Twitter has become a technological touchstone in everyday life. From the clever to the flat-out mundane, most of us have tweeted something we aren’t proud of (oh, you think you’re invincible? Scroll through your timeline and tell me you don’t cringe. It’s the social media equivalent of hearing your own voice). Here we round up what some of the most popular football players, coaches and teams first tweeted… before they were check-mark verified and made it Twitter Big Time.
Denver Broncos – Feb. 21, 2009
Cutler was traded April 2.
New England Patriots – April 25, 2009
Do tell! Actually… don’t.
Rob Gronkowski – April 21-23, 2010
Can’t imagine who sponsored these.
NFL – April 23, 2009
No website links? Screwed up hashtags? #Ama teur
Pete Carroll – Jan. 21, 2009
Glad to see that tough rule-enforcement carried over to the NFL!
Roger Goodell – April 25, 2009
Matthew Stafford – July 21, 2010
Roger Goodell – April 26, 2009
Mark Sanchez – July 17, 2009
Agility (noun):
1. the power of moving quickly and easily
2. the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly
Roger Goodell – April 26, 2009
(“Because they were trying to punch me in the face”)
Jim Irsay – Dec. 1, 2010
Deep thoughts with the Indianapolis Colts owner.
Marshawn Lynch – June 5, 2011
Meaning, “Don’t get mad if I never reply to you, that’s just how I am.”
Larry Fitzgerald – May 21, 2009
Clay Matthews – Jan. 7, 2010
Aaron Rodgers – April 14, 2010
Homonyms are fun.
Andy Dalton – May 9, 2012
We can only hope American Idol inspired you to be competitive in 2015, Andy.
Demaryius Thomas – Feb. 23, 2010
And later that day, when his Honda Headline Tweet proved unresponsive to Twitter…
Finally, a series of special tweets from the San Diego Chargers
Even Chargers employees hate working for the Chargers.
Think he learned the “ends and outs”? The fact that the Chargers have “#Chargers” in their title name tells me… probably not.
Life updates!
And bringing it back to hating life as a Chargers employee.
Wowzerz!
And finally, the burning questions we all ask: