THURSDAY NIGHT ADVANTAGE: KENTUCKY VERSUS SOUTH CAROLINA
In case you haven't noticed, and you may not have, what with all the state representatives showing nudie pics to high schoolers at assemblies and whatnot, there's been football on every night of the week except Monday. But even with the appearance of virtual trim in your local high school, you are compelled to pay attention to tonight's matchup between the Kentucky Wildcats and South Carolina Gamecocks.
They receive the Six Factor Factor Six Treatment below. The results of this are scientific and 100 percent accurate.
Factor One: Hair.
Kentucky: Represented here
South Carolina: Represented here by the charismatic bachelor, o-lineman Heath Batchelor, who being allergic to everything helmets are made of copes by growing thick layers of hair wherever it touches him.

Iss mah helmet. You like?
Kentucky: Represented with the Duane Allman 'stache of offensive tackle Zach Hennis.

Born a Ramblin' Man.
Advantage: Kentucky.
Factor Two: Nickname, per Wikipedia.
Kentucky. Wikipedia says: "The Wildcat is extremely timid. It avoids coming too close to human settlements. It lives solitarily and holds a territory of about 3 km²."
South Carolina. Wikipedia says: "A gamecock is a strong, colorful, and territorial type of rooster, or fowl, bred for cockfighting."
Advantage: South Carolina. If wikipedia says it, it has to be true, and the poor wildcat's entry makes it seem like little more than an overgrown housecat left to fend for itself. The Gamecock, on the other hand, sounds like a feathery, taloned Mirko Filipovic.
Factor Three: Coach is drinking...
Kentucky: If Rich Brooks doesn't drink scotch, Paul Erdos didn't pop benzedrine like candy and Hunter S. Thompson didn't snort cocaine from a salt shaker. A man who uses the word bullshit with such fluency drinks scotch. It's a law of the universe.
South Carolina: Steve Spurrier prefers things that can be consumed while playing golf and afterward. For a man of his age with this guiding principle in life, there is one beverage and one beverage alone: Bud Light. It's a generational requirement for Spurrier, like reading John Grisham novels and liking Jimmy Buffett.
Advantage: Kentucky.
Factor Four: Famous Alumni
Kentucky: Jared Lorenzen, the first 300 pound quarterback in the SEC, a.k.a. "The Pillsbury Throwboy," "the Round Mound of Touchdown," and "HOLY SHIT THAT IS THE FATTEST FUCKING QUARTERBACK I'VE EVER SEEN (COUNTRY LAUGH!)!!!"

Where calories go to retire: Jared Lorenzen.
South Carolina: Doesn't matter. What? Hootie? Leeza Gibbons? We repeat: Jared Lorenzen, motherfuckers. You can't win when you're facing the Abominable Throwman.
Advantage: Kentucky
Factor Five: Three Roster Names of Esteem.
South Carolina: Foxy Foxworth, Captain Munnerlyn, Gurminder Thind.
Kentucky: Zipp Duncan, DeMoreo Ford, and Dicky Lyons.
Advantage: South Carolina. Not even close. The Gamecocks field names so lurid and obviously fake we wouldn't write them in the ledger of a brothel without giggling out loud.
Factor Six: EBay
South Carolina: This kickass handbag that a man might even conceivably call a European carry-all with dignity. Almost.
Kentucky: A football autographed by Guy Morriss. Their coach. Who left the program. For Baylor. Fucking. Baylor.
Advantage: South Carolina.
Factor Six Six Factor Power Verdict of Immense Authority: It's a tie! Meaning we'll just go ahead and guess that Kentucky wins for one reason and one reason alone: Andre Woodson, the best quarterback in the SEC and former Tennessee OC and current Kentucky qb coach Randy Sanders' vengeance upon the world.
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This wil be a great game since Woodson finally faces a pass defense and SC finally faces a team that can pass. I’m thinking we see a lot of Cory Boyd and Mike Davis and not much else from either offense.
by Out of Conference on Oct 4, 2007 4:48 PM EDT reply actions
Methinks KY can make this look easy tonight.
OTOH, Brooks might get an onset case of Gailey – Bowden equilibrium right after halftime.
