One of the many, many stupid things I got in trouble with white supremacists Brent Lamar Top and Keith "I bizarrely recount stories to kids about distributing a white supremacist text to victims of the repressive Somoza regime" Neeley about was mentioning how Jim McMahon loved to publicly recount how he drank beer and committed other violations of the "Honor Code" at BYU but got away with it because he was the star quarterback on the football team. "Oh, no!" they exclaimed. "BYU would never allow such hypocrisy!"
Here's one of many, many articles that repeatedly confirm the tale -
It has been 27 years since the punky QB known as McMahon threw the last forward pass of his senior year for BYU, after which, depending on whom you talk to, he either was immediately kicked out of school or left just as soon as he could.
“Happiness was Provo in the rearview mirror,” McMahon said in his autobiography.
That was in 1986. That was a long time ago. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge. Some of it may even may have wound up in a certain beverage that McMahon likes to drink when he’s playing golf....
That last one seems to be the biggest obstacle. Jim McMahon never graduated from BYU. Wasn’t allowed to. Or didn’t want to. One of the criteria for Hall of Fame consideration at BYU is that athlete-students graduate. That’s right, athlete-students. To refer to them in the other order would be as hypocritical as looking the other way while your star QB commits Honor Code violations because damn — er, darn — he sure can throw the football on Saturday afternoon.
Not that he wants in, but those nine credits — three classes — are what is keeping Jim McMahon out. That, and the beers he drank on the golf course when people made excuses for him — I mean, weren’t looking.
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