I was about to go to sleep late Saturday night when multiple “tweets” by Patriots defensive lineman Kyle Love caught my eye. Love is one of the many Pats players who has a Twitter account. I will not repeat any of the several explicit tweets but to see for yourself, here is his Twitter handle.
In this case, twitter proved to be a “loaded gun” for another athlete. Loaded gun, is of course a metaphor for being extremely dangerous. Love definitely made a mistake in not censoring himself and who knows what ramifications could be in store.
I am very disappointed in Love for these tweets. I find this extremely out of character and unusual for him to say the type of messages he used late Saturday. I would not be surprised to see the commonly used “Sorry, my account was hacked” garbage that many pro athletes and celebrities resort too. Never the less, the fact that he even said these comments is concerning and outrageous.
Above and beyond the several tweets, he also talked to several fans about being a role model. After many fans expressed their frustration towards him, he went on to say how he was not a role model and was just a normal person.
“My dad was my role model, Malcolm x, Dr king, Obama, these are real role models, people who make a difference”
“Am I the only one who has some humor, and I ain’t yo kids role model, you should be, they yo kids not mine! Just sayin”
In his defense, he did apologize to the kids on twitter and also exclaimed he was just joking around. In my opinion, however, that does not matter. There is no excuse for these kind of actions. Read what he had to say and let me know your thoughts. I am curious to see what Patriots Nation has to say about this incident.
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Great post i 100% agree i for one as shall we say twitter fighting with him over his comments, im glad you wrote about it, from karl woodlin37 from twitter
Great post Derek. I am in lock step with you on this one and curious to see what BB has to say
Thanks, Scott. I am too
I saw that Karl. Your comments inspired me to post this entry. I am shocked by his comments to say the least.
Thank you for this post Derek!!! He was out of control! If he posted just 1 tweet, maybe ok……but he tweeted all night outrageous things! That’s a lack of respect for women, his fans, his team and the Patriots organization! It’s unacceptable. I don’t care about his apologies. What has been said is said. Too late. I’m sick and tired of all these athletes who are being rude and pretend afterwards to be funny and joking! No one is laughing here.
Hi Derek,
Agreeing with you is too simplistic. Sure you “should” be nice and PC. But think of his actual words and meaning. He shouldn’t necessarily be your kids role model. Do you know his background? Do you know him personally? It is the fault of the fans and media, that we put all athletes on a pedestal. He is telling everyone that he is NOT a role model!! Let it go. He’s being real. Should BILL ROMANOWSKI be a role model? I agree with Kyle. Parents can not abdicate their responsibilities to properly teach their children the difference between on field performance and off field personas.
I agree with keithtom. The problem with social media (and especially Twitter) is that people who are constantly in the spotlight have to constantly be on guard and not be themselves, and this presents a problem waiting to happen unfortunately. He’s at a club having a good time, might have had a few lessening his guard, does what most of the people his age do which is to say Tweet it. It comes out unfiltered and more how he would talk if he was in a room with just his friends, and then we all scream “Oh my God think of the children!”. I don’t think that’s particularly fair. Yes these people in the spotlight who have huge followings should be more careful, and generally are as a rule, but unless they say something truly hateful and damaging I don’t think we should burn them at the cross over it.
Derek,
Do you think the Patriots or NFL will fine Kyle for his messages? Would they go as far as shutting his page down completely?
- JP
Hello JP,
Great questions. Unfortunately, they are hard to answer with any certainty. WIth the lockout ongoing, the NFL & team cannot fine or discipline the players…. yet. There are conflicting ideas from analysts and league personnel that the commissioner and team management may take action when the lockout is lifted. SO that will be a story line to monitor in the coming weeks. In regards to the idea of shutting his page down completely, I doubt it but it could be an option. I’m sure Belichick will have a chat with his players, if he has not already, about all of the social networking sites. Of course, that will all be taken care of “in house”.
If you want to see some bad tweeting you should look at Darnell Docket’s tweets. I don’t think Kyle was in the wrong. We are whoever we want to be so why can’t he be? The thing with twitter is if you don’t like to see someone’s tweets then don’t follow him.
Agreed Bryant. I follow Docket & he certainly does not hold back. Just though it was out of character and I was a little taken back. I like Kyle Love a lot, just believe he might have been out of line a bit. But that is just my opinion.