Over the weekend, the St. Louis Rams selected Michael Sam in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL Draft. And Sam created quite a bit of controversy on Twitter when he responded to the news about getting drafted by giving his boyfriend a kiss. The kiss was captured by ESPN's cameras and run over and over again on Saturday and Sunday and lots of people out there reacted very negatively to it. Even one NFL player took to Twitter to voice his displeasure with the kiss.
But the most ignorant reaction to Sam's kiss may have hit Twitter earlier this morning. Shortly after seeing the kiss on ESPN's SportsCenter today, former Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson took to his Twitter account to speak out against ESPN showing it. And his tweet was, well, ignorant to say the least:
Henderson isn't a stranger to saying and doing some pretty outrageous things. But his tweet may go down as one of his most egregious outbursts of all time. And thankfully, people aren't reacting well to it on Twitter:
Yikes. Expect Henderson's tweet to be deleted in 3, 2, 1…
UPDATE 1:
After sending out his initial tweet, Henderson also sent out this:
But then, he threw out a curveball by claiming that his first tweet was a social experiment of sorts (riiiiight...) and sending out a series of tweets trying to explain himself:
UPDATE 2:
Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork responded to Henderson's tweets with two tweets of his own:
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[via @NativeFlash22]
