If you had asked Gabe Ferraro, his claim to fame before this week was the abbreviation he says he invented. Long before the days of text messaging, Ferraro says he used to sign off most of his virtual communication with the letters G-F-Y-S. He has an old Eagles Michael Vick jersey with those letters on the nameplate and had T-shirts printed with the slogan long before the advent of Google. It is the name on most of his social media handles today.
Short for “Go F--- Yourself,” it would seem to align with Ferraro’s general ethos as a fearless, Philadelphia-bred Italian American who is—in the most original way—the perfect collection of almost every beautiful stereotype one would affix to a sports fan from that region of the country.