Following the Seattle Seahawks’ trade of Russell Wilson (seen above at February’s NFL Honors awards ceremony) to the Denver Broncos Tuesday, many thoughts turned to “Wilson,” the volleyball friend of Tom Hanks’ Cast Away character Chuck Noland. The Broncos even tweeted a GIF of Noland drawing the face on the volleyball:
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) March 8, 2022
But the Seahawks took a different approach, tweeting the scene where Noland loses the ball off his raft following a storm and yells “Wilson, where are you? WILSON! WILSON!” They then deleted that tweet. Here’s a screengrab of it:
https://twitter.com/TommyGreturns/status/1501317549178380291
The Seahawks weren’t the only people to think of that, of course. In fact, The Ringer did a version where they replaced the volleyball with Russell Wilson’s head:
https://twitter.com/ringer/status/1501281752119083013
But it is interesting that the Seahawks would tweet that and then delete it. The deletion did come after some criticism, although some of that was more about the trade than the specific tweet:
Seattle tweeting this out pic.twitter.com/rUGE30kL3R
— Memes (@PardonMyMeme) March 8, 2022
Joe Douglas ended your franchise pic.twitter.com/4Ep8USVfIA
— Nova (@Nova_NYJ) March 8, 2022
Meanwhile…… @Seahawks Twitter… pic.twitter.com/YbzTFPo3LS
— PNW Paradise (@11plus1TrueHawk) March 8, 2022
There was some criticism for the specific tweet, though, and especially for how quickly they did that relative to a more sincere thank you:
This is gonna get deleted. This before an appreciation post? pic.twitter.com/Bon1bRxGzI
— Steve (@steveo6924) March 8, 2022
At any rate, the team certainly didn’t wind up standing by their video clip.
[@TommyGReturns on Twitter; top photo from Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports]
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.