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
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There are some real class acts in baseball like Torii Hunter. He’s only been with the Tigers for a half season but I’m beginning to see why they love him everywhere he goes.
You are right. Gates Brown was the guy. I don’t know how I mixed him up with Willie Horton. I guess my brain is getting real fuzzy.
Torii makes the right people’s heads explode. I have heard he is a really great club house guy. If he doesn’t go in for coaching I bet he will be a great colour commentator somewhere, has the gift of gab. Plus, he is having quite the age 37 season.
Freegards
I understand Cruz’ point. There is not enough thugocracy in America. Anything we can do to encourage thugs and gangstas can only help race relations in America.
Willie Horton baseball player
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton_%28baseball%29
Willie Horton current inmate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton
Was “Gates” his given name, or an allusion to the prison gates swinging shut behind him?
Just the other day, Torii Hunter was working the crowd from the dugout and signing autographs for kids during the game.
They say he’s a real inspiration for teammates to go the extra mile for the fans.
Maybe the NFL can afford to give the finger to the half of Americans who are conservative... It worked for Hollywood, JC Penney, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, and LA Times etc. etc.. /s
Someone once wrote that football's defensive and offensive linesmen could be easily replaced by water buffalo on vacation from the swamp.
I have always despised football. To me it's just a group of thugs beating on each other and claiming that it's a sport.
Just like hockey, or baseball...or NASCAR.
I’ll give you hockey and NASCAR, but baseball? No, that’s a sport of skill. One must be able to hit a ball that does all kinds of funny things before it reaches the batter, sometimes at 98 miles an hour. One must also be able to run, catch, and throw. But you know that...I think.
Football players, especially the linemen, are merely hunks of muscle who are able to throw their weight at other hunks of muscle. The quarterback and wide receivers have skills but that’s all I see in the way of athletic ability in football.
We just disagree.
...and brawl.
C'mon...it happens all the time.
Oh really? I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball. Sure there are, but they are very occasional, not part of the game and it is rare that someone gets hurt, whereas in hockey fights break out all the time as to seem part of the game, and damage is often done. Football is nothing but fighting incorporated into plays as one linesman tries to beat the crap out of the opposing lineman and defensive tackles strive to bring down the man with the football even if severe injuries result (you could ask Joe Thiesman).
Baseball, with the exception of the occasional bang-bang play at the plate, is devoted to expressing skills, as outlined to you in a previous post, which you ignored.
Admit it, you really don’t have an argument but you keep at it.
That’s all I’ll be posting.
Oh really? You need to get out more.
A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl or a rhubarb, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in baseball, where all players on both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens, or benches and charge the playing area in order to fight one another...
Basebrawls are usually the result of escalating infractions, often stemming from a player being hit by a pitch, or an altercation between a baserunner and infielder stemming from excessive contact in an attempted tag out (such as a runner crashing into the catcher at home plate in an attempt to dislodge the ball). They are also known to occur when a batter charges the mound.
Depending on the severity of the unsportsmanlike conduct, an umpire may or may not eject a brawl's participants. Since a bench-clearing brawl by definition involves everyone on both teams, it is exceedingly unlikely that all participants will be ejected, but the player or players responsible for the precipitating event are often universally ejected.
Damn murderers.
Admit it, you really don’t have an argument but you keep at it.
OK. Thanks.
If as many people paid attention to the ultimate "sport" of politics as they do to this child's game, we wouldn't be in the gawdawful mess we are in today.
NFL: Negros, Felons, and Liberals. No whites or conservatives need be involved.
I said I would not be answering but when you misquote me, well, that’s another story.
You wrote, quoting me as saying, “I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball” and you said, “Oh really? You need to get out more.”
Look again. I wrote that “Oh really? I didn’t know that there were brawls in baseball but they are not part of the game, are very occasional...” In other words, you clearly lifted my words to indicate something I did not say.
By the way, you know that these “brawls” almost never result in anyone getting seriously injured. And I contrast that with the hockey fights when sticks are used and with the non-stop violence that goes on on the football field.
And I thought you were a man of your word.
Come on, I’m just jiving you...
I’m sure it’s fun and exciting...or something.
Don’t be distracted. The Federal government is going to use sleight of hand, to keep our attention focussed on riots and demonstrations like the ones in Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere, to try and give Boehner and Cantor breathing room to force amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!!
It surely must be fun and exciting, or something, to irritate an old man. Some people get their kicks in queer ways. Now go away.
Victor Cruz should be fired from Campbell’s Soup and Time Warner. It seems to me that a white woman was fired from several sponsors that didn’t even hear her say the n word.
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