Woodson will take advantage of Brinkley being out…like this offense needs another passing lane to throw in….
by tigercpa on Oct 4, 2007 4:50 PM EDT reply actions
Too bad alumni wasn’t considered in the hair category… Steve Taneyhill may have swayed things.
by Out of Conference on Oct 4, 2007 4:50 PM EDT reply actions
I think another factor which may be a draw is which fan base will consume the most brown liquor before the game. I might give Kentucky an edge here since they generally make their own brown liquor illegally.
by pfhokie on Oct 4, 2007 4:51 PM EDT reply actions
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
By the way, how much are they asking for that handb.. er, carryall?
/ducks/
by GamecockTony on Oct 4, 2007 4:54 PM EDT reply actions
fucking greatness. i miss six factor factor six.
former bama center paul hogan once got interviewed for like 5 minutes at sec media days as jared lorezen. a center mistaken for a fucking quarterback. its a crazy conference we live in.
by gerry dorsey on Oct 4, 2007 4:55 PM EDT reply actions
Filipovic huh? I guess that makes Andre Woodson the “Gabriel Gonzaga” of the night then.
by BDoc on Oct 4, 2007 4:55 PM EDT reply actions
Factor Seven – Attractive Women – Per CBS Sports Line:
Advantage South Carolina
Jack-ball Clay Travis of CBS Sports ranked the women of the SEC and came up with the following:
No. 5 – USCe
No. 9 – Kentucky
(((But, he also attacked Gator women, ranking them No. 11 and he has a major league man-crush on Tebow, so this survey needs to be taken with a pound of salt. ))))))))
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Oct 4, 2007 4:58 PM EDT reply actions
I might condescend to acknowledge the cocky-come-lately USCe now that they have a Punjabi giant playing for them. Anyone can get giant Samoans, this required some real effort.
Also, I’m going to be obnoxious and claim a HT on the Ohio pornster representative story. What the hell is going on in that state?
by DC Trojan on Oct 4, 2007 5:01 PM EDT reply actions
An Erdos reference? Bravo, sir.
One of the highlights of my UF career was meeting him when he came to visit. (yeah, yeah… the Century Tower is definitely not intact)
by Pappy on Oct 4, 2007 5:02 PM EDT reply actions
You didn’t give the ’Cock’s QB’s a fair shake. Remember Steve Taneyhill and his “epic mullet?” I’m not sure that beats the Hefty Lefty, but who knows?
by GatorsGatorsGators on Oct 4, 2007 5:06 PM EDT reply actions
My Erdos number is 3, we think. We know someone who studied with someone who published with Erdos.
by Orson Swindle on Oct 4, 2007 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
Yes, yes, call in the jokers from Southern Cal. There were students at South Carolina when the only things fucking in the Valley were Spanish missionaries and large rodents.
by Newspaper Hack on Oct 4, 2007 5:21 PM EDT reply actions
#3…agreed.
McGyver. Jose Canseco. Steve Tanneyhill. All proud members of the Mullet Hall of Fame.
by fresh on Oct 4, 2007 5:23 PM EDT reply actions
Erdos?!? What in the wide, wide world of sports are y’all talking about?
Never mind. I don’t want to know.
by Allahver Fist on Oct 4, 2007 5:23 PM EDT reply actions
There were students at South Carolina when the only things fucking in the Valley were Spanish missionaries and large rodents.
How would one tell the difference between any of those three groups?
by DC Trojan on Oct 4, 2007 5:30 PM EDT reply actions
- - The bright side then is that your Erdos number is infinity.
by Out of Conference on Oct 4, 2007 5:31 PM EDT reply actions
#16,
a Erdos number, in a nutshell, is a “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” but in a published paper type of way- The mathematician’s name was Erdos, so he is number 0. people who published papers with him are 1, and so on…
http://www.oakland.edu/enp/readme.html
that’ll explain much better than I ever could.
by psuedosilent observer on Oct 4, 2007 5:37 PM EDT reply actions
Another thought about South Carolina’s long long history… you know how there was that discussion about day-walkers, and whether having a parent attend a university was good enough to claim some kind of affiliation?
