Tag: Internet Reactions

NFL fans clowned the Jets for bringing the team flag out upside down

The perfect representation of the New York Jets’ 2024 season.

A rough season for the New York Jets is mercifully ending on Sunday.

With Aaron Rodgers back from the torn Achilles that cost him practically the entire 2023 season, expectations were high for a squad that was supposed to compete for a playoff spot.

Instead, the Jets enter Week 18 with a 4-12 record and only have spite to play for as they face an 8-8 Miami Dolphins team with an outside shot at the playoffs. And before the game, the flag crew on the field inadvertently provided us with quite an apt metaphor for a season gone awry.

When the crew carried out the “Jets” flag, they brought it upside down. When they realized their mistake, they quickly retreated back into the tunnel.

Ah, the Jets.

As you could probably predict, the moment made the rounds on social media and drew quite a bit of mocking from fans. Here are the best reactions.

Fan Reactions

Fans think the Eagles’ tush push is dead after it failed in the first attempt without Jason Kelce

Is it over for the tush push?

It was a rough start offensively for the Philadelphia Eagles in their season opener in Brazil against the Green Bay Packers.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts turned the ball over on each of the first two drives, first on an interception and second on a fumble resulting from a snap that he wasn’t ready for.

Perhaps the most concerning moment for the Eagles, however, came when they tried to turn to ol’ reliable: the tush push. In the first attempt without longtime star center Jason Kelce, Hurts came up short of the first down.

The play resulted in 11 rushing touchdowns for Hurts last season, but after just one failed attempt, NFL fans were convinced that the tush push is dead without Kelce at center.

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Philadelphia was successful in its second attempt at the tush push, but despite that, there were quite a few jokes at the Eagles’ (and Hurts’) expense after the play frustrated so many opposing fanbases in 2023.

How the fans reacted

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College Football 25 has fans losing it over unofficial team rankings in latest trailer

People really do not think Clemson should be a 95 overall.

At long last, we finally got our first look at some actual, honest-to-god gameplay for College Football 25.

Fans are absolutely thrilled about the revival of the beloved video game series from EA Sports, which has been stuck in limbo since 2013 but will release its reboot on July 19, featuring actual player names and likenesses for the first time.

However, fans aren’t exactly pleased with every aspect of the game we saw in Friday’s gameplay reveal. One element featured in the trailer was team ratings for several college football squads, giving us an idea of how teams will compare to each other in the game.

In particularly, fans really could not believe that the Clemson Tigers were given a 95 overall rating, including a 98 rating for the defense.

While these ratings are unofficial at this point, that didn’t stop concerned fans from voicing their bewilderment with some teams’ ratings.

How the fans reacted

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Cavs and Magic fans were furious that Game 2 of the playoffs was blacked out locally

Fans had a hard time watching Monday’s Game 2 in Cleveland, which was relegated to NBA TV.

The NBA playoffs are here, and fans are excited to watch their teams try to compete for a championship.

But if you cheer for the Cleveland Cavaliers or Orlando Magic, that was a bit harder to do on Monday night. Unlike the other two postseason games on the slate, that game is only carried on NBA TV, which requires a League Pass subscription to watch.

To make matters worse for fans based out of Cleveland, Orlando or the surrounding areas, the game was also blacked out locally. It was only broadcast by the local Bally Sports networks, which is not included in the packages for YouTube TV and several other carriers.

As you can imagine, not being able to watch a playoff game locally was not particularly well received by fans of both teams, who took to social media to voice their frustrations.

NFL fans all made the same joke about Russell Wilson after the Broncos announced they’re releasing him

Fans didn’t hold back after the Russell Wilson experiment in Denver came to an end.

The Russell Wilson era in Denver came to an end on Monday.

The Broncos announced that they will be releasing the veteran quarterback when the new league year begins next Wednesday after just two seasons with the team.

Doing so will come at a cost. After Denver acquired Wilson from Seattle via trade in 2022, he signed a five-year, $245 million extension that September. In releasing him, the Broncos will incur a record $85 million dead cap hit.

Wilson improved significantly this season after a rough campaign in 2022 in which he led the NFL in sacks taken, but it didn’t translate to overall team success. In two years, Wilson was just 11-19 as the starter in Denver.

A tenure that began with great optimism is ending unceremoniously, and NFL fans on social media were making similar jokes about it.

