WR tells Cowboys fan he should kill himself ASHBURN — It wasn’t Jabar Gaffney’s game that riled up people on Twitter on Sunday night. It was his own tweets.
But Gaffney, who caught seven passes for 115 yards in the Redskins’ 27-24 overtime loss to Dallas on Sunday, said his words should not be taken literally when he told a fan to kill himself.
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The Cowboys fan poked fun at Gaffney for losing and joked about the Redskins’ “3-9” record. Gaffney responded by tweeting the correct record then said, “3-7 ain’t a record to be proud of I’m just proud I ain’t you get a life or kill urself.”
He later tweeted that he didn’t really want the fan to “kill himself” but that it was his way of telling the fan to “[expletive] off.”
“It’s something that got took out of text,” Gaffney said Monday. “Cowboy fans, that’s how they are. I was just telling the dude: ‘Y’all won. All right, leave me alone. Don’t talk to me.’ And that’s all it was.”
Later in the day, after meeting with reporters, Gaffney tweeted, “They say I can’t tell people to kill themselves didn’t know freedom of speech had limitations so I’ll just say #uknowwhattodo.”
Coach Mike Shanahan said he had no idea what Gaffney had said.
“I have no idea of how to even get on Twitter,” Shanahan said.
However, Shanahan does have people who tell him what has been said on Twitter. In this case, Shanahan wanted to plead ignorance.
“I heard he said something,” Shanahan said. “But I said, ‘Don’t tell me what he said until after the press conference, so I don’t have to comment on it.’ Because I was really getting ready for [the next game at] Seattle, and I don’t want to kind of get into detail in that. I’m just trying to be honest with you.”
Two years ago, then-rookie Robert Henson got into a nasty exchange with fans who were upset after a lackluster win over St. Louis. Henson called them “dim wits.” He also said they worked “9 to 5 at Mcdonalds”. Henson eventually shut his Twitter feed down.
