The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

Here’s Larry Brown, Redskins running back from 1969-1976:

LarryBrown43

(Larry Brown)

#redskins Regardless of all the noise, the Redskins (players) have a financial responsibility to play at a higher level. On 2:23 PM Oct 15th 2009 from web

Larry is right.  The Redskins players owe the fans to continue putting out an effort, despite what looks to be a lost season.

Unforunately, that’s  no way to inspire players to play well on the football field.  And if Zorn is using that for his motivational speech, it’s not going to go well.  Besides, if that method did work, Daniel Snyder would be the best owner in the league instead of the worst.

But Larry Brown may not have been paying much attention to this year’s football.  He just noticed this yesterday:

LarryBrown43

(Larry Brown)

#redskins The airwaves have turned quite negative today, I hope the Redskins are listening. On 9:31 PM Oct 14th 2009 from web

It’s been negative for a long time, Larry.  I would say since 1999.

thatguy43

(chris harris)

Thanx for all support and I'm glad we got that gorilla off our back with the 1st win of the season. The cardiac cats are back! On 1:05 PM Oct 12th 2009 from Echofon

Ok I know the rule, any given Sunday, these are all professional football teams, etc.,etc.,etc….

Seriously though, it’s the Redskins let’s not start saying the Panthers are back. This is like beating to local deaf school.

Speaking of the Redskins here is a look at the opponents record coming into a game against Washington:

Week 1: vs. 0-0 Giants.
Week 2: vs. 0-1 Rams.
Week 3: vs. 0-2 Lions.
Week 4: vs. 0-3 Bucs.
Week 5: vs. 0-3 Panthers.
Week 6: vs. 0-5 Chiefs.

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redskinsblog

(Matt Terl)

Clinton Portis is officially on Twitter: @26clintonportis On 3:54 PM Sep 22nd 2009 from TweetDeck

Whoa Mama!  If this athlete’s tweets are anything like his press conferences, we’re in for some entertainment.

How can you create and portray a fictional character in 140 characters?  Clinton Portis will find out.

Also, how was Clinton Portis not one of the very first athlete twitterers?

In related news, we’re looking into purchasing thefingerwag.clintonportis.com because this guy is going to be hilarious.  He develops comedy at the highest level:

They actually air this on TV in the DC area, by the way.  No word on how Chris Cooley’s cotton shorts have affected used car sales just yet.  Also credit Antwaan Randle El for injecting a quick safey lesson where it was wholey unnecessary.