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Hatred of Louisville becoming obsessive?
CARDINALS' SUCCESS HAS BIG BLUE FANS SEEING RED
By John Clay
HERALD-LEADER SPORTS COLUMNIST
John ClayPsychiatrists use the acronym OCD for those patients identified as having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Around here, we can use the acronym OCD for those UK fans identified as having Obsessive Cardinal Disorder.
See whether you might be suffering from any or all of the following symptoms:
• If you spent more time last Sunday thinking of ways to downgrade Louisville football's signature win over Miami than time celebrating Kentucky football's significant win over Mississippi, you may have OCD.
• If you still have a "Traitor Rick" bumper sticker on the back of your Suburban, you may have OCD.
• If you refer to Freedom Hall as Cheat 'em Hall, you may have OCD.
• If it bothers you that when Kentucky plays its basketball games at Cheat 'em, er, Freedom Hall, the words "Louisville" and "Cardinals" are still painted on the baselines, you may have OCD.
• If you cannot refer to the Louisville football coach without using the name Lie-trino, you may have OCD.
• If you reach for your blood-pressure medicine every time you hear "Lou" on a radio call-in show, you may have OCD.• If you spend a significant amount of your workday e-mailing Louisville jokes to friends, family and total strangers, you may have OCD.
• If you suggest that your neighborhood book club should read and discuss I Hate Louisville: 303 Reasons Why You Should, Too by Paul Finebaum, you may have OCD.
• If there is a Denny Crum dartboard in your attic, you may have OCD.
• If your coworkers immediately run in the opposite direction (or jump from an open window) upon seeing you because they don't want to hear for the zillionth time how Louisville football could not compete in the SEC, you may have OCD.• If Marvin Stone is dead to you, you may have OCD.
• If in your own list of past NCAA basketball champions you refer to the 1980 and 1986 titlists as "vacated," you may have OCD.
• If you would consider a 1-11 Kentucky football season a success as long as that one win was over Louisville, you may have OCD.
• If you named your son or daughter Patrick after Patrick Sparks made those three free throws to beat Louisville in 2005, and your son or daughter already had a name, you may have OCD.
• If you found yourself shouting, "Way to go, Lee!" when UK President Lee Todd referred to U of L's athletics program as being "overmarketed and underachieving," you may have OCD.
• If any public sighting of Tom Jurich makes you nauseous, you may have OCD.
• If you forgave your wife for cheating on you, spending all your money, and running off with your best friend, but you will never, ever forgive Rick Pitino, you may have OCD.
• If you spend more time analyzing Louisville's football schedule (for weakness) than you do Kentucky's football schedule, you may have OCD.
• If you have a T-shirt with the inscription, "My Favorite Team Is Whoever Louisville Is Playing," you may have OCD.
• If you refused to acknowledge that the Metro or Conference USA or the Big Least, as you call it, is a legitimate athletics conference, you may have OCD.
• If you cheer wildly whenever they announce the Louisville score, and Louisville is losing, you may have OCD.
• If you continue to insist that Kentucky leads the season series with Louisville in football, based on six UK wins from 1912 to 1924, you may have OCD.
• If you e-mail the local sports columnist with, "Why don't you apply for a job in Louisville" every time he mentions the Cardinals in print, you may have OCD.
Hatred of Louisville becoming obsessive?
CARDINALS' SUCCESS HAS BIG BLUE FANS SEEING RED
By John Clay
HERALD-LEADER SPORTS COLUMNIST
John ClayPsychiatrists use the acronym OCD for those patients identified as having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Around here, we can use the acronym OCD for those UK fans identified as having Obsessive Cardinal Disorder.
See whether you might be suffering from any or all of the following symptoms:
• If you spent more time last Sunday thinking of ways to downgrade Louisville football's signature win over Miami than time celebrating Kentucky football's significant win over Mississippi, you may have OCD.
• If you still have a "Traitor Rick" bumper sticker on the back of your Suburban, you may have OCD.
• If you refer to Freedom Hall as Cheat 'em Hall, you may have OCD.
• If it bothers you that when Kentucky plays its basketball games at Cheat 'em, er, Freedom Hall, the words "Louisville" and "Cardinals" are still painted on the baselines, you may have OCD.
• If you cannot refer to the Louisville football coach without using the name Lie-trino, you may have OCD.
• If you reach for your blood-pressure medicine every time you hear "Lou" on a radio call-in show, you may have OCD.• If you spend a significant amount of your workday e-mailing Louisville jokes to friends, family and total strangers, you may have OCD.
• If you suggest that your neighborhood book club should read and discuss I Hate Louisville: 303 Reasons Why You Should, Too by Paul Finebaum, you may have OCD.
• If there is a Denny Crum dartboard in your attic, you may have OCD.
• If your coworkers immediately run in the opposite direction (or jump from an open window) upon seeing you because they don't want to hear for the zillionth time how Louisville football could not compete in the SEC, you may have OCD.• If Marvin Stone is dead to you, you may have OCD.
• If in your own list of past NCAA basketball champions you refer to the 1980 and 1986 titlists as "vacated," you may have OCD.
• If you would consider a 1-11 Kentucky football season a success as long as that one win was over Louisville, you may have OCD.
• If you named your son or daughter Patrick after Patrick Sparks made those three free throws to beat Louisville in 2005, and your son or daughter already had a name, you may have OCD.
• If you found yourself shouting, "Way to go, Lee!" when UK President Lee Todd referred to U of L's athletics program as being "overmarketed and underachieving," you may have OCD.
• If any public sighting of Tom Jurich makes you nauseous, you may have OCD.
• If you forgave your wife for cheating on you, spending all your money, and running off with your best friend, but you will never, ever forgive Rick Pitino, you may have OCD.
• If you spend more time analyzing Louisville's football schedule (for weakness) than you do Kentucky's football schedule, you may have OCD.
• If you have a T-shirt with the inscription, "My Favorite Team Is Whoever Louisville Is Playing," you may have OCD.
• If you refused to acknowledge that the Metro or Conference USA or the Big Least, as you call it, is a legitimate athletics conference, you may have OCD.
• If you cheer wildly whenever they announce the Louisville score, and Louisville is losing, you may have OCD.
• If you continue to insist that Kentucky leads the season series with Louisville in football, based on six UK wins from 1912 to 1924, you may have OCD.
• If you e-mail the local sports columnist with, "Why don't you apply for a job in Louisville" every time he mentions the Cardinals in print, you may have OCD.
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