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Report: 31 Kentucky Wildcat fans arrested for rioting over a basketball game

By Josh Hill

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Kentucky Wildcats fans rioted in Lexington and a grand total of 31 knuckle draggers were arrested for acting like morons. 

When your team loses a game that will be replayed the following year — and subsequent years after that — you naturally get so upset that you want to start inanimate objects on fire.

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It seems, at least to the intellectual or anyone above the age of 12, that this is a bad idea. But sports fans are a different breed and the brand of crazy they represent all depends on their affiliation. For Kentucky Wildcat fans, the brand of crazy they displayed on Saturday night was pretty much what you’d expect from an insane fan base that just watched a perfect season end thanks to poor shot selection and even worse officiating.

According to NBC News, Kentucky fans rioted in Lexington and 31 people ended up being arrested following the Final Four loss to Wisconsin.

Thirty-one people were arrested after Kentucky fans set fires in Lexington, police said, after the Wildcats’ undefeated streak came to a stunning end at the hands of Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament Saturday.

This isn’t uncommon for sports fans, but rioting after a game ends is still one of the most neanderthal things we can do as a society. It’s pretty prehistoric when you think about it, as a large group of people did not get what they want, so they resort to lighting things on fire and breaking stuff.

You can’t drag your knuckles any lower than that.

It’s not just Kentucky fans who foamed at the mouth after the Final Four concluded, as fans in Wisconsin took to the streets as well. But the stigma of the losing fan base has always been that there will be rioting — just like there will be rioting when someone wins the national championship game on Monday night.

Kentucky fans have a right to be angry, as they got jobbed on a number of calls late in the game and watched Aaron harrison airball their season away. But the bottom line is that it’s 2015, and it still seems like a good idea for grown adults to light things on fire when their team loses.

Hide your horses, the world is running out of paste to eat.

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