Tennessee fans react to UK's checkerboard end zones

UK introduced the new Commonwealth Stadium field design yesterday to an uproar of criticism and hatred from our neighbors down in Tennessee. The new CWS field will feature checkerboard end zones, a homage to Kentucky’s horseracing tradition and Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and that has Vol Nation fuming.

I threw on my best sanitation worker disguise and snuck into a Tennessee message board this morning to see just how upset UT fans are with Kentucky “copying” their end zone design. This is what I found:

peyton4heisman: They should. The shape of the K is perfect. They’d run to midfield, then turn 135 degrees and run back to the locker room!

vosams: UK has a football team?!?!?!?

dovervolz: You’d think that since they’ve never won a game against a team with checkerboard end zones on they’re field , UK would want to try something different

volfaninky: Home of the Copy Cats!!

LA Vol: Maybe they should just go with Kentucky Copycats.

UTvolz9890: Bless their little kitty cat hearts

StarRaider: We pretty much own that stadium so it might as well look like NEYLAND.

HuntlandVolinColo: Kentucky-Top You’ll always be a trailer park to me, sorry old Kentucky top! Kentucky Top not for me, Kentucky Top not for me!

Power T-Rev: Might as well. We score more in their own end zone than they do

As David Cornett points out on Twitter, Kentucky had the checkerboard end zones at Stoll Field back in 1930. Tennessee introduced the checkerboard in 1964.

So suck it, Vol fans.

For the ignorant UT fans (i.e. all of them)-UT started using checkerboard in 1964, UK in 1930.Pic of Stoll Field 1930 pic.twitter.com/CkvDlx95GD

— David Cornett (@DACats86) May 15, 2015