THE NFL knows football fans are starting to get itchy. No games have been played since Valentine’s week. Scott Hanson sends its weekly summer countdown how many Sundays remain until the RedZone returns to our lives – nine weeks. However, this first Sunday is after Labor Day. As people crave to see huge humans collide, the NFL’s Twitter account posted the full Atlanta Falcons against. New England Patriots Super Bowl.
One of the most legendary choke jobs in world history, and it was visible to all with an account on Elon Musk’s sons. Seemingly innocuous social media falls on MLB All-Star night The game ended up being called off well before the ninth inning.
Falcons fans weren’t thrilled that their franchise’s biggest disgrace — no easy-to-reach list — was being shown in its entirety on a platform where it can once again go viral. All of the glorious memes from that night in 2017 were given new life on a night when no one thought of the Falcons except those waiting for the first episode of this Netflix NFL quarterback documentary.
Matt Ryan, Kyle Shanahan, Keanu Neal, Robert Alford and Ricardo Allen were minding their own business. A random memory of times when people made a fool of themselves can ruin an entire day. These men had what is probably their lowest professional moment tweeted, retweeted and the rival of the Falcons New Orleans Saints take hits.
Tweeting the whole game was a little insensitive from the NFL’s Twitter handle, but ideas that go massively viral can get endorsements from social media pros. Videos that are almost two hours long don’t normally get that kind of engagement, but this Super Bowl has been an indelible pop culture moment.
Tom Brady launched a pick-six in the first half, and it looked like Dynasty was going to quit everything like the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons. Then Shanahan – the designer of one of the greatest racing programs of all time – forgot where the transfers were in his playbook. That night was a slow, methodical and torturous fall from grace for the Falcons and their fans. Falconing was already a verb, but that night made it worthy of a place at Webster’s.
THE the whole game is on youtube for Patriots fans, Saints fans or anyone else who wants to use a view of this Super Bowl as a nicotine patch to tide them over until Kansas City Chiefs unveil their new championship banner against the Detroit Lions September 7.
It would have been nice to send jokes to the Falcons in the morning, but the NFL got soft and had to delete the message. A legitimately creative social media idea that would have allowed the NFL to do what it does best, sucking steam from big events in other sports.
But as usual, the NFL can’t help but go back to the league without pleasure. A big post was cut long before Craig Kimbrel dirty the first National League All-Starwin since 2012.
