Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Vance McDonald embarrassed Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Chris Conte with a stiff arm that sent Conte to the ground on a 75-yard touchdown Monday night. It was an amazing play, and a very embarrassing one for Conte.
After the play, many folks on Twitter mocked and trashed Conte, and some even @’d Conte on Twitter (which is absolutely awful; people really, really need to stop doing this).
Well, some of those people attacked the *wrong* Chris Conte on Twitter.
Chris Conte, a reporter for NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, tweeted, “IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. Can someone tell me how FOOTBALL player Chris Conte just screwed up? #wrongconte,” and included a screencap of people tweeting at him.
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN. Can someone tell me how FOOTBALL player Chris Conte just screwed up? #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/KkvNPiWoSx
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
And more tweets from Conte the reporter:
More of the current #wrongconte tweets currently coming in … pic.twitter.com/EboS1haOEv
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I kind of missed these tweets. Friendly reminder, I do NOT play football. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/4JWdcfjyHp
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I can’t. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/Ji1ZwZSUrF
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
All of this. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/2pXq4eTVlk
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
I’ll just leave this right here …. #wrongconte pic.twitter.com/k4nouns7S5
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
As Conte alluded to in his initial tweet, this has happened before. Like in 2013, when the football-playing Conte was blamed by Chicago Bears fans for a heartbreaking Week 17 loss — that decided the NFC North — against the Green Bay Packers. Many Bears fans sent angry tweets to Conte the reporter, and he at least got over 100 new followers out of it. Hopefully he’ll get a follower boost this time around as well.
UPDATE: Welp. Chris Conte the football player blocked Chris Conte the reporter on Twitter.
Also .. football player Chris Conte blocked me on Twitter .. kinda like that stiff arm he got tonight pic.twitter.com/MZTheLKaC7
— Chris Conte (@chrisconte) September 25, 2018
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