Thursday Throwback: Converse in the NCAA aka Louisville Hate Day

Around Kentucky and all other places in the BBN, Big Blue Nation for those of you that don't know, today is Louisville Hate Day.  This is one of my all time favorite holidays as it signals the nearing Kentucky vs Louisville football game. 

However, Louisville isn't all bad, historically speaking.  There was a time before Ricky P that Louisville was one of the teams sponsored by Converse.  That was back in the day when Converse wanted to promote their basketball products and used college basketball teams to showcase their shoes and later jerseys.  Anyway, I thought it would be nice to show off what that used to look like and I found a great picture with U of L players wearing the Converse Springfield and Dr. J 2000 along with some other React shoe that I can't identify.

This picture is the only picture I want to see Louisville celebrating in for a long long time.  Happy Louisville Hate Day and Happy Thursday Throwback.

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'S Friday Flashback: Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Camp T-shirt

"It's Finally Friday, oooh what a Happy Day."

So I wasn't joking when I said that I loved the Wyoming Cowboys color combo.  However it wasn't until I sat down to do this post last night that I found these pictures of a Wyoming Cowboy Basketball Camp/Converse T-shirt.  This beauty was on eBay a little while back, but of course it was in a way too small of size for this guy.  

Well that's it for today, I'm double dipping for Football tomorrow.  First I'll be in Lexington for the UK vs     U of L game and then I'll be making the trip out to Bowling Green for the WKU game later on tomorrow night. Crazy weekend coming up, but you've gotta love football season!

Converse NCAA's Friday Flashback

Welcome to Converse NCAA's Friday Flashback. It's been a big week here in the Bluegrass as everyone is very excited for tomorrow's football game with the Cards. Game starts at 7:30 and is going to be on ESPN Classic. Often times I am critical of ESPN, but they may have gotten this one correct. So in honor of the big game I thought I'd share a little Kentucky Wildcat Blue and White with everyone today. Now I know it's not actually Wildcat blue, but it sure isn't Red/Black/Yellow. I don't hate Louisville, in fact I think it's great for the state and football here, but just this week I do.

Converse NCAA's Friday Flashback

Converse All Star Basketball

I am also coming with a basketball shoe this week, I felt like it had been a little while. So these are basically just a Chuck Ox, with the Chevron and Star and some different stitching. However, I really feel like less is more here. It's very simple, clean, and to the point.

I just can't get enough of the Chevron and Star, so nice.

Well not a lot to say this week, since these aren't my shoes and I know very little information about them. Well if you're not in this area you should check out the game tomorrow night at 7:30 on ESPN Classic. Thanks for reading, have a great weekend.