One thing we pride ourselves on here at Crossing Broad is not getting duped by fake sports accounts on social media.

Today though I think unthinkable happened. It got one of our own.

Fake Twitter accounts are like a cow farm. You never know when you’re going to step in shit. But sooner or later it’s going to happen. One of the best fake accounts NFL/NY Giants insider named Wesley Steinberg:

It’s easy to see why. You couldn’t find more believable NFL reporter Twitter account in central casting. Pay Elon $7.99/month for the checkmark, find an uncomfortable looking bald white guy with a staged suit and tie photo, and put “loving husband and father” in your profile because no one loves telling you that more than sports reporters do. Every time I read “loving husband and father” in someone’s bio I think of Chris Rock’s “I Take Care of My Kids” joke:

“You’re supposed to do that you dumb motherfucker!” 

I love when these fake accounts trick real people. But today’s hit too close to home. It’s giving me the same feeling as watching the family dog get old and unable to play fetch anymore. You know that uneasy feeling you get in your gut when you know you have to take them to the vet, but you don’t want to because you don’t want to hear the bad news. That’s what I’m feeling right now. I’m sad to report that I think Kinker got Steinberg’d…

Now Kinker is saying it was a “joke” like he was in on it from the start:

And I want to believe him. I really do. But again…the old dog. The guy is only a couple years from replacing a soccer ball with a pickeball racket. I’m pretty sure he told me the other day he has a sore achilles. His body is breaking down. I’ve noticed more gray in the beard lately and on the weekends he’s replaced death metal shows and mosh pits for yard work and whatever the fuck flagstone and river rock is. That’s what scares me. He might be losing a step and I don’t want to have to Old Yeller him you know?

But Kinker still has some fight left in him and he’s sticking to his guns and he’s asked for a ruling. So I’ll give him a ruling. I think for the accusations of dupage not to fly the joke/tweet actually has to at least be funny and/or creative so people know that you’re in on the joke. Just “Cutter Williams” isn’t funny. Gotta punch that up a little if I’m going to believe you. It’s so innocuous I feel like Kinker looked at this tweet for two seconds, tweeted, and fucked off with his day not giving it much of a thought if whether this reporter was real or fake. It would be like making a joke above a John Clark tweet about the Eagles dipping their balls in water to get ready for the rain in Tampa on Monday. To me it feels like Kinker was duped and he’s trying to save face. I regret to report…

…I think Kinker got Steinberg’d. What do you think?

Kinkead: It’s rich that someone who wrote a grand total of two blogs today would talk about other people fucking off. Pagan told me he was “editing video,” so apparently it takes six hours to slap some broll together and call it “content.”