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Hey Cam It's Peter King...... Click

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    When will sports writers learn that fans not only don't care if they get blown off by an athlete but it probably bumps that athlete up a notch on their eyes.
     
  2. SockPuppet

    SockPuppet Active Member

    The BigLead.com had an interesting item regarding Tweeting, the King item and another Tweet that might be misleading.

    IMHO, Twitter has become like a comedy club where writers Tweet to entertain their followers and each other. The kind of stuff we used to say to each other in the press box is now "out there" for 600,000 followers. And, I must say, how ego-inflating must it be to know that you have 600,000 "followers." The cult of King, baby.
     
  3. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    How much$$$
     
  4. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    I'm all over the place on this one. Don't really care about Peter King. I think Cam Newton is a douche, and if you were inclined to think accountability was his strong suit, you were sadly mistaken. that hasn't been the case forever.

    I don't mind a reporter making him look bad. And I can completely understand why he wouldn't want to talk to them. Nothing good has come from the media for him for the better part of a year.
     
  5. bydesign77

    bydesign77 Active Member

    I was just responding to the post that said Cam wasn't signing autographs... That tweet came from @josephperson, the beat writer for Charlotte.
     
  6. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    I still don't follow a single Tweeter.
     
  7. bydesign77

    bydesign77 Active Member

    Hell, the only reason I got on Twitter was to follow friends like Joe and others... I follow just a few celebrities, like Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Has the media reported false information about Cam Newton? Were the chronicles of his adventures through 3 different institutes of higher education not true? Was he not deemed ineligible for college athletics and made eligible within hours of each other? Were there not credible allegations of his lying, cheating and stealing? Didn't ESPN stick their collective tongue into his crotch and bathe his taint as a dove cleans the wings off a new born chick?

    King maybe a douche bag, and maybe even the King of Douche Bags, but he's earned it through years of hard work and douchery, Newton is a four month wonder. Fuck him if he can't take it. And by it I mean the truth of a what stupendous POS he is. If he don't like it, tell his pimp of a pastor daddy to return the illgotten money and tell some truth.

    Can I get a witness?
     
  9. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    I follow my heart.
     
  10. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    And Tweeter don't use his Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/scottcaan
     
  11. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    Peter King thinks he thinks he's the story.
     
  12. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    Abbott, I agree, but I don't think that it was Novelist was getting at. I think he is saying why does Newton need to talk to media that he can't control when he has numerous sycophants who only will bathe him in a clean and glowing light? (sorry I can't top the dove thing this early in the day)
     
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