Don't Mess With The Jimmer

Meet Jimmer Fredette:




He is the starting point guard for the BYU Basketball team and arguably the most exciting player to watch in college basketball this season. Averaging over 27 points per game, Jimmer is currently in the running for the National Player of the Year Award. Jimmer has quickly become one of the most respected and loved basketball players in the country. After posting 47 points against Utah earlier in the season, Jimmer's popularity amongst America has quickly grown. Jimmermania is sweeping across the nation. He has been all over tv programs, sportscenter, radio shows, websites, twitter, etc. In Provo, he is reverenced. He is worshiped. He is idolized. Apparently there is one BYU student who doesn’t get the hype. Here is a letter to the editor of the school's Daily Universe that she wrote entitled "Idol Worship":

"I can’t walk across campus without hearing Jimmer Fredette’s name a dozen times. His name comes up everywhere: in class, at work, during lunch … really, people? Cut it out with the Jimmer worship. Last time I checked, idol worship was very much frowned upon in the scriptures.
Don’t you have a life to live? Then quit wasting it in front of the TV or in lines at the Marriott Center.
At the very least, stop trying to convert those of us who don’t follow BYU sports and don’t care that baseball and badminton are two different things. Pushing basketball on us isn’t going to make us like it any better.
I’m not blaming Jimmer for all this; was it Nephi’s fault in the Book of Mormon when his brothers worshiped him? As far as I’m concerned, Jimmer is perfectly free to live his dreams. If he reaches his goals and lives his dreams, more power to him. I would like the same courtesy from his fans: let me live my own dreams in peace, even if they don’t include ever sitting in the Marriott Center screaming my brains out.

Michelle Peralta
Apple Valley, Calif."


Unfortunately for the Jimmer-unbeliever, she signed the letter with her real name. To make matters worse, she posted a status update to her PUBLIC Facebook wall a few hours later:
"just wrote another irritated letter to the editor of the BYU newspaper. I hope this doesn't turn into a habit"

Last night I was on a BYU message board (cougarboard.com) and saw that someone had posted that her profile was open to comment on. Literally within seconds of reading this I went to her status and watched as the comments poured in. It went from 4 comments to about 27 in literally 2 minutes. In the next hour the responses to her status went viral. I was seriously crying laughing at some of the comments. Within an hour she had over 250 comments on her status. It took her until this morning when she had over 500 comments that she finally changed her facebook settings to private. Luckily someone archived all the comments for us here. Unfortunately, I was too busy laughing my head off and "liking" comments that I didn't get to contribute to her erupting status. Most of the comments were very creative, however there were a few that were a little too over the top blasphemous. Here are just a few of my favorite comments:

"You are hereby invited to attend the first church of the Jimmer! We worship every Wednesday night and Saturday afternoon."

"Wow, glad I finally finished reading this thread. Now I can brush my teeth, pray to Jimmer, and go to bed."

"One time the BYU basketball team was walking on the beach and they looked backed and only saw one set of footprints!"

"looks like your facebook page just got jimmered"

"If this thread goes down, Jimmer will resurrect it, he has that power. You know that now, right Michelle?"

So anywho, this story went viral overnight and was talked about on radio shows, internet articles, and sports websites.

Here is an invitation that FrontRowFanatics has sent Mrs. Michelle Peralta: