Just hours after Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy and was celebrating the biggest moment of the his life some dun found reason to throw salt in his game. Boyz went looking for dirt and found it in his Twitter feed from back in 2011 and 12 when he was 14 and 15 years old. He apparently made an anti-gay remark and on Sunday morning he tweeted this apology:
I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15. I used a poor choice of word that doesn’t reflect who I am or what I believe. I did not intend to single out any individual or group.
— Kyler Murray (@TheKylerMurray) December 9, 2018
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to write this same article about why you’ve got to use social media responsibly but I’m getting tired of it. Time and time again we’ve seen college athletes win a national title or some sort of major award and literally right when they’re celebrating the achievement their foolish tweets from high school jump out of the closet butt naked foamin’ at the mouth.
I speak at schools to young people about not putting ignorance on social media but they continue to do it anyway. When you’re 14 and 15 years old and nobody knows who you are it doesn’t matter what you post. However, when you’re 14 and 15 years old and you’ve got plans to become successful you need to be conscious of what you post. Why? Because the more successful you become the more your past will count for or against you.
Nobody cares about what the knuckle head that remains a knucklehead tweets. They aren’t growing up to become anybody or anything. So if your aspirations are to do nothing with your life then by all means continue to tweet out foolishness.
When Kyler Murray was 14 in 2011 he had no idea that he would win the Heisman Trophy in 2018. If he’d known that he wouldn’t have been reckless with his social media account but at 14 he wouldn’t have had the capacity to know that.
Yes, we tell our kids daily to stop putting dumb stuff on social media but the problem with one end of that conversation is that they’re kids, which leads me to my point. Who’s the awful human being that has nothing to do with their time but to pull up a kid’s social media account from when they were 14 and 15?
You’ve got to be a sorry excuse for a human being if you’ve got that type of time to purposely search for dirt on Twitter to ruin somebody’s day and reputation. Keep this in mind, haters don’t progress they regress. Always remember that haters are real and tweets will sit in the cut and wait on you to become someone. Don’t give them reason to embarrass you. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.