The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

Schlereth: To upset a large group of people uninvolved in a topic by ridiculing them on national TV.

Who doesn’t love the backlash from a terrible comment made in front of a national television audience?? I could tell you one thing, this guys LOVES it. I can’t get enough of it, it is like gravy. Sure, I’d love some gravy on my turkey! Absolutely top that stuffing with a shit ton of gravy. Pumpkin Pie, screw it glob that gravy on there. Hence why for some odd reason, I only watch news on Thanksgiving. Just tons of live commentary…

As posted earlier, Mark Schlereth had some lovely words to say about helmet to helmet blows in the NFL. Now, I personally love hard hits in the NFL, and I do believe he has a point in how subjective this shit is going to become. Who is to say a ball-carrier didn’t lower his head to basically force a defender into slamming him right in the dome? Let’s just say I will really be upset when the NFL institutes a flag football policy, FUCK THAT NOISE! But I do love one thing: watching the backlash from an insensitive comment and bringing people into a conversation who have nothing to do with a situation…

Lando, LA Galaxy and USMNT:


Jozy, Villarreal and USMNT:

Taylor Twellman, New England Revolution:


And best of all… How does Schlereth respond? By basically implying John Elway wouldn’t have won a Super Bowl without him:

“Go Fuck Yourself, Denver.”
-Mark Schlereth

N.B. The Tweet Quote plugin is having some issues, so enjoy these gross screen shots instead!!

I watched this on NFL Countdown last night, with Golic actually trying to make some sense of the fines and suspensions (can’t believe I actually wrote that Golic was the sensible one…). I am convinced Schlereth is absolutely insane. I could imagine him screaming at the top of his lungs if this was 1949 about how ridiculous it was that players had to start wearing actual plastic helmets. “Are you joking me? You are turning this game into stock car racing!” We all see beyond your words Schlereth; you are just waiting for the cushy job sitting in that ivory tower at 280 Park Ave.

Hello everybody. I’m not going to get all wild and emotional with this post and tell you about my life. Pretty simple: I live for sports and Magners on ice. Chances are, you will hate me. But on the other hand, we will both collectively hate this douche-salad:

Hope I don’t let you down, I’ll try my best to make you either chuckle at work or run straight to a national landmark. I look forward to being here and with that, I leave you with this (it helps fire me up about this whole “trying to write for my first blog at 23 years old” thing):

According to his Twitter feed, Jalen Rose claims that Lebron James is not returning to the Cavs.

Rose released this information about 37 minutes ago.  Of course, we don’t know if Rose’s sources know anything at all.  But for some reason I, personally, think he probably has some good sources.

Boy, was I dead wrong about Jalen not having big news.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about athletes and Twitter, it’s that this news will not live up to the hype…

If there’s a second thing I’ve learned, it’s that the only way to follow these sort of tweets and make it fun is to do it in real time… So stay tuned for an update when the news breaks.

My gut tells me it has something to do with boxing.