A Twitter user promised free drinks for all if Michael Sam sacked Johnny Manziel and did 'money' sign. Sam responded.
Before Saturday's St. Louis Rams-Cleveland Browns game, Twitter user @SquareKnight made the type of playful, hyperbolic statement that Twitter lives and breathes on:
Rams vs Browns tonight. If Michael Sam sacks Johnny Football & gives the money sign, drinks are on me. For everyone in the world. Forever.
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 23, 2014 You know what happened: In the fourth quarter of the Rams' 33-14 win, Sam
followed @SquareKnight's tweet to a T.
OMG! So glorious that Sam did it! Take that Johnny Football. You go, Mike!
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014 But then there was that thing about the promise of drinks ...
Declaring bankruptcy in 3..2..1...
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014Today I messed up by promising mankind free booze for all eternity.
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014 Internet trolls, as they do, also had their say, prompting a clarification:
I wasn't betting against Michael Sam. I was wishing he'd do it. Joking about celebratory drinks for mankind; that was the sentiment.
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014 Still, despite negativity from frustrated fellow Twitter users who wanted a free beer, this story has a pretty happy ending:
Anyone know Sam's fave charity? So pumped he sacked JFF. If I can't perpetually intoxicate society, I can contribute to its betterment.
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014I heard there was a drink offer... In lieu of that
@SquareKnight the Boys & Girls Club of Greater STL could use help!
pic.twitter.com/qzseOXJfED— Michael Sam (@MichaelSamNFL)
August 24, 2014.
@MichaelSamNFL: Consider it done. Great play, btw. Give 'em all Hell in the NFL! You're a class act. God bless, brother.
— FISHER KING (@SquareKnight)
August 24, 2014 The man, who did not want to be named, said he is donating $500.
Information from Darren Rovell was used in this report.