Football Player Jake Butt Tackles Name-Haters Head On

Jake Butt is over 6 feet tall and 237 pounds of pure muscle. He’s a freshman playing a key role for a top-20 football team in the Michigan Wolverines. And he’s got a very bright future to look forward to after choosing to play for the Wolverines over a host of national programs, including Stanford and UCLA

But his last name is also Butt. To make matters worse, he plays the tight-end position — making him, yes, a tight end named Butt

This has, in the immature world of college sports, predictably led to many sophomoric jokes at Butt’s expense. But Butt took a go-to move out of the pubic relations handbook this weekend by getting ahead of the story, and mocking his critics’ juvenile humor in one fantastic Twitter post: Read more…

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