Retweet of the Day - October 22, 2013

The New York Giants won their first game of the 2013 season last night, 23-7, at the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football. It was the most abominable MNF presentation of the season. It offered an unbelievable performance by Minnesota Vikings quarterback Josh Freeman - unbelievably awful.

Freeman put the ball in the air more than 50 times, completed less than half of his passes for fewer than 200 yards with no touchdowns and an interception. Freeman was signed withing the last two weeks by the Vikings, who benched ineffective QB Christan Ponder, after being released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Clearly, Freeman has some work to do on learning the system and building chemistry.

Today's retweet is from Peyton's Head (@PeytonsHead):

"#Vikings Josh Freeman said he was "a hair off". I hope I never run into the animal that has hair that big." 

 

His hair has been bigger than most.

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Retweet of the Day - September 16, 2013

The Denver Broncos at New York Giants game, dubbed "The Manning Bowl", with a 4:15 pm EDT start, was the most eagerly anticipated afternoon NFL game of Week 2. Quarterback Peyton Manning of the Broncos won his duel with younger brother QB Eli Manning of the Giants, 41-23. Most of the country was able to watch the game on CBS.

Per NFL rules, the home market team must be broadcast in that market, defined by the league, when the home market team is playing on the road or is at home and the game has sold out. CBS has exclusive rights to deliver AFC Sunday afternoon road games and Fox has exclusive rights to deliver all NFC Sunday afternoon road games back to the respective home markets.

The Jacksonville Jaguars traveled west to play at the Oakland Raiders yesterday. Kickoff: 4:15 pm EDT. Ordinarily, I can only imagine that home town fans would rather see their home team before any other contest, no matter how high-profile the matchup is. However, many, myself include, think the Jaguars are already on the clock in the 2014 NFL Draft and the Oakland Raiders are bad...really bad.

Today's retweet is from Peyton's Head (@PeytonsHead), not new to the Retweet of the Day:

Too funny. RT @BleacherReport Orlando TV station apologizes for having to show the #Jaguars game http://bit.ly/194inq5

With this kind of "support" do you even want to play at home if you are a Jaguars player?

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Retweet of the Day - August 16, 2013

Alex Rodriguez is like the gift that keeps on giving to sports journalists, broadcasters, and bloggers. The traditionally slow summer sports news cycle has been a little fast because of him and all of the sensational twists involving Rodriguez and the MLB investigation into performance enhancing drugs (P.E.D.s) distributed by the now closed Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. Now, in addition to being a juicer, A-Rod is allegedly a rat.

ESPN reported that a 60 Minutes report will claim that Rodriguez's associates leaked information to Yahoo! Sports this past winter that implicated Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun (.298, 9 HR, 38 RBI) and Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli (.269, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 17 GP), his teammate. Both of those players are serving suspensions for their involvements with Biogenesis.

His teammate? That would be pretty low. Through his attorneys, Rodriguez is denying the allegations. Still, the public isn't holding its breath regarding Rodriguez's integrity.

Today's retweet is from Peyton's Head (‏@PeytonsHead):

"Has A-Rod never heard the saying "Snitches get stitches"?"

He didn't even rat out Jason Varitek (right, whipping A-Rod's ass). Could you imagine what his own teammate might do?

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