Yo, can you see it, with the morning's early light,
What so proudly we acclaimed at yesternight's last sight?
Whose royal blue with white letters, through the hazardous snowstorm,
Over the shrubs and trees we watched, were so grandly adorned?
And the snowfall's white glare, the ice pelleting the air,
Showed us overnight that our colors were still there.
Yo, does that royal blue and white banner still wave
Over the Big Blue Nation and the home of the brave?
In memory of brother Joseph Stowers Stone (1952-2013), proud member of Big Blue Nation, and always sitting in reserved seat at half-court.
It's interesting to speculate, although it might just be pop psychology, that Chicago Cubs fans' churlish behavior is due to a collective inferiority complex. Much has been written about Chicago, the traditional American "Second City", historically trailing New York in national influence and thus Chicagoans' second-city psychic response. (Now perhaps it's the "Third City", behind Los Angeles.)
Which brings up an even more intriguing thought, relevant to us, fans of University of Kentucky basketball: What becomes of the collective psychology of fans of a once-dominating college basketball power, if fan aspirations--many times so ardently held that they inform a significant part of personal identity--are continually frustrated? Will they resort to boorish behaviors, in a strategic, compensatory maneuver to offset the disappointment?
