Monday, March 29, 2004
ABD
anybody but dukeI'm no fan of Duke. Are you?
How does the public hate the Blue Devils? Let us count the ways. MSNBC conducted an unscientific survey in which it asked people to choose the most hated team in the sport, and Duke was the runaway winner (loser?) with 53 percent of the more than 20,000 votes cast. There is a hateduke.com Web site, which we're guessing isn't much different from the Duke-Sucks.com site. A Google search for the term "hate Duke" turned up 1,980 results. Folks just can't stand the Blue Devils.
Neither can I. But as Phil Taylor reminds us, hate is a strong word. He asks us not to confuse hatred with jealousy when rooting against Duke.
Semantics, really (though Phil's argument about "hating" boosters and bogus classes makes sense). As long as I can root against the Blue Devils, I'm happy.
Very funny (below), but a little much, says I.
