You can bet college football is an area where heroes and villains are made every day. In rare instances, a single player can be both of those things. Case in point, Minnesota Golden Gophers quarterback Mitch Leidner. No other University of Minnesota player has polarized Gopher fans (Go-phans? No?) as Leidner has since former Broncos, Buccaneers, and Saskatchewan Roughriders (!!) QB Adam Weber. An internet article even poked fun at Leidner-hating, blaming the senior playmaker by satirically blaming him for everything from the Zika virus to Nickelback… hey! I like Nickelback.
Like James Franco said in The Interview, “they hate us because they ain’t us.