Goofy Looking Mormon Shows Us How It’s Done

Who would have guessed that some of the best smack talk of the 2009 college football season would be dispensed by a lanky, goofy-looking Latter Day Saint?

Surely not us …

Nonetheless we have quarterback Max Hall, who used a post-game press conference following Brigham Young University’s 26-23 overtime victory against arch-rival Utah on Saturday to show that sportsmanship is (not) alive and kicking in America.

From the Salt Lake City Tribune:

Asked a rather innocent question about whether the 26-23 victory redeemed him for last November’s five-interception game in a loss to Utah, Hall said, “A little bit, yeah. I don’t like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, I hate their fans, I hate everything.”

His comments came in a formal news conference, in front of several television cameras and media members.

“So it felt really good to send those guys home,” Hall continued. “They didn’t deserve it. It was our turn, and our turn to win. We deserved it. We played as hard as we could tonight. And it felt really good, again, to send them home, to get them out of here, and so it is a game I will always remember.”

Prodded mildly to elaborate, Hall asked, “You really want me to go into it?”

And then he continued, “I think the whole university, their fans and their organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year, and they did a whole bunch of nasty things, and I don’t respect them, and they deserved to lose.”

Wow.

Hall was reprimanded by the Mountain West Conference on Monday for his remarks, which apparently violated conference rules against hating your opponents.

He later apologized for some – but not all of his controversial comments.