{"id":3931,"date":"2015-01-16T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-01-16T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:23:59","slug":"tim_suttle-your-an-idiot-and-other-favorite-ohio-state-buckeye-tweets-from-the-past-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2015\/01\/tim_suttle-your-an-idiot-and-other-favorite-ohio-state-buckeye-tweets-from-the-past-two-days.html","title":{"rendered":"“@Tim_Suttle Your an idiot”: And Other Favorite Ohio State Buckeye Tweets From the Past Two Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Twitter<\/a>The intersection of sports and religion is tricky, and writing about it is\u00a0bound to tick some people off. But I had no idea\u2026<\/p>\n

Up until now, the most vitriol\u00a0I\u2019ve ever experienced from an article I\u2019ve published has been from the Tea Party, after an article I wrote<\/a> in 2011. The emails from that article were disturbing beyond anything else I\u2019ve received. That is, until two days ago, when \u201cUrban Meyer, God, & Running Up the Score\u201d<\/a>\u00a0ran in The Huffington Post<\/em>. Oh, holy night.<\/p>\n

Ohio State Buckeye fans take their football\u00a0very seriously, my friends. I now know\u00a0why former Ohio State\u00a0QB and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit literally had to move from\u00a0Ohio<\/a> to escape the haters. Do not poke these people with a stick unless you want them to unleash their fury on your inbox.<\/p>\n

Mostly what I received was\u00a0just your standard hate mail. I got a polite,\u00a0\u201cYou sir, are a terrible Christian,\u201d from a gentleman named Joe Petty (I did not make up that last name), who works at a Clear Fork High School, in Bellville, OH. There was a laconic \u201cF#@$ You\u201d from an underaged commenter whose name will remain anonymous. <\/span><\/p>\n

Creative.<\/span><\/p>\n

The standard Christian insult was along the lines of, you are a terrible pastor, I feel sorry for your church, and my favorite: you probably don\u2019t have any church members under the age of 70. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There were several, you don\u2019t know how to play sports, and you must have been\u00a0picked last for every team. I was never<\/em> picked last,\u00a0by the way. I was an athletic badass there for awhile. Granted I peaked athletically somewhere around 5th or 6th grade\u2026 but I digress. <\/span><\/p>\n

There was also this message written by my new friend\u00a0Corey Hudson, from Sandusky:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"FB01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Charming.<\/p>\n

So, to my ardent detractors, please allow me just one response: If\u00a0it matters this much to you, then you are way\u00a0too over identified with your sports team to be a healthy, happy, human being. You are, however, highly entertaining. So, thanks for that! (Also, I\u2019m not an Oregon fan. I actually picked Ohio State in that game. My school is K-State. And you can say anything you\u2019d like about them w\/out threat of hate mail from me).<\/p>\n

To the nearly 8,000 folks who liked the article on Facebook, the 5-600 folks who shared it with your friends, and the folks who took the time to call or email and talk about the deeper issues I\u2019m working with therein, I really do appreciate your thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n

In all sincerity, the comments and tweets around this story have been stinking hilarious, and have provided me and the folks I work and do life with a lot of laughs over the past two days. So, I wanted to share a few of them here. As you can tell from the headline \u201c@Tim_Suttle Your an idiot,\u201d grammar and syntax were not of high value in this exercise. Decorum was not a factor, either, so beware: the following content is rated PG.<\/p>\n

So in the return of the Friday Funny, these are my favorite @Tim_Suttle Tweets from the past few days & the funniest thing I could think to say\/point out about each of them. Please don\u2019t take any of it seriously in any way. Happy Friday everyone!<\/p>\n

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This gentleman gets the award for most creative self-titles. I\u2019m guessing that \u201cC-throb C-blaster\u201d is not his Christian name, but came about because\u00a0@turdbucket41 had no alliteration. On the upside, this is the first time I\u2019ve been told to #eatshit online, so that\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

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The grammatical irony of \u201cYour an idiot\u201d is just too much.\u00a0But in case you are worried about their doing any lasting damage to my reputation, rest easy. Richard and Butch have a collective 3 Twitter followers.<\/p>\n

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Hey, Kenny. I\u2019ll have you know I played a mean flag football in elementary school, and I once separated my shoulder in a church staff touch football game. I\u2019m not kidding. I jacked around the whole game, and then actually tried hard on one play & had to go to the emergency room (true story).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a registered Republican, Jake, but thanks for asking. You? I\u2019m glad to see James knows the difference between \u201cyour\u201d and \u201cyou\u2019re,\u201d and I guess he has a point about the hopscotch. Too bad this only went out to James\u2019 whopping 1 Twitter follower. I\u2019m not joking\u2026 1. Until you. You are going to follow James Culpepper, or @Misakakaiseki. Is that \u201cMisa aka kaiseki\u201d or \u2026 no wait. (Read it quickly\u00a0a few times & pretend you are Jar-Jar Binks in Jr. High)\u2026 ugh\u2026<\/p>\n

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Corey gets the award for the most honest of the commenters in terms of his avatar, \u201cI fling poo.\u201d Well played, Corey\u2026 or should I say \u201cskirt scouter 88.\u201d I\u2019m assuming that you were a skirt-scouting high school grad from the class of 88? Me too. Cool.<\/p>\n

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Actually Nick, what I say is that it\u2019s not whether you win or lose that counts; it\u2019s how you play the game\u2026 it is how you play the game<\/em>. Nevertheless, according to @skirtscouter88, I have written enough diarrhea for one week, so I\u2019ll leave it at that.<\/p>\n

Have a great Friday everyone. If you are looking for a few exiting Twitter accounts to follow, the above come highly recommended.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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