Ann Arbor — Jake Butt enjoys a good joke as much as the next guy. And owing to his last name, as well as his chosen position — he’s a tight end, of course — he has heard more than his fair share of bad ones over the years.
Yet he’s hearing them all over again in the wake of a breakout performance in Michigan’s nationally-televised season opener Thursday. Almost immediately, the Internet memes came flying his way — some old, some new, most childish, a few clever. And Butt figures he caught nearly all of them, just as he did with the passes thrown his way in the Wolverines’ 24-17 loss at Utah.