Michael Bischoff

Co Host of the @tripleSpodcast. Sports fanatic, BYU grad, and I love sports.

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

2020 isn't all bad!
Baby Bischoff due July 1st!

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

Here's something you don't see every day.

BYU's official comms team signed up for an account on the largest BYU message board to respond to rumors about the school's AD.

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

Having a PR nightmare? Well, we have the solution just for you! GET A DOG!!

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

It's a beautiful night for Star Wars night at the ballpark. Also I got to watch Mookie Betts strike out on two pitches because he took too long getting into the box.

[NHL @NHL]

WHAT A SERIES IT WAS FOR LOGAN STANKOVEN 🚨 #StanleyCup

[nascarcasm @nascarcasm]

Here's a version where the rest of the field is tipped on its side and everything is fine with @ZaneSmith #NASCAR

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

Please help Tom Grossi raise money for Undue Medical Debt and escape the incentive where he's been stuck doing a voice and being in character for the last 24 hours. He's losing his mind. https://t.co/8kMczWvDqt

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

I'm counting this as a win for the Jets.

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

Thank you Gold Zone for flipping between everything while I'm holding a sleeping baby and can't use my hands.

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

Also using a picture of Rocky III for Rocky I's 50th anniversary is driving me nuts

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

This is the most insane way of sorting a list of anniversaries I've ever seen.
By date? No
Alphabetically? No
By title length? Yes

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Major movie anniversaries happening in 2026:

Ali (25th)
JFK (35th)
Paul (15th)
Dune (5th)
Thor (15th)
300 (20th)
Jack (30th)
Cars (20th)
Drive (15th)
Hook (35th)
Borat (20th)
Fargo (30th)
Shrek (25th)
Rango (15th)
Crash (30th)
Arrival (10th)
Carrie (50th)
Rocky (50th)
Aliens (40th)
Moana (10th)
Encanto (5th)
Amélie (25th)
The Fly (40th)
Dumbo (85th)
Twister (30th)
Terrifier (10th)
Hamlet (30th)
Matilda (30th)
Scream (30th)
Yojimbo (65th)
Top Gun (40th)
Zootopia (10th)
Spy Kids (25th)
Deadpool (10th)
The Craft (30th)
Labyrinth (40th)
Moonlight (10th)
Moneyball (15th)
Casanova (50th)
Zoolander (25th)
King Kong (50th)
La La Land (10th)
Taxi Driver (50th)
Your Name (10th)
Rogue One (10th)
Dirty Harry (55th)
Space Jam (30th)
Miami Vice (20th)
Highlander (40th)
Blue Velvet (40th)
Point Break (35th)
Happy Feet (20th)
The Holiday (20th)
Bridesmaids (15th)
Nacho Libre (20th)
Training Day (25th)
Halloween II (45th)
Citizen Kane (85th)
The Prestige (20th)
Pearl Harbor (25th)
Frankenstein (95th)
Don’t Look Up (5th)
Stand By Me (40th)
Monsters Inc (25th)
Puss In Boots (15th)
Trainspotting (30th)
Jerry Maguire (30th)
The Evil Dead (45th)
Donnie Darko (25th)
Spirited Away (25th)
Flushed Away (20th)
The Departed (20th)
No Time To Die (5th)
Mars Attacks! (30th)
A Star Is Born (50th)
The Wolf Man (85th)
Train to Busan (10th)
Suicide Squad (10th)
The Nice Guys (10th)
Moulin Rouge! (25th)
Casino Royale (20th)
The Rocketeer (35th)
Legally Blonde (25th)
A Knight’s Tale (25th)
Romeo + Juliet (30th)
Happy Gilmore (30th)
Ocean’s Eleven (25th)
Jurassic Park III (25th)
101 Dalmatians (65th)
101 Dalmatians (30th)
Pan’s Labyrinth (20th)
Super Troopers (25th)
Over the Hedge (20th)
Children of Men (20th)
Boyz n the Hood (35th)
Thelma & Louise (35th)
Mulholland Drive (25th)
Howard the Duck (40th)
X-Men: First Class (15th)
Jingle All The Way (30th)
Black Hawk Down (25th)
Father of the Bride (35th)
The Da Vinci Code (20th)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (15th)
Superman Returns (20th)
Fiddler on the Roof (55th)
Independence Day (30th)
Mission Impossible (30th)
Batman: The Movie (60th)
Y tu mamá también (25th)
The Addams Family (35th)
It's a Wonderful Life (80th)
Alice in Wonderland (75th)
The Nutty Professor (30th)
The Princess Diaries (25th)
The First Wives Club (30th)
A Clockwork Orange (55th)
From Dusk Till Dawn (30th)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (25th)
Night at the Museum (20th)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (45th)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (65th)
Beauty and the Beast (35th)
Little Shop of Horrors (40th)
My Dinner with Andre (45th)
The Royal Tenebaums (25th)
Escape from New York (45th)
The Devil Wears Prada (20th)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (45th)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (40th)
The Fox and the Hound (45th)
The French Connection (55th)
The Cabin in the Woods (15th)
All The President’s Men (50th)
Muppet Treasure Island (30th)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (25th)
The Fast and the Furious (25th)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (25th)
The Ten Commandments (70th)
The Silence of the Lambs (35th)
Big Trouble in Little China (40th)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (5th)
The Pursuit of Happyness (20th)
A Streetcar Named Desire (75th)
Captain America: Civil War (10th)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (50th)
James and the Giant Peach (30th)
Wet Hot American Summer (25th)
The Great Mouse Detective (40th)
The People Under The Stairs (35th)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (15th)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (35th)
The Transformers: The Movie (40th)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (30th)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70th)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (60th)
An American Werewolf in London (45th)
Captain America: The First Avenger (15th)
Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (10th)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (25th)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (20th)
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (55th)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (15th)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (20th)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (20th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (25th)

