There’s both a time and place to tweet, as two Texas Twitter users found out Saturday.
The Texas Longhorns fell to 1-4 Saturday after getting hammered by TCU, losing 50-7 in Fort Worth.
During the game, two unfortunate tweets spelled trouble for those responsible.
At halftime, Texas cornerback Kris Boyd retweeted a message from a Texas A&M fan suggesting he should transfer. To his credit, Boyd, a freshman, replied, “Stay motivated.”
That’s the only good thing.
Asked about the tweet after the game, Texas Coach Charlie Strong (Batesville, Central Arkansas) was not happy.
“Our players should never be on their phone at halftime,” Strong said. “I was not aware of that. They should never be on their phone.”
On Sunday, Boyd issued an apology through the school.
“As I’ve had time to reflect on my actions, and after personally apologizing to my coaches and teammates, I would also like to extend my sincerest apology to all of the Longhorn fans and family and everyone at UT! In NO Way did I intend to be disrespectful or disloyal. I deeply regret my actions and want to reassure everyone that I am 100% committed to this team and program. I take pride and honor in being a student-athlete at The University of Texas. I promise everyone that I will learn and grow from this.”
He got off easy compared to a member of the Texas Rangers social media team.
His mistake was tweeting out “Fire Charlie #bye”. No so unusual coming from a Texas fan in light of the Longhorns’ struggles this season. Only problem is, the message came from the official Rangers Twitter account.
It was quickly deleted, but a few resourceful Twitter users managed to grab a screenshot, leading to this:
“The Texas Rangers wish to apologize to the University of Texas and its head football coach Charlie Strong for the very inappropriate and insensitive message that was briefly posted on the team’s twitter account this afternoon,” the Rangers said in a statement.
“The tweet was posted by a member of the team’s social media department that was neither working for the Rangers nor was at Global Life Park today. Effective immediately, that individual is no longer employed by the Rangers.”
In other words, someone got fired for suggesting someone else be fired.
Maybe Texans should just stay off Twitter.
Good excuse
Sometimes, baseball is more important than civic duty — at least for Blue Jays fans.
That’s the excuse one Canadian man came up with when attempting to get out of jury duty last week. And it worked.
According to the Ottawa Sun, the man had been selected as a juror in a murder trial when he sent a note to Justice Patrick Smith asking to be excused from the proceedings because he had tickets to the Oct. 8 American League playoff game in Toronto.
“I’ve waited 20 years for a moment like this,” he wrote.
The judge read the man’s note in court, and, after discussing it with lawyers involved in the case, excused the man from the trial.
“Hope you enjoy the game,” Justice Smith said before replacing the man with an alternate juror.
Who was that man?
NASCAR Xfinity crew chief Jason Burdett picked up a victory Saturday with driver Regan Smith
— and an impostor.
The man, who was not identified, sat at the Dover International Speedway media center press conference table and answered three questions after Saturday’s race before he was shooed away by a NASCAR spokesman.
“I was nervous, but the way we kept on driving, I thought we had a chance and we just hung on for the rest of the race,” he said.
After that, the jig was up.
A NASCAR spokesman asked the man his name and why he was there.
“Jordan, I’m a big NASCAR fan and I’m glad to be here,” he said.
He then left the media center, which normally requires a race credential for entrance.
Hey, as long as he plugged the right sponsors, they can’t be too upset.