Though it likely was inadvertent, Bills cornerback Drayton Florence has found the first loophole in the NFL’s policy banning Twitter updates during games.
Florence was tweeting during the Bills-Pats game. But he was inactive due to injury, and he wasn’t with the team in Foxborough.
Under the letter of the policy, it shouldn’t matter. But, as it turns out, he’s in the clear.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells us that inactive players are prohibited from in-game tweeting only if they are in the bench area or on the sidelines.
“Other than that,” Aiello said, “it would be a Club matter. A Club could have its own policy on the tweeting liberties of such players on game day.”
So now it’s up to Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco to display the loophole he claims he has found regarding in-game tweeting by players who are actually in the game.
This was definitely newsworthy
I don’t get some of you posters. You yell at Florio for not posting enough but then some yell at him for posting stories like this.
What the hell do you braindead idiots want?
who the hell has time to read tweets from a scrub like Florence when fantasy scores are flying in all day long. tweet this!
Great job Florio. You have my interest at an all time low. I want the 30 min or so that I’ve spent reading your posts back. They just keep getting worse.
Well Chad was a no-show for all of 2008, so he shouldn’t have a problem using this loophole.
I will sleep much better tonight
am i the only person who finds all this twitter stuff retarded?
His “tweets”, aside from being utterly mundane and devoid of any apparent higher-level thinking, are poorly written, rife with misspellings, and riddled with grammatical errors. Where did Drayton Florence go to school? If he wasn’t blessed with football skills, he’d be working at Popeye’s (and not the order-taker either; the fry-cook).
What if Chad does not tweet directly but dictates his tweets to some else in the facility, who then posts them to Chad’s account? Could that be Chad’s loophole? At least what he thinks is one anyway?
I think the rules should be changed that if you tweet during a game, you get to have you phone shoved up your ass by your D-line. That would help reduce the tweeting! Or would it?
Well then, Chad could definitely have tweeted this past week – it seemed like he was inactive for most of the game.