ESPN's hugely popular columnist, the "Sports Guy" Bill Simmons, accidentially tweeted "Moss Vikings" on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the NFL beat reporters ever released word of this morning's Randy Moss trade.
This is fascinating for Two Reasons:
Simmons Is Not Known for breaking news. He's a constant supply of humor and pop-culture references, But Is not Known for Developing sources, or traditional Reporting.
The three or four reporters That Usually do break this kind of news, Including ESPN's Adam Schefter and Fox Sports 'Jay Glazer, apparently only caught on Thu this story on Simmons' tweet.
Via the Wall Street Journal:
Simmons's innocuous, now-deleted "Moss Vikings" Tweet, Which they Claims was meant To Be Sent as a private message, is by no MEANS a moment of "Dewey defeats Truman" magnitude. But it still sparked a firestorm of re-tweets, e-mails and texts, as a trade of Randy Moss from a 3-1 team to a Brett Favre-led squad Could Be 1-2 league-changing. Simmons claimed a few times That it was an accident, But Yahoo's Chris Chase Remains Dubious, pointing out Simmons That it Took 30 minutes to delete the tweet, an action That Usually takes 16 seconds.
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