It seemed like Nelson Muntz had hijacked the Twitter account belonging to one of ESPN’s most high-profile pointless gasbags who shall not be named yesterday. Of course, said pundit usually acts like a dickbag, so when he did his “well, as long as he’s hurt” bit regarding Jay Cutler it actually wasn’t all that much of a story.
Watching the Cutler schadenfreude unfold on Twitter yesterday following the Chicago Bears starting quarterback’s hamstring injury inspired me to Tweet this:
https://twitter.com/PaulMBanks/status/645675454813327360
Jay Cutler is one of the highest paid players in the NFL, so ripping his play is totally in bounds.
He’s also a high profile celebrity, so ripping his off-putting, insouciant personality is also very much in bounds. Celebrating the fact that he got hurt? Out of bounds; way out of bounds.
What follows below is just beyond tasteless and disgusting. There are no words to articulate how offensive this is.
T-shirt selling outside Wrigley. pic.twitter.com/xMXog1XqSs
— Kent Somers (@kentsomers) September 19, 2015
The only thing more repulsive than the idea of someone printing this Jay Cutler suicide attempt “joke” t-shirt, is the idea of someone paying $20 to own this Jay Cutler suicide attempt “joke” t-shirt.”
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