July 29, 2010 @ 08:19
Just when you think you've seen all the stupid you need to see, along comes a guy like Argos offensive lineman Rob Murphy.
His imbecilic tweets have landed him in hot water with his team, the Canadian Football League and anyone else who has a brain in their head.
What would possess this idiot to make racially offensive tweets while a member of a professional sports team is something that nobody will ever been able to explain.
In this day and age where mindless social networking has caused pain and suffering for thousands of nitwits, how could such basic common sense escape this guy?
I guess the obvious answer is that he's taken too many shots to the head but that's too easy.
The answer is more like this, he's an asshole.
At this very moment there are people all over the world getting stung and stung hard by hitting a send button without using their heads. There are people losing jobs and friends and family relations because of dumb-ass things they've written on twitter, facebook or web pages.
How did Rob Murphy not clue into this?
How could this guy become a professional athlete with an increased profile and obligation to image of so many others and tweet about "smelly foreigners and Frenchland."
Here are the tweets. Pumped to be smelling foreigners this early in the A.M. They smell less offensive this way ... little known fact."
Another post by Murphy read, "OK ... the novelty of riding on a train thru Ontario and "Frenchland" has worn out ... get me off this damn thing!!!!"
It is so horrifically stupid you can only deduce that he really believes what he writes.
Some might argue that being a CFL player doesn't qualify has high profile, but it does, and more importantly it makes him a target. How did he not think about this?
There millions of offensive tweets being made as I write this by people who don't matter. They don't have a "name" or a special identity so in essence they get away with it or they're written off as idiots without really paying for it.
By pulling on an Argonaut jersey every week, Murphy has a unique status that changes the rules for him when it comes to stupid, but again, he obviously didn't grasp this.
All it took was one person to grab one tweet because it was coming from an Argonaut and the rest his history.
Murphy has defended himself by saying this - "Obviously my recent tweets have gotten blown out of proportion. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by my recent comments. I was JOKING around"
Sorry jerk off but that doesn't cut it.
You've not only embarrassed yourself, but a team and an entire league.
The Argos play in Montreal this weekend. I wonder if the fans will be able to smell your stupidity.
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