I mention that because my father attended the Glasgow High School and then the University of Glasgow, which were started in the 12th century and in 1451 respectively. Not that it has anything to do with college football, but it gives me an excuse to point out that some people attended institutions which were imparting knowledge and fomenting the enlightenment before anyone had thought to dispossess the locals and set up plantations, far less set up local colleges in the hopes of educating the landowners’ sons not to piss in the potted plants.
by DC Trojan on Oct 4, 2007 5:46 PM EDT reply actions
Pot Calling Kettle Black Dept:
Hackneyed Newspaper Boy-RE Comment No. 15:
A. Population: Columbia, South Carolina, (College founded in 1801): In 1816, there were 250 homes in the town and a population of over 1,000. *
B. Population: Los Angeles, CA: In 1801 there were 315 people and in 1820 there were 650 Angelenos, half probably stuck in traffic and the other half in therapy… **
So, Columbia SC and Los Angeles, CA started out about the same size, and then everyone moved to LA, while Columbia stayed comfortable quaint, no?
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Los_Angeles,_California
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Oct 4, 2007 5:46 PM EDT reply actions
I would think a contract at Kentucky would include a lifetime supply of bourbon and a prohibition against drinking Scotch (or at least Tennessee Whiskey).
by Herb on Oct 4, 2007 5:52 PM EDT reply actions
J-Load threw his balls the way he liked his bacon: sizzzzzlin’!
by that 5.0 guy @ work! on Oct 4, 2007 6:09 PM EDT reply actions
Re #21: Fair enough, but athletics at the Uni are such that they even let me try out for crew. No day-walkers there, unless you count the folks trying to get into the Queen Margaret’s Union without a student ID.
And, back to Orson’s opening link, we are long, long overdue for a Fark-like “Ohio” tag around here.
by DevilGrad on Oct 4, 2007 6:11 PM EDT reply actions
So Dan Reeves and Sterling Sharpe don’t offset the Beast that ate Lexington? This Yankee is truly confused by that logic… but then again, the closest thing I have to an Erdos number would be a friend from HS who is at least a 3 or 4, but possibly a 2.
by PJ from NU in SF on Oct 4, 2007 6:15 PM EDT reply actions
Awesome Paul Erdos reference. What do you want to bet that went over the head of damn near everybody reading this article?
by anon on Oct 4, 2007 6:33 PM EDT reply actions
My Erdos number is 7, I think. I’ve published with people who published with someone who is a 5, according to http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html. Whee!
by Tom on Oct 4, 2007 6:35 PM EDT reply actions
Edit: and it will be a 3 once I publish with my advisor, who is a 2.
by anon on Oct 4, 2007 6:43 PM EDT reply actions
No Erdos number for me. But I have a Bacon number of 3. I was an extra in “Death Race 2000” as a kid with Sly Stallone who was in “Copland” with Robert DeNiro who was in “Sleepers” with Bacon.
And in the music version of the game I can connect through 4 or 5 bands to get to Eric Clapton.
by oc phil on Oct 4, 2007 6:52 PM EDT reply actions
Paul Erdos fucked my sister. Does that make my number 1 or 2? Hold on, what the hell am I thinking. Fuck that. Fuck Paul Erdos.
by Brian O'Blivion on Oct 4, 2007 6:58 PM EDT reply actions
OC Phil, that’s cool, I loved Death Race 2000! (But anyone who didn’t is probably nowhere near this board.)
by PJ from NU in SF on Oct 4, 2007 6:59 PM EDT reply actions
Gamecocks win and I giggle over the fact that I spell the beer I drink bUSCh light all night.
Fuck me I suck. But those who think UK is going to win are in for a real awakening tonight.
by anon on Oct 4, 2007 7:05 PM EDT reply actions
Anyone know the name they were playing in the intro? It had a pretty cool beat
by John on Oct 4, 2007 7:59 PM EDT reply actions
#27, anon
Yeah, all Hungarian math geniuses’ numeric co-authorship accounting systems totally zoom my brainpan like that ‘kokakola bottel" that fell from the great shiny metal bird a score ago in ol’ Afreeka. I must return that bottel. I guess that’s what I get from learning inferior American math from watching reruns of The Cosby Show. If I make it to Baton Rouge this weekend I’ll certainly look it up in a LSU library.
