He made four tweets when he was joking with his friends at 15. USA Today trawls his Twitter timeline and throws them out at him on the day he wins the Heisman. He immediately apologized and deleted them, but why are such tweets news?
Via Fox News:
Hours after Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy, several homophobic tweets from his past resurfaced.
As a teenager, Murray used an anti-gay slur in a tweet to friends, USA Today reported. Oklahoma University did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.
The tweets were deleted from Murray’s account early Sunday.
The re-discovered tweets put Murray, 21, in the company of other athletes finding themselves in a negative light just as they achieve success.