I would have to agree with this post but maybe look at it in a different light. I remember attending a BYU vs. Utah game a few years back with a couple of friends. They were student of the U but very avid BYU fans. Because of their student ties we were able to get tickets to the game. Unfortunately our seats were smack dab in the middle of the MUSS which made for an interesting evening. Of course we got harrassed (which you would expect sitting in the student section of your biggest rival). What I was surprised with was the amount anti-mormon comments coming from the students mouths. It was vile and hate filled and aimed directly at my affiliation with the LDS Church and not at my membership of BYU. A few rows behind us was a cardboard cutout of President Hinckley with a noose around his neck. I certainly can't say that these comments were coming from the majority of the fans sitting around us (as the non-mormon Ute fans were in the minority remembering that the University of Utah has the second highest LDS population behind BYU). Reflecting on that game I am dissappointed in the LDS Utah fans that I know were surrounding us. Unlike the original poster I do feel that you can poke fun at BYU and the so called "self righteosness" of the student body. I'm a BYU grad and will often find myself poking fun myself. I've often wondered how as an LDS Utah fan you could reconcile the idea that members of their same affinity group were cutting out life sized pictures of the Prophet and tying a noose around his neck. Or how you could stand to sit in the student section and hear the phrase "effing mormons" repeated over and over. I think it is easy to play off the level of anti-mormon sentimant coming from "some" Utah fans by simply saying it is anti-BYU. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if one of the many LDS Utah fans surrounding me at the game that night asked the group waiving the President Hinckley cutout to take it down. Or if an LDS Ute fan looked at one of the fans yelling "effing Mormons" square in the eyes and asked, "are you talking to me"? Unfortunately neither one of those things happened that night (and on top of it all BYU lost). That night it seemed like devotion to one's school surpassed devotion to one's God.