@DAPhilipP Well, sort of. RT @AdamSchefter Welcome Back football.
The NFL lockout demonstrated that above all things, the business of professional football is business.
After 136 days of negotiations between the owners and the players, the two sides agreed to a labor contract on Monday. So, logically, and to the delight of fans and players, the season begins with, well, negotiating.
@DAPhilipP Wait, didn’t we just do that? #whocaresthisisawesome!!!
Luckily, players and owners put down their pens and picked up their helmets because camps for all 32 teams were open Friday.
*@TrueTyrellePryor2 Did some1 say sumthin bout autographs? Dont look at me RT @Buckeyesfan222 Do you mean that players won’t be able to sign autographs after practice?
*@ChadOchoCinco_deMayo Check wit T.O he keeps em in his sock RT @Buckeyesfan222 Do you mean that players won’t be able to sign autographs after practice?
Personally, I’m excited to see my Dolphins bring Reggie Bush’s talents to South Beach. For those unfamiliar with the former heisman-award-giver-backer, besides guest appearing on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Bush’s most notable lockout activity involved tweeting that he was on vacation.
@Reggie_Bush Everybody complaining about the lockout! Shoot I’m making the most of it! Vacation, rest, relaxing, appearances here and there! I’m good!
The tweet grabbed so much attention that it required Bush to appear on national media outlets to address the mis-tweet and to rehab his image.
*@DAPhilipP Didn’t hurt him much. 2-year $10 million deal @MarleyNme U mean lazy and unmotivated doesnt look good on a resume?
Bush joined a long list of players who’s smartphones made them look dumb. Does everyone remember Rashard Mendenhall’s tweet?
*@Congressman_Weiner Dear Rashard, Twitter might not be the best place for that.
Let’s face it, Twitter and its 140-character limit just doesn’t provide the context necessary for explaining massive government corruption.
*@TheReptilian Yea man, start a blog.
Of course Twitter isn’t the only place displaying athletes’ foot-in-mouth disease. Plenty of players articulate their wisdom through media outlets.
“Its modern day slavery. You know?” Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who makes about $1 million a game, said in an interview with Doug Farrar of Yahoo’s Shutdown Corner.
And, of course, there’s Pittsburgh’s favorite skull-cracker.
“If that man was on fire and I had to piss to put him out, I wouldn’t do it,” Steelers linebacker James Harrison said of Commissioner Roger Goodell in a Men’s Journal article.
*Charlie_Sheen-an-a-half-man James Harrison = #Tigerblood #Winning
Maybe as a newspaper journalist I’m just bitter. Twitter users are self-sourcing my job. Writers like me are headed the way of typewriters and land-line phones. Newspapers work to provide context and credibility but, ppffff, who needs that.
@DAPhilipP So, what the heck, here’s to inserting foot-into-mouth.
Besides, firing off a tweet from my couch is probably as close as I will get to hanging with Bush, Mendenhall or the Kardashians — but, you know, in a much less expensive living room.
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