Every Caturday I wake up a little bit happier. After a long week of classes, there are few things better than spending the day tailgating with your friends and cheering the cats onto a (hopeful) victory. Caturday brings out the sports enthusiast in all of us. Caturday gives us the best memories and times of our life and each one you have the same feelings as you prepare and go throughout the day. Caturday has a set of unspoken rules that everyone follows religiously.
1. You must wear the correct colors: blue, white and black.
Don't show up in a North Carolina blue dress.
2. You pre-game the tailgate. Sometimes the pre-game turns into the tailgate, but that's alright.
3. You use the hashtag #catsby90.
4. Each time someone starts the C-A-T-S, CATS, CATS, CATS, cheer you take part and yell as loud as you can.
Loud and proud!
5. In the event that we lose and someone gives you a hard time you throw it in their face that we're always good at basketball. How many National Championships and Final Four appearances do you have? ... Right.
6. Beer or bourbon only.
"All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon." Play it safe and show up with a bottle of Kentucky bourbon.
7. Face tattoos, lipstick and boots are a must for girls, and you usually find the boys rocking a visor.
8. Tailgates are an all day event. The game starts at 9 p.m.? Okay, let's start the tailgate at 10 a.m.
9. Pace yourself. Tailgates last all day and odds are after the game you're going to want to make it out to Keeneland, the bars or a house party.
Let's be real though, the tailgate always wins.
10. Blue solo cups only.
11. When wagon wheel is played you have to change the lyric of the song to:
"But he's a heading west from the Cumberland gap, To Johnson City, F@!# Tennessee!"
12. If you see/hear/smell/sense a bike cop, act normal.
13. Know all the lyrics to both the school fight song and My Old Kentucky Home.
On, on, U of K, we are right for the fight today, Hold that ball and hit that line; Ev'ry Wildcat star will shine; We'll fight, fight, fight, for the blue and white As we roll to that goal, Varsity, And we'll kick, pass and run, 'till the battle is won, And we'll bring home the victory.
14. You respond to, "What's your favorite colors baby?!" By screaming as loud as you can BLUE and WHITE.
15. The best part of it all, getting to hangout with 67,606 of your closest friends in Commonwealth Stadium.
It is amazing to see how University of Kentucky sports bring people together, young and old. If being in Commonwealth doesn't get your blood pumping and leave you bursting with pride then you're in the wrong state. Kentucky sports make us a big family who are damn proud of our school and team.
Go Cats and happy tailgating!