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

• 12-win team
• Barely survived late GT pass to the endzone that just missed
• Lost to 1 team this season, a team in the conference championship

UGA gets a 1st round bye and BYU misses the CFP??

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

The formula started off 4-1 straight up and against the spread so far this bowl season. It won't last but it's really nice so far.

[BoozeCougs @BoozeCougs]

Wow Notre Dame is really dodging BYU in the Pop Tarts bowl after talking shit to us for WEEKS! 😂

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

I love Kalani

[#IamJackDamuni 🇫🇯 @JackDamuni]

HE AIN'T GOING NO WHERE!!!

GO COUGS!!!

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

A GREAT day to be a Coug.

[Michael Bischoff @mbishky]

BYU borrowing a quote from a former BYU QB

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

11-1

Headed to the Big 12 Championship.

It would be a disservice to our sport if this team’s not a playoff team.

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

11-1

Headed to the Big 12 Championship.

It would be a disservice to our sport if this team’s not a playoff team.

[Heidi Hatch KUTV @tvheidihatch]

A couple who survived being shot at their Grand Blanc @Ch_JesusChrist meetinghouse in September tried to enjoy a @BYUfootball game this weekend, just a few hours from home, when their sense of security slipped away again as parts of the crowd chanted, “F- the Mormons.”

On Facebook, Brandi Hicken wrote that she and her husband, Jared, “got to sneak away this weekend for a much-needed date night” at the BYU–Cincinnati game. She said they hoped for a night where “the attack is not at the forefront of our minds for once.”

Instead, the trip became an emotional reminder of the hate that took the lives of four members of their congregation two months ago.

Last month, the FBI said the attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse in Grand Blanc was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” toward the faith. The gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, rammed his truck into the building during Sunday services, opened fire and set parts of the church on fire. He was killed by responding law enforcement.

Jared and Brandi Hicken were among the survivors. Jared, a native of Roosevelt, Utah, and a fourth-year chief emergency medicine resident and BYU grad, helped other victims after being shot in the leg. Their 5-year-old daughter, Piper, was also hit, and Brandi suffered shrapnel wounds as she carried their two youngest children to safety.

“Jared took a bullet to the leg. My 5-year-old took one right in the middle of her back,” she wrote shortly after the shooting. Doctors later determined Piper’s wound was more superficial than they first feared, likely caused when a bullet ricocheted before hitting her. Brandi said she didn’t realize she had been hurt until the adrenaline wore off and she saw blood on her dress.

Now physically recovered, the couple drove to the BYU–Cincinnati game hoping for a break from the anxiety that has followed them for two months. Brandi said the chants from portions of the Cincinnati crowd left her shaken.

