We have a leading contender for hottest take of 2025. And it comes from… Kyle Brandt asking NFL team accounts to stop posting scores when they are losing.
The Good Morning Football team went through their New Year’s Resolutions for the league. And never one to shy away from offering his opinion, Brandt had a message for social media admins. And it doesn’t have anything to do with their theatrical schedule release videos.
Instead, Brandt wants them to stop posting scores for when their teams are getting blown out because the comments and replies undoubtedly turn into a cesspool of negativity and bad vibes. He also reasoned that in 2025, nobody should be getting the score of the game from social media anyways.
Please. In 2025 I’d like NFL teams’ official Twitter accounts to stop doing this: pic.twitter.com/phZp13EUy7
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) January 1, 2025
You may be thinking, sure that sounds reasonable, right? Social media, especially X under Elon Musk, is a cesspool of negativity, so why given an excuse to put more of those bad vibes out into the universe?
Well, the actual admins who run these team accounts through sports had different ideas. And many of them offered quote tweets of Brandt’s bold take to share just how wrong he was in this thinking.
my brother. WE HAVE TO. https://t.co/Ozr5vt3aRH
— Devin Carvajal (@DevCarvajal) January 2, 2025
i don’t run an NFL team account but i do run an AHL team account and i mean… it’s almost like posting game updates is… part of… the job?
— kb ◡̈ (@_kimberlybates) January 1, 2025
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Thank you for your understanding! Happy new year! https://t.co/AIOHUq3khB
— Courtney Kramer ✨ (@CourtKramer39) January 1, 2025
Kyle… I literally learned this the hard way. YOU HAVE TO TWEET THE FINAL SCORE! https://t.co/uwXxafxrSj
— Q. (@Thereal_qm) January 1, 2025
1. It’s in a legally binding contract and one of the most if not the most valuable piece of content for a team to sell.
2. Authenticity and trust. The good, the bad, the ugly you need to share it all https://t.co/sdLnFK13g7
— Emma Kramer (@EmmaCKramer) January 1, 2025
🤦♂️ Such a bad #smsports take, regardless of sport, it’s not that deep, you win, draw, lose and move on. Fans are entitled to express their opinions regardless what the score is and you don’t want the opposition ridiculing you for pretending it didn’t happen https://t.co/KiDO5EV50Z
— Craig Wilson (@DigitalWilson) January 1, 2025
Amongst the many valid opinions shared in scores of posts by team admins that show the issue with Kyle Brandt’s resolution, that last one might be the biggest counter-argument to his point. Don’t team accounts risk even more mockery and ridicule if they don’t tweet the final score of a loss and act like they are hiding something? The Baghdad Bob memes would be flying.
Besides, if the Chicago White Sox admins can tweet through their 2024 season, then anything should be possible.