Complex Blog » Social Networking http://www.complex.com/blogs Buy. Collect. Obsess. The original buyer's guide for men. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Athletes Who Exposed Their Ignorance On The Internet http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/11/11/athletes-who-exposed-their-ignorance-on-the-internet/ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/11/11/athletes-who-exposed-their-ignorance-on-the-internet/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:03:42 +0000 jerwin http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/11/11/athletes-who-exposed-their-ignorance-on-the-internet/ buckburnettefacebook.jpg
Ahh, social networking sites: can’t live without ‘em, can’t make racist death threats against the president on ‘em. It seems University of Texas football player Buck Burnette (above) found that out the hard way last week when he was dismissed from the team for posting “all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse” on his Facebook page following Barack Obama’s election win.

Note 1: Headlines like “Texas boots player for racial slur” kinda miss the point that dude threatened the president-elect of the United States. Good thing the Secret Service reads complex.com. Note 2: White House is two words, genius. Of course, good ol’ Buck isn’t the first athlete to shoot himself (we wish) in the foot on his own blog/MyBook/FaceSpace page.

Click here to see the history of self-inflected online ether athletes have gone through…

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