All drunken cyberwrasslin’ aside, I predict a Spurrdos margin of victory number of 10 tonight.
by Allahver Fist on Oct 4, 2007 8:13 PM EDT reply actions
Is Spurrier wearing a rug??? His hair looks “interesting” indeed…
by PJ from NU in SF on Oct 4, 2007 9:05 PM EDT reply actions
How can you pick UK as the winner based on Andre’ Woodson and leave off the freaking apostrophe!!!!!!!!!
by The Fresh Catch Shuffle on Oct 4, 2007 9:44 PM EDT reply actions
Watching the Lou Holth speech. Jesus that guy kinda looks like my grandfather.
by Brian on Oct 4, 2007 9:48 PM EDT reply actions
Sweet Jesus, at least now I know how the Cocks beat us two straight times, Lou Holtz is a magician…and I thought it was the fact that it was Cooper’s last year and Tressel’s first and we were just a piss poor team in transition.
So 2 SEC losses to a Magician and 1 SEC loss to a team who wore illegal cleats the entire game (during a monsoon), yeah I’m looking right at you Tennessee, fucking cheaters…I feeling better and better.
by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes on Oct 4, 2007 9:55 PM EDT reply actions
Lou Holtz is MAGIC! Florida has no chance in hell now.
by GainesvilleRamblings on Oct 4, 2007 9:57 PM EDT reply actions
I wake up in the middle of the night screaming because I don’t know how Lou Holtz does it.
by The Humanitarian on Oct 4, 2007 10:11 PM EDT reply actions
Who has a better mullett? Steve Taneyhill or Don Majkowsi?
by UCLA Mob on Oct 4, 2007 10:18 PM EDT reply actions
Flutie makes reference to SMU’s fake national title and James says “let’s get back to the game.”
by John on Oct 4, 2007 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
So ESPN now says “Upset Watch” in vibrant red letters with the Cocks up by 15, and how in fuck’s sake is this an upset. South Crackolina was a 3.5 point favorite.
by Biggus Rickus on Oct 4, 2007 11:25 PM EDT reply actions
I is in your backfield ripping up your invitashun to the Downtown Aphletic Klub
by Out of Conference on Oct 5, 2007 9:08 AM EDT reply actions
It’s the Battleship Lorenzen fools,
Lou Holtz was actually pretty funny on College Football Live, it looked unscripted when he went on his campaign speech for Florida. Maybe he just can’t read a teleprompter with those coke bottles and maybe Mickey mouse thinks “dumb old man” is funny so they write him crap.
Ahhh I still hate him. Who wins in a fight? Holtz or Pat Summerall?
by Thor on Oct 5, 2007 10:55 AM EDT reply actions
Actually Spurrier prefers Coors Light. He used to always make us go get him a 6 pack of it whenever he came to talk to the ATL Gator Club.
And after last night’s game, I’m more worried about the South Cakalacky game than ever before.
by AtlantaGator on Oct 5, 2007 11:00 AM EDT reply actions
- - Pat Summitt kicks both of their asses.
by Out of Conference on Oct 5, 2007 11:06 AM EDT reply actions
There ain’t no real barbers in Haleyville so what do yo want the little feller to do about the hair anyway and he is a state champ in discuss throwing one sport that Sammie and jay love more than anything other than the sport of watermelon-spitting which if it weren’t for football and discuss throwing whitlow says there wouldn’t be anything else to do in Haleyville and jay reminds us all that it was the first town in the country to have a 911 system but whitlow and Sammie want to know what in hell did they need a 911 system for in Haleyville back in the 60’s and jay sammie eric y and whitlow all are stumped by that one and none of us are impressed or even give a damn about DC Trojan and this University of Glasgow shit and eric and Sammie and whitlow and jay will not put up with it any more no matter who you think you are or think we are.
by eric y on Oct 5, 2007 8:06 PM EDT reply actions
Alumni advantage?? the NFL has plenty gamecocks in it but you can mention one and SQAUSH that convo.. John Abraham… enough said
by DUH ALumnie on Oct 29, 2007 11:48 PM EDT reply actions

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