http://www.gzdefensefund.com/donate/Posted on 07/14/2013 2:35:33 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
New York Giants star receiver Victor Cruz tweeted an ominous prediction for George Zimmerman shortly after Zimmerman was acquitted of murder, and then quickly deleted the tweet. And later apologized for it.
The NFL star tweeted to his more than 334,000 follwers, “Zimmerman doesn’t last a year til the hood catches up to him.” The tweet has since been deleted.
In a series of follow up tweets, the Giant said that his angry tweet was “my initial interpretation of the reaction I was reading on twitter.I immediately realized my tweet was a mistake and I apologize.”
Cruz was not the only football player to spark protest with a tweet about the Zimmerman trial verdict. Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White was also barraged after this tweet: All them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid
Rather than deleting the tweet after a round of protests from the twittersphere, White defended his words in another tweet an hour later:
It's crazy how people on twitter want me to get in trouble for a tweet that they are retweeting because they want something to happen thanks
This morning, though, White tweeted an apology: I understand my tweet last nite was extreme. I never meant for the people to do that. I was shocked and upset about the verdict. I am sorry.
Twitter saw a flood of passionate comments about the verdict. In the minutes following the announcement, tweets about the case shot to more than 47,800 TPM (tweets per minute) according to the ABC News Social Desk.
The total number of tweets about the verdict — more than 4.5 million — has surpassed the number of tweets about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Perhaps someone realized that food stamps can’t be used to buy game tickets.
I’m done with the NFL.
I don’t care if the Giants win every game this season.
I’ll be doing something else.
http://www.gzdefensefund.com/donate/“I hope he jumps White’s over rated sh!t.”
Me too. But I have also started contacting sponsors. I hope others thought to do the same. I kind of had a blonde moment until I saw another posters’ suggestion.
These people figured out that this would put the kibosh to any endorsement deals they had going. Sad excuses for human beings.
Somebody needs to take the cell phones away from these National Concussion League types. They aren’t right.
I’m switching over to college ball. I’ll save my Sundays for church only.
As I remember it Willie Horton was jailed and paid his debt to society. He turned out to be a real man.
Must have been a Rhodes scholar. /s
The only sports I watch now are hockey & tennis. Not because they are basically white but because they usually act like gentlemen. Except maybe when one hockey player slue foots another or whacks him with his stick.
Wrong Willie Horton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton_%28baseball%29#Early_years
Willie Wattison Horton (born October 18, 1942 in Arno, Virginia) is a former left fielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for six American League teams, primarily the Detroit Tigers. He hit 20 or more home runs seven times, and his 325 career home runs ranked sixth among AL right-handed hitters when he retired. He enjoyed his best season in 1968 with the world champion Tigers, finishing second in the AL with 36 homers, a .543 slugging average and 278 total bases. In the later years of his career, he was twice named the AL’s top designated hitter.
Did he say he though it would happen or did he encourage it to happen? It is common sense that there will be some people out to get him. I never read what he said just peoples reactions.
So the big tough guys are supporting the big bully. What’s surprising about that ?
” It’s time to stop watching.”
Well, you can watch motorsports. The only sports left that require more than one ball!
THUGGERY — nothing more nothing less like trained seals spinning a ball on their nose
Good one
Would like to see more emphasis on the bully/victim relationship
This time the bully lost !
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