Day 1 from the SEC tournament offered many photo opportunities and a really good basketball game to kick off the tournament action. South Carolina got up big on Alabama early in the second half only to see an 18 point lead slip away. Eventually South Carolina's Devan Downey missed a free throw late in the game to allow Bama to seal the deal and finish off the Cocks.
The first photo opp came early on in our trip when we stopped in Russellville at Harby's for breakfast. I was in the bathroom and man walked in and said "You a Kentucky fan?" and of course I said yes and told him we were on our way to the SEC tournament. The young gentleman of African American persuasion was cleaning the toilet at this time and proceeded to tell me that the head coach was his cousin. As you might imagine I was little alarmed to find out this fact and I'm sure I had a stunned look on my face. Then he finally he said football which I immediately put the equation together and knew he was talking about Joker. That was photo opp #1.
Our second photo opp came outside the Sommet center when Bunch recognized Richie Farmer standing close to us. I told him I would take his picture with Rich but he refused to approach our Secretary of Agriculture.
The third photo opp came during an intermission when we walked out to use the restroom and were watchin the 104.5 guys do their broadcast live from the Sommmet Center. The famous Matt Jones strolled by and we didn't take advantage of the opportunity only to find out later that JV requested we get a picture of Jones.
Fourth photo opp came immediately after Jones passed by when we noticed that Blaine Bishop was doing the broadcast with the 104.5 The Zone crew. We weren't really in a position to have a photo with Bishop but could have gotten a picture very close. He seemed like a butthead so we weren't really concerned.
That brings us to the photo we actually chose for our daily post. Deh noticed this sign as we walked in to Fan Fare so we realized there was an opportunity to make this a great photo. While we were having the girls snap the picture people were walking by laughing and when we finished some old fellow asked us if we "Did y'all do that on purpose?" to which we replied you can see the picture on The Revolting Blog.
Overall it was a boring day since the Cats didn't play but we still had fun! We are ready for Day 2 and some Big Blue hardwood action.
GO CATS!
