Kentucky Fan Buys Arizona Home to get '4KYCATS' License Plate

Sometimes people ask why I write so much about Kentucky both here at FanHouse as well as at my personal blog, OrangeandBlueHue.com.

The answer is simple. There's never any shortage of fascinating things happening in the Big Blue Nation. From the absurd to the amazing to the awe-inspiring, you'll find it if you're covering Kentucky. Seriously, the stories write themselves.

In Gary Parrish's July 04 entry to his 'Parrish Thoughts' blog, he mentions a comment received by a Kentucky fan in response to one of his recent columns on Billy Gillispie. The commenter, 'David,' wrote that he bought a summer home in Arizona just so he could register his car there. Why Arizona? Well, it should be obvious, you big dummy! It was the only state with the '4KYCATS' license plate still available.

Parrish noticed the comment and emailed 'David' asking for more. His response (scroll to Parrish's July 04 entry) says it all:

A real estate agent told me how to go online and check the states' computers for personalized plate combinations. I was looking for a summer home and had tried other Rocky Mountain States for months to come up with a combination that would look cool on a red corvette, but everything is taken by all the wildcat fans. Found a home near Sedona, Arizona. Looked on the state's MVD computer, and lucky me there was 4KYCATS. Everywhere I drive that car I meet Kentucky bball fans. Bottom of Bryce Canyon national park: Ky fans. Top of the capitol dome in Denver: Ky fans. Ran out of gas on a charter boat in the mangrove swamp of the Florida Keys. Who comes to my rescue? Ky fans who saw my Ky jersey and towed me back, told me if I had been a Duke fan they would have left me there to die.

You just can't do any better than that. Thank you, David, for making the wacky world of college basketball fandom a better place.