It Just Means More: Eagles Beat Reporters Don't Give A Fuck, Find Way To Still Tweet From Brazil Despite The Country Banning It
Icon Sportswire. Getty Images.For about the past week, the artist formerly known as Twitter has been banned in Brazil, and it's somewhere around an $8,500 fine if you are caught using a VPN to access it in the country. Now personally, I don't give enough of a hoot to get into all the legal mumbo jumbo about this whole ordeal. However, it's pretty big news considering the NFL is playing a game in Brazil tomorrow night with the Eagles vs Packers.
If there's one thing about beat reporters, it's that they absolutely love making sure everybody knows that they have access that others do not. Whether it's quotes from the locker room, sources to confirm a contract signing, or just photos of a practice facility. The #1 thing that beat reporters want you to know is that they know and see things that you, the normal peasant fan, do not have access to. And their primary mode of getting that information out to the public is via Twitter.
So with the app being banned in Brazil, you can see the predicament these fellas have found themselves in. They have all the access you could ask for, but no way to flaunt in on social media….OR SO YOU THOUGHT!
Greetings from São Paulo? But how?
A "SÃO PAULO" dateline on this photo of Roger Goodell? But how?
A video from inside Corinthians Arena with "Fly Eagles Fly" playing over the sound system? But how?
Well as the NFL's main marketing tool, Taylor Swift, would say, "it's a love story, baby just say yes". Because turns out these dudes have handed over their Twitter account to the wives to have them do the tweeting for them.
If that's not love, then I don't know what is. Because I'm assuming the deal here is that the guys in Brazil have to essentially text their tweets over to the wives back in the US, and then they have to publish them from there. Some of the most mundane, unnecessary updates from walkthroughs you could ever imagine, and these ladies have to be on the clock to fire them off on their husband's twitter. It just means more in Philly. Meanwhile, you have Packers writers just switching over to Instagram for the week.
The Eagles Beats are already spanking the shit out of the Packers Beats down there in São Paulo. Have to imagine we'll see a similar story unfold on the field tomorrow night. Go Birds.