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One of the more entertaining stories in the NFL last week was about former New England Patriots safety Rodney Harrison and current New York Jets safety Kerry Rhodes having a war of words over Twitter. But there's just one problem: Harrison, who's now an NFL analyst for NBC, isn't on Twitter. The account @Rodneyh37, which Rhodes and others assumed was written by Harrison, was bogus.The person who's been writing the Twitter posts taking shots at Rhodes admitted as much on Friday, after ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted that the account was fake. However, the guy running the account claims that everything he wrote was taken from things Harrison has actually said in interviews.
Harrison did, in fact, criticize Rhodes in a radio interview, which is what got Rhodes to respond. But still, someone was running a Twitter account that was made to look like it legitimately belonged to Rodney Harrison, when in fact it did not.
Fake Twitter accounts purporting to come from professional athletes are fairly common, so it's no great surprise that Harrison's account was fake. What is surprising is that Rhodes, whose Twitter account is verified as legitimately being written by him, took such umbrage at Harrison's account without stopping to think that the account might be bogus.The lesson here is that sometimes professional athletes go out of their way to find things they can interpret as slights, to help get them fired up for games. That seems to be what Rhodes was doing by taking the shots from the fake Rodney Harrison personally. Using perceived slights to get pumped up for games is something Rhodes and Harrison have in common.
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