Assholes of the Day: Idaho Racists

Last year's Boise State-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl was one of the greatest college football games JP has ever seen. It won the ESPY for best game of the year. The last play of the game, a Statue of Liberty play where the QB pretended to pass and handed it off behind his back for the game-winning two-point conversion, was awesome. Oklahoma trailing, then taking a commanding lead, then giving it up, was also thrilling.

One of the ancillary memories about that game was Boise State's star RB Ian Johnson proposing to his cheerleader girlfriend right after it was over. I have to say, I thought it was kind of cheesy, but I'm not a player hater: He had the balls to do it right after the game, the TV crew caught him, she said yes, it was a pretty decent moment for dude.

But now that it's time to get married, Johnson's getting threats because he's black and his fiancee's white.

Johnson, who will be a junior this fall, proposed to Popadics, at the time a Broncos cheerleader, on the field after time expired in the game in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Since then, Johnson said he's received phone calls, 30 letters and, in some instances, personal threats from people who objected to his plans to marry Popadics.

Congratulations dumbasses. For the first time in Idaho history, someone's actually talking about the sports going down in your state. I've seen BSU ranked as high as fifth in preseason polls. If you're a racist in Idaho, could you please just STFU for a season or two until the Broncos are off the national stage and back to mediocrity so we won't have to hear about it? People who protest things that have no effect on them need to do what their parents did: Get a job.