NFLol, 140 Characters at a Time

Come on, everybody's doing it

I came across a funny thing on the Washington Post today, if you are into following your favorite NFL players on Twitter, you need to check out YA Twittle, it aggregates the tweets of top NFL players, there must be 110 or 120 listed, you can link out direct to their Twitter feeds or you can browse the NFLol of players prattling 140 characters at a time.

Not to be confused, YA Tittle is of course the former San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants quarterback, Yelberton Abraham played seventeen seasons of professional football from 1948 to 1964 spanning the All America Football Conference and National Football League, winning two Most Valuable Player awards, leading the Giants to three straight NFL Championship games and going to seven Pro Bowls. In 1963 YA threw 36 touchdown passes, an NFL record that would last 21 years until Dan Marino broke it in 1984, Dan of course had two additional games on the schedule by that time.

YA was inducted to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1971.

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So, should 49ers and Giants fans be pissed that a Washington paper has co-opted one of their legends? It would be like if the San Francisco Chronicle renamed their celebrity death pool Riggo-mortis or if the New York Times changed their Dining section to Jack Kent Cooking.

Update Wed 26 Aug: helpful reader Dallas posted up a link in
comments to this SportsSpyder Twitter aggregator, this feed includes NFL players, beat writers, media, bloggers and NFL related personalities, hat tip for the link.

Twitter unfiltered, box from here.