Redskin in trouble over Twitter
NFL players can handle blocking and tackling. Now they have to prove they can handle Twitter.
NFL players can handle blocking and tackling.
Now they have to prove they can handle Twitter.
Linebacker Robert Henson has yet to play in a regular-season game for the Washington Redskins, yet he drew attention from veteran teammates and coach Jim Zorn yesterday after tweeting about the boos that accompanied a 9-7 victory over St. Louis on Sunday.
After the game, Henson tweeted: "All you fake half hearted Skins fan can . . . I won't go there but I dislike you very strongly, don't come to Fed Ex to boo dim wits!!"
He also wrote: "The question is who are you to say you know what's best for the team and you work 9 to 5 at McDonalds."
Henson, a sixth-round draft pick from Texas Christian who has been inactive for both games this season, got a talking-to for his postgame activity.
Later, he apologized.
"I understand the weight that my words carried and, you know, how I offended some fans," he told reporters at Redskins Park.
"Robert is a young player learning to handle his emotions during and after the game," Zorn said in a statement released by the Redskins. "When he gets a chance to play, I want him to have this level of emotion on the field, not off the field."
Quotable. Kansas City linebacker Derrick Johnson, on the possibility of facing Michael Vick in the Wildcat formation on Sunday:
"You've got to have somebody watch him at all times because he's probably the most talented guy in the league. He's not a quarterback who's just going to stand in there."
The game? What's that? Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has done a lot of headline-grabbing things since he took over the team in January.
Among other things, he has partnered with Serena and Venus Williams, Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Jimmy Buffett.
He's also opened a private club at the stadium and last night issued hand-held wireless TVs for premium seat holders.
How rich do you have to be to pay for a premium seat - then use it to watch reruns of Law & Order?
Humble he is. Kurt Warner set an NFL record on Sunday by hitting 92.3 percent of his passes (24 of 26) in a 31-17 win at Jacksonville.
Afterward, Warner was almost apologetic, saying he felt like he "stole" the record.
"It just happened," the quarterback said, calling it "one of those games where everything seemed to work in my favor."
"Anquan [Boldin] makes a one-handed catch; a couple of plays where I had to throw the ball away, there happened to be penalties," he said. "Guys making plays, the coach calling good plays, there was so much involved in that."
Warner has seen nearly everything in a career replete with highs and lows.
"I've been benched by different teams, I've been booed at different stadiums," Warner said. "It happens. You just keep fighting and you do what you do. I think I'm a pretty good quarterback, and at the end of the day, I'm going to continue to resurface and we'll be all right."
