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re: Does Arkansas have a Real Hog Mascot?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:28 pm to TU Rob
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:28 pm to TU Rob
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Back in 1993, the SEC basketball tournament was in Lexington. Back when they had it at campus arenas.
Good post for the most part, but Rupp Arena isn't on campus at the University of Kentucky. It's actually adjacent to, and essentially in the same building as the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Lexington and a goodly drive from UK's campus.
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One night in this big open area of the hotel, they were having a hog-calling contest, and the winner's prize was an actual Razorback hog. They had it on display in a big cage in the lobby. Y'all should have seen the crowd of Arky fans. It was crazy. Some fat woman won the thing. I'm not sure what she was going to do with it, but she was beyond excited. It was then that I knew that Hogs fans were absolutely crazy, and I felt good about being from Alabama and not Arkansas.
Y'know, I think I recall having heard about that. Arky fans really do help the rest of us in the SEC feel normal sometimes, huh? (Wow! That was twenty years ago! Good memory!
)This post was edited on 10/10/13 at 6:35 pm
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Posted on 10/11/13 at 9:04 am to Swamp Angel
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Good post for the most part, but Rupp Arena isn't on campus at the University of Kentucky. It's actually adjacent to, and essentially in the same building as the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Lexington and a goodly drive from UK's campus.
Well, I was 11 years old. All I remember is it falling during the great blizzard, and us riding a bus from a hotel to Rupp every day. It was way too cold to go see the campus, and I just thought it was on campus.
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Wow! That was twenty years ago! Good memory!
It was a great time. My little sister ended up not wanting to go, so we took my best friend instead. We got back to south Alabama and all our friends were telling us we missed the snow. I think they got a few inches, maybe. There were feet of snow in Kentucky that weekend. We actually couldn't fly out on time, and almost missed our connection in Atlanta. Actually I think we did but there was one more flight going back to Dothan that night and they had room for us.
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