If you don’t follow Oklahoma City’s Nick Collison on Twitter, you should start today.
If you don’t know who Nick Collison is, sit back a moment and ponder your lack of sports knowledge.
The point is that the guy is funny. In fact, most athletes that use Twitter display an excellent sense of humor.
But at the same time they can be critical of their peers, the media and anything else outside a league office without much penalty or cause for concern.
Several players, including Jacksonville’s Maurice Jones-Drew and Arizona’s Darnell Dockett, ripped into Jay Cutler when he sat out most of the second half of the NFC Championship game.
Of course, a sprained MCL later and some of those critics were forced to eat their words.
But that’s the beauty of athletes on Twitter. Athletes can spew out almost anything they want, and it’s a great way to interact with fans.
For some, Twitter may still be an annoying discussion about what people have for breakfast, but for many more it is a way to personalize a relationship with a childhood hero.
That is, of course, as long you are practiced with different levels of bad grammar and slang.
Reach the reporter at nathan.meacham@asu.edu
