Social Media and Today’s Game

Poor James Washington is getting hammered on Twitter this year. The expectations are very high for the first year wide receiver, but his output isn’t what everyone was hoping for. So, that got me thinking. What would’ve been tweeted about Chuck Noll his first few years. He would’ve been butchered. One win and thirteen losses in his first year would’ve definitely led to tens of thousands of tweets…daily. Even though the Steelers were lovable losers for the previous decades we still would have carved him up. Five wins in his next season may have lessened the beating, but we’ll never know. In Chuck’s third season he had six wins. Who keeps their jobs as a NFL head coach after only twelve wins in his first three seasons? Lynn Swann only had eleven catches in his first year. Stallworth only had sixteen catches his first year. What would the tweets have looked like in 1974? Oh. And to think what would have been tweeted about poor Terry Bradshaw. Oh my. You know he would’ve been on social media too. Think about these Hall of Famers and the what if’s if we had social media back in the day. Poor Bradshaw.