SPORTS: An Open Letter to Ute Fans From Max Hall

Mat – you are stupid. Of course Max Hall didn’t write this. It was written by Jake Welch as it says on the bottom. And Jake – good job. That’s good stuff man. Go Coogs.

I have to say this is the most brilliantly minded, poetic blog ever written. Thanks for you humility Max. I am so glad it was sincere at not sarcastic.

yessss!!! i am glad to see that the whole article is a slap in the face to all fans of sports everywhere that get offended but what anyone would say, really is that big of deal. Plus in a couple years no one will remember or should care anymore. Good job Jake, that was amazing.

Nice try!! Max Hall doesn’t have time to both cultivate such hate and write this well…… But with those ears???? He probably just heard someone else say it…. in CHINA!!!

Dear Utah Mormons,

I have a little message I would like to write to you. Your kind young men sacrifice two years of their lives and much of their money to promote a good image for their church, only to return from their missions spending the rest of their lives sabotaging the very image they wished to salvage by being ferocious BYU, Ute, and Jazz fans.

Do you realize this Ute vs. BYU rivalry effects deeper than your community? You stir up a bad image of hypocrisy and venomous hatred for the entire state, culture, and religion over a thing called football that is supposed to be in fun and good nature. This is highly idealistic, but a strong religious community that cares more (with action) about who said what in a football match comes across as missing the point of religion when we have children starving and war going on outside the little bubble of our lives.

While the *image* is not true, the image (the majority visible of) you present to the rest of the United States and the world is that you’re a state sharply divided by a good-hearted religion ethics that yet has half the state strongly against it as “Anti-Mormons” (whatever that means) with the other half being pompous and highly prideful “followers” that are more sucked into a culture than the religion of following Jesus’ advice to turn the cheek instead of enrage of action. If you wish to be identified as Christians, you must walk as Christians. That stands for anybody who identifies with Christ. I say this with kindness and openness.

Experience shows me your attitude justifies in the mind of quicker-evaluating folk that the “mean spiritedness” and “everyone’s out to get us” attitude which these LDS descendants have is the same inherited attitude that got the religion in trouble in the first place, and that the murders and persecutions back and forth were highly justified if LDS Christians never are willing to turn the cheek. This is not right, but it is a very strong perception.

I am from California, I love every Mormon I know from California, overseas, and every other state I have encountered them, and while I love all of you, it is hard for me to take your religion and culture seriously when the highest concentration of its followers seem to strongly carry the same sword of bigotry that you claim to be attacked with (real or imaginary).

It is hard to stop a fight, but realize the bickering may degenerate the image you hope to uphold. Take these comments with kindness, I have no hatred intended, but a perspective that may help for those who care about the topic I brought up.

“In the meantime, we will see what happens next year. Until then, go ___ yourself, BYU players, fans, coaching staff, and alumni. Utah hates you too, we’re just not retarded enough to say it on television.”

…about as classy as it gets.

max is an idiot! we dont care he hates us thats expected. all the BYU fans need to realize that its the way he said it. he said we were classless in the most classless way possible. he is a complete hypocrit. morgan scally and paul kruger. funny he said almost the same thing about arizona where he was supposed to play ball but he didnt cause their fans “threw beer on his family”.

Everything Max Hall has written only helps to confirm why BYU is so badly looked down upon. It is not a school that makes someone who they are. The worse people can come from the best schools and just the reverse is true.
Let’s stop the hate. When such arrogance and hate, from either side, is demonstrated that person only destroy themselves. Remember you can’t truly say you hate someone or a certain school until you get involved enough to speak for yourself and not go off the rumors of others.