Twitter can be (but not always) a fun place.
Sports and twitter sometimes (but not always) seem perfectly matched.
Here are some of the best tweets from the past week:
Heading into Sunday night’s football game between the Bears and Packers, there was this clever tweet:
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"@MayorIrving: “@NFL_Memes: Marty McFly vs. Bears Fans pic.twitter.com/mEEicSaH9y” @djordan3223" hahaha!
— D.J. (@djordan3223) August 21, 2013
Then after the Packers had their way with the Bears and Cutler:
#Cutler jersey on the team he helps the most. @nfl #packers @espn #bears @JeremyAdamRoss @davealthouse pic.twitter.com/wAgv3uqJ73
— Sean Towle (@seantowle) November 10, 2014
On Monday night, the Pistons’ Andre Drummond might have had a word with the guy who made his jersey:
The Detroit Pistons misspell Andre Drummond's name on jersey last night vs Bulls pic.twitter.com/RnV4BHmmlh
— Doctor NBA (@DoctorNBA) November 11, 2014
The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant set an NBA record ...
This is a record Kobe Bryant didn't want... #FSLive pic.twitter.com/KP9rh6zyzn
— FOX Sports Live (@FOXSportsLive) November 12, 2014
...which just shows that he’s also made a lot of shots, too:
In honor of Kobe Bryant's missed shots record, MLB's leaders in outs: 10,328 - Rose 9,136 - Aaron 9,126 - Yaz 8,893 - Ripken 8,569 - Murray
— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) November 12, 2014
This is not sports related, but what?
Ladies & Gentlemen, you can now buy Twix by the yard... #America pic.twitter.com/bc0NFAitzB
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) November 13, 2014
On Thursday, Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall and a Detroit Lions fan apparently made plans to, um, meet and box. Fight Club!
@AnthonyGKalla Deal or no deal bro? This is your chance to back up your talk and make 25k.
— Machine Marshall (@BMarshall) November 13, 2014
The New England Patriots reached 1 million followers and tweeted special jerseys of each one of those followers using their Twitter handle. Unfortunately, one of those handles used a racial slur. Whoops.
Buffoon of the afternoon award goes to @Patriots social media guy after this massive oopsy. http://t.co/pnP6GnZrD6 pic.twitter.com/ZLHo0A7X7h
— SportsJOE.ie (@SportsJOEdotie) November 14, 2014
We apologize for the regrettable tweet that went out from our account. Our filtering system failed & we will be more vigilant in the future.
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) November 14, 2014
On Friday, word circulated that Giancarlo Stanton was poised to get a 13-year, $325 million contract from the Marlins. This was the tweet of the week:
Live look in at Giancarlo Stanton... pic.twitter.com/kENwQJ2ksa
— YoAnty (@YoAnty1) November 14, 2014
During a Saturday afternoon game between Ohio State and Minnesota it only seemed natural to have ice cream ... while it’s snowing:
Of course, guy from Minnesota is eating ice cream in a blizzard pic.twitter.com/Hd6kw9h9nG
— Tom VanHaaren (@TomVH) November 15, 2014
And finally, how about the Nebraska “defense” which allowed Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon to rush for 408 yards:
Summary of Nebraska's defense versus Wisconsin's offense. pic.twitter.com/lNTJdQOPLq
— Levi Valentine (@Levi_Valentine) November 15, 2014
To reach Pete Grathoff, call 816-234-4330 or send email to pgrathoff@kcstar.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/pgrathoff. And if you have a tweet you’d like to see in next week’s list, let me know.
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