On Monday, Cincinnati athletic director John Cunningham issued a public apology to BYU and to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The use of offensive or religiously derogatory language by a group of fans during Saturday’s game was unacceptable and does not reflect our values,” Cunningham posted to X. “We remain committed to creating an environment at Nippert Stadium where every visiting team and its supporters are treated with dignity and respect.”

Brandi shared the letter she sent to Cunningham describing how the chant affected her as a survivor of a religiously motivated attack.

The full letter:

“Dear Mr. Cunningham,

I am writing to you from my heart as a disheartened college football fan. More specifically, as a BYU football fan and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commonly know as “the Mormons.”

As a BYU alumni and huge fans of college football, my husband and I took the opportunity to travel 4.5 hours from our little city in Grand Blanc, Michigan to come spectate and enjoy our favorite pass time at the BYU vs. Cincinnati football game at Nippert Stadium last night.

I want to provide a little bit of background for you in order to portray the strength and courage it took for us to travel to this event and really try to enjoy ourselves.
You see, just eight short weeks ago, while attending church, we were attacked at our place of worship simply for being “Mormon.”

Someone with hatred in their heart rammed their truck into the front of our church building, entered the chapel, and began shooting us and setting our church on fire while many people were still hiding inside. As my family (me, my husband, and our three young children), ran for our lives, my husband and my 5-year-old daughter were both shot. I was also running with my 15 month old baby and my 3 year old in my arms as I was struck in my back with shrapnel. I will spare you any further details about the nightmare we lived through that day and the recovery that has followed, but miraculously, me and my family all made it out alive.

The anxiety and fear we have felt since that day has been debilitating. We have put in a lot of work in that short 8 weeks so we can try to feel some sort of safety and normalcy again and enjoy the things we used to, including football games.
We had been planning to come see this game for months as we don’t get the opportunity to see many BYU games in person since we moved across the country for my husband’s medical training. We almost didn’t come because it felt scary and overwhelming since the attack on our church. However, we know we cannot live in fear and we need to enjoy the things that used to make us happy. We decided to come and that took a lot for us both mentally and physically. I was nervous putting on my BYU fan gear that day because I knew it would identify me as one of ”the Mormons.” I did it anyway.

I was apprehensive when I walked down to my seat and saw that the nearest exit was pretty far from me. I continued to my seat anyway. We came. We smiled. We cheered. We enjoyed ourselves….Until the University of Cincinnati fans began to chant “F** the Mormons.”*

This is not a new chant. This is not a chant that is specific to your university. This is a chant I’ve heard before while enjoying a football game whether in-person or on tv. It’s always disheartening to hear. However, now that we Mormons have been quite literally targeted, attacked, chased, shot at, and some of us have been killed simply for being “Mormon,” this chant is no longer just disheartening. It’s crippling. It’s personal. It’s unacceptable. Period.

While I did hear the announcer give a warning over the speakers at the game that such chants will not be tolerated, it was simply just that- a warning. It was not just a few fans, it was tens, possibly hundreds of the university’s student fans chanting “F** the Mormons.”*

Please, Mr. Cunningham, do not tolerate it. Remove them from the game. Don’t let them come back.
Educate them on the seriousness of their actions. Set that standard and expectation moving forward and enforce it. We are hurting. Badly. We just want to enjoy the things that make us happy again without the fear of being targeted and attacked for our religious beliefs.
I know you have no control over the Cincy fans on the shuttle after the game ranting about Mormons and how awful we are and how we must have just paid off the refs because we’re corrupt and evil. I don’t get it, but I am used to it. It’s not new to me to hear this stuff and these huge misconceptions about my faith. But now it is personal. Now it is me fearing for my life everywhere I go because someone decided to take it there. Someone tried to kill me, my kids, and my husband. Someone killed 4 of my friends. Now the chanting means something more than it used to.
I know you can’t control the actions and words of the fans on the bus. However, I do believe you have the ability to get control of the students’ hurtful and hateful chanting.

If you made it this far, thank you for listening. If I am mistaken about any actions that were or were not taken as a result of the chanting, please feel free to correct me.

I would welcome the reassurance.

Sincerely,

Brandi Hicken

A fellow college football fan
A Mormon
A Christian
A mass casualty hate crime survivor
A human deserving of respect”