idiots c) a little of both. Why so much hating? Especially if you don’t even know him. I have tailgated with Rick for 10 years and you will never see a more loyal True Blue UK fan.



30.oruacat2 Says:

October 1st, 2011 at 1:40 am

UL fans could never pull this off due to the danger of being cornholed in their tents by Pitino.



31.Someonehastobefirst Says:

October 1st, 2011 at 4:55 am

and it was this guy.



32.SamKat Says:

October 1st, 2011 at 5:27 am

There is no better UK fan than Rick Brizendine or his twin sons. WildcatRick is the man above all wildcat men fans!

Luv u Rick!

What if he's right? Thanks Luis Flores!

Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:56 AM

Subject: FW: Fwd: What If He's Right? History Professor!


You might as well have a conservative mindset--------you'll be there at the end.


Wake Up!!!!

I hope you find the time to read this with an open mind. It's interesting. Please read it with the open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. It's like the line below says, "what if he is right?"


Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong, but what if he’s right?

David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal .. He attended HarvardUniversity , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.



He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas , about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by HarvardUniversity Press.





Dr. David Kaiser



History Unfolding



I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus..



Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.



We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?



We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.



We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy... Why?



We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?



We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?



Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.



And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)



Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?



I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.



This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.



And that is only the beginning..



As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.



And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .... . ... change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.



As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..



I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.



I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser



Jamestown , Rhode Island



United States



By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed.