"GOD H8S FAG FOOTBALL PLAYERS & THEIR ENABLERS," the Westboro yelled, in caps on its website, in announcing their plans to picket.
The idea inflamed the campus. "We were angry," says Sam's teammate, senior left guard Max Copeland. "We're football players. We're protective. That's our brother."
And it all just made you want to hurl -- until two Missouri coeds had an idea.
"We wanted to do something to stand up to the hate," sophomore Alix Carruth said.
"We're both Christians," sophomore Kelaney Lakers said. "We know that's not God. God is love."
Their idea: Make a human wall to block out Westboro, a huge line of solidarity between their classmate and the Westboro stench.
"A single line, arm-in-arm, a sign of One Mizzou," they wrote on Facebook. They called it #StandWithSam. And they made up 1,000 buttons to give out.
It wasn't nearly enough.
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