The Next Racist Announcer Honeypot
Last week a random UDFA signing made brief waves across NFL media accounts. Schefter even tweeted about it, and even for Shefter, who tweets every piece of information he can break at lightning speed, tweeting about a random UDFA signing was unusual. If a UDFA gets signed, it’s barely news. So why was this guy news? Well, it should be obvious. His name is very close to a slur.
From what I could find online, it’s pronounced Fah-go. Any passing familiarity with French spelling trends should clarify that the T is silent. But it’s certainly the kind of name that makes you wonder if Thom Brennaman will do his homework this time instead of saying the F-slur again. I wonder if Vegas has odds on which announcer slips up first. Well, we were robbed of years of Jake Butt jokes, maybe we can laugh at announcers canceling themselves on air.
Hey Dave, noticed you had Wordle in the first panel. You hear of Weddle? It’s the football version.
https://www.weddlegame.com/
If only he’d signed with the Lions he could have had a marketing deal with Faygo.
Oof that Maryland flag is wrong.
Also, there needs to be a copy of The Wire season 1 box set somewhere there too.
Maybe he’s a low-key Confederate supporter
He’s from the Navy and is returning to Baltimore, so that alone is interesting enough to warrant a Schefter tweet. HOWEVER, this guy absolutely was obsessed with Dee Virgin, always updating us on his transactions. He’s also been noticeably unprofessional
Nevertheless this linebacker will get a lot of people permabanned on many Internet forums like reddit
Nice work on the Wordle puzzle. The answer is “alarm”, yes?
Thank you, that was bothering me.
Wait, so his name isn’t just very close to one slur, it’s very close to _two_ slurs???
Wonder if people would get in any real trouble for saying his first name like you spelled it, don’t think Italians are a protected-enough group for that though but it’s a double whammy
I’m just imagining people trying to say his name in their goofy ass Baltimore accents and having a hard time not laughing.
How long till Insane Clown Posse stumble upon this and bust out the Faygo soda in honor?
Wonder how this guy got through unscathed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQdSHf23Zo
Schefty would have had a field day when Dick Butkus was drafted.
Please for the love of God let it be Joe Buck.