The Bills’ Khalil Shakir wowed NFL fans with a mystifying game-clinching TD against the Steelers

Still don’t know how he didn’t go down.

Khalil Shakir called game.

With the Buffalo Bills driving to put away the Pittsburgh Steelers in Monday evening’s Wild Card game, Shakir caught what looked like a routine crossing route from quarterback Josh Allen.

But instead of going down on the initial contact from Pittsburgh safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, Shakir shrugged off the tackle, acrobatically maintaining his balance and staying on his feet. He juked out or broke away from several other would-be-tacklers en route to a touchdown to put the Bills up 31-17 and clinch a playoff win in the frigid conditions.

Shakir made just three catches for 31 yards in the game, 17 of which came on that touchdown, but it proved to make a difference after Pittsburgh battled back from a 21-0 deficit to make it a game.

NFL fans were amazed that Shakir managed to stay on his feet to find paydirt.

Fans were furious EA Sports didn’t drop rumored trailer for new NCAA Football game during national title matchup

It seems we’ll have to wait for news regarding the revival of the beloved NCAA Football video game series.

Ahead of Monday night’s College Football Playoff national title game between Washington and Michigan, rumors — the source of which remains unclear — began to circulate that EA Sports would announce a major piece of news regarding the upcoming revival of the college football video game series, which has been dormant since its 2013 release.

Some expected an official release date would be announced or perhaps even a gameplay trailer, but halftime came and went, and by the second half, it became clear that we wouldn’t be so lucky.

It shouldn’t exactly be a surprise. Matt Brown of the Extra Points newsletter, who has reported extensively on the game’s development, has said throughout the week that while he thought some minor news might be revealed, he had no reason to believe it would be something as substantive as a gameplay trailer.

It seems this was the case of a rumor spun out of control, but that didn’t stop fans from voicing their disappointment on social media during the game.

Tommy DeVito’s agent looks exactly how you’d expect him to look, and NFL fans had jokes

You just couldn’t make this up.

Though he began the year as a third-string quarterback, Tommy DeVito has quickly made a name for himself since ascending to a starting role with the New York Giants due to injuries to Daniels Jones and Tyrod Taylor.

Whether it’s the fact that he lives at his parents’ home in North Jersey and commutes to MetLife Stadium or the fact that he seems like a walking, talking caricature New Jersey caricature who has earned the nickname “Tommy Cutlets,” he’s become a fan favorite, both among Giants fans and NFL viewers at large.

Shortly before the Giants’ Monday Night Football game against the Green Bay Packers, DeVito was spotted on the sidelines chatting with his agent, who looks exactly like you would expect.

I mean, come on. He looks like a character straight out of The Sopranos.

As you would probably expect, NFL fans had a lot of jokes.

NFL fans were disgusted by the Lions and Raiders’ gray uniform combo on MNF

Some football games treat us to aesthetic uniform combinations. Monday night was not one of those occasions.

Sometimes, football fans are treated to a truly aesthetically pleasing combination of uniforms. Monday night’s game between the Detroit Lions and Las Vegas Raiders was not one of those occasions.

While the Raiders donned their typical silver-white-silver road combo, the Lions instead chose to roll out their alternates, featuring a new blue helmet with gray jerseys and pants.

It doesn’t take a design expert to see that the broadcast was dominated by an overabundance of greyish tones, and viewers did not appreciate it.

NFL fans took to social media to voice their disgust at the Monday Night Football uniform decisions.

Oregon’s eggshell uniforms vs. Washington led to some heated reviews and a lot of jokes

Are these *that* bad?

Oregon football typically makes some pretty loud fashion statements with its game day uniforms.

The Ducks’ Nike uniforms play with color and tradition, but they’re also sometimes super bright and flashy. They’re usually fun and always noticeable, good or bad. Like Saturday for No. 8 Oregon’s road game against No. 7 Washington.

In one of the most highly anticipated games of the 2023 season, the Ducks wore their eggshell uniforms, which are mostly white with metallic dark green numbers and small green specks splattered across them. The look also included silver chrome helmets, which look awesome, regardless of what you think of the uniforms themselves.

And while the Ducks and Huskies put on a spectacular show, fans on Twitter (now X) couldn’t help but comment on the uniforms.

Some fans loved them, others absolutely hated them and some folks in between just had some solid jokes, comparing them with aluminum foil, cookies and cream ice cream, a Jackson Pollock painting and bird poop.

Are these that bad?

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