sometimes when sports figures are actually decent people. Good for Majerus.
Edit: Also, props to ESPN personality Dana Jacobson who has been suspended for saying "Fuck Jesus" at a roast. Now, First, it is a roast. How do you suspend someone for being offensive at a roast? Two, the joke cannot be funny if you believe that it was actually 'anti-religious' whatever that may mean. There is a whole industry, and a whole culture in fact, out there that centers around manufactured, ginned up outrage. It is especially to be found in full force over deliberately misunderstood jokes. What Jacobson said, to take the piss out of Notre Dame grad Mike Golic was, "Fuck Notre Dame," "Fuck Touchdown Jesus," and "Fuck Jesus" There is no way to understand it as a joke if the underlying assumption wasn't that Jesus was someone who was beyond reproach. It is like the people saying that one of my favorite Sara Silverman routines, the one I posted about MLK, was racist. You can only see it that way if you refuse to understand the joke. In both these cases, the crux of the joke (no pun intended there Jesus) is that the subject is unassailable. Thereby, in making fun of them, you are making the joke about yourself. So saying "Fuck Notre Dame: sounds like idle sports trash-talk. "Fuck Touchdown Jesus" sounds like the same, but more refined and specific. "Fuck Jesus" catches everyone off-guard because it sounds like someone who has gone completely off-track and off the subject. If you actually felt Jesus to be a figure worthy of criticism, saying "Fuck Jesus" in public would just seem like a moronic way of expressing your opinion. That will not stop the fonts of false outrage however.
Since no footage of Ms. Jacobson's speech can be found...this:
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