Peyton Manning Whining About Fake Twitter Account
Peter King’s MMQB – Last week, Manning sent me this e-mail: “Peter, wondering if you could do me a favor. This twitter, facebook, myspace is a problem for guys like me, Eli [Manning], (see about Ben R. and Cutler). Eli and I do not have a twitter or facebook or myspace account or page. Yet there are imposters out there acting like us. The people at twitter and facebook can’t stop it. Our representatives contact them, and they may take it down for a day, but then it pops back up. If you could put something in your MMQB that these pages for me and Eli are not real, it would be a big help. The more people that know that these are phonies, the better for me, Eli, and whoever. It’s just unbelievable that someone could do this and the people at twitter and facebook can allow it. Who knows what these people are posting on the pages is the scary thing. Anything you can do to bring light to it would be great. Thanks, PM.”
I’m beginning to think we can turn this into a regular feature here at the Stool. “What’s Peyton Manning Whining About This Week?” Jeez, you’d think the reigning NFL MVP and the guy who leads the league every season in getting his ass kissed wouldn’t get so worked up over someone goofing on him with a fake Twitter account. I mean, doesn’t a little harmless satire come with the territory? Isn’t it a “price of fame” thing? Like Homer Simpson said “If celebrities didn’t want us pawing through their garbage and saying they’re gay, they never should have tried to express themselves creatively.” Some guys can take it, some guys can’t. Do Peyton and Eli think Tom Brady hasn’t been a staple of late night talk show monologues for a couple of years now? Or that someone set up a website, “tonyhomo.com” which is supposed to be written by Drew Bledsoe? Do you hear those guys bitching? No. They’ve got bigger fish to fry. The sad irony here is that the fake Peyton Twitter page (“Wow Slumdog Millionaire got 8 Oscars!“) is more entertaining than anything either Manning brother has ever said on their own. But I think the real reason Manning is all pissed off about it is the obvious one. Because he’s not making a buck off it. How else can you explain two guys being morally offended by this, but they’ve got no problem having an Oreo licking contest?
(Thanks to Mike M. for sending this.)
peter king is important.
and jerry, you’re missing the larussa story. he sued twitter over this shit.
The guy who is the biggest pitchman whore int he world is worried about an imposter on twitter.
Yea right Peyton, and I bet you use that crappy piece of shit flip phone you are schlepping on TV (I guarantee you you DONT use a blackberry, storm or iPhone…you keep it old school).
Idiot. I almost like Eli more than you and I hate Eli.
I was just going to say the same thing Scruples. The bonehead ‘pretending’ to be Larussa was also making fun of the fact that a couple of the St. Louis pitchers had died in the last couple years. After a long road trip it was something along the lines of (and i’m paraphrasing),
“…well look on the bright side, none of our pitchers died….”
I mean WHO in their right mind would make fun of somebody dying…oh wait… I forgot….
bottom line here is that twitter sucks. i’m embarrassed for people that use it.
cut that meat! cut that meat!
I am sick of Shaq. He is 45, washed up and keeps running his mouth about people who are relevant.
As for Peyton … i hope he dies.
Pattyb said: { Jun 8, 2009 – 03:06:04 }
I am sick of Shaq. He is 45, washed up and keeps running his mouth about people who are relevant.
huh?
I would like to whine about Jerry whining about Peyton’s whining, but I won’t…
I don’t fucking get why these famous dickheads are making a big deal out of imposter twitter pages. When imposter myspace pages have been around longer.