SHE WON'T GO!
Last Friday, John Calipari’s University of Kentucky Wildcats demolished Rick Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals in a good ol’ game of RichieFarmerBall — thanks in large part to the play of Jorts’ lack of facial hair.
The rivalry game usually brings an outpouring of animosity between the state’s two largest cities and, of course, Kentucky fans relished in the defeat of Louisville… but this year, there was much more at stake than simple bragging rights.
Lexington and Louisville both have new mayors — Lexington for the first time in four long years and Louisville for the first time in modern history.
These two new Mayors — Jim Gray in Lex and Greg Fischer in L’ville — watched Friday’s game together and placed a friendly wager on the outcome.
Had Pitino won, Jim Gray would have been forced to decorate his new Mayoral desk with a Louisville Cardinal.
But Rick Pitino did not win. So… here’s a picture of Greg Fischer’s desk up in Louisville:
Mayor Fischer will spend his first week in office in the state’s key economic portal with that little Wildcat rooting him on.
And for good reason. As Tom Eblen detailed in this past Sunday’s Herald-Leader, Gray and Fischer have similar backgrounds (Businessman-Mayor’s with progressive politics and sound judgment), and their simultaneous elections and mutual understanding of 21st Century economics may just usher in a new (and long overdue) age of regional cooperation:
Be sure to read Eblen’s entire article… the possible cooperation between these two cities as the next four years unfold is definitely worth watching. Outside the pure righteousness of coal, the entire state’s economy may well depend on these two Mayor’s forging a more perfect commonwealth.
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