Sunday, January 27, 2013

Inside Twitter, sports’ digital locker room - ESPN The Magazine

It’s not every day an athlete can tell the NFL off, not get fined and become an overnight social-media success story. Then again, not every athlete is T.J. Lang. 

It was back in Week 3 of the NFL season, when the Seattle Seahawks beat the Packers on a controversial Hail Mary in the final play of the game. The winning score was ruled a touchdown by the replacement referees, ending the game and fittingly also ending replacement referees. It’s been dubbed the “Fail Mary” and the “Inaccurate Reception.” 

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