WATCH: Popular Lexington sports bar goes wild in closing moments of Florida upset
By Keith Farner
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The celebratory scenes around Lexington Saturday were something to remember as students, alumni and other fans reveled in Kentucky’s upset win over Florida in Gainesville, which snapped a 31-game streak in the series.
A popular Lexington sports bar, Two Keys Tavern, on South Limestrone Street, just blocks from the University of Kentucky campus, was a sort of ground zero for the celebrations. With DIRECTV suffering an outage following a storm passing through the area, fans were left to follow the action through their cell phones and a radio fee.
That didn’t appear to damper the excitement as patrons jumped for joy, screamed and hugged anyone around them as the seconds ticked off the clock and the 27-16 result became final. And of course, they broke into a “C-A-T-S CATS, CATS, CATS” chant.
The video below comes from Fletcher Page of the Courier-Journal.
Tom Leach and streaming with TV signal out in Lexington — the scene at the buzzer. pic.twitter.com/Q88fYju1SC
— Fletcher Page (@FletcherPage) September 9, 2018
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
