all thanks to jimmer

living this close to my beliked alma mater, we get to see jimmer-mania firsthand. and let me tell you, i LOVE it! and he really is all "they" say he is. (those ambiguous they people again.) a while ago, some girl got a bee in her bonnet about how much attention mr fredette was getting and tried to horn in on it. so, she wrote a letter to the pape...

Letter: Idol worship

Mon, 02/07/2011 - 21:02

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.

while this letter in and of itself is simply amazing,  it's got nothing on what happened later on facebook...

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• Jimmer never said it would be easy, he just said it would be worth it.
• For the record... She compared Jimmer to Nephi.... who's taking it too far??
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• Michelle you called the basketbal arena on BYU campus the Marriott Center but its actually been renamed The House that Jimmer Built
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• I noticed in your letter that you accidentally forgot to capitalize some of your pronouns when you referred to The Jimmer. I am sure that He doesn't appreciate that.
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• Jimmer once played Michelle in a game of Connect-4, Jimmer won of course...in 3 moves.
• Jimmer Fredette can speak French... In Russian.

not that i'm one to enjoy admitting faults (my own at least; i'm all about admitting those of others), but everyone can take things too far at times. in either/both directions. this letter and the subsequent comments are prime examples. all thanks to jimmer. love that guy.

*i do not condone any use of improper grammar. thank you.