I'm not all that old. But I'm about 3 or 4 years removed from the generation that will quite literally put anything up on Facebook or MySpace. Seemingly every week, some idiot gets nailed for leaving either some dumb message up or some incredibly bad photo, and yet no one learns. It just keeps happening. Yesterday of course, it was the Patriots cheerleader, who lost her gig because she had photos up on her MySpace page of herself drawing on a passed guy...who happened to have swastikas on him, and a star of David. Not good.Well, as I said, no one learns, because Buck Burnette, back up center for the University of Texas Longhorns, put this lovely message up as his Facebook profile message shortly after the election.
"all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse"
Now, that gibberish there could stand for butler, or player, or something else that ends in "er." But, I think we all know what he meant. As you can guess, Mack Brown kicked this &$%*#@)! dumbass off the team instantly. Maybe you can take a guess as to what my gibberish means.
Anyway, Burnette was quick to apologize.
Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.
I like how he says "I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly", as if it's still ok to write something like that in private. Way to be Buck.
Either way, let's hope that Buck learns something from this. Also kudos to Mack Brown for laying into this kid and making an example of him. By the way, here was Obama's response.
Texas lineman's Facebook status gets him kicked off the team [The World Of Isaac]
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