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Football wedding faces racist threats

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Shoeless Joe

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The Boise State running back who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.

Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise.

Since his Jan. 1 proposal, Johnson said, he has received phone calls, letters and some personal threats from people who object to their marriage plans.

"You take it for what it is -- the less educated, the less willing to change," Johnson, 21, of San Dimas, Calif., told the Idaho Statesman for its Tuesday editions. "But we're not acting like we're naive to all the stuff that's going on. We know what's been said. We're going to make sure we're safe at all times. It's an amazing day for us, and we'd hate to have it ruined by someone."

"It's really sad because a lot of people that are probably doing it are the same people who were cheering me on," Johnson said.

A Boise State football spokesman, Todd Miles, said Tuesday that Johnson hoped to put the matter behind him and did not want to discuss it further. Popadics' family said she was not available.

At the Fiesta Bowl, Johnson used a "Statue of Liberty" play to score the winning two-point conversion as underdog Boise State beat the Oklahoma Sooners 43-42 in overtime. The Broncos ended their season 13-0.
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Fiesta Bowl star Ian Johnson says he's hired wedding security because of racist threats - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports
 
Not to put too fine a point on this, but what exactly did Ian Johnson expect to encounter in Idaho? The most-enlightened populace in the US?

I'm certain this story will be a boon to Boise State's recruiting.:susp:
 
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So do these low-lifes send death threats to all non-white weddings? Or just those they see on the boob tube?

Had they had the balls to show up at the wedding, I would have had the security detain them, and introduce them to the Boise State OL (led by 6'6" 319 Ryan Clady)
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Maybe you should have thought about this before you decided to air your personal life on national TV, moron.
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So I guess we won't hear you complain about a race-oriented comment on BP?
 
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jwinslow;889498; said:
So do these low-lifes send death threats to all non-white weddings? Or just those they see on the boob tube?
So I guess we won't hear you complain about a race-oriented comment on BP?
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I've would never complain about the "race oriented comments" if I was treated the same way as well. I only started complaining when it was obvious there was a double standard at work. Watch Tibor call somebody "ignorant" or a "fool" and get banned. Watch somebody else make racial remarks and nothing happen. :roll1:
 
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Both are out of line, regardless of whether your race or his marriage surfaced in a public arena.

If you appear in a pittsburgh paper pictured with your wife, you won't mind if people make death threats to her?
 
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This is 2007 and race should not be a factor at all, I watched this game and watched him ask her to marry him and I thought it was cool that he did it the way he did. The people sending him threats just because he is black and she is white need to grow up after all this is 2007 and not 1940.
 
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