[lpd826]

To answer your question about EKY football (I cannot stand the term mountain football because you are excluding schools such as Raceland, Ashland, Russell, Fairview, etc. also in the Eastern part of the state). High school sports is all we have in EKY. NKY you have Cincinnati Bearcats, Reds, Bengals and other forms of entertainment. CKY of course you have UK, and Louisville area you have UofL. I grew up in EKY, at Raceland all we talked about was football 365. I now live in the Louisville area the passion for HS sports is not here, everyone cares more about UofL or UK. Tell me a pro team or a major college to take away the attention in EKY that other regions have taking away from their HS sports.

Very well said, when i went to EKU my roommate was from Louisville and had went to Trinity. He took me to one of thier football games where i seen about 10 to 12 thousand people in attendence. It really blew me away because here i was from a area that only had about 14,000 total in population but still yet the game i attended did not have the feel near the same that you get when its in eastern Ky. East Ky, Mountain Footabll what ever you call it is a community, just here in Lawrence County we call ourselves "THE DAWG FAMILY" and i love it!!