By Hannah Gordon
News Assignment Editor
If you want someone to take your opinion seriously, the first thing you have to do is disregard all spelling and grammar rules. Next, forget what anyone told you about fact checking. No one cares if what you say is true or can be supported with real information. Oh, and you should definitely make your point by attacking irrelevant information.
The above paragraph is nonsense, just like TurtleBoy Sports, a blog about sports and entertainment (turtleboysports.com), who said he blogs under the name TurtleBoy to protect his family.
“TurtleBoy needs to make sure his family is safe from obviously mentally unstable and possibly psychopathic St. Bonaventure fans,” TurtleBoy said. “St. Bonaventure is not the first program or person I have called out, and they won’t be the last. Thus I choose to remain anonymous.”
TurtleBoy’s newfound opinion of Bonaventure is harsh.
“I really had no opinion about St. Bonaventure fans until recently,” he wrote. “I mean, who gives a (expletive) about a school of ZERO relevance? Now I can say with absolute certainty that I hate them.”
That’s how TurtleBoy began his Jan. 30 blog post rant about St. Bonaventure following the UMass/Bonaventure basketball game, which resulted in a 78-65 win for the Bonnies. Our unranked team won against a nationally ranked team for the first time in 14 years.
After that loss, it’s understandable that UMass fans were upset, but TurtleBoy took to his blog and wrote a post attacking St. Bonaventure University, its students and irrelevant details of the game, like the color of our jerseys, which are, according to TurtleBoy “the color of poop.” Bona’s brown represents the color the friars wear because Bonaventure is a Franciscan University.
Other inaccuracies in TurtleBoy’s post included Bonaventure’s location. According to TurtleBoy, Bonaventure is not only in Buffalo, but all Buffalonians (including Bonnies because they are all from Buffalo by his geographic understanding) are “nudniks,” and “animals.”
So, please, TurtleBoy, keep saying Bonaventure is in Buffalo. Bonnies will keep laughing. And keep saying our rural university of 2,000 students is small and therefore stupid. St. Bonaventure has produced five members of Congress, where UMass has one, and six Pulitzer Prize winners, where UMass has three, according to their respective websites.
In a follow-up post, TurtleBoy replied to the comments from Bonnies and clarified that we aren’t in Buffalo.
“They’re somewhere in upstate New York,” he said. “Doesn’t really matter where though since upstate New York is a completely irrelevant part of the United States of America. That’s why God just dumps a (expletive) ton of snow on it every year. He doesn’t want anyone living there on account of it sucks so bad.”
TurtleBoySports makes no sense in his post. He didn’t fact check himself enough to know where St. Bonaventure is located. He attacked the colors of the school instead of the way the team played. He ranted instead of making a valid point because he was mad that UMass lost.
We aren’t irrelevant. We aren’t stupid. We’re proud to be Bonnies, and if you don’t like that, then tough luck. We’re the WolfPack, and that means we support each other and our school no matter what. Go Bonnies.
Hannah Gordon is the news assignment editor for The Bona Venture. Her email is gordonhr12@bonaventure.edu
